Obey the Giant
I arrived in London for the first time in September 2008. I don’t know about you, but I don’t really like to plan anything. So when I came down from the train, I just had my luggage, a one-week reservation in a hotel close to Baron’s Court and… that’s it!
However, I needed to quickly find a place to live. I started to spend my time browsing the Internet and visiting flats and houses all around the city. I chose the places I wanted to visit quite randomly because at the time I didn’t know anything about London. This made the choice pretty difficult but, if on the other hand, it was an excellent way to learn more about the city.
One of the things I realised during this flat hunting is that London is full of beautiful pieces of street art. I particularly remember Obey the Giant, a Shepard Fairey’s graffiti on Talgarth Road, because that was the first one I saw when I was looking for my hotel on the first day I came to UK. Since then I can’t help looking everywhere around me to try and discover some new street art that I might not have yet seen.
Oh, by the way, if you haven’t heard about Shepard Fairey, he’s also the artist behind “Hope“, an urban style portrait of a man you may know as Barack Obama…
