David French lane runs between Borden St. and Brunswick Ave., south of Bloor. I know that I have posted some of the graffiti on the garages in the lane before. Most of those garages have since been covered with ugly and boring tags. There isn’t as much of interest there these days…. but I did see the following today.
Masked and unmasked
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Waiting in the doorway. Note the trashy tags around her.
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smoochies!
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Ooops, that’s not a woman!
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Back in May I posted some photos from a small dead end alley in Kensington.
This past weekend I took some pictures in a different Kensington alley.
Take a look 🙂
Eyes hold a fascination for me.
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It looks like she is in the midst of cleaning. Mop, broom and buckets handy.
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twins, similar but not identical
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Graffiti faces seen in alleys and lanes recently.
White bust on a wall near Bathurst subway station. She has been here for quite some time now; it’s good to see that no one has tagged over her
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musician – and my apologies because I am not sure who it is.
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colourful face
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Closed eyes between the garages
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Love Spraying Dude, a colourful little guy
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Hiding behind the trees
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A selection of the graffiti animals that I have encountered in the past few weeks.
rhino and his feathered friends, parking lot off College St.
This is only part of the mural…. more below.
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large beaks, large birds
This is only part of the mural…. more above.
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oink, oink
A mural by ACS murals
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guardasaurus to watch over the door
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posr rabbit tucked in beside a garage – hiding from those who are hunting rabbits
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Creature with scales and a tail, Willis St., near the northwest corner of Queen and Bathurst streets.
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Elephants herd of three, but you can only see two of them in this picture. The elephant on the right didn’t fit in the photo…. but it looked just like the one of the left except it’s facing the other way.
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hummingbird hovering beside a garage door
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Bulwer Street is a short street that runs parallel to, and one block north of, Queen Street West. It is only one block long, running east from Spadina Ave to Soho St.
children behind the fence
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children playing in the parking lot
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white eyes
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he’s got the whole city in his hands
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rooftop reflections
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mirrored in the glass
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facing the alley
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only half the man he used to be
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the back door
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tag – suniti? BA Kings?
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parts of three tags on a wall
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wired tags on concrete
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worn away but clinging on
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Uber 500’s little yellow bird shows up on this street too
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little fish, big teethfish
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one of the many, many, views of the CN tower
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There is an alley that runs behind Bathurst, on the west side. Most of these photos were taken in that alley. All of the photos are of sticker, or paper, graffiti that I saw when I walked that alley a week or so ago.
It used to be a window, now it is an ever changing canvas.
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spirograph on the metal pole.
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strawberry man gets licked by dog, a mask looks at you, decolonize and phi-nite, all in a small space
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have wings, will skateboard
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calzone tag unfortunately scribbled on top.
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Billy and friends
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brown girl on the wall
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blue cat with lace
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red eye
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A little dead end alley in Kensington and the graffiti I found there.
A chain link fence at the end of the alley.
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I love the way that the faces are incomplete compared to rest of the anatomy.
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The seemingly endless battle between graffiti artists and those who wantonly tag over their work.
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squares pieced together
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hidden doorway
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steaming
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chaos with stickers and scribbles
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grimacing skull by the fence
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A few things that I saw today as I walked from Richmond and Spadina, southwestward to King and Shaw. A beautiful sunny Tuesday afternoon.
rusted and authorized
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Happily perched above it all with a birds eye view of Richmond Street West.
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Smoking on the roof.
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Stop Rob Ford at the western end of a one way Richmond street.
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window and light, Palace Hotel, at King and Strachan.
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Afternoon light.
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fish piss in the alley
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Black and white and speckled all over. This was one in a series of five or six windows of various sizes along the same wall. The black and white painting gave the wall an interesting look although I am not sure of pictures of the individual windows are all that interesting!
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The alley I was walking down turned, but as I turned the corner I realized that I had come to a dead end. I spotted this poster on one of the garage doors that was there. According to the man standing inside one of the other garages, lots of people end up doing U-turns in front of his garage – including cars that come zooming around the corner, only to have to hit their brakes.
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A sticker of a black hearted, square headed, yellow robot on a blue dumpster.
for more information about the lovebots, http://lovebot.com/about
This photo was taken while standing in a parking lot near the southeast corner of Adelaide and Bathurst streets.
The graffiti across the lower part of the building is by homebase. Their website: http://www.homebasetoronto.com
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Graffiti and street art on the garages
of David French Lane and Alan Powell Lane
David French Lane runs south from Barbara Barrett Lane (just south of Bloor St.), one block to Sussex Ave. If you cross Sussex Ave., the lane continues as Alan Powell Lane. Both lanes are lined with garages for the houses on Borden St. and Brunswick Ave., the streets that run parallel on either side of the lanes. Alan Powell Lane also runs behind Central Tech Collegiate.
There is an excellent interactive map of the lanes of Harbord village and the people for whom they were named at http://www.harbordvillage.com/laneways/lanewayinteractivemap.html
A railway locomotive roars past the corner of Barbara Barrett Lane and David French Lane.
Camille is loved.
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Darth Vader and the dogs
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, in duplicate. Looking north up Alan Powell Lane.
A posr rabbit lurks in the corner, Alan Powell Lane
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Barbara Barrett lane is located in Harbord village. It runs east-west and is immediately south of Bloor Street West between Borden Street and Brunswick Avenue.
The lane was recently named after Barbara Barrett who was the founder of the Toronto School of Art in 1969. The school was originally located at Sussex and Brunswick. Barbara died in 2005 in her 89th year.
Like many lanes and alleys in the area, there are a number of murals and interesting pieces of graffiti.
birds on a wire
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solving Rubiks’s cube
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one way to the window
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at the corner
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girl on a swing. She is in the entranceway to the Green Room restaurant.
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smiling, laughing stencil faces
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zipping around
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a door in the mural
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as I walk Toronto 