MEXICO CITY, MEXICO: HUMBLING

January, 2013

ORLANDO, FLORIDA STREET ART: SOME SPIRITS CAN NEVER BE CAGED by SEE_TF

Salvador DalΓ­ by https://www.instagram.com/see_tf/ Location: West Art District Walls, 1011 W Central Blvd.

15April2021

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: THE ROAD IS LIFE

β€œπ™Ύπšžπš› πš‹πšŠπšπšπšŽπš›πšŽπš πšœπšžπš’πšπšŒπšŠπšœπšŽπšœ πš πšŽπš›πšŽ πš™πš’πš•πšŽπš πš˜πš— πšπš‘πšŽ πšœπš’πšπšŽπš πšŠπš•πš” πšŠπšπšŠπš’πš—; 𝚠𝚎 πš‘πšŠπš πš•πš˜πš—πšπšŽπš› 𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚘. π™±πšžπš πš—πš˜ πš–πšŠπšπšπšŽπš›, πšπš‘πšŽ πš›πš˜πšŠπš πš’πšœ πš•πš’πšπšŽ.”
– π™ΉπšŠπšŒπš” π™ΊπšŽπš›πš˜πšžπšŠπšŒ, π™Ύπš— πšπš‘πšŽ 𝚁𝚘𝚊𝚍
π™½πšŽπš  πšˆπš˜πš›πš”
𝟸𝟢𝟸𝟷

COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA: WE LIVE, AS WE DREAM ~ ALONE.

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β€œπ™½πš˜, πš’πš πš’πšœ πš’πš–πš™πš˜πšœπšœπš’πš‹πš•πšŽ; πš’πš πš’πšœ πš’πš–πš™πš˜πšœπšœπš’πš‹πš•πšŽ 𝚝𝚘 πšŒπš˜πš—πšŸπšŽπš’ πšπš‘πšŽ πš•πš’πšπšŽ-πšœπšŽπš—πšœπšŠπšπš’πš˜πš— 𝚘𝚏 πšŠπš—πš’ πšπš’πšŸπšŽπš— πšŽπš™πš˜πšŒπš‘ 𝚘𝚏 πš˜πš—πšŽβ€™πšœ πšŽπš‘πš’πšœπšπšŽπš—πšŒπšŽ–πšπš‘πšŠπš πš πš‘πš’πšŒπš‘ πš–πšŠπš”πšŽπšœ πš’πšπšœ πšπš›πšžπšπš‘, πš’πšπšœ πš–πšŽπšŠπš—πš’πš—πš–πš’πšπšœ πšœπšžπš‹πšπš•πšŽ πšŠπš—πš πš™πšŽπš—πšŽπšπš›πšŠπšπš’πš—πš πšŽπšœπšœπšŽπš—πšŒπšŽ. π™Έπš πš’πšœ πš’πš–πš™πš˜πšœπšœπš’πš‹πš•πšŽ. πš†πšŽ πš•πš’πšŸπšŽ, 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚎 πšπš›πšŽπšŠπš––πšŠπš•πš˜πš—πšŽ.” 
― π™Ήπš˜πšœπšŽπš™πš‘ π™²πš˜πš—πš›πšŠπš, π™·πšŽπšŠπš›πš 𝚘𝚏 π™³πšŠπš›πš”πš—πšŽπšœπšœ
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π™²πš˜πšŒπš˜πšŠ π™±πšŽπšŠπšŒπš‘ 𝙡𝙻 πŸ·πšŠπš™πš›πŸΈπŸΆπŸΈπŸΆ

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: BARRIO LOGAN

Barrio Logan, in southeast San Diego, is referred to as el ombligo or navel, the center of the world. It’s the home of Chicano Park,Β which was the the site of a 1970s demonstration, land takeover, and cultural renaissance for the Mexican-American community.Β It was designated an official historic site by the San Diego Historical Site Board in 1980 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

n 1871, Congressman John A. Logan wrote legislation to provide federal land grants and subsidies for a transcontinental railroad ending in San Diego. A street laid in 1881 was named Logan Heights after him, and the name came to be applied to the general area. Plans for a railroad never successfully materialized, and the area was predominantly residential by the turn of the century, becoming one of San Diego’s oldest communities. Its transformation began in 1910 with the influx of refugees from the Mexican Revolution, who soon became the majority ethnic group. For this reason, the southern part of the original Logan Heights neighborhood came to be called Barrio Logan.Β (Barrio is a Spanish word for “neighborhood”.) ~ wikiFFED0F22-E5DF-41CB-BF04-CD9216F945D9B0C99ED4-87A5-4E94-9B4F-3D642AFC4981BE34DA93-CA1C-4D22-A9E5-5B25D9EDEC2D

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Est. 1984

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Ode to Prince. Artist unknown.

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21sep19. San Diego, CA

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: BE HUMBLE, BE NOBLE

The Brunswig Drug Company is an historic structure located at 383 5th Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter

This is a theatre with history in the heart of the Gaslight district. Built 1887.

