Comments on: My Polish Street: Polish Graffiti

By: Name

Name — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:40:52 +0000

what about all the Wisła / Cracovia graffiti? that’s an everyday phenomena

By: SARAH

SARAH — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:26:55 +0000

QUALITY I really like this blog, now im not 1 for adding links in my replies but I feel this is a great exception, I read a blog like this on http://www.graffiti-art-murals.co.uk by a graffiti artist called Banksy & another great bunch of graffiti artists called the Graffiti Kings.

By: MK

MK — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:09:17 +0000

To be precise the wall is located at the corner of Kijowska and Nawojki street.

Another place worth seeing is wall of WKS Wawel on Głowackiego street (not far from Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny).

By: DeCoy

DeCoy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:23:12 +0000

The most prominent graffiti I have seen on my sleepy street in Kraków has usually been TSW – for Wisla Kraków. Can’t say I’ve noticed the HWDP too much, but it can be that I wasn’t looking out for it.

I’m sure I wil notice it everywhere from now on. Damn sub-conscious!

By: zarazek

zarazek — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:24:43 +0000

‘This is the one piece of graffiti you will see everywhere in Poland’ and beyond I’d add.
I’ve seen a ticker saying ‘HWDP’ stuck onto a police information booth (or whatever it was) in Glasgow city centre…

By: Scatts

Scatts — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:22:48 +0000

Muchas gracias!

By: island1

island1 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:21:19 +0000

One of those is my building – can’t say which one; paparazzi and stalkers doncha know.

Yes, that is pretty funny. Sometimes I offer to help but pretend I can’t speak English. Actually, now I come to think about it the whole key/door theme is a good one for a post.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:16:21 +0000

The endless entertainment being watching us struggle to open the doors with the old locks and many-copied keys? Yes, I have stayed in #20 and #11.I preferred #11 because I could look out of the window and see all the action on the street, the nuns, the school children, great fun.

By: Pioro-Boncza

Pioro-Boncza — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:16:01 +0000

I have my own theory on graffiti: the more affluent a country becomes the better looking the graffiti becomes. In 1990′s Warsaw graffiti often consisted of nothing more than words like “sex” or “rap” scrawled thinly on a wall with the charm of a times new roman font. Nowadays they are starting to look more creative often using two or even three colors, but still far away from the amazing pieces you can find across NYC, Frankfurt, or Bristol…keep working on them boys and soon we will get there. I am referring to bombs and pieces (the big colorful works that take hours not seconds to produce), and not tags.

You did fail to mention two most disturbing forms of graffiti in Poland: the soccer hooligan tags and the really terrible anti-semitic tags that you can particularly find in large numbers in Polish B cities like Lodz and Bytom like the ubiquitous R(Star of David)S meaning to look like Raus (get out in German).

By: island1

island1 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:55:52 +0000

Maybe you stayed right here. There are two holiday-let apartments in my building providing endless entertainment.

Those new machines are nothing on the old guys with the day-glo jackets and the digital cameras, but I guess that’s progress.