Photo: Buzz Blur the King of Hobo Art.

Throughout history there have been all sorts of starved artists, from Van Gogh to Gauguin to Miro, most of the art that changes traditions is made by the lower end of economic society. There's a few exceptions, but it's just something about hunger, and the feeling of just being unwanted by the masses that inspires creation. I don't think I've ever seen a businessman on his way to work, stop, and draw something on a bench, or carve something on a NYC subway car window, but I have certainly seen my fair share of "society's outcasts" creating wherever they just so happened to be.

One group of "castaways" that has been creating where they just so happen to be for years are hobos, and where they just so happen to be is in railway cars. I think hobos are rad. They're like the rockstars of the homeless world. Just look at how they live, they're pretty much on tour all the time. From one town to the next, they do more traveling than your average middle class working hero. And while they're on their national tour of flipping off society, they're creating art on rail car wall after rail car wall along the way.

Toby Hardman is a photographer form Portland Oregon, who's been documenting the artwork of hobos for years. Since before aerosol spray paint, so a lot of the work looks like cool modern caveman art, because you know hobos are kind of like modern day cavemen. Their life is all about survival, from the moment they open they're eyes in their cave (a rail car) it's all about: Where am I going to get food? What dangers are around? And, Where am I going to sleep? Plus, a lot of them have long hair and beards, so they kind of look like cavemen.

Anyway, Mr. Hardman has been documenting the artwork of the hobo "tramp life" for decades, and recently he teamed up with Hurley to bring you some of it. Check out the video below courtesy of Hurley: