New For You

Out with the kids on Sunday afternoon when I spotted this truck in a parking lot between DongXing Rd and DaTun Rd near the Costco. There's some more graf around town that I've seen, but this has been the first time that I've had my camera with me in months.

Top Center

At the corner of Wenshin Road and Taichungkang Road, next to the Mercedes/Smart dealership stands a large, vacant building that was a mini-mall as recently as, I don't know, two years ago? (Geez, there I go again, posting without checking my facts first. Sorry about that.)

Hua Mei St

A bit of Bobo/Saven underneath one of the bridges over by Oldies & Frank's Hot Dogs.

This one and the detail below were done by a guy called Chek who was down from Taipei.
When I first saw Bobo's self portrait, I was looking at it from just across the stream and I couldn't make out what it was. Duh. How does he do that?

Mural Behind the Station

Coming back from Taiping, I wound up on Fushing Rd behind the Taichung station. I noticed last week that there was quite a bit of stuff up back there and I took a minute to ride up a back alley through the freight yard and came across a railroad siding with a mural that was about 50m long.
It's quite impressive, and not just to me, either. After I'd finished. An older woman that I'd noticed walking her dog came over and asked me if I could read what had been written, she wasn't sure if it was English or Chinese. I told her that it said "BOBO" because that was the fella's name that painted the wall.

She was very impressed, she told me. There were a few guys in their 20's and they came out on three different nights. She told me over and over again how fast they did it. I asked her if she liked it, and she said "Oh yes, the colors are very pretty, and they did it so fast."

She said the cops had come out one night and told them not to "Sloppy Paint" is the Chinese. Models come to have their pictures taken in front of the wall now. When she asked the guys how much it cost to do a wall like that, and the price quoted was about 3000NT, she said that's a pretty good deal. Sounds like she'd like to have her garage done.

I know that I must have misunderstood the woman. At least once, maybe twice. She pointed at the two guys below and ... I should have recorded the conversation so I could double check. The night these were going up, she complained that with one guy across the tracks looking at her house, she felt like there was a prowler, so they added another one, and it was ok? She's pleased with the results.

Taichung 4Crew In Person

Had the pleasure of meeting BOBO, FAST, & SAME of 4Crew today. They're a great bunch of guys, and were very open to talking to me about their work. Check back in the next couple days for more pictures from the river bank in Taiping.

Close to Home

Those Graffiti Guys struck again last night, this time within sight of my apartment. Actually, from the roof of my apartment block. Below on the left hand side of the picture, if you use your imagination, you can see the intersection of Kungyi Rd and DaTun Street. There's usually a KTV on the corner there, across from McDonald's, but it seems that this particular establishment is having a temporary shut down. See Picture 2.

This is Sam of Taichung Four Crew, and Taipei YIA.

Fresh Paint

Before the rain on Monday, I drove around downtown and found this wall across from a KTV near the park. The representative of the KTV who saw me shooting arrived as I was changing lenses to express his displeasure at my taking pictures of a wall in an empty parking lot. I think he had privacy issues. I asked him if it would be ok to come back later when there were lots of cars in the parking lot. We seemed to be having communication problems. I think he was saying "Don't take pictures here," but the "Give me a good reason why" was lost on him.

A little something new

First Spotted First Posted

I saw these revisions in the park a few days ago and returned with my camera this afternoon to pick them up. It might be intersting to compare to some earlier work here and here and here, too.

A Side of the Tracks

One side or the other or underneath the tracks. This is so groovy, how could it be wrong? Apologies to Omen for monkeying with the color on this one, but the shadows were not cooperative.


These pieces are all in a pedestrian underpass (except for this one just above) about a kilometer north of the train station in Taichung. Thanks to KatieKalie for pointing them out to me a few weeks ago.
I'm not gettting out as much as I would like to to find new bombs. If anyone has seen any new work in the Taichung area, please let me know so I can get out to record it. Thanks, you're beautiful, I mean it.

2005 Grafitti Wrap Up

I've been too busy to keep up with the tags and bombs popping up around town, but I went to the quote unquote river yesterday at sunset and recorded the murals that weren't there before. And here they are:

Ok, what's this one?