Some murals in San Jose CA.

 

Over the Christmas holiday Disaster Amnesiac traveled to San Jose California in order to visit family (get well soon, mom). I stayed at a house located at the outskirts of Japan Town in particular and downtown in general. Early morning walks within the area revealed a civic center that felt like some kind of totalitarian harsh-scape, Silicon Valley triumphal corporatism, and, on the brighter side, many skillfully executed murals. These latter are a point of pride for the city of San Jose and it's obvious why that's the case. San Jose's mural game is strong! Below are a few shots that were taken with my phone. 

Below: discrete element within a larger Japanese Pop Culture subject. It just fits on the West Coast.

Above: downtown San Jose right off of First St. Astute insertion of the color wheel.

Below: discrete elements within an entire wall of drips. There is representational imagery within this mural, but Disaster Amnesiac found this portion, with some kind of "commentary" much more compelling.

Above: more strong drips within a letter matrix. 

Below: The Texas to California migration informs many goings on within the latter state. I'll bet that bar-b-q lovers find this place to be much to their liking. 

Above: incredible show stopper mural. This one may have been produced by a brother team that gets a lot of love from the various Pop Surrealism mags such as Juxtapoz. Disaster Amnesiac could be mistaken here, but the elements point to them. 

Along with seeing such great art, it was also very enjoyable for me to be able to tune in to KFJC in the car that was lent to me. That station still rules.