Some things just make sense.

I can't get enough of stuff on trains. You have no idea where they came from. A canvas on wheels. Anywhere between a coalmine and a powerplant you can find one and that is all the context you get.
Good use of punctuation.
I started to wonder why the graffiti from parking garages are on the higher floors.

A bit illegible but the silver curls contrasted with the red are pretty to look at.

Think about it. The lower floors fill up first. Therefore there are less people on the upper floors to interrupt the graffiti artist in the act.
I am pretty sure if I sit here long enough I can read these.

Stencils! I love stencils. What better way to reproduce a tag in clear manner. Bonus points for making a face. Everyone has a face, easily identifiable.

let them live their lives let them get older

a couple different ingredients

50th post

This is my 50th post.

Scroll down if you don't care and just want to see the graffiti.

I found graffiti that disgusts me and delights me. What started as a fun hobby is still a fun hobby. A place to store these images before they are painted over and torn down. I have been supported by West Virginians who thought the paint and paper on the wall was more than gang markings or the byproduct of the skateboarder culture but a legitimate work of art. I like to think of Graffiti as an edit to the programing of a city or place. It makes the world we live in more personal.


For new readers who don't want to read the backlog but want to see some West Virginia graff.
A slideshow



Thanks to everyone who has sent in photos. Also I would like to thank The Charleston Daily Mail, The Charleston Gazette, and The Harold Dispatch for their work in covering graffiti in West Virginia years before me. Be it Civil War soldiers carving their names in a church or calling out the morons who paint on store windows, our local news is there.
Speaking of
The Harold Dispatch has published an Editorial on their website.
Anti-graffiti push needed in downtown Huntington.

Most importantly I would like to thank the graffiti artists who make this all possible.
And to speak of them here are some good ones





I looked at the other side of the mailbox from my last post and discovered this wheatpaste.It always cracks me up when there is graffiti on the Graffiti bins.

click this one and look at the detail on his chest and the head.
This is just a random mishmosh. By itself bizarre but collected together it becomes something more.

A treat.

A big treat today across from Marshall's campus. I think this is the largest worm I have personally seen. Clean execution.
This tag has been running around a lot recently. I like the gun eye aspect.


Here are some along a garage in blue.
A stencil sticker, and squid on a newspaper box.

up the down stairs

Happy Labor Day

Things from a parking building