Street Art

[palinurus]

Brick Lane area

 

[booze and cake]

@palinurus ah that looks like an Invader in Manchester, and I did LOL at the 2nd one, like fridge magnet poetry, and obviously many, many hours spent on the Plasticine figure
A couple more Jimmy C's, whose style you may recognise as he did the Shakespeare one @Tim Hall posted recently, and some others I've posted before.

 

[booze and cake]

Here's 2 by the always great Fanapakan, who is a master of painting balloons and always has a great 3D effect to his works. Here's a Snoopy and a balloon Woodstock on Canal Walk

And a bit further along the same road is this impressive skull

 

[booze and cake]

I saw a new work in Great Eastern Street today by Italian artist Diego Finassi, take a bow Diego this is brilliant.

Diego appears to be half of 'Fo Deco' along with Luca Zammarchi. While looking them up on the web I came across the following links. I've always wanted to see a time lapse of these being done, and these gents have obliged. Even though these works are inside, its still great to see them taking shape and I find these vids mesmerising. And after looking for one for months the last link contains a London bus, at last, top work gentlemen

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZgO_7wcOJk

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrYAgmKzAM0

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmVWjNY4ZdM

 

[AndyRM]

Well, this is horrible...

 

[booze and cake]

@AndyRM bah agreed, that's ruddy awful. I don't think they've thought that through, in terms of local advertising it will probably generate more bad publicity than good, but maybe they subscribe to the view that bad publicity is better than no publicity. I felt the same way recently for the Ben Eine Greenfell tribute piece, it was no Leonardo but a touching tribute. It was on a wall that's regularly painted over, but it just seemed a bit crass that of all the things that could replace it, it was painted over with an advert for Beck's new album, as shown a few pages back.

On the subject of Leonardo I saw him today in Waterloo......well the ninja turtle one

This years marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of the comic 2000AD which I read as a lad, here's Judges Death and Dredd

And over in Shoreditch I saw a stretching Tiger, but could'nt find a hidden dragon

 

[Fnaar]

In Glesga, by artist Smug

 

[Fnaar]

Gdansk, Poland, near Solidarnosc museum (I was over there for a trade union conference)

 

[Fnaar]

Parc de la Ciutadella, Barcelona

 

[Fnaar]

Sevilla, Spain

 

[Fnaar]

And a couple of rather rough and ready ones from Barcelona

 

[booze and cake]

Excellent @Fnaar, I love the one with the robin. I had seen it online before and tried to get my friend Ruth to photograph it on a work trip to Glasgow, but she did'nt have time. It apparently depicts St Mungo the patron saint of Glasgow in modern clothes, and references the story of 'the bird that never flew', one of Mungo's four miracles, more details on this link: https://www.davidairey.com/glasgow-high-street-mural-smug/

I saw these two next to each other on the A10 between Dalston and Shoreditch today

 

[User10571]

I've spent most of today reading this thread.
All of it.
S'Great!
Thanks B&C.
You'll doubtless be aware that some of these have featured in BToB over on LFGSS

 

[booze and cake]

Thanks @User10571, all in one hit, quite an achievement, I hope you were'nt at work today, you could'nt have got much done if you were

I only very occasionally lurk over on LFGSS these days, my all round online-ness is very low. I did see the one on Noel St of Jeremy Corbyn running over BoJo with his bicycle there tho and papped it for here, but I can't recall any other others off the top of my head.

 

[Fnaar]

Not sure if this has been on the thread yet, but this a Pete Smith from Sheffield (I was working there for 2 days, this was near my hotel)