Fashionable Grunge

[mugge]

I spotted this today. I just liked the colours. C&C most welcome

Fashionable Grunge by Ole Hansen, on Flickr

[Mike Buckley]

Lots of stuff to like about this -- color, composition, lines. Do you have an image that includes the base of the hydrant?

[Wavelength]

You added more life to the street painting by including that water supply point (i don't know what it is named) .Really well done

[Rita]

Ole, I love this. It is keeping my eyes looking around the image without being too busy. Is the entire street done in graffiti or is it just this one spot?

[Barbara Ponder]

Great capture! Graffiti is such a fun subject.

[rpcrowe]

Very nice capture. I agree with Rita re busy.

I don't know about other areas but, here in Southern California, Graffiti is most often used by gangs to stake out their territory and to issue challenges to rival gangs. Murders have resulted from one gang being insulted by a rival gang's graffiti...

There is one Hispanic gang who have been hired by the Mexican drug cartels to do hits in Mexico. These gang members were born in the USA and are therefore American citizens with the right to cross the border in either direction. The hits were done in Mexico and the members then crossed back to the USA away from Mexican justice and retribution from rival drug cartels...

[Shadowman]

Nicely seen and captured.

[mugge]

Lots of stuff to like about this -- color, composition, lines. Do you have an image that includes the base of the hydrant?

Mike, regarding the base, I stuffed up.

[mugge]

Ole, I love this. It is keeping my eyes looking around the image without being too busy. Is the entire street done in graffiti or is it just this one spot?

Rita, the entire street is covered in it most, thankfully, done quite well.

[mugge]

Richard, we are not as advanced as yet, however, just two streets from where I took this picture 'they' recently defaced a whole lot of good stuff. Grrrrr. Maybe it has started here??

[rpcrowe]

There is an area in San Diego which is at the foot of the Coronado Bridge on the San Diego side. It is nicknamed Chicano Park and has some of the most beautiful images painted on various walls and bridge structures.

https://www.google.com/search?q=chic...xgl08AQwPEHKM:

IMO, you cannot call this type of art graffiti but, decorating the area with images that celebrate Hispanic heritage seems to have saved the area from being despoiled by graffiti taggers...

By the way: one graffiti is a graffito

[IzzieK]

Ole...I like the composition. The inclusion of the fire hydrant made this image for me. And the eye.

Graffiti is something I do not like much in structures and buildings but here where we live, the wall that was built across my shopping area where we go was taken over by some industrious hands and got children in schools an area each to paint the whole wall -- anything they like but it was in a controlled manner. So that's our graffiti around here. I think the city downtown area itself has "real" ones. I will try to take a shot of it when we go shopping to show you.

[mugge]

Richard, firstly thank you for the link. Very illuminating. Secondly I 'hate' to acknowledge that one 'wall image' is a graffito. I had to look it up. I need a scotch