Category Archives: stickers & wheatpastes

Tripping… by 2am

So I moved this weekend, yesterday evening to be precise…

After 10 years!

As you can imagine, in the course of a decade I managed to cram a ridiculous amount of stuff into various hidden nooks and crannies.   I thought I was traveling light.  I thought it would be easy.  After repeated Goodwill donations and Salvation Army pickups throughout the years, I thought I was in good shape.

I was wrong.

I’ll be digging out for days, and in the interest of keeping my sanity, and my day job, my next few posts will be short and sweet.

Here another sticker from outside what is no longer my home!  (Incidentally, it’s probably a good depiction of how my movers were feeling about hour five into the job… I can’t thank them enough… heaps of gratitude to Crispin & Eric from Anonymous Movers!)

BTW, anyone want to rent a cool loft in the hood???

west oakland stickers, stickers by 2am, tripping

Street Art ~ Modern Folk Art

Hey all… it’s a busy busy week.  Sorry no post yesterday, and today’s going to be a quickie!

I’ve got a few more  gallery stops to share from our Murmuring last Friday, but you’ll have to check back for those…

For now, a wheat paste we spotted on Broadway… a collaborative effort by four local street artists:  GATS, Ras Terms, Dead Eyes, and I’m not sure about the last guy… he does a lot of stickers proclaiming “Beer is Good”, a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with.

ras terms, dead eyes, gats, graffiti against the system, broke

A couple of these guys’ works (and those by several more) will appear in a group show this Friday night at Basement Gallery, 7 – 10pm. 

Curated by local graffiti afficionado Endless Canvas, Deep Rooted Scribes is billed as “a look at modern cultural folk art.” Should be pretty cool…

Basement Gallery
1027 3rd Street
Oakland, CA 94607
(map)

courtesy of Ojos sin Vida's Flickr photostream

Koleo & Dead Eyes

Art Murmur TONITE! See you all there…

koleo sticker, dead eyes sticker, graffiti stickers, usps sticker

Ave Maria ~ Hail Mary

Here’s another one of those incredible giant wheat pastes… spotted just around the corner from the last one (abandoned building on San Pablo near 35th street freeway overpass).  This is the biggest one yet, spanning at least 15 feet wide, and fashioned out of more than six 3-foot wide strips of paper.

hail mary, giant wheat paste, east bay street art

hail mary wheatpaste, ave maria wheatpaste, bison wheatpaste

“Ave Maria” is latin for “Hail Mary,” a traditional Catholic prayer asking for the intercession of the Virgin Mary. Interesting…

giant wheatpaste, bison wheatpaste, east bay graffiti

Similar to the others, a bison is depicted with some type of bomber plane encasing (or replacing) its head.  But unlike the others, this one has more than four legs.  Hmmm….

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