Graffiti and Zombies

I see enough interesting graffiti art all around KAF to make it blog worthy.

Some unit's decal.

Stop signs are a popular place for graffiti -many of them make reference to something called hammertime - what time is that? Just kidding.

Can't tell if the plane is coming or going.

The place is pretty graffiti conducive with all of the concrete barriers around...

Thundercats! Ho!

I like the cultural references.

This one is both a reference to The Shining and Johnny Carson... get it?

One of my favorites, Ron Burgundy shows up all over KAF.

Most of the graffiti consists of stencils and decals like above, but there are a few that are a bit more impressive like these:

Very impressive.

Wow.

Outside the french PX/cafe.

If this were 40 plus years ago these graffiti pieces would make cartoon wolves go like this.

I pass this collection every day on my way to work.

That last one has a good point. Not because there are hordes of walking dead attempting to eat all of our brains of which we should be wary, but because those hordes wouldn't feel out of place here. Bleak landscape, lots of concrete, place is divided into sectors, large speakers giving us announcements with creepy echo effects, no entrance or exit... I'm told it bears a resemblance to the resident evil series, but I've never seen or played those.

Couple all of this with an active imagination and you get all sorts of fun scenarios running in my head of what would make a good setting or more dramatic post-apocalyptic imagery. Look at this church:

Not scary.

Ok, it's not very scary. You can't really tell that it's the creepiest church I've ever encountered. It's within the perimeter of some eastern European forces' compound and therefore surrounded by fence and barbed wire where clearly there was some bizarre experiment gone awry in which a disease was created that causes the brain to shut down almost entirely except for the motor skills required to seek out brains to eat. Also, you're not looking at it while it's at night:

click the picture to enlarge - it's hard to see.

That picture was taken from about the same angle, and as you can see it's very eerie.
One more, but this time with all the barbed wire.

In the zombie movie that takes place on KAF, there would be a climactic scene involving the church in some way.

Graffiti like this doesn't really help the situation:

Demon trying to escape from the concrete barrier

Or this one:

Clearly sector 3 is where you have to wear your gas mask.

I've grown used to it, and pictures don't really do it justice but here's some more samples of KAF at night, when the things that go bump in the night crawl out of the woodwork.

Creepy - picture taken from the roof of the Education Center.

Creepier.

There you have it. The art scene of KAF condensed into a blog post.