Thursday, September 12, 2013

Amazing, awesome street art

In my old job as downtown business association director, I fought against graffiti and the, er, artists who created it. The problem was, they weren't really artists, just "taggers" who were interested in spraying their 'brand' on the sides of the tallest buildings around. They were kids, mostly, who had more risk-taking aptitude than artistic ability. Now, if they could have produced something like this, we'd have a whole 'nother situation.

Inn of the Governors

The Inn of the Governors on West Alameda is where my maternal grandparents used to stay in the '60s and '70s when they'd visit ...