Street Art

[Tim Hall]

Excellent, bringers of colour always welcome And if she lets you know where she's planning on visiting in March I'll be sure to get along and photograph those too.

I've been speaking with my Sinister Agents. Manyoly's visit has been put off until April. More news when I get it.

 

[booze and cake]

Here's a Jimmy C and Sebastian Humphreys collaboration near Columbia Road flower market

Its not the place I expected to see one, but thanks to this find near the Regents Canal I can give you all a wave

 

[booze and cake]

A tribute in Leake St tunnel to one of sciences brightest stars, Stephen Hawking who died this week.

And here's a great quote of his: "remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up"

 

[Reynard]

This pic of a van in Chatteris was shared on a friend's Book of Faces page - local-ish to me, some 25 mins up the road.

Thanks to whoever snapped the original pic.

 

[booze and cake]

Another crazy contrast in weather from yesterday to today. I was in shorts and short sleeves yesterday, today its snowing and its 2 pairs of ski socks, scarf and full finger gloves. I battled an icy headwind out to the Lord Morpeth pub Bow to photograph a recent Sylvia Pankhurst mural by Jerome Davenport, aka Keytones6000, who has done a number of amazing bee murals I've photographed before. The location is fitting as Sylvia lived in a house next to the pub for a decade from 1914 to 1924. More info here: https://inspiringcity.com/2018/03/1...s-on-the-side-of-the-lord-morpeth-pub-in-bow/

On my way back through Mile End I found this. This is a first for me, the main bodies of the figures in this are made up of various bits of wood stuck to the wall, almost like the icy wind has blown a collection of urban driftwood into position.

 

[booze and cake]

What starts as an ooooh, what's this going to be....

....turns into a meh, when the next day all that's revealed is an ad campaign for clothing company Reserved, doing some sort of homage to 80's super model Cindy Crawford.

I'm filing that in the following category

Chris Riggs has brought some colour and a lot of love to Hanbury Street

And another example of London bus syndrome as I saw another Keytoness6000 piece off Bethnal Green Road. I'm not sure if its finished and is going to continue up the rest of the house, so I'll return at a later date and check. Maybe the artist saw some sights while looking through those windows and decided or was convinced it was best not to continue, or more likely his ladder was'nt tall enough

 

[booze and cake]

Another cat one for @Reynard, this is by Lora Zombie and is just off Chapel Market in Islington

 

[Reynard]

Really love that cat piece @booze and cake - thank you

BTW, where's the Cindy Crawford one - that junction jogs my memory as I sometimes get the 243 bus.

 

[booze and cake]

I knew you'd like that one. The Cindy Crawford one is on Clerkenwell Road, near the junction of Goswell Road.

 

[Reynard]

I knew you'd like that one. The Cindy Crawford one is on Clerkenwell Road, near the junction of Goswell Road.

Ah yes - I do tootle past there every now and again. Used to go to school in the Barbican back in the day.

I'll have to go and find that cat one.

 

[booze and cake]

Going over the otherwise bland Catford bridge today I was stopped in my tracks by a kaleidoscope of butterflies. I did'nt know that was the collective term for a group of butterflies, how wonderful. It turns out these Catford specimens were inspired by Victorian insect expert Henry Stainton, who thanks to Wiki I now know lived in a big house in nearby Mountsfield Park, (the house was demolished in 1905) and wrote 'a manual of British butterflies and moths' (1857-59). He also edited the work of another titan in the butterfly field, William Buckler, who along with another legend of the time, John Hellins, wrote 'the larvae of the British butterflies and moths'. Buckler did the illustrations and his 164 plates of hand coloured drawings took 30 years to complete. They are apparently in the Natural History Museum, they sound amazing, I may see if I can visit them.

OK here we go, big thanks to my sis and her other half Steve, who knew much more of these than I did. These are apparently the correct names, and I hope I've got them in the right order. If there's any lepidopterists in the house than can correct any errors or fill in any gaps, that would be great, thanks.

Garden Tiger Moth maybe?

Peacock Butterfly

Tortoiseshell butterfly, can be seen as early as March according to my sis, who saw one in Bristol 3 weeks ago, brrrrrr it must have had the shock of its tiny life!

Maybe a Burnet moth? EDIT: thanks to @furball who identified it as a Cinnabar moth

A type of Hawk moth maybe?

Don't know this one, any ideas? Looks more moth than butterfly we think.

Don't know these two either, anyone?

Maybe a Marbled White butterfly?

Red Admiral butterfly

And according to my sis we finish on a blinder, rare in the UK, a Swallowtail butterfly.

 

[Reynard]

Wow, those are amazing!

The hawk moth is a privet hawk moth - we have loads of them around here, though you tend to see the caterpillars more than the moths. They're acid green with white and lilac go-faster stripes.

One of the unidentified butterflies is a male orange tip. They fly around May / June time. Female orange tips are all white.

 

[furball]

The black and red one is a cinnabar moth. Caterpillers are often found on ragwort.

 

[booze and cake]

Thanks @furball, have edited accordingly
That man Jerome Davenport has been at it again, this time doing a pub in Hackney Wick

And nearby I found another work by canine obsessed Teddy Baden, this one is called 'pugs might fly'

 

[Reynard]

The tiger is lovely. I go past there sometimes, will have to check it out.