Glyphiti

Grifiti on the Broadway Bridge (West Side)
Grifiti on the Broadway Bridge (West Side)

This is the coolest graffiti I’ve seen in a long time – and I can’t even read it.  It’s written in Cree glyphs.  They are phonetic like Korean, so I guess if you looked it up you could sound it out – although still not sure what it means. Phonetic alphabets are easier to read and write than character alphabets, which means folks can learn them earlier and faster.  According to Wikipedia:

by the late 19th century the Cree had achieved what may have been one of the highest rates of literacy in the world