Xcp: Streetnotes: Ethnography, Poetry, and the Documentary Experience . . .
     Winter  2004

Special Section:
Street as Method
Teaching documentary and observation techniques in their coursework, SIX professors exhibit their assignments and their students' work.
STREET as METHOD

Streetnotes Winter 2004

Kathleen Fraser
California College of the Arts
San Francisco
 

solidad decosta
Valencia Street Poem
 
 
NOTE: With the exception of the lines in bold, all text is taken directly from digital video footage of graffiti and other street text (murals, utility poles, mudflaps on trucks, numeric codes for the sewer system) on Valencia Street or at Valencia Street intersections. The lines in bold are descriptions of visual images from the same location. 

1. 

Cowboys Shop At Walmart

Vivisection is a lie
How many animals have to die?
DPT Bike Rack
585-BIKE
WHITE PAINT SPLATTERED ON THE PAVED ROAD
AIDS
Drugs
Are
Poison
SQUAT
The Bother
Until the medicine takes
We have a world to create
Temper my hatred with peace
ID 2T Represent
Consumerz will pay...
Cuba
The essence of reparations
Reparations is a prerequisite for reconciliation
Respect...See!
Tough Love
The blind are led by he who sees with one eye
Today’s empires tomorrow’s ashes
He blames others
His behavior is worst when
KIDS
4DC
DAC
GHOSTLY GREY SKULLS ON A PURPLE BACKGROUND
Yogurt
Miami
Off Da Pigs
Viva La Naked Cult!
ML
Get it in the hole
It is much easier to destroy than it is to create.
I truly hope things get better.
Long live camp.
Let the Klan and the nazis go back
Home here now
The X’s and Y’s
of manifesting humanities
Be coming
the music of the world
A class containing classes
40
Go with your soul
“No war on Iraq!”
ANGEL WITH A BOOMBOX
Respect will grow
What I know is what I owe
I know which
way the river
flows when I
was young
I was told
RED SPIRAL OF INFINITY
I know which way the wind blows
 

2.

Welcome to the Valencia food court

Old Grandad
Floating Goat
The Mass
In stores now
Control Machete
Uno Dos Bandera
You +
WOMAN HOLDING CAMERA
You are the paparazzi
The friend that pays you back
Furniture
Warning
DPT
Cherin’s
Sub zero hot point
Customer Parking Only
Heart101
Politics
O’Keefe
OM
Leather Tongue Newsom
Grannies
Dock Ellis
No War
No balls on a
chicken hawk
Welcome to 
Valencia Food
Court
Prisons
Don’t
Work
Consume
It’s 
all
about
Lisa
Harms
Carin’
CAT FACE
Bees
SILVER-BLUE UMBRELLA
YELLOW HATCHET
NO
2996
RENT
Elvis
Salty Tears
Missing
Ribity
Cunningham
STRING LYING IN ROAD
PAPER WAD
KOOL AID JAMMERS
 

3.
 

You are the Paparazzi

Bang
Bung worm
Warned
$3
Lane
Bike
ATM
Little Army!
Upper Playground
The Gas
Fast
Flowers
Capt. Nemo
The big
banana
Velvet
Turtle
Hooded
Dang
Mark Wayne
Western Dan
Truck Exchange
Los Angeles, Calif.
Unity against
Fuck graffiti
Abatement
Keep
America
Beautiful
CAT LITTER
USA
God Bless
Graffiti
Coalition, Inc.
Busto 3:16
Less Dot Com
KFC
Gr@w
Annique
Pez
I love
You!
Weekly
News,
Eat, Film,
Music and More
Free every Wed.
Baywolf
1863
HAND MUDRA
 

4.
 

Corporations Good, Government Honest

Reclaim the
Streets
STICK FIGURE + HAND MUDRA
Valencia St.
Realize
Real Lie$
We are not
In the least
Afraid
America
Shop ‘till
they drop
Fight
For
Your Home
Submit
Where the Pentagon never lies
FearChannel
Corporations Good • Government Honest
Riot
Don’t
Diet
Bask in your
thought crime
Knit
for the 
Revolution
You’ll get
A lot of satisfaction
Diets
Don’t
Work
Better
Living
Through
Martial
Law
Destroy
No more prisons
Garbage days
Duh
the mountains
of self
exuberance
Rad
ORANGE TUNNEL
Cowboys
Shop
At
Walmart
Knife
Fight
3 Early 4
AJAX
Portable Services
Liar
            Bird
Beast
Think
Curb
Your
Greed
Cunning
Baffling
Powerful
Kiss Now
Is it over
Nice One
Pour me an
Honorable man
Available
No hidden
Can charges
Hero
Rags
 


 
 
 

(c)solidad decosta 2004

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