Street Art

[booze and cake]

You wanna live up north chief, 'KNOB' written on a bridge over the M62 is about as good as it gets.

Haha, we get that and worse down south too. Its definitely not just a southern thing though, it is predominantly city based but its growing all the time. The pic just before your post is from Manchester, where @skudupnorth reported there's loads more, and Liverpool has lots of good stuff but we've yet to have any Liverpool CC'ers post any yet. Leeds has the biggest piece of street art in the country that was posted on here, and we've featured pieces in Hull, Edinburgh and Glasgow. In April this year there was even a street art festival in Aberdeen, with loads of pieces going up, and you don't get much more northern than that.

The building on King John Court that I posted back on page 41, see here: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/street-art.221565/post-5223038 continues to get even more amazing, and is fast becoming my favourite building in London. This has gone up on the corner in the last week, so good

As you can see on the right, its blank black canvas, so I'm hoping its going to continue round the building to cover it completely, I will be back to check. This week has been a bit of an onslaught of colour, as opposite the above piece on New Inn Yard is this.

Puke, spew, throw up, chuck, vom and barf are all slang terms for vomiting. Thankfully I've not done it for years, but my favourite term was always a 'techni-colour yawn', which immediately sprang to mind when I saw this by Perspicere, which is right next to the above work

What is especially impressive about it, despite making it more fragile and less likely to survive in this condition, is the fact that it is truly 3D, as the 'techni-colour yawn' is made up of individual strands of wool or string. I really like this

EDIT: I bumped into a street artist a few pages into the future from here who knew the artist who did this, and so I now know this excellent work is by Perspicere. More info and some great other work here: http://globalstreetart.com/perspicere They are also on Instagram so can be checked out there too.

 

[User10571]

That technicolour yawn is quite outstanding.

 

[Reynard]

Wow, that's awesome!!! And different.

Having said that, there are various groups that knit stuff to decorate public spaces. Have seen the odd bit here and there and it always brings a smile to my face.

 

[booze and cake]

@User10571 its brilliant isn't it. Funny you should pop in, look what else I saw when cycling down Commercial St today.

Its an 8 foot gherkin that is illuminated at night, its on the roof of the Culpepper pub, named after herbalist, botanist, physician and astronomer Nicholas Culpepper. I did'nt go in but looked it up afterwards, and in case you and @User259 are interested the pub are having a summer long theme of pickles, they're growing different cucumber varieties up on the roof garden and using them for cocktails, dishes and workshops. I'm not a great fan or cucumbers of gherkins myself, but apparently Nicholas Culpepper noted they were used for the treatment of sunburn in his 'Complete Herbal' of 1653. More info and a better pic of the illuminated gherkin here:
https://www.theculpeper.com/rooftop/

 

[User10571]

@User10571 its brilliant isn't it. Funny you should pop in, look what else I saw when cycling down Commercial St today.
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Its an 8 foot gherkin that is illuminated at night, its on the roof of the Culpepper pub, named after herbalist, botanist, physician and astronomer Nicholas Culpepper. I did'nt go in but looked it up afterwards, and in case you and @User259 are interested the pub are having a summer long theme of pickles, they're growing different cucumber varieties up on the roof garden and using them for cocktails, dishes and workshops. I'm not a great fan or cucumbers of gherkins myself, but apparently Nicholas Culpepper noted they were used for the treatment of sunburn in his 'Complete Herbal' of 1653. More info and a better pic of the illuminated gherkin here:
https://www.theculpeper.com/rooftop/

My commute takes me from Forest Hill to Walthamstow.
I frequently see new graffitti on this route.
If I was to stop each time I saw one, I'd never get to work / home.
If I don't cycle, I use the ginger line.
As it passes through Shoreditch / Hackney - it exposes me to another plethora of street art (much of which you have posted on here).
When on the train, most of my fellow passengers are lost in their hand-held devices.
I prefer to look out of the window.
Keep up the class work.

 

[User10571]

Wow, that's awesome!!! And different.

Having said that, there are various groups that knit stuff to decorate public spaces. Have seen the odd bit here and there and it always brings a smile to my face.

There's plenty of examples of guerrilla knitting, as it is known, around.
This looks like a fresh take on the medium.

 

[Elysian_Roads]

Haha, we get that and worse down south too. Its definitely not just a southern thing though, it is predominantly city based but its growing all the time. The pic just before your post is from Manchester, where @skudupnorth reported there's loads more, and Liverpool has lots of good stuff but we've yet to have any Liverpool CC'ers post any yet. Leeds has the biggest piece of street art in the country that was posted on here, and we've featured pieces in Hull, Edinburgh and Glasgow. In April this year there was even a street art festival in Aberdeen, with loads of pieces going up, and you don't get much more northern than that.

