Sun 14 Mar 2010
I was in the Belleville area of Paris the other day getting my chinese food fix-I think I could eat it every day-when I happened to notice a very colorful, very tagged street right near the Belleville metro stop.
It is apparantly a whole street that allows and encourages grafitti and almost every building side was covered in wild painting.
A kid painting over some graffiti already there.
A look at one of the walls.
Someone at work-note the mask. The whole street reeked with the odor of spray paint.
What a fun discovery. I can’t imagine the nerve it would take to paint over that phenomenal graffiti. You’d have to really know you were superior, wouldn’t you?
What a great idea to have a street where graffiti is actually encouraged! Someone certainly had initiative and and was pragmatic enough to create such a street. Really, people will tag anything, so if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!
At least they made it look nice instead of some of the trash I have seen elsewhere!
Oh my, a whole street. I love that
What a concept – a street dedicated to graffiti! Normally I detest the stuff and it makes me sad to see the 6E defaced with it. But I have to say that “Tag City” looks quite interesting. Thanks for showing us so many different sides of Paris.
Interesting..certainly different from LA…nice to have a place where it is considered “art” and encuraged.