Street Art

[booze and cake]

I came across this on the Village Underground wall earlier in the week.

Due to computer grief I wasn't able to look up any details, but I passed by again the next day and all was revealed, its an album cover copy.

I waited around for a bit to get a clear shot, but that van was parked, and the girl was clearly hanging around and seemed to be filming herself in front of the wall. It turns out that Mr Eazi was having a private party at Village Underground on Wednesday, what's a bit different about it is he was offering admittance to the party to people who turned up and took a photo of the mural and posted it on his Instagram.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BjC5ye2hN_f/?taken-at=34629
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Also in Shoreditch is this new one.

 

[booze and cake]

Another leopard, but this one was a lot easier to photograph than the last one. This is new and has appeared 8 feet up a wall by a garage in Cambridge Heath. I don't know who did it, but the half natural, half mechanical style is exactly the same as the marlin from page 42, so I'm pretty sure this is by the same person.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Rear face of the (closed) Haworth Fire Staton
The building is adjacent to the station, & was probably in shot during this years Tour de Yorkshire visit
(descent of Brow Road, ascent of Bridgehouse Lane, onto the Main Street)


As seen from the front; http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2913794

 

[Reynard]

Another leopard, but this one was a lot easier to photograph than the last one. This is new and has appeared 8 feet up a wall by a garage in Cambridge Heath. I don't know who did it, but the half natural, half mechanical style is exactly the same as the marlin from page 42, so I'm pretty sure this is by the same person.
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I think this one was on the list I posted a while back...

 

[booze and cake]

Thanks @Richard A Thackeray yes you are correct, they were definitely done for the TDF, apparently the rickshaw ladies are the Bronte sisters, who have a long association with Haworth. We've already seen the Alan Bennett, there's also a Jarvis Cocker in Sheffield and a Sylvia Path in Hebden Bridge. Paging @ColinJ, have you seen the Sylvia Path one on your travels, is it still there?
@Reynard whenever I see a cat one I think of you
Here's one from Great Eastern St

And a Desperate Dan style chin from Woskerski in Stockwell

 

[booze and cake]

There's loads of great new artworks in Brick Lane and around the Nomadic community garden that have gone up in the last few days. I was in a rush this afternoon so was not able to grab them all, so will return tomorrow on my day off. Here's a taster for now, some really varied works....

Great to see even the rubbish receptacles getting the treatment. Its wheelie bin an eye swivelling experience this thread

This is funny...

.....but highlights a harsh truth that reports last month showed that food bank use in the UK reached the highest rate on record, more info here:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ust-cost-of-living-highest-rate-a8317001.html
This is large and amazingly detailed, love the characters head wear in this.

And finally onto my favourite, and not just of today, this one has rocketed into my own personal top 10 favourite ones I've got so far. Way back on page 3 I posted this image from a really secluded side street in Walthamstow, I loved it at the time and still do.

Well I've just discovered that the person that did that, Xenzogram, also did this one, some kind of Babylon in ruins scene. Located on the walls by the walkway alongside the Nomadic community garden, this is amazing

 

[Elysian_Roads]

Always good to see another posting on this thread. Find it very therapeutic. The detail in the last picture is amazing. Something you would expect of pen and ink not spray paint!

 

[Reynard]

Yeah, the last one is almost Dali-esque - it's really appealing. And I just love the wheelie bin.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Taunton town centre.

 

[booze and cake]

@Elysian_Roads thanks, I think its all year round colour therapy. Its definitely helped us through the cold, grey and dark winter months. And when I come across ones like the last pic on my previous post, I'm whooping with delight like an excited school child. It was like finding an old master amongst a sea of tags, so just added to the wow factor. Those walls always have something being done on them, so it may not last long, so I'm delighted to have seen it while it was that pristine.

And great colours there too @Toshiba Boy, that's our first in that part of the world

I was back in east London today to mop up some of the ones I didn't have time for yesterday, and its a real feast. I started off in Nomadic community garden, where a Woskerski welcomes you.

On the subject of whooping with delight, I was at it again today. This had a personal resonance after my near fatal computer issues of last week mentioned up thread. Its almost like a sympathetic street artist heard my cries of woe, or was also having issues with broken Windows.

These are also on the same big wall at the end of the Nomadic community garden. This by Jim Vision.

Another glass/crystal skull by Fanakapan.

The garden also this mountain scene which is rather good

And some tarot cards.

Outside I think this is Michael Gove, or David Icke has started doing royal portraits.

I found another painted bin.

And on the side of Kinkao in Brick Lane, Dan Kitchener has painted over his own piece from page 35. Similar Japanese scenes to his usual work, but this is the first one I've seen him do in monochrome.

And this is new by the Nomad Clan whose work I photographed in Bristol, and @growingvegetables papped in Leeds.

And this made me laugh and reminded me of all those internet warriors out there arguing away on internet forums.......

 

[Randomnerd]

Far and away the tastiest thread on the forum for me: just looked in after a couple of weeks. We’re sitting round the tablet, gorging on fab urban art in our little cottage in the sticks. Thanks again @booze and cake for all your efforts in curating this fascinating gallery.

 

[booze and cake]

Ah thank you kind sir @woodenspoons, I've been called some things in my time, but 'curator of a fascinating gallery' is good enough to go on my CV.
Here's one from Pedley St

And these two are both on Great Eastern St. First up a Nerone, who also did the flowery shipping container in Penge from a few pages back., this one with added neon effect.

And this next one I hung around for 10 mins or so in the hope I'd capture some outraged nuns walking past doing frantic Hail Mary's, or I'd catch some white van man rubber necking and bumping into the car in front, but no such luck.

 

[booze and cake]

Cross St Islington

Shoreditch

A Carleen de Sozer off Brick Lane....

...who also did this of some of London's grime music stars in Camden

And these two are back over in Hackney

This is a Jerome Davenport/keytones 6000

 

[swee'pea99]

I must have cycled past this hundreds of times over the last 20 years, but it took my missus to point it out to me as we walked past it this morning. Apparently 'the stone man' is well known to everyone in the area. Apart from me...

 

[booze and cake]

Sideshow Bob!.....or someone with underpants on their head? Seriously though, that's good, where is that @swee'pea99? Somewhere along Parkland Walk?

Your stone man reminds me to post the following 'regular' art works that have caught my eye recently. First up this in Spitalfields.

And this is on Threadneedle Walk and is called 'city wing' by Christopher Le Brun.

And this one from Leake St took me back a few decades.

It obviously references the Edward Lear poem 'the owl and the pussycat', which I've not heard for years. I could only remember the first verse, which was the perfect cue to look it up for a refresher. In full here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43188/the-owl-and-the-pussy-cat
According to wiki 'runcible' is one of Lear's made up 'nonsense' words, he used it in other works but never defined it himself, though that's not stopped people guessing. I do like you can be credited for a word nobody knows the meaning of.........

...................................we're a funny bunch.
I was also intrigued as to what type of tree a bong tree is as I've never heard of it. It is not as this initial google search suggested, a tree shaped like a bong. http://rebrn.com/re/this-tree-looks-like-a-bong-2615360/.
Nothaphoebe umbelliflora is its proper name, and its an evergreen tropical tree from Asia in the laurel family apparently. Lifelong learning