The building on King John Court that I posted back on page 41, see here: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/street-art.221565/post-5223038 continues to get even more amazing, and is fast becoming my favourite building in London. This has gone up on the corner in the last week, so good
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As you can see on the right, its blank black canvas, so I'm hoping its going to continue round the building to cover it completely, I will be back to check. This week has been a bit of an onslaught of colour, as opposite the above piece on New Inn Yard is this.
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Puke, spew, throw up, chuck, vom and barf are all slang terms for vomiting. Thankfully I've not done it for years, but my favourite term was always a 'techni-colour yawn', which immediately sprang to mind when I saw this by Perspicere, which is right next to the above work
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What is especially impressive about it, despite making it more fragile and less likely to survive in this condition, is the fact that it is truly 3D, as the 'techni-colour yawn' is made up of individual strands of wool or string. I really like this
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That would be a "techni-colour yarn" then....

 

[booze and cake]

Wow, that's awesome!!! And different.

Having said that, there are various groups that knit stuff to decorate public spaces. Have seen the odd bit here and there and it always brings a smile to my face.

Yep guerrilla knitting is a thing, I've seen some too. Here's a tree I saw in south London last year

And I even saw an excellent knitted farmer, sheep and seagull in the rural welsh village of Llwyngwril, seen in the following links when I did my brilliant ride to see artist David Nash's ash tree dome in Snowdonia. I've posted it on here before but it was one of my all time great rides with some amazing pictures, so worth posting again.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-ride-today.173254/post-4435114
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-ride-today.173254/post-4435115

 

[User10571]

Yep guerrilla knitting is a thing, I've seen some too. Here's a tree I saw in south London last year
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And I even saw an excellent knitted farmer, sheep and seagull in the rural welsh village of Llwyngwril, seen in the following links when I did my brilliant ride to see artist David Nash's ash tree dome in Snowdonia. I've posted it on here before but it was one of my all time great rides with some amazing pictures, so worth posting again.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-ride-today.173254/post-4435114
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-ride-today.173254/post-4435115

Guerilla knitting is definitely a thing in Whitstable / Herne Bay / North Kent costal resorts - where I occasionally loiter. (I know some of those who are implicit in it's execution)
I've also scored some on the Thames Path, not too far from the Blackwall Tunnel.

 

[Elysian_Roads]

It's also being used as a protest on the path of HS2 in the Aylesbury area.

 

[booze and cake]

Another lippy south London rude kid in Penge

I guess this is a comment on the tragically regular shootings in schools in the gun toting U.S of A. At the Latimer Road site.

I saw this in Star Yard off Brick Lane which made me laugh.

And this is new and also in Star Yard

 

[booze and cake]

A new one in Leake St

 

[Deleted member 35268]

I was using WeTransfer to send some project files when this came up...

Nice!!!!

See more
https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/alex-senna/


Cheers

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Didn't realise there was a street art section - oops

 

[booze and cake]

Great stuff @Rooster1 , thanks for that, street art featuring bikes are few and far between, so bonus points for that

My absence this week is thanks to Windows 10 and its glorious updates. In a episode that is now widely being called 'the black desktop of death' 'rollback loop' and many other unrepeatable words, Windows update 1803 did a sterling attempt at killing my laptop in the face, being totally unable to load its own operating system and do anything at all, and all available reset and rollback options did not work. The irony is while doing the updates windows keeps flashing up the following vomit inducing, and frankly downright lying messages....'these updates keep you safe in an online world'.....I guess I am totally safe from cyber attack and fraud if my computer utterly freezes and is incapable of doing anything, but I'd argue that is overly drastic.....'leave everything to us'......'this may take several minutes'.....well 4 DAYS later and its finally working, no thanks at all to Windows, but massive thanks to my Linux Jedi friend Vince, who managed to get in and copy all the files and save me from losing 300GB of stuff, and reinstall the whole thing. Many others were not so lucky. Street artists of the world please do a piece ripping into Microsoft and Windows 10, the way the little guys are repeatedly shat on from the highest height makes them a fair target.

I came across this, and while the message is peace, in this instance I'm using the other meaning of the two upturned fingers, and directing it at Microsoft......and I hope Bill Gates gets malaria on his summer holidays this year

I don't want this thread to become an IT moan thread, we're more fun than that, so I'll leave it there. But on the subject of cowboys, masked raiders and shifty types, this is new in Leake St tunnel.

Windows 10, that feeling of the wolf of Microsoft having us sheep by the balls, (sorry ladies), so this image from Shoreditch, behind some locked up gates, and only just obtainable with full zoom, feels strangely appropriate.