http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Graffiti in the Innocent Tunnel en Thu, 21 May 2026 09:50:24 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-37587 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:17:42 +0000 ruggtomcat 37587@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Best thing about Berlin is the graffiti... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-37527 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:51:03 +0000 chdot 37527@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If <em>only</em> he'd got the first four letters in the right order... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-37526 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:47:40 +0000 Its_Me_Knees 37526@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One of my favourite - and at the same time sad - bits of graffitti used to be on a bridge over the A1 heading north out of London. A clearly very dedicated football supporter had scaled the side of the bridge and shuffled across the length of it, high above the motorway, carefully spraying one letter from his beloved team's name into each panel of the bridge, rather in the way one might fill in a crossword puzzle. Once finished, he presumably headed off into the night, leaving the rest of the world to witness his handywork as dawn broke, and wonder who the hell 'Aresnal' were... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-37520 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:39:07 +0000 kaputnik 37520@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The graffiti-ists of the Innocent Tunnel have nothing on those of the Bypass Underpass at Loanhead;</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/6018233951/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/6018233951_35a9c884fa.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/6018231455/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6026/6018231455_0fe7a34895.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/6018777980/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6004/6018777980_a63b502905.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/6018774080/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6007/6018774080_a3dd014fa8.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/6018770406/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6008/6018770406_b27748fafe.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/6018767490/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6023/6018767490_7456dde0df.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-34349 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:56:58 +0000 kaputnik 34349@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We walked down on Friday afternoon on the way down to the docks to see the Red Arrows. There was a lot of "smash biomass" graffiti with a more anarcho-wanna-Banksie style under some of the bridges. I don't see how vandalising a walk and cycle route is a very appropriate form of protest. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-34348 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:54:20 +0000 Min 34348@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hehe. Pretty sure spray paint isn't though. Even if it is, you <br /> know, green.</p> <p>Some more graffiti has gone up in the Innocent tunnel after the <br /> last lot was washed off. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-34347 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:47:10 +0000 kaputnik 34347@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Again, not the Innocent tunnel. But relevant I think</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5877937132/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5188/5877937132_519d72ec65.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5877937132/">No it's not. It's dark blue</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kaputniq/">kaputniq</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-24519 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:31:02 +0000 kaputnik 24519@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not quite the innocent tunnel, but the A1 underpass that's meant to be the cycle route between Millerhill and Newcraighall.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5463011664/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5255/5463011664_679ddf4afc.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5462408579/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5212/5462408579_80b258a604.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5463007104/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5463007104_c7551caf65.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5463005568/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5095/5463005568_7e26663d24.jpg"></a></p> <p>And someone clearly took exception to the graffiti being sprayed over the graffiti!<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5462407159/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5091/5462407159_bf1354458e.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23180 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:36:36 +0000 seanspotatobusiness 23180@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I prefer the look of the natural, weathered stone. I think the graffiti spoils that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23179 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:49:32 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 23179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Used the graffiti, with my views on Modern Art, after going to the Modern Art Gallery at lunchtime, in a <a href="http://www.blipfoto.com/anth">Blipfoto rant</a> today. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23175 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:45:14 +0000 gembo 23175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm stoned sprayed on sandstone wall of a tunnel with Easter Island Tokin' dude. What's not to like?</p> <p>If heading down from Calder Road - Past the big flats at Sighthill you come to the sports fields and the hut has a classic dialogue on it. {the writing is in two colours but similar script? and the red writing of the woman is repeated on the other hut with 'her' signature Sinkie.]</p> <p>the man starts in white paint</p> <p>Pam, I'm sorry</p> <p>I love you</p> <p>Call me</p> <p>The woman [Pam] then comes in between the man's lines but in red paint</p> <p>We're finished </p> <p>get over it</p> <p>This is most definitely art. [possibly by {Pamela Sinclair and her ex?} </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23167 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:12:05 +0000 wee folding bike 23167@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I used to like two pieces in the Clyde tunnel.</p> <p>"Saddam Husain - Man or Moustache?"</p> <p>and </p> <p>"Free tights for men."</p> <p>A friend used the second one as a campaign slogan for his wife's council election campaign. He rode around on a cycle rickshaw with a loudhailer shouting it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23163 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:21:36 +0000 recombodna 23163@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sage words indeed!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23156 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:59:03 +0000 ruggtomcat 23156@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think the debate 'what is art' is even more problematic than H******s. And outside the scope of this forum. :P </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23153 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:48:52 +0000 recombodna 23153@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>''Just cause its shiny and well executed dosent make it art.'' i can't say either of those apply to this particular graffitti. