http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Graffiti in west Edinburgh en Thu, 21 May 2026 14:32:22 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874&page=2#post-275536 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:24:49 +0000 Stickman 275536@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's taken a bit longer than expected but the new flood walls at Roseburn are starting to get graffiti. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-275533 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:00:58 +0000 threefromleith 275533@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>(Off topic - but just to prove that the EEN is on another 'have a pop at cyclists' crusade, today Helen Martin has written a piece having a go at unlit cyclists after the recent letter criticising cyclists on the Meadows with bright lights.</p> <p>That's the same Helen Martin who wrote a piece last year blaming a cyclist and having a right go at cycling after happily writing about how she <strong>stepped into a road without looking</strong> and was hit by said cyclist.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-275447 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:55:04 +0000 threefromleith 275447@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Murun It's subliminal as it looks like they're on another crusade to stir up their raging anti-cycling commenters at the moment. </p> <p>Note also the placement of the 'Highway Robbery Parking Charges' story right next to the 'Cycling to get 10% of the Edinburgh Transport Budget' story.</p> <p>Call me cynical, but the Chipwrapper has form ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-275432 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:02:05 +0000 neddie 275432@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>cops-seek-help-from-pupils</em></p> <p>-&gt; Sounds like the police are chasing the wrong demographic </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-275430 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:45:09 +0000 dougal 275430@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Murun That's clearly a bus. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-275428 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:30:44 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 275428@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/portobello/cops-seek-help-from-pupils-over-explosion-of-portobello-graffiti-1-4691510" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/portobello/cops-seek-help-from-pupils-over-explosion-of-portobello-graffiti-1-4691510</a></p> <p>Not sure why they gratuitously chose a photo with a cyclist in it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274888 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:59:58 +0000 gembo 274888@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats, same artist that has engraved the rocks, one is a millstone, another is a train etc on the WoL path </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274887 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:55:19 +0000 I were right about that saddle 274887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not mine, Frenchy. There's a tree by the river in Balerno got pruned and someone did a different smiley on each freshly exposed cross-section. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274876 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:09:38 +0000 Frenchy 274876@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I do have a graffiti project in mind, but it is tiny and intricate. </em></p> <p>This wasn't your handiwork was it?</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/Kh2xnB"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4667/28404705609_0749b310ae.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/Kh2xnB">IMG_20170819_193439</a></p> <p>Not sure if that'll be clear; on the Drum estate road, someone's drawn in wee doors where the trees' bark is missing (is there a word for these bits?). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274873 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:28:49 +0000 unhurt 274873@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Graffiti for ants?</p> <p>Eta on reflection that would have to be scent / hormone graffiti. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274872 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:27:16 +0000 unhurt 274872@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Google as an investigative tool: I would like to assume they use it, and yet... </p> <p>But in any case, maybe use gembo instead? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274870 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:08:49 +0000 I were right about that saddle 274870@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I fear even the much-maligned Police Scotland could track down the author of a spate of IWRATS taggings.</p> <p>I do have a graffiti project in mind, but it is tiny and intricate. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274869 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 11:23:37 +0000 unhurt 274869@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Band name not technically a lyric. Is this a tacit admission?</p> <p>Eta: IWRATS might make a good "tag" you know... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274868 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 11:19:03 +0000 I were right about that saddle 274868@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>I fear I shall go to my grave having never spray-painted Velvet Underground lyrics onto a Jewson Warehouse. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274860 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 09:36:08 +0000 gembo 274860@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats, one night on the way to Leslie's bar did you lose your place whilst spray painting the velvet underground on a red brick wall? I first drank in Leslie's when I was still only vegetarian. Of course Guinness then was not vegetarian but now it is vegan. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274859 Sat, 10 Feb 2018 00:30:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 274859@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>The bricks of the jewson warehouse on the way to Leslie's Bar</em></p> <p>I've been drinking in Leslies since before @gembo was vegan. