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=RASPeR=: Toronto only has the most graffiti in Scarborough and the actual toronto. like how Polar's hitting up North york.We need some more graffiti in rexdale! BOMBING UP T.DOT...

in response to: graffiti alley / style in progress \'05 by jeeff

Joe Blow: just be sure to dip if you see vs in front. they like casing that place and following writers out, so make sure you dont try out your new gear til you get home or......

in response to: Scrap Yard nyc GRAFFITI STORE by art views

Keith Bernstein: I would like to add some comments about Mrs. Ida Gradstein. I thought her to be an effective teacher and a sweet lady. The mention of her name brought back some memories of my sixth......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Joe Drexler: From a building design standpoint many blocks in Bushwick were attached "row frames" as known by firefighters these row frames differed from attached brownstones in that the space or void between the roof and the......

in response to: Why Did Bushwick Burn? by upfromflames

Joe Drexler: I was born in Bushwick and lived on Himrod St. between Central and Wilson Aves.from 1962 to 1974.I enjoyed reading the blackout article but must say that there was an approximate 17 year downward spiral......

in response to: Bushwick \'77: When the Lights Went Out by upfromflames

artisan, London: I use a combination of old Nikon SLR's from a baby EM or my FM2, and more recently a beautiful F3. I always use 400ASA and slightly underexpose, which lets the blacks seep in from......

in response to: London, a Little Darker... by artisan, London

moerex: Yep, looks pretty much like it did when I graduated in '91 from Porter/UCSC. :)...

in response to: Post-graduate Study by joey

jack: can't get overexcited over a plastic doll, it's the real dolls that i look at ONLY and keep my mind on my wife and family, but a lot of men my age enjoy looking at......

in response to: While You Are Reading This.... by David G.

Montreal.com: [[http://w5.montreal.com/mtlweblog/2008/04/fans-indulge-in-overexuberance.html]]...

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

t-rex: to whomever said the following -- ##Hutch has some excellent restaurants,many to choose from,excellent mexican food restaurants,Bar BQ,chinese,you name it## you made me laugh. did you read ##any## of this thread? no? and here you are, ignoring......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Rex Statham: Just read your article but something is not quite correct. The Brookwood cemetery is on the up side of the main railwayline( traveling towards Southampton is the down side) It is correct that a funeral......

in response to: The London Necropolis Railway by TBCS

germz: 26 (?) pics: 16 contain large (25% or more of total) areas of underexposure; 15 contain garbage or spills; in almost every case something is tightly packed -- people, magazines, autos, bikes, etc. it does "feel"......

in response to: 08-05-07 by chiamattt

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: I'm thinking for our over 50 gang (even though at least two of us are under 50) we should take a lesson from these "real" gangstas and develop a language that only we understand. Here......

in response to: But There Is No Other Door for the over 50 Year Old Gang by jack

Mark: The sound mirrors feature heavily in various projects by art / music / film group Disinformation - the "Antiphony" double CD (packaging features sound mirror photos by Julian Hills from 1996) and "Antiphony Video Supplement"......

in response to: Sound Mirrors by elaine

Tyfoid Kid: I think the colors look great. Doesn't the overexposure come from the CCD in the camera trying to compensate between darker objects on the ground the bright sky? It's the algorithm it uses when it......

in response to: Rosegarden by aer suzuki

cosmos att.ReX: felizidades por sus grafos ya estancreciendo att.su bue...

in response to: Guadalajara Centro Graf/Paste-Ups by Marc

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Nice! I love typefaces. That "Rex cole" is lovely. Clean, clear, classic....

in response to: Refrigerator by Peter

hool: i've read more than a few comments stating this article as a 'fake'. would anyone care to elaborate on what leads them to that conclusion? maybe my photos were so good (except for the......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Moebius Rex: That's funny--I've got a pic I took out here in SF's Mission district of the stenciled phrase LIVE TO LOVE right next to POST NO BILLS; I thought they made a nice juxtaposition (wouldn't it......

in response to: Post, Pay, Pray by Peter

REX feralus!: http://metroplexkings.proboards60.com/...

