Musings from the God of Cities

i saw different kinds of public art in philadelphia. one kind that i was particularly struck with was sticker art. there seemed to be a pretty thriving sticker art scene going on in philly. here are some examples:


when i took this picture of a batman sticker, a little girl walking by saw what i was doing and asked her mom why i was taking a picture of a garbage can and giggled hysterically when she saw my flash going off.


horny robot


meep


girls sharing a hand-grenade

this dude played off of the "love" sign in philly




the most prolific sticker artist i saw in philadelphia was the guy (or girl!) that made these weird robot looking figures













Update: turns out it's not a weird robot looking figure, it's a bull looking figure named "el toro" and it's creator is this dude, frost. thanks, michael!

most of the stickers around were stuck on newspaper boxes. i figured it's because anything out on a street sign would be taken down by the city, but no one is going around making sure newspaper boxes stay clean. but maybe i'm wrong. anyone in the know wanna illuminate me?


alonso


kasso





some folks got so inspired by using newspaper boxes as canvases for their sticker art that they took things one step further and painted the boxes