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274842 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:08:58 +0000 gembo 274842@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@dougal, I fear I may know the young vegan who has written her essay on the hoardings. We met at a wine tasting. Ok she may have been pissed but her explanation of her family and then veganism went on a bit and ended with tears. (I was vegan from 1989-1994 when it was harder, not that hard in Edinburgh but when in Glasgow then it was harder, I grew my own soya milk cultures and they were rank).</p> <p>The bricks of the jewson warehouse on the way to Leslie's Bar had this sprayed on it (as CHDot can confirm)</p> <p>The Velvet Undererground. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274836 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:47:08 +0000 Diarmid 274836@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My favourite whilst a student during Reagan's term was "Lee Harvey Oswald where are you now when your country needs you" - still apt! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274827 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 16:50:05 +0000 I were right about that saddle 274827@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Speaking of nineties graffiti for a long time the fence <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9466059,-3.1878532,3a,75y,65.54h,100.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7-AsBQnx7SnW58Lla96hJw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656">round this site </a>sported a favourite of mine;<br /> <strong><br /> So. That's it then....</strong> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274825 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 16:43:37 +0000 dessert rat 274825@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>a longtime favourite of mine outside the Waitrose at the end of Falcon Avenue in Morningside.</p> <p><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4613/28389298959_97de93fd7c_z.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274824 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 16:42:35 +0000 dougal 274824@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I enjoy the impassioned promotion of veganism outside the bus stop at the top of Dalry Road just opposite Ryries. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-274822 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 16:36:26 +0000 unhurt 274822@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From a graffiti conversation of Facebook (re: slowly fading chalk outside Stockbridge Library that reads <em>MONEY IS THE MEASURE OF ALIENATION</em>).</p> <p>A friend reminisces about crossing North Bridge on the number 31 bus in (I think) the early 90s and seeing that someone had chalked on the balustrade walls a perfectly spelled call for <em>SOLIDARITY WITH THE ARGENTINIAN PROLETARIAT</em>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-210130 Fri, 29 Jan 2016 14:10:38 +0000 neddie 210130@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The graffiti on the Pinkhill Station bridge has been power-washed off the brickwork. I wonder if the giant TEL on the iron parapet that appeared during Christmas will be next? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-207790 Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:01:52 +0000 threefromleith 207790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>'BUS' always seems to sprayed nearby or alongside 'TEL'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-207715 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:31:23 +0000 cb 207715@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From the <a href="http://www.murrayfieldcc.org.uk/inc/retrieve_file.php?id=216">Murrayfield CC minutes</a> posted on the Roseburn to Leith thread:</p> <p>"[PC Payne] mentioned the spread in the West End of graffiti bearing the tags “TEL” and “E2” and requested that anyone who knows who the perpetrators are contact PC Davison or PC Sinclair." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-207678 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 11:59:42 +0000 kaputnik 207678@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>USOH and CHES are two particularly talentless little tagging werps who keep themselves occupied round our way.</p> <p>Some of the work on the exterior wooden panelling of the old Meadowbank Velodrome is an altogether different level of skill and artistic merit.</p> <p>I also noticed yesterday someone had thoughtfully and tasefully stencil sprayed a black Big Ben tower outline on one of the London Road signs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-207508 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 15:17:36 +0000 gembo 207508@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not as good as the line from the leiber and stoller song Next which Alex Harvey used to sing every New Year's Eve on the old grey whistle test. With the mannequins playing the violins.</p> <p>I swear on the wet head of my first case of gonorrhoea<br /> It is his ugly voice that I forever fear </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-207507 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 14:43:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 207507@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've often wondered if it would be possible to crowdsource a short story entirely from sentences found on CCE. That's the opening line sorted, certainly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-207505 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 14:35:46 +0000 gembo 207505@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I see an elephant's head wearing a bunnet with very jaggy ears </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15874#post-207502 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 14:14:33 +0000 I were right about that saddle 207502@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sometimes graffiti can be things of beauty. This is my favourite. No one else seems to appreciate it, but I think it's worth ten times Paolozzi's entire oeuvre.</p> <p><img src="http://cdn.ipernity.com/200/97/88/40149788.6aef0587.240.jpg?r2"> </p>