Introduction
For over a decade I have been taking street, candid and other pictures I have stumbled upon during my commute and other adventures and misadventures from my home in West Tokyo to my work in The Big Sushi, as I like to call it. (See link to Tokyo Kills Me Archive, below.)
In that time I have caught all kinds of flotsam and jetsam in the digital net, so to speak, that I toss with my camera or, increasingly, smartphone.
One of the objects that seems to appear more frequently in my viewfinder these days, as highlighted by a couple of recent photography challenges, is street art in all its various forms: traditional graffiti; wall murals; public and commercial art; as well as newer forms such as so called sticker or “slap” art, which is especially conducive to to Tokyo’s generally law-abiding, hurry-up-go lifestyle.
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