in response to: Dallas Graffiti Like What! by Tick Tock

REX feralus!: who cares about the faded LV, the graff holds my eye....

in response to: salsa & merengue by trishy

Moebius Rex: Not that anyone cares, but I just discovered that "I Got 5 On It" (see third-from-the-last pic, above) was a hit 1995 rap anthem by Da Luniz, a Yay Area hip-hop collective. The remix of......

in response to: Graf Trux 9: Return of the Original Graf Trux.... by moebius rex

Jamie: Yeah, but if you get the chance, take some photos dude. Winter in Ireland is very camera unfreindly i know but adobe photoshop can do wonders with underexposures. And dude, i dunno if you're going......

in response to: 7th Century Church by barry

JamJar: Shame hackney wick 2 is so underexposed, my train was coming tho...

in response to: JPEG Mulch PhoneLondon by JamJar

Moebius Rex: It's actually really really hard to find trucks in SF that are as colorful as these. I like the FRED one quite a bit, but that last truck really blew me away....

in response to: Graf Trux 10: Back to Manhattan by Peter

Moebius Rex: Was in BKLYN this weekend for a wedding and was the houseguest of two very kind and gracious folks in Prospect Heights, which is apparently PET BIRD's home territory. And I have to say that......

in response to: Pet Bird in August by GGP

TCBS: Yes, Mobius Rex, I have reposted it here from our website at tcbs.org.uk. I love this site and wanted to share my discovery with a new community. If html were allowed, I would have posted......

in response to: The London Necropolis Railway by TBCS

Moebius Rex: dunno if this is a biiig deal, but it looks like the photos for this post were grabbed from a page of the Brookwood Cemetery Society website ([[http://www.tbcs.org.uk/railway.htm]]), while the text was swiped either from......

in response to: The London Necropolis Railway by TBCS

Moebius Rex: Sasha: I'm pretty sure it's at the intersection of 14th Street and South Van Ness Avenue. The fence is actually a gate into the repair yard of an auto body shop or similar company. The......

in response to: Graf Trux 9: Return of the Original Graf Trux.... by moebius rex

MoeRex: i'm trying to figure out what's up with the angry bird + angry dude sticker. looks like a pigeon and a...longshoreman? peace protester? beat poet? vagrant? having an argument. who do you think will win?......

in response to: Allout Shelter + by GGP

MoeRex: yourpony: cool! yeah, that reminds me of the jeepneys i used to ride in when i lived in the philippines as a kid. sure would be great if taxi drivers in the us could get......

in response to: Graf Trux 9: Return of the Original Graf Trux.... by moebius rex

Peter: punk rock! vive la moerex and this crazy {graf trux} thing he started! :D...

in response to: Graf Trux 9: Return of the Original Graf Trux.... by moebius rex

MoeRex: jeef: Yeah, I remember the countryside there pretty well, and the summer green. I spent a summer there while my family was living in the relatively posh environs of Oakville (they were there for a......

in response to: the hutch condos by jeeff

MoeRex: I spent some time in the Toronto area many years ago...and having said that, I would never have guessed that this was shot there. Looks more like something you'd see in someplace like Louisiana.... Love the......

in response to: the hutch condos by jeeff

BZZZP: this one dreams it was nessie: [[img:3239]] i think i recall reading somewhere that the idea is to underexpose shooting things like swans and polar bears, not to let the highlight detail get blown out... no help......

in response to: swans throwing shapes by elaine

moerex: A perfect distillation of the secret language of urban driving. Reminds me of the year I spent living in Manilla as a kid, where my father learned what he later came to call (once we......

in response to: Hack the City by Marc

MoeRex: This sort of thing is all over SF, though I don't know exactly which gangs are involved. I generally don't photograph it because it's not aesthetically interesting to me. But these shots are fairly interesting--the......

in response to: Crip/Blood Graffiti: Washington Heights by anon

MoeRex: wow! such detail! the french police must really give the writers over there ample time to hone their skills and create epic graf trux works. my only complaint is that the pics ought to be......

