Many many years ago I spent an afternoon wandering around Belfast and looking at the street murals. They were interesting as well - not necessarily my kind of art, but interesting.
Off topic, but relevant to two posts ago. Your short stories make for fun reading, but somewhat less so if one has to manually search through your blog for others to connect together. You should dedicate one post to each story arc (Cumberland, Asphodel, etc.) and make that page just links to the stories where they originally appeared, adding a new link each time a new instalment occurs. Then just put a link (labled, "For all the Cumberland stories in order," or some such thing) to that hub-and-spoke page at the bottom of each new instalment.
Just a suggestion, but one which I feel would be of great utility to new and irregular readers, who might love to read all the stories but lack the time or desire to hunt them down. Ohio Copperhead
Our little town is about 10% Bosnian refugees. Very few spoke any English when they came here in the 90's. I also trained with the Canadian forces that deployed there. They had the same experience. IMHO The English titled "graffiti " is either for the media's benefit or commercial sale.
Many many years ago I spent an afternoon wandering around Belfast and looking at the street murals. They were interesting as well - not necessarily my kind of art, but interesting.
ReplyDeleteOff topic, but relevant to two posts ago. Your short stories make for fun reading, but somewhat less so if one has to manually search through your blog for others to connect together. You should dedicate one post to each story arc (Cumberland, Asphodel, etc.) and make that page just links to the stories where they originally appeared, adding a new link each time a new instalment occurs. Then just put a link (labled, "For all the Cumberland stories in order," or some such thing) to that hub-and-spoke page at the bottom of each new instalment.
ReplyDeleteJust a suggestion, but one which I feel would be of great utility to new and irregular readers, who might love to read all the stories but lack the time or desire to hunt them down.
Ohio Copperhead
Why in the first picture would the written language be in English?
ReplyDeleteI would only be guessing.
DeleteEnglish is the international language of commerce.
Some Bosnian artists have been invited to NYC to display their work. The artist may have been fishing for an invitation.
The UN deployed peace-keepers during the civil war. Maybe the art was directed toward them.
Interestingly, a fair amount of the graffiti in Greece was in English as well.
DeleteOur little town is about 10% Bosnian refugees. Very few spoke any English when they came here in the 90's. I also trained with the Canadian forces that deployed there. They had the same experience.
DeleteIMHO The English titled "graffiti " is either for the media's benefit or commercial sale.