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Graffitirazzi: Urban Ore

By Gar Smith
Saturday June 08, 2013 - 11:52:00 AM
Urban Ore has got a little bit of everything. It's an urban jumbleland teaming with bins full of manikin limbs, stacks of lumber, heaps of appliances (many approaching historic status), vintage 33rpm vinyl records, and more ceramic toilets than you'd find in a six-floor flophouse. And, as a bonus, there's also graffiti!
            
            Next time you're at Urban Ore shopping for slate or marveling at slabs of marble, lift your eyes and check out the wall art peeping over the fence.
Gar Smith
Urban Ore has got a little bit of everything. It's an urban jumbleland teaming with bins full of manikin limbs, stacks of lumber, heaps of appliances (many approaching historic status), vintage 33rpm vinyl records, and more ceramic toilets than you'd find in a six-floor flophouse. And, as a bonus, there's also graffiti! Next time you're at Urban Ore shopping for slate or marveling at slabs of marble, lift your eyes and check out the wall art peeping over the fence.
Gar Smith
A quick trip across Murray Street gets you a better look.
Gar Smith
A quick trip across Murray Street gets you a better look.
Gar Smith
Gar Smith
The Rap Musick mural hosts a number of well-known local taggers.
Gar Smith
The Rap Musick mural hosts a number of well-known local taggers.
Returning to the Ore warehouse, check out the bathrooms. (Only the Men's chamber was explored by Graffitirazzi. We would welcome any female graffitirazzi to submit photos showing what – if anything – is on display on the walls of the Lady's Room.)
Gar Smith
Returning to the Ore warehouse, check out the bathrooms. (Only the Men's chamber was explored by Graffitirazzi. We would welcome any female graffitirazzi to submit photos showing what – if anything – is on display on the walls of the Lady's Room.)
Gar Smith
Gar Smith
                Look closer at the last snapshot and you'll discover some hidden messages, thanks to a sub-set of bathroom graffiti called "groutffiti" that pops up in the white adhesive grouting between bathroom tiles. Urban Ore's bathrooms are a classic grout grotto. 
            
             Reading between the tiles will unveil the following variations on the "grout" theme: The Grout Gatsby, Grout Expectations, The grout escape, Groutrageous!, The secret's grout, Grout at the devil, Will she put grout? There are many more variations to be found but that's it for this week's edition. I'm grouta here.
Gar Smith
Look closer at the last snapshot and you'll discover some hidden messages, thanks to a sub-set of bathroom graffiti called "groutffiti" that pops up in the white adhesive grouting between bathroom tiles. Urban Ore's bathrooms are a classic grout grotto. Reading between the tiles will unveil the following variations on the "grout" theme: The Grout Gatsby, Grout Expectations, The grout escape, Groutrageous!, The secret's grout, Grout at the devil, Will she put grout? There are many more variations to be found but that's it for this week's edition. I'm grouta here.