I stumbled on this photo while looking through Google Photos for a different photo, to go with an article.
Unpacking Hobo Codes: The Pictographic Language of Train-Hopping Nomads
“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] 99percentinvisible.org
Street artist Mathieu Tremblin paints over graffiti to make it more legible
Jason Kottke has more info.
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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.
