adding to unar & the hong kong dessert place’s appeal is the new tai hang graffiti that popped up. looks like we have a neighborhood philosopher on our hands, but with all the flashy cars around the ‘hood, i don’t quite think the message is getting through.
i was meeting a friend for lunch on a street in sheung wan i hadn’t been in a while & found someone’s new hong kong graffiti campaign.
seems like there are two big themes going on in the area: chicken & guns. odd combo to say the least.
& on to the hong kong graffiti guns …
is it just me or do the bombs kind of look like birds at first glance? anyway, not sure why all the guns were necessary, but love the reverse stencil concept.
just a quick hong kong graffiti update. the people behind the llama wheat paste creations that now decorate tin hau & tai hang (among many other hk locales), just got in touch. the group calls themselves “the martians” & these “aliens” say that they come in peace & using “the universal language – art, to express messages to you.” far more interesting idea than the usual spaceship landing.
you can check out their fb page to see more of their commentaries around hk.
a collection of faces (in hong kong graffiti form) from around the city …
thanks to the guys at g.o.d for this new addition to hong kong graffiti.
although nothing else might be free in hong kong, at least this person’s political opinion via hong kong graffiti is.
clearly someone got a bit bored of the usual hong kong graffiti decorations in tai hang and grabbed some wheat paste to do something about it. the llama/草泥马 (cao ni ma) looks like a start from zero creation, but not sure about the others though. thoughts?
around the corner from one of the best afternoon tea set in hong kong.
thankfully the nearest happy meal is a few minute walk away…
know this person?
okay, i’m cheating a little and this last hong kong graffiti pict. it was taken just over the border from tai hang in causeway bay; i still love the multi-color afro nonetheless.
was in sheung wan for a hotel review and happened upon these bits of hong kong graffiti down a back alley. almost too bad they’re hidden from sight.
although no excuse for slacking on posting, i did abscond to chaing mai, thailand for four weeks in june/july to get my yoga teacher certification (woohoo!). ever on the lookout for graffiti, found a couple of good examples.
for these images, the first three are on wualai rd, near wat srisuphan (aka the silver temple — see a silver temple photo gallery). that street is also where you’ll find chiang mai’s saturday market. last thai graffiti pict is near a great veggie restaurant called taste of heaven where i took an awesome vegetarian cooking class (veggie pad thai and spring rolls anyone?).
for the last two, the second to last is the saturday market which had some great local crafts & street-side foot massages. the last pict is my yoga teacher cert from yoga institute/wise living yoga for proof i wasn’t just eating pad thai for a month. i’m pretty excited to start teaching in hk.
there was actually a ton more great thai graffiti in chiang mai, but all too often i passed it in a songtail &/or tuk tuk, so i couldn’t get a good shot. guess that just means i’ll have to go back.
took advantage of the weekend weather to hit a couple of hiking trails. although there wasn’t any out-&-out hong kong graffiti, lots of people seemed to have used the rock & moss to express themselves. found these designs up mount butler.
okay, there’s no hong kong graffiti in this one, but i included it because i love this view of the icc & ifc bookending victoria harbour.
other than finding it a bit odd that people felt like carving into the rocks up there, the content in the middle of the three photos is odd to say the least (or maybe my graffiti imagination isn’t creative enough).
all the way to the left is the phrase “jesus smiles” while on the right it’s “he sees you [some word that looks a lot like ‘naked’]”. still not sure of the two thoughts are related. of all the things to write on rocks overlooking the city though, that’s the hong kong graffiti that came to someone’s mind. really?
finding this stuff also reminded me of some fun shots i took a while back while hiking from quarry bay to stanley by the reservoir. love that hike.
