graffiti

remember this squiggle ?

well another one has turned up next to it:

to me this represents a massive rain cloud dropping rain on the earth. but i could be wrong.

here’s a piece of paper with some writing on it. i thought it was referring to Jags at a little chef, but i don’t think it is.

what’s this ? andy thinks it could be a wombat. but who’s andy ?

writing in dirt has been popular since jesus’ day (He was a dirt writer, though i suspect he wasn’t writing ‘clean me’ on the floor).
Here is a variation. It says ‘lovely ladies’ which is nice. with the photo shrunkened down it looks a bit like ‘lovely lanes’ which is even nicer to have written on the back of a truck.

i love chalk graffiti as it’s so temporary. here is a lovely little alien next to the pub opposite my office.
when i took the photo a baker delivering bread said to me “i’m not a real baker, i’m just the driver”, so i said “why are you wearing a bakers hat then matey?” and he couldn’t answer
actually that didn’t happen. he said “that’s not very artistic”. and i said “maybe, but it’s good enough for me”.
because it was and still is.
and it is artistic because of the choice of subject (alien), its style (minimilist) and the choice of media (chalk on pavement by pub)

if you’ve been reading the blog for a long time you may remember this graffiteeed dog poo bin which i drew to your attention.
it caught my eye again today because it was full of dog poo sacks. there had been some unwritten agreement to dangle the handles of the bags out of the lid. it gave the impression that there was a colleciton of octopuses (octopies) in there trying to climb out.

for over a year now there has been some writing on the floor near my office which says, in massive letters, ‘elvis’. i didn’t even bother taking a photo of it as it was part of the general background of london life.
however, someone has coloured it in black in an attempt to remove it. this is a shame

profound chalk graffiti off Brick Lane

some nice graffiti here. done in whiteboard marker so it can be rubbed off easily (as has partically happened here).
the artist has written “I am free” and then obviously run away to prove it. free from what you ask. Free to do what he wants, without being hassled by the man. obviously.

New Ed Sings. We listened but didn’t hear

New Edge. Which i think is a musical style in our village

seen on the way in to Paddington Station (I’ll try and get a photo of this):
BIG UP THE DAILY MIRROR (EXCEPT ON CERTAIN ISSUES)

professional graffiti. water co. aware.
imagine that as your job. graffiti stencil and spray paints

there is a habit in london of bricking up doorways with breeze blocks.
and then doing some nice big graffiti over it (thus ruining the nice
breeze block patter – but there you go – you can’t have art without
destroying art I always say)
here is an example featuring an alien:

you can’t quite see on the small version, but someone has drawn a
little eye and nose, and converted the mouth to a moustache:

graffiti: description of contents

graffiti on the streets of london stating the kinds of things a quality control officer in a hosiery factory might say