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swee'pea99

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Confession time - there was me thinking, "Aye, bloody London, again; gets all the interesting bits."

Except? I was wrong. I've been cycling around with my own bloody eyes closed! For years! :giggle:


[Edited to add - http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/20...-work-on-uks-tallest-street-art-installation/ is a case in point. I ride past this building practically every day. AND NEVER NOTICED! :wacko::wacko::wacko:. And "keeping my eyes on the road" just doesn't work as an excuse ... not for a thing THAT size. {blush}{blush}{blush}] :rofl:
If it's any comfort I live in that there London and I've never seen any of these pics. I am famously unobservant, but even so...:sad:
 
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@growingvegetables now you've told me you go past it nearly everyday you have to get it now^_^ @swee'pea99 you are not alone, I've circulated this amongst my friends and family and most people have'nt seen any of them either. To be fair some of them are pretty hidden away, I go down all the back alleys so you don't have to^_^
 
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Latest trip was out east, I went to 3 sites the internet told me there should be works, and happened upon 2 bonus ones during the journey. First up, one for Star Wars fans. I was over in Leytonstone , specifically 351 Grove Green Road, where this is:
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And a little further along the same road.......
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And I came across this on You Tube showing some of the above being done, and Darth and a couple of storm troopers end up at the pub which made me laugh, conquering galaxies is thirsty work.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CLMT9S1Tm8
I then made my way to Ferns Rd Stratford to see a piece by Dan Kitchener, he who did the night time city images featuring cars from page 3. This impressive one is a Blade Runner inspired work, details below. I love how the firemen from the nearby station brought him cups of tea while he was doing it:okay:
http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/street-artist-transforms-stratford-cafe-wall-1-4942840
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Next up is Priory Road, former home of West Ham football club, so of interest to @User482 and @Smokin Joe. I'm not a hammers fan but was still a bit saddened to see there is nothing left of the old ground, Upton Park, it has been completely dismantled, just a big gaping hole where it was. I was there for a recently completed mural on the side of a chip shop on the corner of Priory Road that honours two club legends. It was done by Norwich based artist David “Gnasher” Nash.
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On my way home the 2 bonus finds, the first on the corner of Holbrook Road and Plaistow Lane is another Dan Kitchener piece, that Otto Schade, who I've mentioned before, has painted a whopping great tiger in the middle of.
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And a little further along, on West Ham Lane is this by Mr Cenz.
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Thanks @growingvegetables if you see any in Leeds please try and photograph and post them here. In fact I've just googled and found out artists in Leeds started work in June this year (and I guess it must be finished by now) on the tallest street art installation in the UK, details here:
http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/20...-work-on-uks-tallest-street-art-installation/
If you or any other Leeds folk could photograph it, that would be great. That piece would usurp the giant Stix one in Acton I photographed on page 3, which according to this article was the previous tallest.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...light-shortage-of-social-housing-9887388.html
Here you go :smile:.

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or ...
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AND I HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE! The artwork is on the East side of the building ... I usually only see the south, west, and north faces on my regular riding :tongue:. And the access road has been closed for weeks on end. [wipes-sweaty-brow-in-relief smiley].

Hard to get a proper full view of it - except from the east end of one of the station platforms, maybe? Must remember next time I catch a train.

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And that set me off on a wee wander. Silly - took no time at all. I've been seeing these in Leeds South Bank, and just been riding by :crazy:.

Asda staff carpark on Globe Road.
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Then - back side of Northern Monk Brewery, I think. Whole thing :smile:

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Close up

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Sad story that ... Temple Works. Astonishing building, falling into delapidation :sad:.

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Same artists as the guys who did the owls on City House - his their sig (Nomad Clan)

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Across the road - the Bath Road face of a printing works.

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Outside the Swung Low Theatre (in a Holbeck Viaduct arch :smile:)

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detail 1
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detail 2
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Hmmm - well worth riding slow, with one's eyes wide open :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[And I see I now HAVE got the hang of the Add Media thingammybob - don't! It only saves the middle 500x500px of your foty.]
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@booze and cake - my God, man. You have a lot to answer for!

Three trips into town in two days? I HATE cycling in Leeds city centre. Eyes down for potholes, eyes all ways for aresholes (except up and around me).

