Wall-Art

Graffiti, street art, strange signs and murals in Elsewhere

Political graffiti in Venice, in the old Jewish ghetto area where day-trippers never go.

Political graffiti in Venice, somewhere off the main tourist tramping grounds.

Wall art in Seoul, South Korea. You don't see much but what there is . . .

The cheap guest house in Brunei was clear enough

Antique-cum-junk shop in Paeroa, New Zealand. The secondhand capital of the country, apparently.

Sign in pidgin in Vanuatu, and easy to understand actually.

Of course a motel room in Taupo, New Zealand would have this on its wall.

Unnaturally cruel guest house art in alcohol-free Brunei

At the Dunk (Nike-sponsored) Gallery in Seoul

De Niro comes to Darwin, and isn't happy about it.

This van-hire company in Australia's Northern Territory made sure you could find the vehicle in a parking lot.

Short people are rounded up in the South Island of New Zealand?

Signs we don't see much of anymore. Italy.

At a cemetery between Melbourne and Eureka.

Loyalists not royalists in Dunedin hailing the legendary local band

The Little Tramp obviously enjoyed Darwin, Australia.

People from the big city of Auckland (all wealthy apparently) pay more at this rural cinema in Northland, New Zealand

Isleton in central California, quiet -- until they have the annual crawfish festival.

At Paeroa, New Zealand: the birthplace of the famous fizzy drink Lemon & Paeroa

Signs which should be everywhere: this in a junk shop in Melbourne

Lobby of the literary-inclined Sylvia Beech Hotel in Oregon

These signs are all over the Pacific North West. Never once saw a deer.

Toilet block at Leigh, north of Auckland, New Zealand

The symmetrical Coventry Dairy in Paeroa, New Zealand

The crest of Vanuatu with the motto in the local dialect

Signs old and new at the Leigh Sawmill north of Auckland, NZ

Graffiti at one of Serge Gainsbourg's houses in Paris

In case of attack, get your gas mask from this dispenser in a station in suburban Seoul.

Mural celebrating the history of Alice Springs in central Australia

What had parenting come to in South Korea of the 50s

Attractive Aberdeen where Kurt Cobain grew up.

On an abandoned building in Darwin, Australia - home to many stencil artists it seems

Tile art in the Eva Peron museum, Buenos Aires

Wall tiles in the Eva Peron museum, Buenos Aires

Wine labels on a wall in a restaurant in Buenos Aires

Record shop window, San Telmo market, Buenos Aires

Formula 1 and futbol club matchboxes in a market in Buenos Aires

Graffiti on a poster in Surfers Paradise, Australia

In La Boca, Buenos Aires. A local hero acknowledged

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