Monday, May 25, 2009

In Oil we trust(ed)

You might remember that i go to work on bicylce and pass by an area with a lot of graffiti. There is one column that caught my interest last summer: it had a graffiti-fied oil platfrom on it. Given my background that was funny for me. Look:


The cool thing about this is that the artist seems to be a rather persistent person. I first saw it sometime last summer. Since then it has happened numerous times that someone sprayed something else over it. But it always came back. Looks like someone really wants to deliver a message here. Or maybe it's just the omnipotent oil-industry, leaving us a reminder of their power
*conspiracy, hello big brother*

By the way, if you think that oil has no more influence on your life these days, i recommend you to read the excellent book 'Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth' by Matthew Yeomans.

Speaking of graffiti:

As seen on one of the benches in front of the main entrance of MQ. I hope you can make out the two surveillance cameras in the drawing. Pretty funny, huh?