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23147 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:26:30 +0000 recombodna 23147@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <br /> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23146 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:15:37 +0000 ruggtomcat 23146@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Do you indeed? Me too, used to live with Pickles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23144 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:09:26 +0000 recombodna 23144@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hey I know those tunneling muso's....:-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23143 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:59:38 +0000 splitshift 23143@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Have to agree with Arellcat its vandalism,graffiti artists are not held in high regard in my house !Just cause its shiny and well executed dosent make it art.The whole point about graffiti is now lost cause its all gone champagne and main stream. Youll be tellin me next that Tracyeminem is talented ! The whole "modern art" world is self massaging, money and old boy and girl networks.Only the artists thet the mainstream say are clever or good will ever be recognised. any members of my family are artists, who can paint and sculpt accurately and well. they also have "interpretations " that are a bit abstract but good old satchi and satchi arnt interested cause they are not down in that london swilling bolly talking s<br /> rubbish ! Oh and they arnt rich either, maybe thats got something to do with it !My very first painting at art school, entiteled still life, not A still life was of an astronaut on the moon,was failed cause I hadnt complied ! Now I drive lorries and like what I like !<br /> Ok sorry slight rant but all that guff gets me ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23138 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:55:21 +0000 ruggtomcat 23138@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I passed the responsible parties the other day, well I think so as there cant be two groups of teens stupid enough to be smoking very stinky hydro in a place with only two exits, both half a mile away...</p> <p>I like the graffiti tho, the space invaders have been there for at least 4 years, they are the remains of some UV painting done when they used to use the tunnel for raves.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qewxdg2NXHg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qewxdg2NXHg</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23137 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:50:11 +0000 Arellcat 23137@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't like it. It doesn't matter if it's all pretty colours and applied with skill: it's still vandalism. I want to see stonework stay in its proper condition and colour, unless a piece of artwork has been requisitioned officially.</p> <p>And Edinburgh's architecture has long been reliant on sandstone; I think it's extremely discourteous to deface a porous material with non-water based graffiti. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23127 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:15:46 +0000 kaputnik 23127@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Been a while since I saw someone actually wearing one.</em></p> <p>Someone had a big Che sticker on the seat tube of his carbon racer on ERC saturday run 2 weeks back. WEll his bike was red and white and black so at least it colour co-ordinated. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23126 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:06:24 +0000 Stepdoh 23126@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, if you want despot reggae, there's a classic about idi amin...</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6hLLsK4XUg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6hLLsK4XUg</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23124 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:51:10 +0000 SRD 23124@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well, its like the people who think reggae is cool and are into 'rastafarianism' without caring that Haile Selassie was an autocrat who destroyed cultures, lives, etc. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23122 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:46:35 +0000 Min 23122@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Yeah i'm sure those che guevara t-shirts were in the spirit of what he fought for.... "</p> <p>Been a while since I saw someone actually wearing one. I wish I could so that I can ask them to tell me all about Che. :-)</p> <p>I have noticed there is some quite good graffitti down there sometimes. I do like the Moai head, that's quite funny. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23119 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:29:31 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 23119@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah, you're right about the CCCP thing. I was listening to Excess Baggage on R4 at the weekend and there was a guy on talking about Moscow and there being 'Stalins' everywhere (as well as various Tsars) who take you on tours. Sounded utterly surreal. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23118 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:29:10 +0000 steveo 23118@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah i'm sure those che guevara t-shirts were in the spirit of what he fought for.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23115 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:20:12 +0000 kaputnik 23115@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It strikes me as odd that a hammer, sickle and "CCCP" (what's the betting the protagonist can tell us what those 4 letters stand for) is seen as somewhat acceptable as a sign of resistance/revolution/struggle/the left when the symbology of an equally abhorrent totalitatian regime is (rightly) not.</p> <p>It also seems perfectly acceptable in high-street fashion and you can even (oh the irony!) pay a lot of money to get Mao or Stalin's faces on a designer t-shirt.</p> <p>There was recent trend for Lenin-themed "vodka bars", but I can't see the Hitler-themed beer halls appearing any time soon...</p> <p>P.S. I like the ipod. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23114 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:10:15 +0000 wingpig 23114@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A few years back I saw the polices drive up the tunnel from the SE end, their target presumably the bloke at work with cans and stencils halfway down. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2187#post-23110 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:56:26 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 23110@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Has anyone else noticed th recent upsurge in graffiti in the tunnel? I actually like it, brightens things up (as long as it's good) - always have liked quality graffiti - was into Banksy long before he was famous innit. Last time I was in London I went seeking out primarily Banksy stuff, and also Space Invaders. Blek le Rat is superb.</p> <p>Stoned<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5414992037/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/5414992037_6903f68bd4.jpg"></a></p> <p>CCCP<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5414993451/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5134/5414993451_599256a353.jpg"></a></p> <p>iPod Choonz<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5414994807/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5133/5414994807_3c112d28f4.jpg"></a></p> <p>Brick by Brick (this would be great replicated all the way down!)<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5415606712/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/5415606712_82daf699a3.jpg"></a></p> <p>Lapin!<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5415608542/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5214/5415608542_26bc12b628.jpg"></a></p> <p>The Ganja Monkey<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5414999511/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5414999511_04ce094c6f.jpg"></a> </p>