Saturday, May 19, 2012

Post ALL the Bills!


June, 2011. Photo by Jeff Stewart

I was surprised to stumble upon this set of the Post No Bills recently at Bay and Grosvenor. I remember being disappointed when we painted them back in 2008 because the Bill Murray stencil broke, yet these may be the last of our Post No Bill stencils up in Toronto right now. Here's a brief timelapse via Flickr:

October, 2010. Photo by bella.mMarch, 2011. Photo by Mark Hiegel

The "POST NO BILLS" text was pretty faded from the start, so someone added "Post no bills" in chalk, which gradually faded away as well. But now, over the chalk and the original prohibition:



You may be familiar with the meme.


The "Post ALL the Bills!" stencil (artist unknown) can also be found on a number of construction hoardings around Yonge and Wellesley in Toronto.  To the artist: we agree!