Comments about sidewalk art

There are 54 comments about "sidewalk art"

river otters21 girl: It is a darn shame to see hear what happened to Kensington. Oh, I agree with YourOwnFault 100% except that this cancer known as white flight took place more recently than the 50s and......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

serlingrod: Thanks Peter. It's nice to have a friend back you up. I just marvel at the stubborness of it though.....I mean, "keep on painting" ... Really? I've made it perfectly clear I'm not an artist..I'm......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Eric from Port Richmond: A Richmond boy with a few comments. Its NOT just Kensignton that took a turn for the worst in the area. I grew up in the late 70s and 80s in Port Richmond. The neighbors would sit......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

CE: Do the little people in the display move at all? There's a wonderful xmas window display in a downtown department store here in Montreal and it moves around and does all kinds of crazy......

in response to: Merry Christmas! by Elicar

Hutch Hater Too: I agree that Hutchinson is a hell hole. The writer who mentioned how those in charge are nothing but a bunch of snobs is right. Money grubbing, ignorant snobs at that. I'm......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

little ukraine: glad to see so much love for Missing Foundation and the like. CartLegger, there is a pretty decent amount of information online. Try http://www.hungryeyerecords.com/bands/missing_foundation/index_old.html http://petemissing.de/ in addition to Peter's links above. Also, the work of......

in response to: Your House Is Mine - Return of a Legend by little ukraine

madame maxime: I've moved across country and have lived in many different states. Always I carried my books with me, and when I went to graduate school I kept accruing more. The last move from......

in response to: Booktrash by Peter

EvilGentleman: 48 pics in one post? Holy shit, glad I have a fast connection. The night shots are awesome. Pictures #2, 15 and 17 need explaining. #4 makes me dizzy, but I love it. #11 seems so lifelike, feels like......

in response to: Gwang-ju by chiamattt

KB: Lived in Bushwick on Eldert Street, btw Knickerbocker & Irving, from when I was born, until we moved away in 1967, when I was 16. Things had gotten rough in 1966, when there was......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

jack: i remember masim's on chambers street, as a matter of fact from cedar street at washington to church street to chambers was litterally an electronics street fair, every store had radio components laid out on......

in response to: Maxim Radio, et Al by GGP

jack: pic 1- two, three, stores, where did i leave my coat? pic 2- i thought the starting gate was on this corner? pic 3- i need a longer handle. pic 4- wow, those red bricks match my pajamas. pic......

in response to: March 23 2007 Toronto by hool

EvilGentleman: joey - sometimes, a picture can show a thousand times more than words can, and other times, a picture cannot even begin to describe the horror of reality. This is one of those cases. I......

in response to: Lost by EvilGentleman

BDweller: "The Bushwick Initiative...Who is this for?" Boy, you are some busybody, upfromflames. Digging, poking, photographing and posting; then posing provocative questions. I'll take your bait. The city's official response to the steady influx of Latinos and blacks......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

EvilGentleman: Personally, I find it disrespectful of life to treat a dead animal in such a manner. And this is coming from a man who has **eaten** squirrel, so the cute factor is irrelevant. But I......

in response to: Party Squirrel by hool

Carol: I awoke one morning an found a 50 poumd racoon in a pile of his/her own feces dead at the bottom of my kid's slide. Obviously looking for thrills, the critter tried the steep slide......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

EvilGentleman: Actually, that is a railing that was installed on the sidewalk to enclose an additional sales area for the Afican Art store that is there. They also painted "their" section of the sidewalk green. Apparently,......

in response to: Replacement by CE

victor fraser: so you know my name is victor and the things i draw come true.. unlesss its peace on earth and all the things the goverment says could be true.. call anytime or click......

in response to: queen street street art by jeeff

EvilGentleman: Yesterday's paper had an article about how there are bylaws coming into force to make bars put ashtrays outside their entrances. The city estimates that 600,000 people use the downtown core each weekday (not counting......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

shandy: I'm white and my place in Bushwick was the first I moved to when I came to New York. I had no idea what neighborhood meang what, I moved there firstly because my friend lived......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

EvilGentleman: In May of 1989, my best friend Mike and had been driving for 6 days when we arrived in Las Vegas around 1 PM, and rather than continuing on, we decided to stop there for......

in response to: Piano Man by jack

EvilGentleman: I think the concept of smoking and non-smoking bars would work, until some militant non-smoker files a lawsuit saying their rights are being infringed by denying them the right to work in a smoking bar.......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

Mirela: I am an not smoker. I am glad I won't get smoke in my face at a concert or in restaurant during lunch time or in a plain when I played 1000$ and it's a......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

Joe: I've lived on Jefferson btwn Irving and Knickerbocker for a year. It's gotten a little better just in that time. We moved here because we got priced out of our old neighborhood, Park Slope. Our......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: There has been some confusion as to defining exactly what constitutes an outdoor structure or patio. I have heard that any structure enclosed on more than two sides will be considered to be indoors, and......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Sounds good, but unfortunately, in the downtown core, the bars and nightclubs are packed so heavily, that soon there will be nowhere to go for those who wish to escape the smoke. If you move......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

Morgan: ahh this is crazy that i found this page but thanks so much for all the wonderful compliments and responses 1) my mother and two strong men carry those boulders from various places in the neighborhood......

in response to: Boulders on B Street by GGP

EvilGentleman: chiamatt, your points are valid, but if Canada can pass laws that state that tobacco companies cannot sponsor sporting events or family-oriented events where children are present, so as to protect children from being influenced......

