On a small street in the Hongdae neighbourhood of Seoul is a wall of murals painted by Artime Joe
Flowers, animals and little critters on skateboards.
Play! Playground!
Next to the Artime Joe murals is this blue container that has been decorated with monstrous faces. Monsters in pinks and yellows making playful and silly faces, like kids in front of a camera. More playground.
Photos taken September 2024
There is one large mural in the old seaside town of Monopoli (Italy).
It is “Beyond the Sea” by Millo and it was painted in the summer of 2020.
There is another Millo mural in the nearby city of Lecce; if you are interested, it is included in another blog post, 167B Street Lecce.
Photos taken February 2024
This is another post about some of the murals seen around Rochester. As you may have noticed, there are many!
below: A small tree grows in front of a mural of stripes, rectangles, and other shapes
below: What big feet you have!
below: That foot, and the skin tight boot, belongs to this man, the creation of Swedish artist Andreas Englund who likes to paint people in grey superhero outfits with scanty red pants. This was part of Wall/Therapy 2015.
below: The abstract painting in greens and blues is the work of Nova.
below: Skull surrounded by moths, butterflies and flowers that seem to be growing out of it in a work titled “Cosmos” by Nico Cathcart as part of Wall/Therapy. Painted in Sept 2021.
below: Letters and symbols
below: Pink face but with only one visible eye, by Sam Rodriguez, 2014.
below: Omen (from Montreal) painted this woman lying on her side with her eyes closed.
below: The World is Yours by Queen Andrea (as in Letter Queen!), 2014.
below: Super Fresh
below: Mural by Pixel Pancho, a boy embracing a robot that has seen better days.
below: “Mother” by Maxxer242 aka Max Gramajo, painted in Sept 2021
below: Another mural featuring text.. A Word is an Image, by Shoe aka Niels Shoe Meulman. Image is written in very large letters spread out across the black wall.
below: Four quadrants of an eye and cheekbone is all that remain of a once larger mural by Daze aka Chris Ellis.
Photos taken May 2023
Some of these murals appeared in an earlier blog post titled, “murals, Rochester NY” from Dec 2015.
Two large murals on adjacent buildings, both painted during Tirana’s MurAL Fest 2021. In the back is a boy reading, “Overseas Stories”. In the foreground is a large female face.
below: Close up picture of the woman’s face with red slashes. Many of his recent murals are portraits with slashes of colour, especially reds and blues.
below: “Overseas Stories” by Italian artist Mattia Campo Dall’Orto; a boy’s journey of imagination over blue seas as he reads a book.
In an residential section of Montreal,
below: A boy with a slingshot by mateo
below: Large mural of woman by Drew Merritt
There are numerous paintings by Bulgarian street artist Dimitar Mekhandziiski (aka Stern) in Plovdiv Bulgaria. Here are some of the ones that I saw in April 2017. 
below: A dragon hand puppet on the end of a blue arm and another man in a red hoodie, looking down on the stage as a man walks past.
below: The making of a wooden puppet?
below: The crocodile (alligator?) has a blue glass heart between its jaws. Be careful! Is that a grenade inside the crystal?
below: Empty chairs and a table in front of a mural… a pink creature beside another ugly creature with green skin, beady eyes, and a very long tongue. Inside the window next door is the face of a strangely beautiful character with long hair, pink eyes, and blue skin. In its hand (with watch on its wrist) is a flaming torch.
below: Riding the dragon (crocodile?) and wearing a mask.
below: In contrast to his other work, this frog and these mushrooms look much more realistic.
On an apartment building that is 20 storeys high, there is a large mural painted by Adnate. Apparently it is the tallest mural in the southern hemisphere. Recently completed (Sept 2018), the mural consists of four faces of residents of the public housing building.
below: The top of the mural features the face of a young Vietnamese girl
below: First grader Arden
below: The face of Badria Abdo, from Ethiopia, who arrived in Australia in 2006 via a Kenyan refugee camp where she spent seven years.
below: On the bottom is a man recently arrived from West Papua (Indonesia).
Street art seen on doors in Barcelona Spain, April 2018
below: Vegan bunnies. One releases a caged bird and the other has scissors in her hair.
below: Cat and mouse by Cisco KSL who is also a tattoo artist. The mouse has a couple of vices. I wonder what the cat’s key will unlock?
below: She lives at 202 Carrer de L’Escorial
below: Reaching out
below: A bloody mess, a painting by Sarah Pitel – an American from Portland Oregon.
below: Cats? Cats with very long necks. (Ooops! Not a door).
below: It started with a street art piece by Arte Ignorante of a woman in blue tipping her hat with the girl in red beside her.
below: Handmade in Barcelona, the shoe maker at work, with a line of shoes above.
below: Black and white, two women looking at you.
below: BOB is on the right.
below: Pandora’s box and bright finger nails.
This post is also a “Thursday Doors” blog post. This is a weekly occurrence and a number of bloggers participate. If you are interested in doors in general and want to see more door themed blog posts, here is the link.
The north wall of the Angel City Brewery has a few large blue triangles painted on it. Those triangles have become the background for a large number of paste-ups and stencils.
below: A young boy with an oxygen mask uses the stump of a very old tree that has been cut down as a table.
below: The statue of liberty holds up a large blue LA glove, by sellout. A black stencil “selfie this” gives the finger, by crisp.
below: Pheobe from New York sits quietly reading about the quiet life.
below: A wall of graffiti.
The old Mission Linen building is at the corner of South 1st Street and Coolidge Avenue in Las Vegas. The following photos were taken when I was in Las Vegas in October 2015. The east wall of the building (facing South Casino Center Blvd) was a canvas for a number of street artists in a project curated by Dr. Lepper. It was covered when I saw it and it was being added to as well.
below: Artist John Pacheco was putting the finishing touches on a mural about Donald Trump and his wall. It also features Gandhi, the Pope, and Mother Teresa. Pacheco told me that he planned to paint the word ‘freiheit’, German for ‘freedom’, above the wall. In hindsight, perhaps a word in Russian would have been more appropriate?
below: In the mural, Trump is saying “I want in. I can win”. As I write this, it’s the 18th of Jan 2017 and Trump’s inauguration as President of the USA is only 2 days away.
Eyes on the Streets 