31/366: noninvasive

I've seen this a couple places around town, always sprayed onto (reused) newspaper and stuck to something with easy-to-remove painter's tape. I liked this one especially because of the way the light and shadows press through the paper.

30/366: lucky?

29/366: lessons in scopophilia

I have not seen much street art done in the medium of the sharpie.

28/366: passion

27/366: self-portrait with bicycle & small bar

26/366: look out, 3F442

25/366: talk like a pirate: theory and practice

The theory of pirate speech is based on the sound represented by this letter:



In practice, it must be drawn out wherever said phoneme presents itself, and should be accompanied by an exaggerated grimace, as this illustration suggests:

24/366: warning

I like the multi-color stencils because they take more effort in both preparation and application.

23/366: master of none

22/366: drugs of youth

Something I've been seeing more of lately is a blend of stencil and sticker. It allows a more discreet application of a stencil, of course, if one does not have to spray paint it in pubic. Instead, one can bring a whole collection out, all pre-sprayed onto packing labels.

21/366: ironworks

There's a lot of old iron gates and fences around town. I like how they contrast with the old brick factory buildings.

20/366: wishing for the best

19/366: the opposite of sartre

Hello other people.

18/366: high five

Not only do I love the contrast of colors here, but I like the interplay of types of communication used for hailing someone or making contact. Hi, five.

Here's a close-up of the stencil:

17/366: where are you?

16/366: power

15/366: parenthetical ontology

It also seems like a vague threat: by the way, there's a machine inside.

14/366: merge left / virgin of the phonebooth

This was a failed photo to the extent that I couldn't get a good angle on the Tattoo sign and I was shooting straight into the sun. There's something I like about the sun flare (not added in photoshop), as well as all the contrasts and little objects of interest that take us away from the sign.

I'm adding a second item today, though using photoshop filters is probably cheating. I liked the image (a paste-up stuck inside a phone booth with weird light coming through the translucent walls), but it came out all blurry. Blurry doesn't matter for the stained glass filter, which retranslates the icon (a sign of another sort).

13/366: automatic

12/366: shopping, explained

Believe it or not, the store with this sign is actually operational.

11/366: nice package

10/366: edgy

I've already made it to day 10! This is a tough project, but one that I assume will really turn me into a visual scavenger, scanning my little vast world of everyday encounters for small wonders in light, shadow, and contour.

9/366: more fun than

Of the menagerie of items cluttering my office is this "winning arrangement" of the Barrel of Monkeys children's game, for which I have a nostalgic fondness. The green looping cascade invokes an office plant as well.

8/366: tag

Something about this tag seems different than the "usual scribble." First, it is inside a stairwell in an academic building on campus, something I've not seen in my seven years here. Second, it has elements of both Japanese formalism and abstract expressionism. I really like the bit of splatter that carries over to the side wall.

7/366: first day of the semester

I can't believe that school is back in session already, though the payoff of the early start is that we finish in April. It is so striking to see bulletin boards that are completely empty like this. They are usually crammed full of competing crap, a visual allegory of modern consumerism. Seeing them blank, I only really see the future clutter when the board is so full that it is essentially empty. Just like modern consumer culture.

6/366: stencil:face

This stencil is on the building in the previous picture. It appears about a dozen times on the building, often at unconventional heights.

5/366: auditorium

This is the outside of an auditorium where I have taught a class every semester for the past three years, until now. I am excited not to have to project my voice and battle terrible acoustics.

4/366: strange name for a business

3/366: library

2/366: flying leap

1/366: self-portrait in contrast

Maybe a 366 project will get me posting more this year.