i heart street art

  • The BOOM Continues: New Wheat Pasting At Front And Girard

    Is it like wheat paste season or something? This is insane! But I love the hell out of it. Shit like this makes the walk to work so much more enjoyable… Long live the street arts BOOM!! TTLY, Conrad...
  • Before It Was Street Art, It Was THIS

    (h/t @msdanika) Fucking AMAZING… Local news coverage from 1982, discussing graffiti artists and street art like it’s the end of the world, or at least the beginning of a bad futuristic 80s movie staring Sylvester Stallone. TTLY, Conrad...
  • Port Richmond Gets In On The Street Arts BOOM

    (Photos sent to me from @dustymauve) New graffiti mural at Webb and Albert streets, in Port Richmond… By the way, if you have no idea where the fuck that is don’t feel bad, neither did I. But I looked it up, and it’s somewhere behind the Wawa/Applebee’s foodplex on...
  • New Beer Submarine Wheat Pasting In Fishtown

    (CLICK photo to see it on my Flickr.) Found on Front street, between Girard avenue and Wildey street. Something about this just speaks to my essence, you know? Hhhmmm… TTLY, Conrad...
  • Sexy(?) Placard Wooden Mask In NoLibs

    (CLICK photos to see them on my Flickr.) … I guess it’s sexy , if you are into anime or whatever. I really doubt this is new. I mean, do any of you know? I walk by here often enough that I’d think I would have seen it before,...
  • Did Yarn Bombing Just Go To The Next Level?

    (CLICK on photos to see them on my Flickr.) Philebrity posted about this yarn bombing at 2nd street and Fairmount avenue the other day, but they did have a photo of what was actually in the tree to look up at. And when I walked by this Sunday(?) I couldn’t...
  • South Street Gets Yarn Bombed!!

    (Photos from Julie Drexler, via Twitter… CLICK photos to see them LARGER!!) I’m falling mad hardcore in love with yarn bombing, mad quick. This looks like a bunch of left-over winter hats and scarves, sewn 2-stories up this light pole. Long live the street arts BOOM in Philadelphia!! And thanks...
  • Words Of Wisdom

    Hahahaha… Found at 10th and Spring Garden streets. Now, ain’t that the damned truth?! TTLY, Conrad...
  • Give Street Art Chance

    Pizza fighter at Frankford avenue and Thompsom street!! (Future site of a Stephen Starr restaurant.) I’m pretty sure this is an advetisment for the Rocket Cat cafe’s Give Pizza Chance First Friday event. (Which we went to, and took photos of!!) Actually, I know it is. But it’s no...