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Face Paint

Face Paint

Yarnstorming

How did they do that?

Answer = 1 high rise building, 1 computer, 1 projected image via the computer, 1 cherry picker, lots of paint + an assortment of graffiti artists.

Serendipity Rules!

I’m happy to show you more of the Nelson Street graffiti from this summer’s international street art festival this week.

What pleased me about this image when I got home were the 2 figures seen at the side as well as the art itself and the building’s design. Serendipity rules!

See No Evil

See No Evil was the title of this year’s Street Art festival in Bristol.

Accommodation Designed For You

Over the summer Bristol held an international street art festival. The results are still very much on display and have transformed one of the ‘transition’ areas of the city centre. Bridewell Street, Quay Street and Nelson Street lie in between Broadmead and The Centre areas. These streets were pretty much razed to the ground by WWII bombing and replaced with 1960s brutalist architecture. It’s a seedy, uneasy kind of place – ideal for a spot of transformation. In the city which gave us Banksy*, it’s appropriate to showcase other internationally acclaimed street artists in style.

I spent a happy hour photographing the art and the people passing by last Friday. It was a typically dull November day, so camera shutter speeds were slow. However, the blurred people in my photographs seemed to emphasise the uneasy, transitional feel this area of Bristol has.

Tats Cru hail from New York.

I’ve shown examples of Street Art from Bristol before – have a look at the Graffiti label if you’d like to see them. Expect plenty more jaw dropping images and some surprise discoveries to come

And if anyone knows what was being filmed at the old police station last week, I’d love to know.

* = ironically since this festival, one of Banksy’s originals on Park Row (the aiming rifleman with the boy behind him ready to burst a paper bag – the link takes you through to my other blog where it’s the 2nd photo down) has been pretty much obliterated (this link shows it today with an interesting comment on the situation). I wonder how long these will last?

Portrait of the Artist?

American Beauty

Club Tropicana

The Tropicana pool complex in Weston super Mare has lain derelict for years and is currently housing all kinds of building materials whilst the rest of the seafront is undergoing major works.

Sadly it’s probably going to be at least another year before something happens with this facility. At least someone has had the sense to do something with the scruffy walls in the meantime and allowed local graffiti artists to showcase their work.