in response to: Graf Trux 3: Paris by Peter

rebel 32: by the way king billy tell yer ma next time not to leave the durex on the mantle piece...

in response to: Shankill Road: Belfast by Jamie

moebius rex: cool shot. those ominous clouds give the entire scene a sort of "underwater" feeling--as if you're not looking up at the sky but at the surface of a vast ocean....

in response to: bw392 by hool

Paul G: Guessing: You left the shutter open a relatively long time to compensate for the dim interior; that resulted in the massive overexposure and "corona" around what I assume is the sun. And then you......

in response to: downing by hool

moebius rex: thanks for the kind words. i aim to please! there will be new pics (graf & otherwise) soon....

in response to: here beauty is illegible: by moebius rex

moebius rex: more on thesis' career as a rap artist....

in response to: under the freeway by moebius rex

moebius rex: you know, i've been meaning to mention that i've tracked down some info on the graf writer behind pic #3 (and pic #4 here). his name is Thesis, and according to what i've dug up......

in response to: under the freeway by moebius rex

moebius rex: lovely apocolyptic...

in response to: Sears by ian

moebius rex: thanx. it's my sign, on a sign. i hadda take a shot!...

in response to: the aries sign: mission bay/hunter\'s point by moebius rex

moebius rex: beautiful composition & color, thanks. there are a few interesting red doors near me; soon i'll get around to posting my pics of them....

in response to: my complacent desire by hool

hool: i purosely underexposed it - a two or three second exposure, and i adjusted the levels in photoshop more toward the shadows than the highlights. it didn't look like this to the naked eye,......

in response to: the warm fuzzy view from my window by hool

moebius rex: i know this piece. whoever made it has placed a few others in select spots across town. thanks for grabbing a shot of it!...

in response to: San Francisco Dream by Thuc Nguyen

moebius rex: sorry for taking so long to respond to this: yes, that's a large sheet of paper, pasted onto the pillar probably with a simple adhesive solution. on the opposite side of the pillar there's another......

in response to: star wars art crime special:san francisco by moebius rex

moebius rex: oh, i love this building. my good friend Kendal lives just a few blocks from it. the last couple of times i've visited nyc, i've stayed with her. i quickly developed a ritual of starting......

in response to: Park Slope by Anna

moebius rex: i like the way that "las vegas" is faded and peeling at the top of the 1st photo. the graf pieces are nice, too....

in response to: salsa & merengue by trishy

moebius rex: my favorite aspects of that photograph are the twin rows of differently colored windows. actually, if the sign were missing it would be a beautiful abstraction of boxes....

in response to: It\'s Hard to Find Good Parking in the City by Peter

moebius rex: hmmm. whoever paints that white kabuki face from your top pic sure gets around.......

in response to: Lower East Side by Thuc Nguyen

moebius rex: hm, i should've said krylon icon, no "k"...

in response to: Spraycan Science on 107th Street by Peter

moebius rex: peter--i like the way you focus on detail and divine a sort of abstract visual poetry out of a larger piece. it's interesting to see the areas where erosion has revealed the brick underneath. the......

in response to: Spraycan Science on 107th Street by Peter

moebius rex: a fine photograph. love the detail, composition, texture. was this taken w/film? or digital? i'm curious about what sort of camera and/or film you used....

in response to: Back of a Building by hool

moebius rex: hey, i didn't know there were caves above ocean beach. i like this perspective....

in response to: [s]San Francisco by kimba

moebius rex: i'll always love toronto...it's one of my favorite north american cities. this photo reminds me of some good times i've spent in toronto high-rises.... :D...

in response to: the view from my bedroom window by hool

moebius rex: aww. you guys figure out all my secrets! :D bonus shot is here. i was gonna include it but i didn't want to overwhelm everyone. i was saving it for next time....

in response to: under the freeway by moebius rex

moebius rex: more pics on the way...i took over 100 of 'em that day. this is just the first batch. and if you liked that 3rd one, there's a "mate" to it also--same style....

in response to: under the freeway by moebius rex

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