i walk by this hong kong graffiti quote almost every day outside a construction site between king’s & electric road in tin hau. thankfully i finally remembered to stop & get a picture.
not sure if this completely qualifies as graffiti (well, neither did my last hong kong graffiti post), but love it anyway. the quotation marks around “beat” always remind me to visit one of my favorite — and truly nerdy — websites, the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.
went up to the jubilee (shing mun) reservoir on a hong kong history walk/tour/talk with jason wordie and found an example of some of the older hong kong graffiti you’ll find.
this marking was left by the victorious japanese army under colonel doi teishichi when they defeated the british battalion stationed here in 1941. unfortunately no one is lining up to preserve the complex, interconnected network of tunnels that once helped to hold off the japanese forces.
if you do make it out to the tunnels (i highly suggest going with wordie and hearing all the background from him), you’ll see that the tunnels were named after london streets to help the middlesex regiment manning the site to better get their bearings.
the fall of the shing mun redoubt/jubilee reservoir and its surrounding areas — which cut hong kong’s water supplies — paved the way for the japanese to take over the rest of kowloon.
a couple of more photos from the tunnels:
was in chengdu last weekend visiting the panda reserve (see some picts below) & a friend. there wasn’t much interesting graffiti but did come across this piece down a small alley near the main mao statue.
i love that last photo, so similar to what many friend look like on a lazy sunday afternoon.
went to taipei to visit a friend last weekend. although we didn’t get to see tons of graffiti that wasn’t simple tags, i did manage to find one fun one near the amazing beef noodle shop (okay, “shop” might be a bit of an overstatement) we hit called lindongfang. my noodles topped with layou above.
to avoid the crowds when walking from causeway bay to happy valley i ducked behind a row of houses & found these (cheeky) free-style hong kong graffiti pictures.
to go back to “sesame street” days & play “which one’s not like the others”, the last image here only belongs with the set due to geography: it’s done on what looks like a kind of paste & the image is pretty complex, it looks almost painted on.