One of my absolute fave pastimes is trawling through the back-streets and alleyways of this fine city. Not the safest activity at times, as I have encountered my fair share of miscreants and hoons along the way. But, I love capturing the urban and grunge tonality and atmosphere this city has to offer. I’d love to publish a book of all the street-art that the graffiti capital of the world - Melbourne, has to offer. It truly is never ending and evolving. One week you may shoot a wall and if you return a week later, it will look completely different as new artwork has taken its place.
So today I was meeting with a potential client in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. I had a meeting with this young Melbourne band on Smith St in Fitzroy. The meeting went well and I am hopeful we will be able to successfully negotiate the terms and conditions for yours truly to help them with some branding and a website. But that’s another story.
After the meeting I went for a long walk along Smith St and just marveled at the urban diversity on show in this bohemian street. I haven’t ever really spent much time along Smith St as when I am usually in this neck of the woods, I frequent the trendier Brunswick St. There was a ton of street-art and graffiti on show… some truly gritty works on show.
So, if you want to see the results head on over to my flickr page for all the low-down.
That Jimi stencil looks awesome.