Ziboy has a picture of a metal lunch tray on his homepage right now. The tray is divided into five sections, three for food, one as a resting place for a soup bowl, and one long section for chopsticks. The largest section has a big scoop of white rice, the upper middle section has a goopy mass of boiled cabbage, and the upper left section has another goopy mass of tofu and veggies. Except for the Chinese-style spoon dug into the rice, this is pretty much exactly what I had for lunch every day at Tianjin CRIS Elementary School. Another Ziboy connection. Can anybody tell me if there is a story behind that particular graffiti? When I lived in Madrid we would spot the name "Juan Miguel" tagged all over the city, and heard that it was all the work of some guy. In LA there is an artist who puts up posters of stark black and white faces in what some might call the Socialist fashion, often with the word Obey beneath it. In a recent entry on the other weblog I made mention of stencil graffiti. When I was in seventh grade, the fad for a time was to invent a graffito for your name, buy a fat-tipped permanent marker, and tag your apartment, the steps of the school, the playground... this was in Spain. Kids in Spain were hooligans. --Update (2003/10/4): Volatile has the answer in bits and pieces (random): The graffiti is the work of 18k (formerly Zhang Dali), a Beijing artist who spraypaints condemned buildings around the city. In Beijing, his work is very familiar simply because it is so common; the entire city is in the process of being destroyed and rebuilt. More photos of his work, "Dialogue".