And it's been a slow-cycling blast ^_^. Eyes open, all ways! Thank you for the prompt ^_^. Ah ... but there's a price. More bad photos :laugh:.

Today's little jaunt.

No, I didn't start with this ... but I had no idea how magnificent "Athena Rising" would stand out, if I'm riding the east side of the city.

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Crappy photo - but, my God, what a cracker of a view!


Even better (?), I'd picked up on East Streets Arts "A City Less Grey" project, and found Jo Peel's evocation of some of Leeds’ iconic buildings … with Athena Rising as a backdrop?

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Yup, that's my bike :laugh:.

Damn it, John Poulson's City House looks a damn sight more ... attractive/impressive/whatever than it has done at any other time in my 30+ years in Leeds!

And I'd love to know if it was sheer serendipity that matched Jo Peel's work (in Sovereign Square, by the way) with Athena Rising. a - it's ... gorgeous. b - I love the Railway Station "sandwich". And c - the urge to explore those arches was irresistable; they're now "Swine Street Car Park" and SO worth a wander, to marvel at the bat-sh!t crazy bravado of those Victorian architects and engineers, who built Leeds Station on layers of colossal brick/stone viaducts..

More of Jo Peel's work, round the corner, still in Sovereign Square.
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Also found today ... some guided by East Street Arts “A City Less Grey” project, #ACityLessGrey. But for most of it, just following … my nose.

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The Linnet, in Sheaf Street. By London-based ATM Street Art, part of a UK-wide street art project by Human Nature, according to the label.


Just opposite in Sheaf Street ...

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Do I see Nomad Clan’s signature crown? Dunno, but it sure looks like it.


Whitehall Road
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The gable end of the White Cloth Gallery. I love the way the figure is reflected in the windows of Princes Exchange.


On to the north end of Vicar Lane, and ...
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one of East Street Arts' sites.

With next door, four magical trompe l’oeil panels on the hoardings round the site of the old Odeon Cinema.
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Onwards. Into the car-park behind. And the Lyons Building (almost bulldozed in 2014 to make more car-parking space :rolleyes:).
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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, and design for tomorrow." Almost Einstein, and worked in bespoke fonts inspired by Leeds brewing, textile, and architectural heritage.

Onwards yet again - across the main road into Mabgate.

- in Millwright Street
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then Ladybeck studios, on Mabgate Street
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and last, the gable end of Mabgate Traditional Fisheries.
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Some closer details ... and next time. I pop into the chip shop and ask for the story line :tongue:.
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I love that bus!


And then back towards town. Via ...

... the magnificent Spix’s Macaw on the south side of Munro House. “Last seen in the wild: 2000”.
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... up through Kirkgate to see this.
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A perennial "art site", aka "council boasting" site.

On a hoarding erected to hide a major embarrassment for the city. In the upper left half of the photo - what remains of the First White Cloth Hall. The proposals to regenerate, planning applications, artists' impressions, consultations, press coverage and the like, over the last few years, fill more filing cabinets than the building could physically hold. And yet? One third has been demolished, and the remaining wings are left to deteriorate ... and demolish themselves. Sad.

Last art call today? An odd one.

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Above the Millenium Bridge, at the Calls end.

“Duet. A collaboration between Invisible Flock (UK) and Quicksand (India).” A series of outdoor digital artworks in India and the UK, linked by an app and a web platform. Intriguing! But, depending as it does on the hours of darkness, I’ll have to come back another time!
 
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Chapeau @growingvegetables I thoroughly enjoyed that street art inspired Leeds tour. Its great to see more ATM birds too, that is loads we have now, but its also a bit alarming there are that many rare and endangered birds:sad:. I'd not heard the phrase Trompe-l’oeil before so looked it up, and then typically enough saw an example of it yesterday with this mural on Anerley Rd, details of which are here:https://pengestreetartblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/anerley-road-mural/
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There is obviously someone in the Penge area with a fascination with heffalumps. I posted one recently in Stodart Road but yesterday came across some more that are obviously by the same person.
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On nearby Maple Road which I've featured before, is this:
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And a bit further along is another Ant Carver
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Nearby Ravenscroft has another Woskerski
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And some kind of jellyfish
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This is in Forest Hill
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And finally a new addition in Brixton
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