I stumbled on this photo while looking through Google Photos for a different photo, to go with an article.
Barcelona graffiti
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“With the spread of American train networks in the late 1800s, more and more hobos … tried their luck on the rails… leaving their marks along the way, including visual symbols scrawled or etched as messages to fellow travelers.” [Kurt Kohlstedt] https://99percentinvisible.org/article/unpacking-hobo-codes-the-pictographic-language-of-train-hopping-nomads/
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Slideshow: BCE Goes Deep in Heart of Texas [me – Light Reading]
When we weren’t connecting with the best and the brightest of the comms industry, Light Reading editors fanned out over the city to see the sights, cameras at the ready.