You learn something new every day. In particular I love how life often decides to give you a crash course in one subject or another. I love it even more when the lessons fly hard and fast one after another. My latest lesson in humility: Over the past weeks I offered up a few of …
Fotocrônica: Political Graffiti
Recently I described my observations on Belo Horizonte’s graffiti scene. I saved two photos for later because there is another sub-genre of graffiti that doesn’t fit into the general definitions I described in my first post. Political graffiti is a category of its own, and is often done for different reasons than why someone would …
City of Caterpillars
Not everyone appreciates a caterpillar but everyone loves a butterfly. That’s the way life is. However, you don’t get one without the other. That’s the way life is, too. I spent my last year of college hanging out with graffiti writers. (Ah, the tough things we do in the name of sociology research.) A dynamic …