New graffitum friend
Posted on June 20, 2007
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We’ve been noticing this rather striking grafittum on our Adobe commutes lately. On one wall, the legend ‘Long Neck’ appears nearby, which I presume is his/her name.
Long Neck appears in a number of places, all quite well drawn, IMHO: this is the only snap I’ve been able to get from the speeding ‘baby bullet’ I ride most days.
Previously, I’d snapped a friendly-looking Zombie that I liked, but haven’t spotted any more instances of him recently.
There are a couple places with very nice Long Neck portraits, including one that seems to show twins, but I haven’t been able to snap them from the train.
There are other well-drawn characters in the graffiti between Lawrence and San Jose Diridon stations that are worth a look. We may need an expedition to get some good close-ups of some of this work… another reason to work on getting mobility back…
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[…] Felt very lucky to get this - another shot of pretty graffitum Long Neck - from the train day before yesterday. The ‘baby bullet’ I ride is usually going around 60 MPH (I think), the train windows are’nt particularly clean mid week, and I’m shooting into the sun when headed south to San Jose. This particular morning the train slowed a bit to take a fork - not normal at this spot - and that helped. I’m also making a mental map of the spots where Long Neck appears along the tracks in the hopes of being able to get ready for a shot. Nevertheless, the Lumix DMC FZ50 and its Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 7.4 - 88.8 mm (35 - 420 in 35mm format), set to 4-photo ‘burst’ mode at about 90mm (35 format) managed to get one frame as we sped by (a ‘hail Mary’ situation if ever there was one). A little image processing cleaned it up, and voila, Mr. (or is it Ms.?) Long Neck graces the blog again… […]