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Fat letters
I used to be a calligrapher, and actually spent quite a bit of time studying different lettering styles. Because I also used to be a drafter (or draftsman, or draftsperson) and once had a job where we had to fill up any empty time by practicing lettering, calligraphy came pretty easy to me. There were some styles I couldn’t learn (like Copperplate), some that were too much trouble (Blackletter), and some I really did enjoy (like the sample below, of something I actually did.)
But this fat-letter style wasn’t one I learned. Which is a shame since the field of graffiti seems to have outlived the field of calligraphy.
Austin, Texas
photographed 4.12.2014
The beast on the wall
Maybe this is one of those times when there’s nothing I can say that will add anything to the photo….
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 9.29.2012
Fair enough
After I got through looking at this building, I wandered to the vacant place next door. The sign on the front proclaimed it to be a hail-repair business (which tend to come and go, depending on the weather: this one was out of business), but the back wall held this important message.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.24.2013
Who are the villains here?
Is it odd to have a favorite kind of graffiti? Probably.
But, still, I think train-car graffiti is my favorite.
I understand that it’s vandalism. And that probably the only way to paint a train car involves trespassing. But I still like it.
(My dad recently told me, in sort of Stern Dad voice, that I “needed to make sure to stay off the train’s property” when I was shooting. Because no matter how old I am, I’m still his daughter.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 2.20.2009
White on white, 10
On the top level of a parking garage along South Beverly Drive, I spotted this bit of graffiti. And a security camera. Or, perhaps more accurately, a “security” camera.
Beverly Hills, California
photographed 6.26.2013
One Day | One Image 