No not really, but that is the name for a wicked mural project in Philladelphi. Headed by Steven Powers aka ESPO it is a love letter painted on the walls facing the Market elevated train painted by 40 local and international artists (street/graff) and signwriterS.
It is a brilliant project of cool, typographical signs and street art, creating visually and mentally stimulating messages along a particulary grim and derelict section of trainline. I think hats off to the local Philly authority to have the insight to commission these murals.......apparantly it is mural city! But because of this love of murals they seem to have much less problems with illegal graffiti......this is maybe something the British Transport Police should be looking into.
What is really cool is as well as the obvious influence for the project from 1950's advertising, the messages are quite thought provoking, but the direction of the train travelling has also been taken into consideration and this determines how the typography appears....on the site the pictures of each mural say whther they are best viewed east to west or west ot east. The use of colour is also a big consideration and a lot of thought has been given as which pigments work best and which will be diminish more in the sun. This is something that all graff artists take into consideration...well the good ones anyway. They will consider which paints mix with each other e.g. if you mix belton chrome with molotov piglet pink then it will run!
I think this project gives an insight to the consdierations taken when creating a good mural and how it will interact with the people viewing it and the landcsape it lives in.
Pictures and articles as below....check check it out!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.aloveletterforyou.com/?page_id=198
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/18/graffiti-philadelphia-street-art-signs
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