Here we are near Jamestown and the GTCC campus near Ragsdale High School. If you are headed to High Point, you are on High Point Road. If you are headed to Greensboro, you are on Greensboro Road. As you approach downtown Greensboro, the name of the road changes to Lee Street. At any rate, you see the walls on both sides of the road are covered with graffiti and the train cars passing by overhead are full of graffiti. Sometimes the spray painted words are social messages; other times, they reflect the name of the "Krylon artist" or a friend who had a fatal car accident in the given area.
Greensboro has been a big railway hub since the 1800's. The access to railways to ship goods-- from raw materials to finished products-- in and out of Greensboro brought us our textile mills. In 2010, we were 3rd in volume of the 16 Amtrak stations in North Carolina. On average, Amtrak serves almost 300 passengers a day out of Greensboro. If you came to this post in search of information about railways, you will be happy to know that Greensboro has an active chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. Here's to our dear friends at Ruby Tuesday who love photo with red in them. Click through if you love red!
Wow...love this shot.
Posted by: Janis | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 09:27 AM
Very nice capture of red in this shot. I love graffiti art and even if you don't mean to, you shown a real slice of its life. :) Have a great week!
Posted by: Christine | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 09:50 AM
Great view this morning! "The pen(can) is mightier than the sword"is still often the case.You already know that I believe most Graffiti is a form of art. Not tagging, that is different ,all about ownership and area and it is never done for art only for recognition of a name/gang.
Graffiti and art are hand in hand. We have a huge controversy going on in Los Angeles right now due to a show installation at MOCA all about Street Art and Graffiti. Of course it attracted the artists in the show and their admirers. This inspired more street art to be applied to buildings around LA . Owners are so happy that they are working hard to preserve what has always been a temporary kind of work.No owners of property have filed any kind of charges over these works by the likes of Banksy and Revok.
LAPD seems unable to see the difference in gang tagging and art,arrests have been made even when not in any act. Artists have been stopped at restaurants,airports and in their own homes.
A little education would go a long way here.
Link to the MOCA show: http://www.moca.org/audio/blog/?p=1522
Posted by: Janis | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 01:10 PM
When I see a shot like this, I wonder when the bridge is going to collapse. (Sorry,didn't mean to be morbid. Just wondering...)
GOING FOR THE RED
“If forced to make choices,” she said,
“I’d go for the crimson and red.
I’d let go of green,
(Some think it’s obscene),
Embracing magenta instead.”
Dancers in Red
Posted by: Magical Mystical Teacher | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 09:20 PM