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For some time now, I have been on the lookout for examples of Japanese street art. The uncanny means by which Japan adapts Western culture, reprocesses it and then spins it out as something altogether hyperreal, combined with the ever-prevalent superflat movement suggested that there must exist something extraordinary in the darker corners of the Tokyo streets.
So it was great to read PingMag’s recent piece on The Ghetto, a former love hotel in Shin-Okubo that has been converted into a skater shop/graffiti space. The article also provided links to …

I am fairly convinced at this point that the best places to find art in this city are on the walls of the abandoned laundromat at the corner of Main Street and 14th and the equally vacant warehouse at Quebec St. and 2nd (with a few scattered treasures to be found in between).

Found in the alley between East 1st and East 2nd, just off Scotia, Vancouver BC.

In November of 2005 in Paris, a professional clockmaker named Jean-Baptiste Viot, was recruited by a group called UnterGunther for the purpose of restoring the clock in the Pantheon, the 18th-century architectural masterpiece that houses famous crypts including those of Voltaire and Hugo and was the site of Foucault’s pendulum experiment.
UnterGunther are the restoration unit of a larger underground organization in Paris known as UX. I say “underground” in its most literal sense: formed in the 1980′s, UX began as a group of students who threw parties in the …

Found at Main and 7th St., Vancouver.

Found in the alleyway at Lorne St. between 1st Ave and 2nd Ave in Vancouver.