'graffiti alley' in toronto runs south of queen street from spadina to portland. i'd say there is about a kilometer's worth of wall space of varying quality, but one thing is consistent - it's all covered.
each summer for the past few years, a group called 'style in progress' (www.styleinprogress.ca/SIP05.php) has taken over graffiti alley for a 24-hour period of legal painting. it's great to see so many people - artists and fans - converging on an area that's usually empty except for delivery trucks and garbage cans. i've never seen so many spray cans,...
Brooklyn (and most of Long Island) once constituted the only examples of 'prairie'
in America's Northeast. Every now and then, you can see remnants of it poking
through, in this case, near the Grain Terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn...