Material Acquisition | Competition | Consuming One Another

Speaking of cultures exported from the USA and particularly in Italy, embracing ‘style and fashion’ as a high priority and status symbol. 

This graffiti ‘street art’ in a pedestrian tunnel in Verona, Italy eloquently displays how humans are drawn to wear clothing and shoes ~ sporting a handbag or hat or the most updated phone ~ thinking that this is ‘making it’ and making them more desirable. 

It is material consumption in the competition to be better. 

Somehow the facing wall of ants gnawing on items of food, but also eating and munching on each other, chewing on other ants, mirrors the human play of material consumption ‘consuming’ the ego of another, rendering them less special and lesser of a person. 

Be the change you want to see; smiling, interacting, conversing with other people, rather than material acquisition and competition as the main emphasis and focus in life.

Graffiti Discovery | Pawtucket, RI | 10,000 Suns (sunflowers)

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Freiburg Germany stranded in hitch and discovery of fabulous graffiti

On my hitch from Germany east of Stuttgart to southern France, I stopped in Freiburg, Germany. I arrived at night, and walked around checking out the town, the craftsmanship, the canals, the river. Had already heard about this town as a pretty cool place; progressive, liberal, open-minded population. Also that 100% of its energy is derived from renewable sources.

Freiburg, Germany graffiti
tunnels

Freiburg, Germany graffiti

funky elephant Freiburg, Germany

miniature puppet swinging beneath bridge
Freiburg, Germany

lovely detailed inlaid stone sidewalks
Freiburg, Germany

I intended to hitch out of the town early the next morning. No ‘daylight savings time’, I was shocked to see that the sun only rose at 8am. I started nevertheless at 6:30 or so in the darkness. Lots of traffic, no one picking me up.

Freiburg, Germany fantastic graffiti

Freiburg, Germany style

Decided to purchase a coffee, then espresso, pretzel and the pastry. Went back to the road. Hours later, still not getting picked up, though this was the feeding point to the entrance to the autobahn several kilometers away.

Freiburg, Germany graffiti bridge art

Walked forward, no place for cars to stop. Asked someone if there was a gas station anywhere near this road, and was told there was one behind me, about a kilometer. Went there, still no rides. Saw some colorful graffiti, ran across the street to look at it. Then started walking down these stairs to a tunnel, and discovered loads of graffiti. I decided to myself that this was why I couldn’t leave town. I was supposed to discover this while getting stuck there.
I took pictures until my phone was almost out of space and battery.

Feeling very content with this discovery, and as the hours passed, now I was interacting more with people and just hitching from any random place along this road. I discovered the cool little mini person (puppet) swinging on a swing under the bridge. Chatted with a few people. Then a man approached, saying that he saw me that morning when he was on his way to work, and now was seeing me again after he returned from work. Having hitched himself, and knowing the difficulties of this particular town and the fact that this was mostly local traffic, he offered to drive me to a service station on the autobahn outside of town. I thanked him profusely. Turns out he had a lot of information to deliver. Said that Freiburg, years ago, was a town with a lot of squats, just like Berlin was a decade ago, but that in both towns, they’ve been cleared out, became rentals or just now not allowed to exist.

Freiburg, Germany graffiti

What I hadn’t known, is that where he dropped me off, now bypassed the place where I had mapped out that I was going to take as my route. It was a truck driver who said after I asked him and showed him my hand drawn map, that I had already passed that particular road, but that I could get off at such and such exit. It sounded like ‘German’ to me. I was inside starting to get worried, that I was going to be stuck here too, going way out of my way. But I consulted maps and found the names he spoke of.

Lots more story to tell, but I’ll just at least get these pictures out and describe more later. It was a fascinating hitchabout as far as insights into human nature and the whole gamut of types of people. It was also one in which I was stuck two nights in a row with no housing or food, and yet improvised and really enjoyed myself, even with the challenges.

Freiburg, Germany fantastic graffiti

I really do feel like a survivor, who can improvise and find means through creativity and resilience, to make things work, and even laugh about it. Of course, I’m not a refugee who has been forced to leave behind everything to seek a new life, nor someone who has just had my home burn down, ravaged by the exigencies of climate change. Just someone who has chosen to go on an adventure, who knows that I will bounce back into an accommodation I had planned – the workaway – host I was heading to in the south of France near Aix-en-Provence, from the host I left behind in central-southern Germany near Stuttgart.

The one I left behind was a nice learning experience, the one I’ve just surfed into is already exceeding my imagination and really fantastic. I feel very fortunate and appreciative.

Freiburg, Germany graffiti

carol the blogger March 24th, 2017 in New Mexico

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graffiti canal discoveries o c t 2 9 t h M o n t p e l l i e r, F r a n c e

g r a f f i t i c a n a l d i s c o v e ries o c t 2 9 t h m o n t p e l l i e r
o c t 2 9 t h M o n t p e l l i e r, F r a n c e

carol the blogger March 24th, 2017 in New Mexico

M o n t p e l l i e r G r a f f i t i w a v e f l u i d

M o n t p e l l i e r G r a f f i t i W a v e F l u i d

m o n t p e l l i e r s t r e e t s e r i e s g r a f f i t i w a v e

graffiti along fleuve Lez, Montpellier, France Oct. 2017

New Wave of Graffiti Montpellier France Oct. 2017

banana man

sinking green
Graffiti Montpellier France

duo layers
graffiti Montpellier France

Bicycle Ride to the Mediterranean Sea
graffiti Montpellier France

m o n t p e l l i e r s t r e e t s e r i e s g r a f f i t i w a v e r i s i n g
Montpellier France

m o n t p e l l i e r s t r e e t s e r i e s s t e n c i l g r a f f i t i

m o n t p e l l i e r s t r e e t s e r i e s s t e n c i l g r a f f i t i

¡I’m sure that I’ll be adding to this regularly!

Pics of this great street art in Montpellier, France

Batman hitting the earth with oil oozing out

Batman hitting the earth with oil oozing out

hear, speak and see no evil

rulers and ruled
pharaoh and king carrying kid on sofa

flickr pics montpellier graffiti, stencils, tattoos

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Graffiti at le Point Éphémère Juillet 2017

Oraculo Stencil Project

Le Point Ephémère

Unfortunately I don’t know the graffiti artist’s name
at le Point Éphémère

As I was leaving Paris, waiting for the OuiBus to depart at Port D’Orleans, I noticed a kid climbing into a grate. His body was halfway beneath the pavement, had a lit headlamp on his headband. It was a late Monday afternoon. I said, “Est-ce que to vas a les catacombs ou quoi?” He just looked at me. As the bus was taking off an hour later, I looked from my seat and saw at another grate about 5 teenagers (3 guys, 2 girls), getting ready to climb in, 2 of the 5 with headlamps. Ha!

 
Album representing where I was leaving, Taos, New Mexico among these lovely dogs, land and yurt – to Pennsylvania – then Paris.

 

Ruby and Luke

the yurt from inside

yurt where I lived

the kitchen outdoors
near yurt

Bus Taos New Mexico

Taos New Mexico

Ruby

 

New Mexico to Paris July 2017 flickr

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Paris Evening and Night shots Feu dArtifice

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Yet another musical festival erupted in Berlin

the Rotation Street Music Fest happened today, September 21st, on the eve of the Autumnal Equinox

Just around the corner from this rather steely industrial drab view of Berlin

And perhaps because of it

do arts come into focus, even in the background

gigantic graffiti realistic images

this was on my way to discovering the street music festival, called Rotation

Friedrichshain street music festival September 21st

B e r l i n s t r e e t s e r i e s / s a t i r i c a l s t e n c i l \ d a p p e r d e s i g n

Back on Berlin’s pavements

met with surprises

comically clever

delightfully satirical

s t e n c i l

d e s i g n

g r a f f i t i

For starters, the freshly discovered ‘let’s party’ stencil series, fresh for me anyway!

Remember the night we all went to bed on time? Me neither. Lets Party

Have Less do More Let’s Party

archives await