Moving With The Times
Jun 22, 2011
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An unknown artist,(dubbed as the Banksy of Bulgaria) transformed a monument of Russian Red Army soldiers into popular characters and superheroes. On the wall below the characters, the graffiti artist has sprayed “Moving with the times” in Bulgarian with black paint.Twenty years ago you would have been shot for stepping too close to this monument in the city of Sofia in Bulgaria. However, This monument has been the canvas for many graffiti artist over the past 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but know one has seen or imagined anything like this.
A member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party is shown cleaning the statue in February 2010 below.
Because the Kids Don’t Play
Jun 2, 2011
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99 Sudbury was the Hot spot for the second week in a Row. After Going to Hermann and Audrey’s Amazing photography exhibit opener for Contact 2011, I was looking forward for another dope event.Bryan Espiritu is a Toronto Based writter and Designer, And a member of The Legends League had his solo Exhibit entitled “Because The Kids Don’t Play.” “This collection of Whollys is based on the loss of innocence. It’s based on our neglect for the children around us, and how many of my generations childhood experiences so differ from those of the youth growing up today. I wanted to take the most recognizable children’s icons and create awkward, intriguing, and somewhat disturbing juxtapositions to a poem that I wrote to accompany the set,” Bryan explains. The poem goes as followed:
