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Richard A Thackeray
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Not certain if I've included this previously??
(taken Feb 2019)
View: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216731001979702&set=a.10215988756624032&type=3&theater
(taken Feb 2019)
View: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216731001979702&set=a.10215988756624032&type=3&theater
OP
OP
booze and cake
probably out cycling
Wet and windy in London today, catching out those inappropriately dressed.
Flash flooding closed a few London stations earlier this week
This next one is an advert for Oxfam, but they are not posters as may appear, but were drawn by artists over the course of a few days this week, when it was not raining as much. And very good they are too.
And not far away hidden behind Old St
Rising sea levels already happening in Waterloo.
On the subject of rising tides, in the shadow of the famous MI6 building there's been a month long artwork called 'the rising tide', part of the month long 'Totally Thames' festival, its figures are placed so they appear at low tide and disappear at high tide:
https://totallythames.org/event/jason-decaires-taylor-rising-tide
And I also saw this excellent light installation from the Outer Hebrides which highlights the rising sea levels dramatically.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/03/lines-hebrides/
In a similar vein I came across this short film about some artwork in New Brunswick, Canada, that was also concealed and revealed by the changing tide in a harbour. Done by a Hawaiian and painted while he sat on a surfboard floating on the water.
The same artist, Sean Yoro, also featured recently in this Forbes article about him and his twin brother, raising awareness of climate change by doing similarly striking artworks in unexpected places, with some amazing efforts shown here on the side of some icebergs.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/coleha...th-vanishing-street-art-in-unexpected-places/
Flash flooding closed a few London stations earlier this week
This next one is an advert for Oxfam, but they are not posters as may appear, but were drawn by artists over the course of a few days this week, when it was not raining as much. And very good they are too.
And not far away hidden behind Old St
Rising sea levels already happening in Waterloo.
On the subject of rising tides, in the shadow of the famous MI6 building there's been a month long artwork called 'the rising tide', part of the month long 'Totally Thames' festival, its figures are placed so they appear at low tide and disappear at high tide:
https://totallythames.org/event/jason-decaires-taylor-rising-tide
And I also saw this excellent light installation from the Outer Hebrides which highlights the rising sea levels dramatically.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/03/lines-hebrides/
In a similar vein I came across this short film about some artwork in New Brunswick, Canada, that was also concealed and revealed by the changing tide in a harbour. Done by a Hawaiian and painted while he sat on a surfboard floating on the water.
The same artist, Sean Yoro, also featured recently in this Forbes article about him and his twin brother, raising awareness of climate change by doing similarly striking artworks in unexpected places, with some amazing efforts shown here on the side of some icebergs.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/coleha...th-vanishing-street-art-in-unexpected-places/
swee'pea99
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Friend's daughter just sent this from Montreal - son of the city:
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Reynard
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Toshiba Boy
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Probably don't need to say where this is from......
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I posted this recently in the Bojo thread but its not been posted here yet.
It is of course a homage to the iconic Shepard Fairey 'hope' poster of Obama. I did get a Shepard Fairey work in Turnpike Lane back on page 11, and put a link with some history on the poster, seen again here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-the-obama-hope-poster_b_133874?guccounter=1
I came across this in East London today.
Veracity, definition: conformity to facts, accuracy, habitual truthfulness.....are all totally alien concepts to our current PM.
Some more kitties, the one on the left looks like it was done by the same person who did the cats I posted yesterday. And the one on the right I recognise the style as by Fanakapan.
And as someone who cannot stand pineapple, this is a campaign that has until now completely passed my by, but has my full support
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It is of course a homage to the iconic Shepard Fairey 'hope' poster of Obama. I did get a Shepard Fairey work in Turnpike Lane back on page 11, and put a link with some history on the poster, seen again here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-the-obama-hope-poster_b_133874?guccounter=1
I came across this in East London today.
Veracity, definition: conformity to facts, accuracy, habitual truthfulness.....are all totally alien concepts to our current PM.
Some more kitties, the one on the left looks like it was done by the same person who did the cats I posted yesterday. And the one on the right I recognise the style as by Fanakapan.
And as someone who cannot stand pineapple, this is a campaign that has until now completely passed my by, but has my full support
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Reynard
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Apart from the pineapple - on which we will simply have to agree to disagree, I love those.
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Abstract art/Ikea shelving
Hmmm I'm guessing this is by the same person that did the 'veracity' above, the font is the same and the backing letters on this one say veracidade, which is veracity in Portuguese. I've just discovered Veracidade the artist, AKA Mauro is from Brazil, which explains that.
This is new
And for all the old ravers out there, hands in the air, glow sticks at the ready, this next ones for you, and goes back to 1992.
Cast your mind back, John Major was Prime Minister. In Feb of 92 the Maastricht Treaty was signed which founded the European Union. In March its announced Fergie and 'randy Andy' are to separate after 6 years of marriage. In April 3 people are killed and 91 injured in an IRA bomb at the Baltic Exchange in London's financial district.The badly damaged site was demolished and in its place now stands Norman Foster's famous Gherkin building. In September 'Black Wednesday' sees the economy tank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday. George Soros is said to have made over 1 billion pounds during the episode. 27 years on and these names are still in the news, the news is different but strangely the same.
Some things have changed. In May 1992 over 25,000 people descended on a sleepy part of the Malvern Hills for what turned into the UK's biggest illegal rave, located at Castle Morton Common it went on for a week and caused media outrage. In August over 15,000 turned up for the World Dance Festival at Lydd airport hanger in Kent for another such event.
Its amazing to think now how with no internet or mobiles, thousands of people to turned up to a rave in a location that was kept secret until the last possible minute. People circled the M25 waiting for news of a location. Promoters used BT voicebank system, a kind of voicemail where they left details of the location as late as they dare. People would phone a number from a phone box or landline to hear the recorded message. The plan was to get as many people there before the police, so they would be hugely outnumbered and have no choice but to let the rave go ahead, or risk provoking a riot.
The other way or promoting these big events, same as now, was the use of flyers. Here was the flyer from the World Dance Festival in 1992.
The high profile nature of the Castle Morton rave made the government look bad, the youth were out of control! Action had to be taken. And it was, as a direct result of these large illegal raves the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was introduced, which changed the game. Illegal parties still happen all the time, but not on the scale seen back in 1992. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-39960232
Someone in Stockwell clearly remembers these times with fondness, look what I saw today.
Hmmm I'm guessing this is by the same person that did the 'veracity' above, the font is the same and the backing letters on this one say veracidade, which is veracity in Portuguese. I've just discovered Veracidade the artist, AKA Mauro is from Brazil, which explains that.
This is new
And for all the old ravers out there, hands in the air, glow sticks at the ready, this next ones for you, and goes back to 1992.
Cast your mind back, John Major was Prime Minister. In Feb of 92 the Maastricht Treaty was signed which founded the European Union. In March its announced Fergie and 'randy Andy' are to separate after 6 years of marriage. In April 3 people are killed and 91 injured in an IRA bomb at the Baltic Exchange in London's financial district.The badly damaged site was demolished and in its place now stands Norman Foster's famous Gherkin building. In September 'Black Wednesday' sees the economy tank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday. George Soros is said to have made over 1 billion pounds during the episode. 27 years on and these names are still in the news, the news is different but strangely the same.
Some things have changed. In May 1992 over 25,000 people descended on a sleepy part of the Malvern Hills for what turned into the UK's biggest illegal rave, located at Castle Morton Common it went on for a week and caused media outrage. In August over 15,000 turned up for the World Dance Festival at Lydd airport hanger in Kent for another such event.
Its amazing to think now how with no internet or mobiles, thousands of people to turned up to a rave in a location that was kept secret until the last possible minute. People circled the M25 waiting for news of a location. Promoters used BT voicebank system, a kind of voicemail where they left details of the location as late as they dare. People would phone a number from a phone box or landline to hear the recorded message. The plan was to get as many people there before the police, so they would be hugely outnumbered and have no choice but to let the rave go ahead, or risk provoking a riot.
The other way or promoting these big events, same as now, was the use of flyers. Here was the flyer from the World Dance Festival in 1992.
The high profile nature of the Castle Morton rave made the government look bad, the youth were out of control! Action had to be taken. And it was, as a direct result of these large illegal raves the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act was introduced, which changed the game. Illegal parties still happen all the time, but not on the scale seen back in 1992. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-39960232
Someone in Stockwell clearly remembers these times with fondness, look what I saw today.
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I assume this was done in response to the constant stream of mass murderers in the gun toting USA, Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver. You looking at me?
And bringing a bit more colour to proceedings we have this lot.
And bringing a bit more colour to proceedings we have this lot.
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booze and cake
probably out cycling
I mentioned Shepard Fairey as the influence for that Boris poster I posted above. He's done loads of things including design a bike for disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong, (its gross) which can be seen along with the only piece of Shepard's street art I've recorded in London, from back on page 11. Seen again here: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/street-art.221565/post-4932549
It turns out USA based Fairey has been over in London for an exhibition to mark the 30th anniversary of his sticker campaign 'Andre the Giant has a posse'. http://peopleshistoryarchive.org/content/andre-giant-has-posse
That campaign evolved into the 'Obey' poster which became a viral phenomenon. Fairey also created the Obey clothing company to further spread his ideas. The clothing brand is known for its politically and socially provocative propaganda, which Shepard describes as manufacturing dissent.
Fairey was inspired to start the Obey campaign after watching the 1988 John Carpenter film 'They Live', staring ex pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper. The film was slated at the time but went on to gain cult status. The film is a sci-fi Orwelian nightmare, our ex-wrestling leading man is a drifter who discovers the ruling classes are aliens who conceal their appearance and manipulate the population by subliminal messages in the mass media. The word obey is used repeatedly in the movie to control people. Fairey was particularly interested in the movie's message about the power of commercialism and how people are manipulated by advertising.
In addition to his exhibition, Shepard has also done 3 new street art works across the East End and I've been out and bagged them. First up is an Obey poster in Hanbury St.
He's also covered a building on Whitby St, Shoreditch.
And finally a few miles away in Mare St in Hackney....
I'm up for some dissent, manufactured or otherwise, so thanks for the visit Shepard
Hopefully over the next few days I'll be back with some photographs of some local dissenting activists, courtesy of Extinction Rebellion..
It turns out USA based Fairey has been over in London for an exhibition to mark the 30th anniversary of his sticker campaign 'Andre the Giant has a posse'. http://peopleshistoryarchive.org/content/andre-giant-has-posse
That campaign evolved into the 'Obey' poster which became a viral phenomenon. Fairey also created the Obey clothing company to further spread his ideas. The clothing brand is known for its politically and socially provocative propaganda, which Shepard describes as manufacturing dissent.
Fairey was inspired to start the Obey campaign after watching the 1988 John Carpenter film 'They Live', staring ex pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper. The film was slated at the time but went on to gain cult status. The film is a sci-fi Orwelian nightmare, our ex-wrestling leading man is a drifter who discovers the ruling classes are aliens who conceal their appearance and manipulate the population by subliminal messages in the mass media. The word obey is used repeatedly in the movie to control people. Fairey was particularly interested in the movie's message about the power of commercialism and how people are manipulated by advertising.
In addition to his exhibition, Shepard has also done 3 new street art works across the East End and I've been out and bagged them. First up is an Obey poster in Hanbury St.
He's also covered a building on Whitby St, Shoreditch.
And finally a few miles away in Mare St in Hackney....
I'm up for some dissent, manufactured or otherwise, so thanks for the visit Shepard
Hopefully over the next few days I'll be back with some photographs of some local dissenting activists, courtesy of Extinction Rebellion.
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vickster
Legendary Member
This on the Beeb today
Your pictures on the theme of 'street art' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-49918450
Your pictures on the theme of 'street art' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-49918450
nickyboy
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