The USS Midway was the longest-serving aircraft carrier in the 20th century. Named after the climatic Battle of Midway of June 1942, Midway was built in only 17 months, but missed World War II by one week when commissioned on September 10, 1945. Midway was the first in a three-ship class of large carriers that featured an armored flight deck and a powerful air group of 120 planes. -midway.org

β€œOrange Tree”

National Register #80000845 McClintock Storage Warehouse 1202 Kettner Boulevard San Diego Built 1925 The McClintock Storage Warehouse is one of the few remaining examples of a large commercial warehouse from an era which saw a tremendous growth of commerce in San Diego. It was designed by architect Herbert Palmer in the same period and same Mission Revival style as the adjacent Santa Fe Depot. The structure was built of reinforced concrete for strength, permanence and fire resistance. The builder, William Ernest Kier, was a giant in the construction industry, who built such structures as the Grand Coulee and Coolidge Dams. When the building opened in 1925, it was the site of the Greater San Diego Exposition, an exhibition of local merchants, manufacturers and automobile dealers. – noehill.com

Space Invader πŸ‘Ύ up high on Kettner Blvd.

β€œBreaking the Chains β›“ β€œ by Mel Edwards, in tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Little Italy

In the vicinity of West Ivy Street in San Diego’s Little Italy district often comment on a mural painted on the brick wall visible from India Street (and the Ballast Point tasting room). The mural depicts a can of Ben-Hur drip coffee (best for all methods, vacuum packed to protect freshness), complete with its logo of a chariot and four charging horses. The mural seems to be old – the Ben-Hur brand of coffee and spices originated as a tie-in to the popular 1925 silent movie and disappeared in the 1950s – but it actually dates from 1982. However, it does mark the building where the popular coffee was once produced and which was home to what is considered to be the first coffee company in San Diego. Built 1913. -thewebsters.us

Washington Elementary School’s STEAM students dreamed up a Mona Lisa mural β€” modeled after the very popular children’s video game, Minecraft, a game where you can build virtually anything with bricks. The mural was named β€œMine-A-Lisa” and was constructed out of 1,600 painted squares to emulate the bricks in Minecraft that come together to create a 20-by-20-foot masterpiece.

Sep19. San Diego CA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: SMILE, YOU’RE IN SAN DIEGO! πŸ˜€

Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man as the full-rigged ship, Euterpe. After a career sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska to California route. Retired in 1926, she was restored as a seaworthy museum ship in 1962–3 and home-ported at the Maritime Museum of San Diego in San Diego, California. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still floating.[4] The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National Historic Landmark. -wiki

The San Diego County Administration Center is a historic Beaux-Arts/Spanish Revival-style building. Completed in 1938. Nickname: Jewel on the Bay

Once the tallest building in the Downtown area, the Centre City Building was designed by award winning architect, Frank W. Stevenson.  Built in 1927.

St. Joseph Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral at 1535 Third Avenue in the Cortez Hill neighborhood of downtown San Diego, California. It is the seat of the Diocese of San Diego. Founded in 1874.

St. Paul’s Cathedral is an Episcopal church located in the Bankers Hill district of the city of San Diego, California. It is the formal seat of the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. It traces its origins to the first Protestant church in San Diego, founded in Old Town in 1853, although the building itself was only completed in 1951. -wiki

Known as the Daniel O. Cook residence. Built 1898.

Built 1918.

SUUM CUIQUE: To Each His Own

Artist Fizix for The Cigar Cave in Hillcrest.

Artist Fizix for East Coast Pizza in Hillcrest.

Sep19. San Diego CA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ: SNAPSHOTS ~ MY BELGIAN SUMMER 2019

July/August 2019 Belgium πŸ‡§πŸ‡ͺ and The Netherlands πŸ‡³πŸ‡±

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA: IMPLICIT DEMAND FOR PROOF (21 Pilots, PT. 1)

the soundtrack to my three months of living in Costa Rica has been almost exclusively, the 4 twenty one pilots’ albums: self-titled, vessel, blurryface, and trench. this upcoming 4-part photo series will feature captions with their lyrics describing an even deeper contextualization of my overall pure vida experience.

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reign down and destroy me

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i’ll try to delay what you make of my life. but i don’t want your way. i want mine.

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you are tired. you are hurt. a moth ate through your favorite shirt. and all your friends, they fertilize the ground you walk. lose your mind.

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i’ve been traveling in the deserts of my mind.

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living like a ghost, you walk by everyone you know. you say that you’re fine, but you have lost your sway and glow.

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then the wages of war will start inside my head with my counterpart.

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no one really knows his mind and no one knows behind his eyes.

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we get colder as we grow older. we will walk so much slower.

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i’m not sure i want to give you tools that can destroy my heart.

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he wakes up early today, throws on a mask that will alter his face. nobody knows his real name…

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he thinks that faith might be dead. nothing kills a man faster than his own head.Β 

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nobody knows he’s alive.

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i barely feel a smile deep inside me.Β 

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i began to understand why god died.

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the air begins to feel a little thin, as we’re waiting for the morning to begin.

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i wanna fall inside your ghost and fill up every hole inside my mind. and i want everyone to know that i am half a soul divided.Β 

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look in the mirror and ask your soul if you’re alright.Β 

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put on the glitter that your soul hides behind.

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all we are is an isle of flightless birds.Β 

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please don’t think about why you can’t sleep in the evening.

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please don’t be afraid of what your soul is really thinking.

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how frustrating and so degrading, his time we’re wasting, as time will fly by and the sky will cry as light is fading…

16apr19. San Jose, Costa Rica.Β