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While I was up on the MEC rooftop parking lot, photographing the fog bank downtown, I prowled the edges, just to see what I could see. On the East side of the lot, I could look down on the bland roof of the building next door -- ventilators, flat, painted tin -- dull, but surrounded by a quite ferocious amount of concertina razor wire. There were even some vestiges of an older barrier of regular barbed wire. The roof gave no access to the building, so what was the prize being protected? Was it really all just to keep graffiti taggers from getting at an abutting wall on the East side of that roof? If so, they could've saved their money -- welcome mats are cheaper. Click the images to enlarge them.

What a lucky Kitsilano homeowner! Their new garage -- still a work in progress -- has attracted a real artiste. It's unusual to see a tagger go right into a new construction and cut loose, creatively-speaking. Perhaps the partial concrete construction of this garage, was the lure. The main work is an interesting two-colour stencil, with red spray bomb, of a riot-gear-clad police officer. Will the homeowner alter their plans to accommodate, and incorporate this gift of art? There's no telling. But we can be fairly certain they were overcome with emotion when they first saw it.

[caption id="attachment_5013" align="alignnone" width="497"] The baton makes this stormtrooper stencil particularly striking.[/caption]