Love it.
“So it was you eh? I thought it might have been the guy behind me, but now…”
I saw very little graffiti in Tokyo on my limited wanderings and I recall seeing a program about a company that sends guys like this out pretty much instantly to clean stuff up – it was more about the solvent used than the people though. Here, occasionally in our, fairly large, village we get some graffiti on a bus shelter or comms cabinet, and it generally has a lifespan of six months to a year before it is “removed”, i.e. the whole item is repainted.
There do seem to places immune from clean-up though, in Tokyo. I wonder how the powers that be decide what survives and what doesn’t.
It depends where you go really. In general there isn’t a lot, but in Shibuya especially there’s a surprising amount. Or at least there is in the side streets. Definitely something that’s increased noticeably in the last 5 years or so. How they decide what disappears though I don’t know.
Linda says
Love that side-eye.
Lee says
Me too. I was waiting, hoping he’d see me, and fortunately he did!
Al says
Gotta love those looks! 😉
Lee says
Haha, yes, they definitely make the photo!
cdilla says
Love it.
“So it was you eh? I thought it might have been the guy behind me, but now…”
I saw very little graffiti in Tokyo on my limited wanderings and I recall seeing a program about a company that sends guys like this out pretty much instantly to clean stuff up – it was more about the solvent used than the people though. Here, occasionally in our, fairly large, village we get some graffiti on a bus shelter or comms cabinet, and it generally has a lifespan of six months to a year before it is “removed”, i.e. the whole item is repainted.
There do seem to places immune from clean-up though, in Tokyo. I wonder how the powers that be decide what survives and what doesn’t.
Lee says
Haha, he certainly looked at me with suspicion!
It depends where you go really. In general there isn’t a lot, but in Shibuya especially there’s a surprising amount. Or at least there is in the side streets. Definitely something that’s increased noticeably in the last 5 years or so. How they decide what disappears though I don’t know.