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Urban Ediglyphs

Mo’ Moe Levy Sightings in Brooklyn! – Atlantic Avenue

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Obscured Fading Ad – Street Art – Yonkers, NY

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Getty Square Auto & Hardware – Yonkers: The City of Gracious Living

© Frank H. Jump

A Pair of Urban Ediglyphs – Capitol Hill – Seattle, WA

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

I call the interplay between painted text on brickface and graffiti/streetart an “urban ediglyph.” The etymology of this word comes from the words ediface– an imposing building (in this case a building wall) and petroglyph –  ancient rock engravings left behind by earlier indigenous cultures. Often the earlier fading ad is somewhat indecipherable but takes on a newer meaning with the addition of the streetart or urban tagging. Here are two from Seattle that I thought merited a blog posting.

Graffiti Plywood & London Squire – ENY/Cypress Hills, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump, 2003

© Frank H. Jump, 2003

Laundromat – Dry Cleaning – Graffiti – July, 2008 – Barcelona, Spain

July 2008 © Frank H. Jump

Home Pick-up & Delivery © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Off La Ronda del Littoral © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Wholesale Poultry – Skull Graffiti – Urban Ediglyph – Savannah, GA

© Frank H. Jump

United Railway Telegraph School – Coca-Cola – Graffiti – Urban Ediglyph – Fading Ad Wiki – The Tenderloin – San Francisco, CA

© Frank H. Jump

On Flicker & elsewhere on the blogosphere:

See Ediglyph definition on the Fading Ad Wiki.

ediglyph a term Jump invented from the words edifice (building) and petroglyph (ancient stone wall etching). Ediglyphs encompass fading ads and graffiti. – Fading Ad Wiki

Fulton Street Hebrew Ediglyphs – Adonai (Yehova) – Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

Fulton Street Hebrew Glyphs - Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn - © Frank H. Jump

Fulton Street Hebrew Ediglyphs - Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn - © Frank H. Jump

Fulton Street Hebrew Glyphs - Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn - © Frank H. Jump

Fulton Street Hebrew Ediglyphs - Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn - © Frank H. Jump

Adonai – Wikipedia

So. Williamsburg Urban Ediglyph – Aiosa

Park Avenue, So.Williamsburg
© Vincenzo Aiosa