We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA Readers, Friends, and Family for your support in 2025. Picked by our followers, these photos are the heavily circulated and “liked” selections of the year – shot by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo. We’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our good times together, our hope for the future, and our love for the street. Happy Holidays, Everyone!

The splasher approach to graffiti has morphed into a kind of visceral graphic abstraction on the street, closer to Abstract Expressionism than to traditional tagging. Where the goal once might have been to weaponize a fire extinguisher for sheer scale, now it’s pure gesture—more Pollock drip, de Kooning slash, even a bit of Gutai thrown onto brick and metal.

It gives your eye a new way to read the streetscape, turning motion and emotion into something immediate and bodily. The obvious gets re-framed through force and speed rather than letters. This red splash comes out of nowhere and suddenly feels unavoidable—an unannounced painting interrupting the city, or reframing it. Catch it while you can.