Jill Murray
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I’m pretty sure that’s Richard Scary’s Lowly Worm tagged on the side of that mailbox!
Continue Reading →Here’s one last angle on the train bridge over St-Laurent street, at Rosemont blvd. Here we see the broad side of the cool anvil-shaped building, with its doubly awesome rusty old water tower. I like the way the big block letters of the graf around the base of the building echo the ghost-advertising around [...]
Continue Reading →As part of our campaign for a greater, more prosperous life, the Rapper and I have it on our radar for the mid-term to stop living in Canada’s top creative postal codes, and start living in Canada’s future top creative postal codes. In the late fall, I took my bike around different neighborhoods [...]
Continue Reading →As I mentioned before, Break On Through is already available on pre-order, and now– so exciting– we have a cover!
It would be physically impossible for me to be any happier with the way this book is book is shaping up, illustration and design-wise. When I gaze upon it, I buzz with [...]
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Lately, I seem to have a habit of always living near train bridges. This one is at Rosemont Blvd., over St-Laurent. The building that’s so completely tagged is the far end of a big lumberyard, because hey, what’s more convenient than living near a lumberyard while we’re at it. Cheap offcuts for all, yay! [...]
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This awesome dude tiptoes through the tulips opposite that downtrodden blue heart on St-Viateur Street East. To me, this blends two themes: the near-universal contempt of street artists for law enforcement, and the altogether more citizen-friendly approach of integrating police into communities by taking them out of cars and putting them on bikes. I [...]
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This is one of my favourite bits of street art currently adding soul to the very semi-abandoned-factory vibe of St-Viateur Street East. I think it was either made by two separate artists, or the same artist at two intervals, as there are other more generic plain blue heart stencils nearby. Only this one has [...]
Continue Reading →Under the train bridge over Brock street, in Parkdale, Toronto.
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