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Char Aina

13:56 / 17.09.05

the spartacus graffiti is great...
is it the one by mono? or has it spread?

Poke it with a stick

14:05 / 17.09.05

Yeah, the one by Mono, that's it precisely.

Most of the stuff I've seen and liked recently has been by Rogue One, whoever they may be.

Lots of good stuff around town, anyway.

Char Aina

14:40 / 17.09.05

rogue one is one guy.
i used to skate with him.
he used to write rogue, and has been known to writ rog with an accent above the o. like in french.
he has had other names, but i dont know how secret they are meant to be.

his shit is wicked, but he was saying the other night he keeps getting shit off all the little 'keepin it real' kids i used to laugh at when i was an 'ah, shut up ya fanny' kid.

did you see his pice in ashton lane?that was my favourite, coming in only slihtly ahead of the children opposit the sainsbury's in woodlands and the three garage doors up by bothwell square.

you shoulda seen some of his non-stencil stuff from a few years ago. photorealistic from a distance, and full of cool ideas.

Poke it with a stick

21:58 / 17.09.05

I love the piece he's done on the wooden fence just by Kelvinbridge, but haven't seen any of his non-stencil stuff.

Char Aina

22:08 / 17.09.05

i think all the nonstencil stuff is long gone by now.
which fence are you talking about?

Jack Vincennes

22:39 / 17.09.05

Is the one on Ashton Lane still there (I assume we're talking about the stompy robot here)? I liked that one, it cheered me up on my way into Uni. Cheers for the link as well Cpt. Jack...

Char Aina

00:07 / 18.09.05

yeah.
it was an AT-AT walker from star wars, with spray paint line whipping round it representing the harpoon line from the 'rogue one' squadron snowspeeders.

the first time i saw it i like, totally geeked out!

mondo a-go-go

14:12 / 20.09.05

Neckface is becoming quite an established artist. I think the "Ripper" imagery is from Neckface's recent trip to London that coincided with an exhibition (which I missed). There's tons and tons of Neckface stuff all over New York, though. (just google)

Shrug

16:34 / 24.11.05

Love is Dead shakily carved into the toilet door of The George (Dublin).

Cowboy Scientist

04:21 / 29.11.05

The two latest grafittis I've read:
-"Money doesn't bring happiness, but it is the best way of being unhappy"

"more masturbation = less population"

diz

04:42 / 29.11.05

All over a rather impoverished part of Lutcher, Louisiana:

R.I.P. BIG JUICE

We are afraid we will never know Big Juice's story.

07:21 / 29.11.05

On the boards protecting the building site for a brand spanking new Sainsburys:

I CARNT WAIT TO ROB THIS STORE

The original time of opening has now been moved back by two weeks, and they've repainted theboards and put up new posters, saying 'It'll be worth the wait!' And a large part of me wants to add '...TO ROB THIS STORE'.

Shrug

19:05 / 14.04.07

Curious <3/Brane amalgam... coupled with pi, perhaps?

The Gents: The Globe: George's Street: Dublin.

Oscar Wilde... as I enjoyed an autumn day.

Outside the Grove Pub: Portobello: Dublin.

Shrug

15:17 / 15.04.07

As regards the Oscar piece, I just saw another near the Irish-Jewish Museum (near my house). I had been told before, but doubted, that they were tags welcoming newly arrived gay-couples to the area. If it were true, however, given the gay contingent where I live the place'd likely be covered with the things. Nice thought though. Also nice to see Oscar return into the top fify baby names after its little exile.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

21:48 / 15.04.07

I spotted my favourite in Walthamstow, around 2001:

'Here I woz, sticking my dick in pussies".

What I love about it is the tone of world-weary resignation, as though the author had things he'd far rather be doing, but there were vaginas to be penetrated, and hell, if he wasn't going to do it, nobody else was.

I also quite like the following, which I spotted in an Amsterdam toilet last night:

"Mahmoud was here" with the word "gay" insterted between "was" and "here" by another hand.

As a philosophical statement on the question of whether sexuality is defined by acts, or whether it inheres, it could barely be more succinct.

Corey Waits

23:38 / 15.04.07

There's two pieces of graffiti in the Brisbane area that I really like.

The first one is commissioned art, and has been there for YEARS. It's part of a large mural - APOCALYPSE NOW - AVOID THE RUSH.

I've always loved that one.

The other one was on the side of a building that I suppose used to be a YMCA or something (it was very warehousey, so I doubt it used to be a church). It said "JESUS IS YOUR FIEND" - having been changed from 'Jesus is your friend'.

Great stuff...

van dyke

23:46 / 15.04.07

In the days when R.D Laing regarded mothers as being responsible for a lot of the ills of society, someone had written on the wall of a toilet, ‘My mother made me a homosexual!’ To which someone had later added, ‘Do you think she would make me one, if I got her the wool?’

Janean Patience

09:31 / 16.04.07

There's no interesting graffiti where I live, except for a nicely done stencil of an astronaut on a concrete underpass and, of interest only to 2000AD obsessives, CHOPPER and THE PHANTOM on opposite walls of the next underpass down.

The most memorable I ever saw? Brighton again, I'm afraid. In a cubicle in the University of Sussex library toilets down in the basement, probably circa 1995:

'I have a bubble car'

All Acting Regiment

10:21 / 16.04.07

If not now, when?

Interesting literacy there. Also liked Why? which may have appeared above...I think the perfect grafitti has to be meaningful without being pompous.

Janean Patience

07:58 / 05.05.07

Seen in a car park yesterday:

HIGH VOLTAGE changed, with the addition of a T and two Ss, to THIGHS VOLTAGES.

It's graffiti, lads. It's not fucking Scrabble. You don't get any points for that.

Corey Waits

04:59 / 08.05.07

Alphabet of Brooke Shield.

Any of you UK Barbeloids seen it in the wild?

nixwilliams

06:02 / 08.05.07

On the side of a bridge near my house, someone wrote in permanent marker: ERNE WOULD LIKE

A few months later, someone else added: TO BE HERE, IF ONLY FOR A MINUTE

It's visible, but quite small.

Janean Patience

06:57 / 08.05.07

Alphabet of Brooke Shields: saw it on Tower Bridge in London, on a low pillar approaching I think the north side of the river.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

14:47 / 08.05.07

from a wall inside a hostel in South Africa - "When you shag, the world shags with you; when you wank, you wank alone." Maybe that's well known but it's the first I heard it.

bathroom wall in Boston (?) - "Life's a bitch - but she's MY bitch."

giant billboard in Syracuse was set up reading "graffiti is a crime!" and very quickly someone hit it to read "graffiti is a FUN crime!"

I'm trying to remember the name I've seen around my neighborhood in Brooklyn and failing, sadly.

Happy Dave Has Left

15:12 / 08.05.07

Here's a few pictures what I took of graffiti round about London. Particularly poignant is the one painted in ragged blue on a windowsill near Notting Hill Gate:

"I loved you."

That's a novel in a sentence that.

Proinsias

16:32 / 08.05.07

now features a 'no I am'.

Leigh Monster loses its cool

20:46 / 09.05.07

"Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea." lovely.

Gendudehashadenough

23:25 / 09.05.07

the letter "p" written in a cursive script with the forming line for the next letter curled and designed like a shell.

And apparently my readings of Huck Finn have served me well, as I'm going to have to respond to this...being my calling, et al.

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kevin!!!!!!!?
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jamesPD

12:36 / 13.03.08

Not really graffiti, but it made me giggle..