Street Art Sunday

Street Art Sunday #5

This is sponsored grafitii. It's on the side of Art Central in downtown Calgary which is one of my favourite places to go at the weekend because there's always something interesting to look at..artwork inside and artwork outside.

So this is graffiti...but not...I think it raises an interesting question. Can true graffiti be sponsored? Isn't the whole point about graffiti that it's supposed to be anarchic?

This particular piece is probably someone famous...a rapper maybe. Unfortunately I am hopeless with famous faces and names so I have no clue. Perhaps someone out there knows. I just like the energy of the piece...and at the entrance to a dull downtown back alley it makes a statement.

Long Friday Lunches

I took this shot looking down the stairwell at Art Central downtown.
Art Central is one of my favourite hang-outs when I'm in the city core...it's three floors of funky art boutiques and galleries and my favourite print shop ever (Uppercase).
On the lowest floor is a curved arcade of tiny studios available at a low-rent (at least that's what the blurb says though that's hard to believe in Calgary) to struggling artists and many are often working there...especially in the afternoons. I don't think artists get up early!
But today I loved the patterns made by the table and chairs on the concrete floor...another time I'll focus on the studios.

Spot the Imposter

One of these is not a newspaper vending box but an electrical switching box cunningly diguised as an advertisement for one of our liveliest visual art venues - Art Central. Can you spot it?

This picture (taken last spring) shows what life in our growing city has been like for the few years. New buildings going up everywhere! The downtown was full of construction sites.
with the recession, it's a little quiter these days but on any given day it's easy to count nine or ten huge cranes at work in the city centre.