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Street Art
Mysterious "Cheek Wall" gang claims Second Street.
Strange sidewalk markings have area drunkards fearful to yell woo, start fights with cars.
So far the paint has proven vomit-resistant.
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| photos by Patrick Rapa |
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I believe that I've relieved myself on that cheek wall once before. Now I know why I wasn't arrested.....
[...] Neon graffiti terrartists strike Old City! :: The Clog :: Blog … [...]
[...] Neon graffiti terrartists strike Old City! :: The Clog :: Blog … [...]
[...] Neon graffiti terrartists strike Old City! :: The Clog :: Blog … [...]
[...] Neon graffiti terrartists strike Old City! :: The Clog :: Blog … [...]
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| photos by Patrick Rapa |
| NONTENDRE BANANAS (Third and Bainbridge), one of several in the area. |
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| Zoomed in. See? It's a penis. |
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| CRIMINAL (Third near South) |
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| Photo | Drew Lazor (click to enlarge) |
This was near 23rd and Catharine. Address all reward checks to The Clog.
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| Photo | Brian Howard's Android |
| The code remains unbroken. |
Spent the weekend out and about, catching the penultimate performance of Chunky Move's Mortal Engine and the finale of A.W.A.R.D. Show. In the process, new clues were collected in this bizarre game of street code. To Pole, Spin, Was and Local we add Tame, Guess, Cancel, Monetize and Drum.
So far sightings have occurred on Second Street, Broad Street, Walnut Street and 20th Street. Does anyone out there in the Clogosphere have access to some kind of text analysis software or service? Typing all these words into Google produces no usable results.
I suppose the big question is this: Is there a route you could take that would make these words make sense?
See also, ORIENT at 4th and Brown and SCENE at 6th and Race
Also ARMY at 20th and Vine.
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| Photos | Brian Howard's Android |
The mystery of the words on the street deepens:
spin, in the western crosswalk at Broad and Walnut
pole, in the western crosswalk at Sixth and Chestnut
What could this mean? Theories being accepted.
I spotted 'local' in the eastern crosswalk of 20th and Race. Alas no picture.
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Is anyone else seeing these reflector-tape words on city streets? I've seen a few already, but have been in transit and thus unable to snap them. This "was" is outside our office at Second and Chestnut.
Is there a route that forms, say, a sentence? And are these in any way tied to the reflector-tape Stickman outbreak of 2007?
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| Photo | Brian Howard's android |
| this is where was was. |
Send me your photos (bhoward [at] citypaper [dot] net), or post links, and we'll try to solve this puzzle.
not was
Stickman did a new sweep a few weeks ago with a black and white series, sometimes acting as shadows/mirrors of each other. You can't go up 3rd North of Broad without seeing a dozen. There were some words on South street but they've already been worn down.
Any pics of the b/w stickmen, Sequoia?
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