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walking the Milky Way

Posted: October 1, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locations
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The Milky Way  from Dufferin to Elm Grove.

Once upon a time this alley led to a dairy.  Story has it that milk was often spilt along the way.

graffiti picture on a brick wall of a horse's head, a wagon wheel and spilt milk pouring from a large container.

At the west end of the Milky Way is a mural of two horses (one shown here), a wagon wheel, and an overturned milk can.

 

There is also quite a bit of graffiti in the alley.

a line of graffiti little green guys that look sort of like aliens with stick arms and legs and big black eyes.

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large pink graffiti tag letters on either side of a black door in an alley
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Large orange and yellow graffiti letters that say It's Like A Jungle Sometimes. There is a door on the right side and on the door is a large black and white picture of a woman from the waist up. She is bare chested with little pink hearts covering her nipples.

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Large bright orange and blue tag on a wood fence

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close up of a stencil graffiti of 2 cherries. Beside the cherries is the letter R in blue. Both are on concrete with a crack in it

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Three large pinkish alien like creatures on a corrugated metal fence. Some ivy is hanging over the fence

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Graffiti on a wall with a window in the corner. The picture is of a person singing into a microphone. The words I want your skulls are above the person's head.

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graffiti face between two colourful tags. Part of a window is the picture and there is a small Eiffel Tower on the window sill. .

Graffiti fishes and shark swimming on a wall. Some weeds are growing up in front of them them and it looks like seaweed. Two old Vote Spud signs are on a railing in this picture as well.
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A silly face with big teeth with the word crush under it, graffiti on a wall in the alley. Green garbage bins in front of the wall.

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mural on a wall of a young woman with a large blue scarf handing money to a cartoon rabbit

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pink, brown, and light blue tag on a wall.

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Ghost Dick are the words in the graffiti and they are accompanied by a white drawing of a ghost walking to the left with it's arms in front

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A corrugated metal wall that is partially obscured by vines. Under the vines is a green graffiti tag. There is also a door in the wall with the number 55 on it. It is someone's home. There is also a mailbox.

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An old wood & glass door that has been painted over with graffiti. A green and white sign saying Entrance is above the door. Graffiti is on both sides of the door.

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Part of a street art painting in blues and purples. It looks very geometric in design. Some weeds are growing up in front of it.

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wispy space alien with a blue substance coming from its body and spreading into a purple and red tag

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Noble Anser faces

Posted: September 30, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locations
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Seen on a wall on Noble Street:

Street art painting on the side of a brick wall, black line drawn faces with some reds, whites and blues
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The eyes of a graffiti face look like they are peaking from behind a couple of branches.
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Street art painting on the side of a brick wall, black line drawn faces with some reds, whites and blues , and one with brown hair
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Street art painting on the side of a brick wall, black line drawn faces with some reds, whites and blues
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one line drawing of a woman's face, the tree branches look like her green hair.
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Street art painting on the side of a brick wall, black line drawn faces with some reds, whites and blues , and two realistic looking eyes on either side of a window .

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beside 530 Richmond West

Posted: September 18, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locations
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There is a mural in the lane way that runs beside 530 Richmond Street West (and connects with Graffiti Alley).  It was completed earlier this summer.  It is a collaborative effort by Shalak Attack (woman’s face), Kevin Ledo (child’s face), Uber5000 (blue cat) and Bruno Smokey ( man).

A large mural on the side of a building in a lane. Three or 4 people are taking pictures of it.

A number of people were taking pictures when I was there.

part of a large mural on the side of a 2 storey building, a large multicoloured woman's face. She is wearing earrings that look like skeletons

death dangles from her ears

part of a large mural, a picture of a smiling small boy wearing a light blue cap. It is very large.

grimaces? smiles?

part of a large mural on the side of a 2 storey building

ghetto cat

part of a large mural showing the bottom part of a blue cat that is standing on two legs. Under his legs are 2 Uber chickens and one is saying Pizza. Another chicken is sitting on the cat's tail and he wants tacls. There is a clock on the cat's tummy.

I guess it’s dinner time…. pizza, tacos and beets!

part of a large mural, a very large wrinkly man's face with large eyeballs and large ears

eyes to the right

part of a large mural on the side of a 2 storey building, a small uber chicken is being held between two fingers of a very large pair of hands

chicken fingers

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alley creatures

Posted: September 18, 2014 in graffiti and street art
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Creatures on walls and garage doors, all seen yesterday between Dundas & Palmerston and College & Bathurst.

a garage door that has been painted with two very large red roses on either side of a painting of a skull with lots of flowery motifs in it.

Graffiti in an alley, a large number of finger like creatures in a boat. Black line drawing on white garage door.

Graffiti painted on a wall that looks like a stylized dog as a red devil with horns, wearing sunglasses and holding a yellow devil's fork

Graffiti in an alley, a few stickers on a grey wood wall - the head of a cat, a small horse and an abstract drawing.

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women on David French Lane

Posted: September 10, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locations
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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.

Street art piece of two large women's heads. One is blue and she's wearing a black mask.

Masked and unmasked

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A stencil (on paper) almost life sized woman wearing shorts and a Tshirt. She has a metal arm with a vice grip hand that looks sort of robot like.

Waiting in the doorway. Note the trashy tags around her.

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Bright red lips on a wood fence.

smoochies!

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Graffiti man's head with red eyes and mouth. Red paint that looks like blood dripping is above him.

Ooops, that’s not a woman!

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another Kensington alley

Posted: September 4, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locations
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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 🙂

Colourful graffiti in a Kensington lane. Close up of a pair of grey eyes. Bottom part of face is obscured, including her cheeks.

Eyes hold a fascination for me.

