The .Gif Friday Post No. 842 – Dancing The Radioactive Flesh, Vintage Tagger & Jake Blues’ Brows

[Found here, here and I messed with Joliet Jake’s mugshots just because.]

More about the top one: From Mexican surrealist producer Luis Buñuel’s film Simón del Desierto (1965), the final scene in a nightclub (Café Milleti). Saint Simon Stylites is present, and so is the Devil. St. Simon asks “her” for the name of the dance, and the Devil replies, “Radioactive Flesh.”
The band is Los Sinners. [Scene starts at 41:18.]

The First Stock Photo

[Found here.]

NOLA Graffiti

SE Corner of Poland Ave. & Charles St., New Orleans, LA
14 May 2023

Legible Graffiti

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Mathieu Tremblin lives and works in Rennes and Arles, France, finds graffiti and enhances them for legibility (and sometimes the taggers return).

“As if tagging the city was about freedom, and drawing decorative letters about control, I wanted to find a project to turn “ugly tags” into something “beautiful”, but preserve the subversive part of language distortion.”

I find it interesting that the vandalism in France is indistinguishable from that in the US, and I wonder why.

[More images here. Poorly translated background story here.]

THEY’RE HERE.

[Found here.]

Arithmetic Graffiti

Mess with it, photoshoppers.

[Found here.]

Canadian Graffiti

[Found here. Related *ahem* images here and here.]

That Game With The 15 Numbered Balls Is The Devil’s Tool.

We’ve surely got trouble. Right here.

BTW, that’s a bad rack.

[Found here via here. Related and entirely awesome true story of my best shot here.]

On the border.

U.S. Mexico Border Fence at Morelia St.2

View of Calexico from Mexicali on the US/Mexico border.

Found via Google Maps.

Urban Camouflage

Urban Camouflage

“You mean that’s not City Hall? Well, hunh.”

Nine-storey large-panel housing building on the basis of III-46 series. Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Architect: A.Podoprigora

[Found here.]