in response to: Does Anyone Else Find This Stupid? by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Jamie, if you ever try to push a shopping cart (trolley) here or walk on a sidewalk, it becomes obvious that the word "yield" (or "cedez" in the archaic dialect of French spoken hereabouts) is......

in response to: Don\'t Mess With Teddy! by Arcticwoman

EvilGentleman: Nice set. I especially liked shots 1, 2 and 4. For shot 1, you seem to be making an art of shooting art on the street. You either have incredible luck finding canvas art wandering around......

in response to: April 30 2006 Toronto by hool

anon (cpe-72-134-234-209.hawaii.res.rr.com): It's true. Animal cruelty does indeed create serial killers. Just look at the ALF (or just about any of the "concerned, caring activists" that've posted at this point) - they presume cruelty, so......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

delascabezas: haoxtable - unless someone has access to a whole lot of superfreezing apparatus, i don't see how someone could freeze a cat with the blood seeping out of it like that. if you have......

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

EvilGentleman: On May 5 of 1989, I was in the middle of a long road trip with my best friend, Mike. We were in San Diego, California, after having driven 5000 miles through two Canadian provinces......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

jack: i worked in manhattan from 1960 till 1978 and then on the island. in 87 i went back to manhattan to work down on maiden lane and what to my unbelieveing eyes did i......

in response to: Count Your Blessings by Elicar

Peter: there is a building in my old neighborhood, on the {upper west side}, that houses a healthclub on the 7th floor. and wonder of wonders, they have a pool there! there are apartments all around......

in response to: Astor Place Silhouette by Peter

mtb4ever: I've read through many of these postings and am astounded at some of your comments. On the subject of what started the whole thing - littering. Mad Max actually said, "So he littred big......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Old Kensington Dog: A couple of points re. the confrontation specifically, and Kensington Market in general: -The SUV in the photos is owned by the business accross the street, not the "Motorist". His four cylinder smaller car with......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

I heart kensington: Bike Couriers are some of the most vile, foul mouthed people in the city. I used to walk past them at their hangout on Temperence st. while they pounded back beers and chain-smoked weed (and......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Respect: Let's make a deal: You litter, I throw it back at you. If you park in the bike lane, I smash out your rear brake lights and key your car as I fly by. You cut me......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Raoul Davachi: I'm a bike courier, and I am so god damn tired of people in cars, or worse, people in suits walking on sidewalks who think they rule the world. I was talking to the......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

ketchup-wrappers, not hamburger patties.. c'mon! : my friend was pulling out of the mcdonalds drive-thru, and he stopped his terribly maintained rusting hulk of blue-smoke pollution belching, heating-oil fueled, catalytic-converterless '92 oldsmobile, to open up each one of the individual ketchup......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Both sides: I have read/heard both side of the story. Unfortunately, the "motorist's" side was stated by his fiancé and not by him, as the actual participant. Both sides are plausible but I am still......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

vancouver: Having read the story on CBC.ca and clicking on the link, I have to wonder about people. To the courier: It was fucking trash, hopefully you didn't get hurt. Some of the pics show you......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

jonnathan: This is a bit off topic, but it addresses the problems of cyclists vs motorists in toronto. I am both and find cyclists are far worse on the road than drivers. I was sitting......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

herb: I did a similar thing last summer. Up on Dupont a van dropped their coffee out the window so I decided to give it back to them. Their window was open a crack so I......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Mantra: This world is turning to crap because we let it turn to crap. The system is broken when bad people get off on technicalities (i.e. "she started it by throwing the garbage back in......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Argent47: I cannot see her "punching" him with her keys in those photos, although she does appear to be holding her keys in the first couple or so, I cannot see where it looks like she......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Matt: I lived in Luna Park (apartments) for over 20 years in the 70's, 80's and 90's. I miss it dearly. Growing up, I knew very little about the history located there so I've been doing......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

Mitch Waxman: There's some artist in Prague who projects this message onto sidewalks in front of unsuspecting commuters....

in response to: Surveillance by Macavity

jeeff: a few years ago i used to dislike them, but then i had a change of heart. ps. i bet the sidewalks aren't so empty today. i bet there are some crazy photo opportunities during......

in response to: Vermin to Some by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

tooker: "Ellis G" is just a toy graffiti writer who couldn't hack the streets so he came up with doing artfag chalk drawings. Wait, not even "drawings", but more like "tracings" and made up some lame......

in response to: Wherefore ART Thou, Ellis? by GGP

jeeff: jenna - sorry, i don't know any chalk artists personally. why do you need one? there is a guy called victor fraser who does sidewalk chalk art near yonge & bloor. ......

in response to: queen street street art by jeeff

jeeff: hi jo. here's a quickie travel guide for toronto, ##but## i'm writing this with one condition for you: please take some photos, write some stuff, and post an article here about your trip! first off,......

in response to: Toronto for a week by jo

ian: There is one at the "Gulfgate Shopping Complex," across the 610 loop. The entrance has been locked for years, and the sidewalks to it either broken up, replaced with sand, or hidden under weeds. There......

in response to: I580 by jyk

Paul G: the pose of the (a) well-dressed young men on the steps is more telling than is the pose of the (b) older man lying on the sidewalk. (a) + (b) = the new chicago, and the......

in response to: Mr. Chicago by gary