Writing on the wall

takes all kinds of guises; maybe road signs, advertising, maybe 'street art/ graffiti' or it maybe this kind of memorial:



Clearly the moral here is that Barmaids can lead you astray . On a similar morbid theme, we have this:



and Richard gets remembered even on blogs now ... and a dangerous entanglement of weed was responsible for the loss of another poor (but heroic) chap:



These were found by Trois Tetes and displayed on Flickr; I have never seen memorial tiles like this before - displayed in Postman's Park London. These give the bare bones of the story but every reader must take from this a new nuance; think about a particular aspect of the story in a different way from others maybe.

Also on Flickr is this graffiti - nicely juxtaposed against a window display for ironic (iconic?) effect:



And here am I, making a kind of visual narrative line, by placing myself to the right of this piece of street art.



Like the beginning and end of a sentence here; the art as the first part of the visual narrative; me as the end. I like this idea of using art in an interactive way, ever changing on the street.

Another way of interacting is to reply to text and/or images. One way is shown here ...



which I used on an earlier post of mine.

But there is also this site, 'The Bubble Project' which brings street art and responses to the online space. One can download images of speech bubbles which can be filled with text and used to answer back to media messages seen in the world around us. Then the idea is to take a photo and upload it to the Bubble Project site, later they will be put in a BOOK. How many textual manipulations is that??

How many literacy events? What sort of practice?

Hmmm. Find out here .... Look inside the book.

Very exciting my hearties.