Back Out on the Street

There is also a tradition here of posting stickers to express opinions and make protests. This has the advantage that you can prepare the statement in private and then post it quickly, unobserved.

Above there are two observations on the world. the one at the top is simply making fun of Andy Warhol's famous can of Campbell's Soup (In case you can't quite read it, it says " Warhol's Overrated F*king Art"). the lower one is more complicated.

In the '80's there was a popular TV show here about regular folks, one of which was a taxi driver. This show was produced in Russia and was a really badly acted and cheaply produced show. The actor who played the taxi driver was a typical Hungarian working guy complete with beer belly and ordinary looks. Thus, to make fun of all this (in ways that we who have not seen the show or lived in communist Hungary cannot understand), the driver is represented by David Hasselhoff from Knight Rider. This actor and his car represent the complete opposite of the car and actor in the show. Only Hungarians over a certain age really get this. I only vaguely get it.

Below, is a mural depicting a Hungarian Gray, a breed of cattle, eating a fancy meal. This breed of cattle is described on WIkipedia as

The Hungarian Grey (Hungarian: Magyar Szürke), also known as the Hungarian Grey Steppe,^[5]: 334 is a Hungarian breed of beef cattle.^[4][6]: 96 It belongs to the group of Podolic cattle^{[7]: 27 [8]: 49} and is characterised by long lyre-shaped horns and a pale grey coat. It is well adapted to extensive pasture systems and was formerly raised in very large numbers in the Hungarian puszta. In the twentieth century it came close to extinction, but numbers have since risen.

This is a iconic Hungarian animal and is used here to represent a slice of Hungarian people. What the toothy faces along the street represent is beyond me.

Once someone finds a good place to post stickers, everyone goes all in on the idea.

This is a really interesting piece of street art. It is made of tiles so it is both fairly permanent and brightly colored.

When originally painted, this heart was red. But the "Love Thy Neighbor" (note that it in English!) theme has been repurposed to support Ukraine with the repainting of the heart in Ukrainian colors.

Also on this street, is a large mural funded by Converse shoes to remind people to get our explore nature.