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Venice Beach is slightly South of Kitsilano. 

It's a giant dream, a promenade of workingman's glory.  A place where t-shirts and sunglasses speak for themselves.  Part of the vast oceanic walkway is a "skatepark" of sorts. 

It's not really that abstract concrete that invites gravitational angst, like we're used to North of 49.  It's more like a shyly-decorated sidewalk with some extra-terrestrial cone-heads watching from the sidelines.

More than "art", we'll Celebrate Amerika's Temples Of The Working-Class Mind: nice to visit, better to escape from.  And in Canada, we can don our Queen's Attire, deck the Halls, and wave a weary white glove at our friends and cousins, nervous Eagles as they are.

 

Venice Beach is a combo of things past and things lost. 

It's Bigger Than Life, as most of America is.  It's a doorway to the varnished past, a doormat for the ocean, a promenade for street people, fortune tellers, muralists and latino pop-stands featuring cheap sunglasses and lewd t-shirts.  T-shirts you wouldn't want your daughter to wear, or your son to stare at.

It's honest in its expression of truth, or lack thereof.  It is what it is.  Like all conglomerate sculptures of human endeavor, it's unique in its own color and charm.  Like many back alleys and secondary highways in America, it contains little jewels of eccentric character, sprinkled throughout the meat-loaf of everyday mediocrity.

Tony's Burgers.  There is no place like Tony's Burgers - past or future.  Tony found his home on Venice Beach, and goddamit, he's gonna stay there!  It could happen to you. It's Destiny, disguised as Luck.  In America, there's few things that sell as consistently well as food, and sex is usually the hook.  "For the fulfillment of your senses,  you are seeking wealth and pleasure..." - as the old Bhajan Ballad goes.  Think and Learn.  Live and Die.  Eat and Fuck.  Then, leave Lost Angeles, faster than your fingers can walk.

Anyway, the beach is at our fingertips.  The waves and sirens lull you to sleep.  Blankets of smog envelop your eyebrows and grip your bronchial pipettes.  Venice Beach is lapping at your feet, waiting to take you away.  To the funny farm.  Bon Voyage!

 

 

Trouble Seeks Paradise.  Heat attracts Friction.

It's all in how you throw the dice; how you hold your cards, how you butt your cigarette.  It's the shape of the ashes, much more than the volume of smoke.  Is Graffiti-In-Paradise much more attractive than Grafitti in skid row?  A spraycan is a spraycan, the law doesn't change on Sundays, the hand that feeds the mouth is always hungry. War knows no end here.  The palm trees are only another painting.  Live and let loose.Purple is a color made famous by Jimi Hendrix; all others are using Borrowed Time.  And The Color Purple is rare in Graffiti-Land - honest folks.  It's not the Blue Suede Shoes of your "normal" graf kings like Ensoe and Theory. Naw, mah man.

Click the Purple Bullet for another fine Sez Panoramix view of Hazy Purple.  We are running out of alocades for Tags and More Tags.  Nothing says Nothing better than Nothing.  So, we may sit down and shut up; let the trash bins do the talking.  Let the mountains lick the ocean clean.  Love the sailors who keep a girl in every harbor.

Jena's Brilliant Sympatico on the left speaks louder than I can think. 

We sense uniqueness in complexity here; something a psychiatrist could get endless mileage out of.  It's Fluid, Alive, Sexy and Mechanical all at the same time.  And Blue, says BB KIng, is the ticket for most trains out of town.  Can't go wrong with Mr Blue.  Damn!

Green, like it's distant cousin Purple, is not a common spray-kid color. We can try to find out, but this is arcane lost knowledge, something the Free-Masons might be able to tell you.

So, we introduce another Palm-studded special, something called "Twitterpated", by HRuler. My guess at Doctor's Handwriting.

 

 

Palm trees are fine, if you're willing to pay the Hefty Price for a slice of Paradise. 

Saw an ad in the back-alley for a 1-bedroom apartment "near the beach".  Two thousand bucks a month.  US bucks, that is.  Just to live near hot dogs and military gun-towers patrolling a ploughed sand-box.

It all escapes me, like dregs of coffee-pots swirling down the drain.  Ah to be young, to believe in suntans, goggles and biceps.  To smell the lure of Coppertone and the sugarplum bikini's of California Blondes.

Too many Barbie Dolls in one day can spoil your digestion.

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