Street Art

[AndyRM]

Sorry, @AndyRM , I posted it and a link to a Guardian article about 4 posts ago.

No worries! Not up to date with the thread and missed your post.

 

[Tim Hall]

Whizzing up to Hyde Park Corner for the wonderful Movies ride, I spied some highly decorated shop shutters in Croydon. A brief trawl back through this thread shows that @booze and cake has been there before, but I get the impression it's a very dynamic gallery, changing all the time.

Then I spotted a couple of stickers of explanation/inspiration:

 

[booze and cake]

Yes @Tim Hall it does change regularly around there, those shutters where you were are best viewed on Sundays when all the shops are closed, but all around the surrounding Katherine St and Fell Rd and around the High St there's a good concentration of stuff, and the local Council seem to encourage it, so good on them. Its drawn me to Croydon multiple times, which does'nt rate highly for many things, personal experience says maniac scooter riders and some right dodgy characters, but I rate it in the top 3 or 4 places in London to visit for street art.

These next 3 are all in regular stop off places too. Firstly Leake St tunnel in Waterloo which always smells of spray paint such is the level of activity there. Skyhigh did the kingfisher from a few pages back. I was hoping to find some Batman art too to complete the dynamic duo, but no luck there.

And these two are by the Community Garden in Pedley St, another great one by the prolific Woskerski

And another in the series of melancholic crash test dummies by Maikel Walkman, that I've come across in various locations across Hackney.

 

[nickyboy]

I've posted quite a few from Adelaide before. Back again and this caught my eye....

Not sure what it's trying to say to me, but I like it

 

[booze and cake]

This is new and painted over the 'goodnight Vienna' one from page 38. I did'nt even notice it last time, but the mushroom on the top is by Christiaan Nagel, and he's added similar mushrooms to the skyline of London and other cities.

 

[GM]

Saw this one on Sunday just by Fatboys Diner, thought Tim might have snapped it .......

 

[captain nemo1701]

One of my faves in Bristol:

 

[nickyboy]

Perth (the Australian one) has a few

 

[SteveF]

Just saw a Guardian article about scandalised residents in Stockholm when this 5 storey penis was unveiled. They're going to have to take it away...

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What a giant cock up.....!

They need to rub it off.... Ahem

 

[booze and cake]

@captain nemo1701 that's so good they should have renamed the pub 'the experience'
And you're back in Australia again @nickyboy , wow you do get about. Massive kendo koalas, great stuff. Are you going in the water?

And this one is thanks to a tip off from @Reynard. The Hoffmeister bear's palate has become more sophisticated over the years.

 

[Reynard]

Neat, glad you found the bear, @booze and cake

Saw on the bus, just as you come off the Angel and turn right down Pentonville Road, there's a shop unit with a lovely geometric pattern on the roller shutters. (near White Lion Street)

 

[booze and cake]

A new Otto Schade near Brick Lane, where some the original Ripper's victims were found. This is called Jack the Ripper 2040, and a helpless android is butchered while onlookers record events on their phones.

 

[booze and cake]

 

[booze and cake]

Regular followers may recall this image I posted back on page 35

Since then two other scenes have been added to the building. First up some kind of future glimpse of Strictly Come Dancing

And this mushroom and enchanted wood scene. I'm blown away by the detail and the light effect in the woods on this, amazing.

 

[booze and cake]

I saw two rowdy and cringe worthy Lamborghini's yesterday, that revealed some rather entertaining artistic licence.

First up was this in Chelsea

The sun was not shining at the time so you can't really see very well, but the car is covered in Swarovski crystals, over 1 million of them. I did'nt realise this until later when I googled the rather interesting number plate. I discovered its owned by a 23 year old Russian student and Instagram model, whatever one of those is, I guess its someone who does 1000's of selfies a week in front of a spangly Lambo. I shudder to think how much it is to insure a student living in central London to drive a £150,000 car.......at least £150,000 a year I guess. Notice the 'custom' red gaffer tape on the cars front wing, proving over 1 million crystals do not have a sufficient aura to protect against student driving, and that they're not self healing. I am but a lowly peasant but think it looks hideous. More pics of it in full spangly glitter mode here:
http://www.thedrive.com/sheetmetal/...r-lamborghini-huracan-in-1-3-million-crystals
A few miles later I saw another typically reserved Italian number......

...but things are not quite as they appear. As I had success with the number plate search on the red car, I did the same with this, and got a bit of a surprise. A bit more internet digging confirmed it. This is in fact a 1990 Toyota MR2 with 220,000 miles on the clock and a fake Lambo body kit, valued at about £800
https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/6lwfk8/fake_mr2_based_lamborghini_murcielago_wtf/