Street Art

[Elysian_Roads]

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Very very frightening me
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Gallileo, Gallileo
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But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me,
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
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will you let me go
Bismillah! No we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go let me go
Will not let you go let me go (never)
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Never let me go ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
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Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
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So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye,
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
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can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out just gotta get right outta here
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
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Nothing really matters nothing really matters to me
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And there has also been a massive mural done on the side of the Paragon Building, one of the student campuses for the University of West London, so I took the trip over to Brentford to get it. It's so big I had to photograph it from a few streets away.

Freddie Mercury got a diploma from Ealing College, now part of UWL, more info here: https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/arti...-street-art-promote-bohemian-rhapsody/1496200
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Epic posting, @booze and cake! Hope neither your eyes nor your neck have suffered permanent damage from all that looking to the skies....

 

[booze and cake]

Thanks @Elysian_Roads, I think it took longer to upload all the photos, and get them in the right order on my small laptop screen, than it did to do the whole ride. I can't complain really, very un-October like skies to be staring at, got to make the most of it

 

[Reynard]

Nice to see a racing car @booze and cake

Looks like (well, to my nerdy eyes) the "specials" that ran on the ovals in the US through to the mid-ish 60s. They clung to the front engined roadster type cars far longer than on this side of the pond.

 

[Poacher]

This recently appeared in the Lace Market area of Nottingham.

While these are from the nearby Sneinton Market; fairly sure the first appeared at about the time Stormy Daniels made her mycological comparison.

I'll try to get over to Beeston sometime this week to look at Zabou's latest work; three local luminaries.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Strait Street (once the red-light area, in the days of Naval bases in the Grand Harbour, & at the Forts)
Valletta
Malta

Thursday 18th October

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Steps adjacent to 'The Sanctuary Of Our Lady'
Mellieha
(north-east) Malta


Saturday 20th October

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I did see a good Lisa Simpson 'art' on a bus shelter, last week
Several times, actually

However, due to being on a bus, & it not stopping there, I couldn't photograph it
It was on the main road between Qawra/Salinas Bay & St Juliens (Malta)

Also there was a lot in a skatepark on the outskirts of St Juliens (Msida, according to Google maps)

It was essentially this picture, but with a pink background

 

[Poacher]

As promised, Zabou's latest work in Beeston, just up the Station Road from her much smaller Robin Hood.
First, Paul Smith, unfortunately without his stripey Mercian, and partially obscured by an irresponsibly dumped Nissan Qashqai.

Next, the never-to-grow-old Richard Beckinsale

Last, but not least, 'cos it's nearly as big as the first two put together, Edwin Starr. Unfortunate street furniture; a Cyclists Dismount sign. Grrrrr.

A small bonus, under a footbridge over the canal on the way home.

 

[booze and cake]

Good work @Richard A Thackeray and @Poacher.

Yes its a shame the Paul Smith one doesn't feature a bike considering how keen on cycling he is. When I got my Mercian in 2010 there was a Paul Smith Mercian in the shop, Battenberg cake coloured, bright yellow and pink. I love bright colours but even I thought that was a bit over the top.

I went past the Nomadic Community Garden earlier today, and Woskerski has been doing some cosmetic surgery to his own work. Last week it looked like this.

But today it looked like this

And on the adjacent wall is a new one by Aspire, this looks like a Peregrine Falcon.

 

[User169]

Piece here on a mural that's recently been rediscovered in Amsterdam. Will see if I can get over there to take a look..

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/10/chilean-anti-fascist-mural-resurfaces-in-amsterdam/

 

[booze and cake]

A few from around Shoreditch

 

[booze and cake]

And I saw these two recently, also in Shoreditch

Which made me think of this

 

[Reynard]

Or rather, this...

 

[booze and cake]

 

[User169]

Oh John - doesn’t your hair look so lovely!