Challenge Everything.
So this is a re-purposed USPS sticker on a re-purposed stop sign… kinda cool. Unless of course that stop sign was still performing an important function. Safety first peeps! I do like this message though… the handcuffs are “ignorance,” and the key to unlock them “education.”

Question Everything.
It’s graffiti week here at Oaktown Art, and here is your next installment… I’ve been wanting to feature these works for some time now, but kept hoping I would find another one to add to the mix. Here’s the first one I found… a wheat paste on the same abandoned building as the lovely mural “May Peace Prevail on Earth” across the street from Ghost Town Farm.

You choose….
More graffiti art by the tracks. This seems to be an organized project… lower left reads “Community Rejuvenation Project 2009.”

One Love
I’m fixated on graffiti these days… Last week I was hired to shoot a local artist in the process of doing a guerilla street art installation. Unfortunately I can’t share the images till the story comes out, so in the meantime I’ll share some great stuff shot down by the train tracks one day while a friend and I were playing hookie. Here’s a lovely example of classic style writing… and such a positive message!

And now for something completely different…
Well… a little different.  We’re still looking at murals in the Temescal/Piedmont Broadway vicinity, but this one has a distinctively different style.  We’ve seen this artist before… most recently on the flip side of this very building, in my Delightful and Disturbing post, with his “Promenade at Lake Merritt.”