An interesting graffitum

Posted on March 29, 2007
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Graffitum in San JoseThis Graffitum, on a trackside wall between Lawrence and San Jose train stations has caught my eye on the near-daily Adobe commute.

I used the high-speed multiple-image-capture feature of the Lumix DMC FZ50 to grab this image as the train wizzed by. It helped that I was on a slow local train this PM - I’m normally on the ‘baby bullet’ which really flies past this particular wall. I have tried and failed to grab this pic from the fast-moving bullet train.

As it was, only one of 4 frames captured our zombie graffiti: I missed with the other 3. I’m sure I could spend days investigating and photographing graffiti: there is a fascinating offering of same facing the tracks between about Mountain View and San Jose: and even here graffiti is sparse, confined to just a few bands on fences and industrial buildings. Much variety, and some interesting graphical content like the blue face, bottom left, by zombie’s leg (though property owners may not be as amused as I)…

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6 Responses to “An interesting graffitum”

  1. Adrian Midgley on March 30th, 2007 3:31 pm

    graffitum? If it is about a dead person, might it be a graffitaph?

  2. cg on March 30th, 2007 4:04 pm

    Heh… such wit! Were we to hold a service in memory of our friend, would it be a graffitorial service? A graffiternment were we to lay him to rest?

    Given the relationship of graffiti and tagging to gang activity, including the small x that, when placed a bove a tag, supposedly marks a person for death, I should probably not be so flip about this…

  3. Getze on April 4th, 2007 9:21 am

    Forget about the lame gang tags, grafitti is truly an art form. Here’s a link to one of my favorite artists, BIGFOOT: a environmentalist/graffiti artist who is on a mission to beautify “all man made objects.” Sort of a champion of nature over technology.

    http://www.bigfootone.com/

  4. joel on April 6th, 2007 5:16 pm

    There are quite a few dense sections of interesting graffiti from Oakland through Berkeley along the Southern Pacific rails I used to ride commuting to San Jose on the Amtrak Capitol Corridor.

    How about taking a short train trip to Yoshi’s Jack London Square for a dinner jazz outing and documenting the track-side art?

  5. www.gulker.com » Blog Archive » New grafittum friend on June 20th, 2007 6:28 pm

    […] Previously, I’d snapped a friendly-looking Zombie that I liked, but haven’t spotted any more instances of him recently. […]

  6. shut up on March 8th, 2008 12:59 pm

    0ocay furst of all u t0yz hes not Z0MBiE hes MUSk

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