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[caption id="attachment_10409" align="alignnone" width="497"] Not quite the cat's meow, but I respect the thought that goes into any stencil graffiti.[/caption]

Yesterday I saw another version of the stencil graffiti of the Cat on a Pedestal, this time in on the edge of the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.

I was making the first leg of my journey westwards from the bottle depot through the alley on the north side of West Broadway Avenue. It was in that lane, west of Columbia Street, that I saw the cat. I'm quite sure it wasn't there even a few days ago.

Because this is technically a post of another WordPress post, albeit a concrete post, does that make it a reblog?

This sticker is adorning one of the concrete support posts outside of Guardian Storage, where I have a locker. I don't think it's been there that long (and I think it'll be gone as soon as the owner finds a scraper). I've encountered a WordPress sticker once before, on a blue bin. That one was two-colour. This one's black and white, and might be homemade. As to why; maybe the stickeree was trying to make the same lame joke I've belaboured: WordPress + concrete post = WordPress post. Click the image to enlarge it.

It's gone, as in vanished, vamoosed. The overly tagged truck which hasn't moved from it's parking spot for ... ever, has finally moved out.

The Grumman delivery truck with the tires gone flat, probably under the weight of all the graffiti tags overlaying it's earthbound aluminum airframe, has been the subject of a previous post. I went back about a month ago, and took more photos. I was hoping to come back with a ladder, to see if taggers had spared the roof or not. No rush, I thought. The truck had always been there, and wasn't in any shape to go anywhere, anytime soon.  I was wrong. Within a week the truck was gone. It's still gone. I don't think it's just in for a tune-up either.


Here are the last known photos of an endearing eyesore.

Give the U.S. Surgeon General some spraypaint, and get out of the way! Click the image to enlarge it.

BC Hydro, our electric utility, stands apart from Telus, our phone-plus utility, in it's attitude towards street cabinets. While Telus is wrapping their DSL cabinets in pretty pictures to deter spray graffiti and marker tagging. BC Hydro is leaving it's cabinets painted an "old school" single colour. The results speak for themselves. Click the image to enlarge it.

In the upscale single-family neighbourhoods, I travel in, B.C.'s main telco, Telus has taken to covering their bland DSL cabinets with a printed 3M anti-graffiti ad-wrap. The wraps tend to be imaged to mimic the background so the cabinet doesn't stick out like such a sore thumb. Apparently the very fact the cabinets are decorated helps deter graffiti. And also the wrap is designed so that spray graffiti, and marker tags are easier to remove. Here are two examples:


This cabinet, from the Arbutus Ridge area, could stand as a definitive example of what Telus is trying to accomplish with ad-wraps. BTW, according to a sticker on the cabinet, the company that wrapped this is Clearvision Media.



This next one, from Kitsilano, doesn't blend in -- I'm betting it reproduces what's behind the fence.

I appreciate stencil graffiti; you don't just dash it off, it's premeditated. There's a person, or persons, lately doing a bit of stencil graffiti in Fairview's alleys. The stencils are one colour. small -- three to five inches square, and they are positioned out of normal lines of sight. This stencil of U.S. President Barack Obama, is no more than five inches square, and so positioned on a wall that a dumpster will often be partly in front of it. Click the image to enlarge it.

This graffiti-clad old Grumman aluminium delivery van is "parked" in a lane on the South side of West Broadway, just West of Arbutus. It has been sitting in that same parking space for many years. This is virtually a neighbourhood landmark, and I think Gumman vans are cool. I'd like to find out the story behind this van. There is another long-time, tagged-and-parked Grumman in the Fairview area. Maybe Toad's already covered it; if not ... Click any image to see a larger version.

Last photos of the now missing truck ►