graffiti and street art from brick lane and other parts of planet earth
Urban snaps of street art. Production shots and other bits and pieces we are putting together for a documentary on street art. Drop me a line at blimey(at)gmx.es
"Graffiti is Vandalism" - Grimbsy Street buffing begins 1 February
Grimbsy Street, off Brick Lane, is closed for car parking in preparation for Tower Hamlet Council's clean up operations of the graffiti on that street (1-3 February). So here are a few snaps to remind you what the place looked like. Click the pics to enlarge. There's a lovely piece of work by Stik on a building. Presumably that will survive given that it is on private property. You can see it in an earlier post here.
Here is a part of the council's statement on Graffiti - a touch authoritarian and uninformed even. Graffiti is vandalism – pure and simple and its real impacts on a community are considerable. Graffiti across London cost £100 million to remove in 2002. The current cost of removal to Tower Hamlets is upwards of £400,000 per year. Graffiti can reduce property values and depress economic development. It may even be used to disguise directions to the locations of drug sellers. Graffiti is a blight on our community and can lead to the “run down” feel to an area and to an increased fear of crime. Graffiti vandals commit criminal damage on all sorts of surfaces and at many locations. Graffiti vandalism is done by marker pen, aerosol paint, mechanical or acid etching. Sales of aerosol paints to under 16s are illegal. Graffiti vandals can be and will be prosecuted wherever possible.
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Snug One and the problem of labeling artwork with your web address
Check the top left corner. The artist here has conveniently provided a link to what is hopefully their web portfolio. However if you happen to forget to renew your domain or let it lapse, some dodgy company will get hold of it and stick a huge number of links on it. Snug One seems to have let his domain go. Some web outfit bought it up and is linking to baby shower gifts and baby products. Could be worse? LOL. This one is near Village Underground, Shoreditch.
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Chinook Chandelier and Duck by Static
Near Brick Lane. Static's duck (?) and Chinook chandelier on polystyrene?
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Shutters of Molly Sugden Hairdressing - Demetri Nezis and Eine
Tribute to the iconic Mollie Sugden by Demetri Nezis and Eine.
Hutch pasteups and stencil
The jetpack one is on the hoardings outside Brick Lane mosque. The can girl is also on Brick Lane. See closeup of the girl here. The nuclear dish is off Bethnal Green Road.
Metropolitan police using Banksy style graphics for PR?
Hello, hello, hello, what is going on here then? Read explanation below.
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The police have long been at the receiving end of Banksy's work. Are they finally getting their own back by using his style in their PR? Is it a case of if you can't beat them join them? Or is it just James Cauty trying to sell his 2010 calendar? It is indeed the latter. Seems a clever use of the current artistic landscape and continues Jimmi's political/satirical/irreverent look at aspects of UK life. Jimmi's web site is a parody too of hopeless designs/web designs employed by SMEs in this country.
"Pacifying dangerous present" and "Ice Cream!"
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Am I trendy sticker by Ian Stevenson
Ian Stevenson's "Am I trendy?" sticker beneath a poster of a decidedly less trendy organisation "islam4uk" - an outfit banned yesterday by the home secretary Alan Johnson. No wait, I got that wrong. Radical islam is quite trendy these days thanks to er...Alan Johnson's government...?
Ian's twitter site is here. His web site ( previous link) is really worth a visit.
Giant faces by Oliver Winconek
Businesses all over Shoreditch can't get enough of street art. Here is
another commission example by Peach Properties on Bethnal Green Road. Click to enlarge.
Stop War - interruped work
Nathan Bowen tells me he was stopped by the coppers. They talked about
an 80 quid fine....
Old Street.
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