. Colourful graffiti in a Kensington lane showing a person with a large head, from the ribs up. Hands are crossed in front of him. Multicoloured geometric shapes are on either side of his head.

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Colourful graffiti in a Kensington lane
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The top part of a woman with long black hair and wearing a white and blue dress is standing amongst many tree trunks.... Colourful graffiti in a Kensington lane. There is a broom, a mop, and two large buckets on the sidewalk in front of her.

It looks like she is in the midst of cleaning. Mop, broom and buckets handy.

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Colourful graffiti in a Kensington lane

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Colourful graffiti in a Kensington lane stencils of heads, one dark blue and one purple.

twins, similar but not identical

.Colourful graffiti in a Kensington lane, an oldered bearded man with yellow hat (or turban?) is holding up his hand to show the eye that is on his palm.

always in the way

Posted: September 2, 2014 in general Toronto
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If you can’t beat them, join them.

No matter where I went this summer, I seemed to always find the CN Tower lurking in the background.
It photobombs a lot of pictures!  🙂

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A bright red tugboat is tied up in the foreground. Many glass windows of many condos are in the photo. The top of the CN tower is peaking up over the top of the condos on Toronto's waterfront.

The M.R. Kane, a bright red tugboat sits tied up at the waterfront near the foot of Spadina Ave.  The CN Tower stands tall above the condos the line Queens Quay West.

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An SUV and a red truck are parked in a parking lot. On the left side of the picture are two walls that are covered with graffiti. The CN Tower is above one of those walls.

behind graffiti walls in a parking lot on College Street

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Black eyed Susan flowers in the foreground, some taller buildings including the CN tower in the background. There is also a tall thin sculpture (decorated pole?) in the picture

Trying to hide behind the sculpture in the Music Garden, waterfront

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The pink wall of faces is a fountain and it is on the left side of the photo. People at the ex and the CN Tower are also in the photo.

…. and at the Ex too!

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The CN Tower and the Toronto skyline as seen from the east part of downtown Toronto.

Where Eastern Ave. joins Richmond Street East before they cross the Don River.

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Part of a bright red metal sculpture is in the foreground. The CN tower is in the background (the top part of it anyhow)

Lurking under sculptures….

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Part of the stone church, St. Andrews Presbyterian, dominates the photo. Part of a tree, the edge of a skyscraper and the CN Tower are on the right side of the photo.

Peeking out from behind St. Andrews Presbyterian Church on King St. at Simcoe.

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facing outward from the wall

Posted: July 18, 2014 in graffiti and street art
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Graffiti faces seen in alleys and lanes recently.

A street art painting of a bust of a woman, all white, looks like white marble Greek or Roman statue, very classical looking

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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Large black & white & grey face of a famous black musician, probably jazz or blues but I'm not sure

musician – and my apologies because I am not sure who it is.

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A small black & white & grey face made on paper, surrounded by green , yellow, blue & oranges squiggly lines

colourful face

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A street art painting of a woman's face. Her eyes are closed and her head is tilted upwards

Closed eyes between the garages

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Graffiti, or street art, on a blue background, of a little black and white animal with a spray paint can in his hand. Beside him is a tag in yellows and olive greens.

Love Spraying Dude, a colourful little guy

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A few small trees are growing in front of an older building that has been painted white. Two brown figures have been stencilled onto the wall.

Hiding behind the trees

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alley animals

Posted: July 14, 2014 in graffiti and street art
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A selection of the graffiti animals that I have encountered in the past few weeks.

large mural on the side of two storey building of a rhino surrounded by large birds

rhino and his feathered friends, parking lot off College St.
This is only part of the mural…. more below.

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mural of many large birds in blues and greys, they all have long curved necks and large beaks

large beaks, large birds
This is only part of the mural…. more above.

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large realistic painting of a pink pig

oink, oink
A mural by ACS murals

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A white outline drawing of a dinosaur painted on a green door that is locked

guardasaurus to watch over the door

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a red and white painting of a floppy eared stylized rabbit on the side of an old garage. Other garages with tags on them are also in the photograph

posr rabbit tucked in beside a garage – hiding from those who are hunting rabbits

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large mural street art piece painted on the side of a one storey building of a beaked creature with wings

Creature with scales and a tail, Willis St., near the northwest corner of Queen and Bathurst streets.

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elephants in threes, but you can only see two of them in this pic. The elephant on the right didn't fit in the photo.

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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painted graffiti of a hummingbird that looks like it is coming into land, hovering near vertical

hummingbird hovering beside a garage door

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slaps in the alley

Posted: July 14, 2014 in graffiti and street art
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In a small alley running behind the south side of College St., west of Bathurst, we discovered a large number of sticker graffiti pieces.

 

brown brick wall with a window that has been boarded over and painted the same brown colour. In the window, and on the window frame, are a large number of sticker graffiti pieces.

once it was a window, now it is a canvas of sorts

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close up of some of the stickers that are in the window. One has words on it that asks if you have thanked yourself for persevering. Another is a red lizard with the words No Pipelines written on it, and another is a dog that is licking socks.

persevering thank you very much, while the dog licks the socks

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A woman wearing a light purple cloth over the lower part of her face is holding a large white sign with the letter A inside a circle on it. Beside her is a large purple flower. Both are sticker.

partially obscured with purple and purple flower

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An assortment of some of the stickers. These are the ones that were on the top part of the window. A person wearing a balaclava, a black haired girl with the lower part of her face covered in black, an outline drawing of a rabbit,

I did what I could with this photo as it was taken looking upward into the shadows of the window. Strange angle too – being much taller might have helped!

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A black and white sticker on a yellow pole. The words on the sticker say Rad Brad. It is weird looking two legged creature.

Rad Brad hanging out on a yellow pole

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