street art spam
Jul. 16th, 2006 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckOld stories, newish pictures and a link to the art world.
These are several weeks old and were taken in the small town where I spent my teens. There wasn't much graffiti around then except for a few political slogans and the usual stuff that you find at a school.
If the boyfriend hadn't been in hospital with a broken leg, he might have been on the 'crew' that managed to spray ALL THEM WANKERS on the windows of the teachers' staff room. His friends were caught, silly kids that they were....
Much later, there is a story about my brother-by-marriage involving a can of spray-paint, the white marble wall of our town hall and the words You're nothing but a hound dog. Needless to say, he was caught, too, and spent the night in a cell at the police station which is just around the corner from the town hall. Clever lad!
No one I know was involved in the creation of this though which can be found near a bus stop:
And nowadays, there is legal street art, too, to make the concrete boredom of the new bypass road more bearable:
I also managed to find out a bit more about some of the people behind the art that can be seen around my current place of residence.
I've seen similar stickers before, a submarine, I think, but this rocket on a lamp-post is fairly new.
The sticker with the flags is the same model as the one I was talking about in this (friendslocked) post.
I've done some digging around and have now managed to put faces to retroe and efas both of whom also put up wheatpastes with their names around here. Both see themselves as legitimate artists and have crossed over into the proper art world of galleries without abandoning the streets.
These are several weeks old and were taken in the small town where I spent my teens. There wasn't much graffiti around then except for a few political slogans and the usual stuff that you find at a school.
If the boyfriend hadn't been in hospital with a broken leg, he might have been on the 'crew' that managed to spray ALL THEM WANKERS on the windows of the teachers' staff room. His friends were caught, silly kids that they were....
Much later, there is a story about my brother-by-marriage involving a can of spray-paint, the white marble wall of our town hall and the words You're nothing but a hound dog. Needless to say, he was caught, too, and spent the night in a cell at the police station which is just around the corner from the town hall. Clever lad!
No one I know was involved in the creation of this though which can be found near a bus stop:
And nowadays, there is legal street art, too, to make the concrete boredom of the new bypass road more bearable:
I also managed to find out a bit more about some of the people behind the art that can be seen around my current place of residence.
I've seen similar stickers before, a submarine, I think, but this rocket on a lamp-post is fairly new.
The sticker with the flags is the same model as the one I was talking about in this (friendslocked) post.
I've done some digging around and have now managed to put faces to retroe and efas both of whom also put up wheatpastes with their names around here. Both see themselves as legitimate artists and have crossed over into the proper art world of galleries without abandoning the streets.
