Most of the “street writing” that I see in Roscoe Village is sidewalk chalk done by 5-year-olds, but here are some actual examples. The Solve stencil showed up everywhere a day or two after renowned local street artist Brendan “Solve” Scanlon was murdered in Logan Square in June.
The band stencil was outside Beat Kitchen.
The [...]

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Bird Art, Bucktown, Chicago
I was on a walk with Margaret a few weeks ago and we came across these birds. We walked for hours and honestly, I can’t even remember where they were. Somewhere between North and Roscoe, Damen and Western.

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West Loop, Chicago
In early June, I took this photo of some street writing outside our office then in mid June I saw Mayor Daley’s Graffiti Blasters, who I didn’t even know existed, doing their best to get rid of it.

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Laurel’s Living Room View, The Marina, San Francisco

Ernie the Coonhound, The Marina, San Francisco
Saturday evening Traci and I took a bus (it’s free! and the chattiest driver ever told us how easy her job is and how well she’s paid!) from San Jose to Santa Clara (I think?) and then got on the CalTrain to [...]

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I just uploaded 24 photos to the Chicago Street Writing Project and 1 photo to the New York Street Writing Project. Check’em out!

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