I hate to admit it but tonight's another night where I'm not really sure where to begin. I could start off with something trite about hidden things, since the sign is almost completely covered in stickers and those are then hidden by some weeds, but eh... I'm pretty sure I've done that before. Hmm, I guess rather than beat around the bush tonight I'll just share what I've managed to find with the stickers I can clearly make out. Obviously the first one that really pops out is our good old local theater Row House Cinema. I know I've seen this sticker in a lot of neighborhoods, the first time I shared it was in a photo from downtown, but I'm pretty sure a good portion of the ones in my collection right now are along Butler like tonight's photo. Although that does make a fair amount of sense since this is where the theater is and you can grab a sticker while you're buying your ticket. Who needs expensive advertising when you can get your patrons to do it for you, right.
Heading to the bottom of the sign, you can see a sticker for Torch and Dagger Tattoo. This particular parlor is located over on Liberty, up in Bloomfield. Looking at their Facebook page it looks like they're a slightly newer shop, opening their original location in 2015 and moving to a larger one this past fall. Their actual website is an interesting little thing though. A lot of the sites that I've looked into for the blog recently have had sections that break down important information about not only the shop but their views on tattooing as well. This one though really only has their contact information and small galleries of the different artists' styles. So if you're intrigued by a particular style you have to contact them to get booking and pricing information. It certainly is one way to get people into the doors. Now one of the good things I've found about continuing on with this project is that the more I look into the various stickers around this city, the more stickers I actually find online. I briefly featured the Pete Butta sticker before but could not find anything about it, so I kind of glazed over it. With the information I found tonight though, I really have to wonder what in the world I was even searching for that first time. I just started typing in Pete Butta into the search bar in Google tonight and it began to auto fill for me, so I must have been looking for something weird that first time. As it turns out, Pete Butta is a popular DJ here in Pittsburgh. Looks like he's not only done a lot of work at various bars and events around the city but has also done some work with the Pittsburgh Penguins and musicians like Wiz Khalifa. While his personal website seems to be down at the moment he does have a fairly large presence on Facebook and Instagram. The final sticker I want to briefly touch on tonight is the Jorts one. If you remember a while back I featured an Inspector Gadget sticker that had in very small print a message from a Jorts. Back then I briefly alluded to the fact that there was another set of stickers that shared this Jorts signature but couldn't be sure that they were actually the same person. Well this is an example of these stickers and unfortunately I'm still not sure who Jorts is. When you search for Jorts or even Jorts graffiti you mainly just get pictures of people in jean shorts, which is ultimately a bizarre collection of images in the end. Whoever Jorts is though, he is certainly an interesting character. The series of stickers that tonight's example falls into are all handwritten messages that can mostly be found along Butler Street. Generally sardonic and irreverent, these stickers are always worth that pause in your walk to consider them and what they are saying. If you don't have a moment to wander down Butler looking for them though you can check out Pgh.Stickers, pittsburghgraffiti, and pgh_street_art over on Instagram for a couple of other examples of these Jorts stickers. Actually if you're looking for someone new to follow on Instagram I highly suggest these guys, they are always turning out interesting images of the great things you can find along the city's streets.
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Maggie Ondrey
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