Graf

The street art around the place continues to impress.

I've tracked "neonate" from a phone booth in Aro Valley to a door on a derelict building in Thorndon, deep in the heart of the government precinct:

This showed up briefly on the Winslow Appts building in Aro Street last summer before being painted out; it may be my favourite ever:

I'm particularly fond of the very well-rendered teeth - highly reminiscent of the broken and battered stumps in a cattle skull that's been washed up on a beach - and the complex system on the left which makes me think of circuit diagrams and the illustrations in a maritime semaphore manual.

This guy has just started popping up lately:

Gut instinct tells me it could be by neonate too, but I'm happy to be wrong.

These slightly-less stylised images have been popping up too. I have a real soft spot for them, despite - or possibly even because - they look like stuff I have been drawing lately. Whether or not the "circle-P" graf forms the same supposed function as the ol' shoes over the power-line trick (Snopes; Urban Legends; Strait Dope) I am not sure.

I'm not 100% sure either what is going on here (on a pavement in Constable Street, Newtown):

It may be as innocuous as marking out a site for a proposed joint reticulation (cable, gas, power, phone, whatever) but it reminds me of the runes you see on album covers of Finnish black metal bands (not that I could find any on the 'web; a French band will have to do).

Finally - someone has gone to an awful lot of trouble to helpfully mark up the urinal at Lovelock's sports bar in large (and presumably waterproof) Letraset-style adhesive type:

I felt that some form of honouring of this effort was appropriate. So, here's to you, whomsoever you may be. Cheers.

(as usual, click the images for larger versions)