Tag Archives: stencils

king’s road revival

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although it’s fun to catch art around the city (or asia), also good to see tin hau getting some hong kong graffiti love. caught this one across king’s road. if you weren’t sure this wheatpaste was a start from zero piece by looking at it, they also signed it (see the close up).

         

no idea how these guys managed to put this up on such a busy road, but happy this is there though since the cheeky take on the hong kong construction logo that used to be in that spot (image below) faded a while ago.

 

we don’t need no education

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was walking in sheung wan & it turned, more or less, into a hunt for start from zero’s work. guessing the sfz guys are pink floyd fans — those first three wheatpaste picts were dotted along queen’s road. the fourth pict of the empty space was interesting since it looked like one of the construction logo knock-off (image 5, from tin hau) used to be there.

if you look behind the space in image four, you’ll see a ribbon. got a close up it — a sfz calling card.

had to include the final pict of a pawn shop that i shot near one of the odes to floyd. with the shadows across it, it seemed like something that you’d see in an old hong kong film.

magic eye

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magic eye graffiti in central

feel like someone’s watching you in central? might be more than the person on the next bar stool.

graffiti playground

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although a quick walk from my office to the taco truck (a lunch staple since it soft opened a few weeks ago in central), it’s relaxing to take a few minutes in what i’ve dubbed “the playground” — that random area between pottinger st. & wo on lane/lkf — to see if any new hong kong graffiti has popped up.

there’s a ton there that has been up for a while but these relatively new/less old ones caught my eye. i particularly love the man sitting done on wheatpaste.

discovery in db

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Discovery Bay Hong Kong - Hong Kong graffiti

went to discovery bay to visit some friends, & almost walked right past this koala in hiding on the boardwalk. there was remarkably little tagging out there (& sadly no laundry detergent boxes in the windows either), so this was a pretty nice surprise amidst the perfectly manicured flowerbeds.

spray your world

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“spray your world” has popped up around tin hau & causeway bay lately. noticed the first tag & stencil-freestyle piece on the harbour frontage road next to victoria park. the next images were taken in victoria park, a space generally free of graffiti.

the last “break your camera” shot on caroline rd is missing the tag, but it does share the same stencil so figured it rounded out the set. as for the car, just thought it was a fun one.

lamma stencils

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lamma (南丫島) feels like worlds away from hong kong, perfect for a quick day trip. someone with a spray can & a few new stencils to test out beat me there though, leaving an anti-consumerism message (photo 1), mao bust & a tasteful nude to line the walk to the beach. i’m a fan of how photo 5 turned out, our shadows somehow work into the shot perfectly. wonder when we’ll see these stencils popping up in central.

although i generally stick to graffiti photos, couldn’t help including a couple from our day out there, we couldn’t have asked for better weather. check out photo 9: a local man (maybe in his 70s or 80s) who has a small vegetable farm/patch & grows all his produce organically (minus the certification). you can buy veggies from him as you pass, but if you don’t make it you’ll probably get a taste anyway since some of the local restaurants buy from him as well.