Is This Man Flipping the Bird?

VENICE, CA -- Attention anyone who has ever seen those colorful, cartoon-cut-out doves that dangle from power lines over busy intersections from here to San Francisco, NYC and even London: Could Browne, the enigmatic, young street artist behind the berds (his werd), be using them to basically flip the bird?

"They have a pretty obvious meaning," Browne says. "But I won't tell anyone what it is."

Fine. Mystery is fun...ish. Though insisting the meaning is obvious is an obvious attempt to tempt suckers with nothing better to do into wasting time playing guessing games.

So my guess is "flipping the bird" is the meaning.

For one thing, he sort of "flips" the "berds" up onto the power lines (see video). For another, flipping the bird is what street art, on some level, is generally about: It's generally illegal, generally vandalism and generally subversive social commentary aimed at the man.

Therefore, flipping the bird is my final answer for what Browne means.

Unless it's "bird on a wire"...

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