If the little **** "Tel" is ever caught then I hope his stupid tag gets branded onto his forehead with hot irons. I believe this punishment would be allowed under the IWRATS judicial system.
That is all.
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Graffiti in west Edinburgh
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Posted 8 years ago #
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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.
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I see an elephant's head wearing a bunnet with very jaggy ears
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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.
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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.
I swear on the wet head of my first case of gonorrhoea
It is his ugly voice that I forever fearPosted 8 years ago # -
USOH and CHES are two particularly talentless little tagging werps who keep themselves occupied round our way.
Some of the work on the exterior wooden panelling of the old Meadowbank Velodrome is an altogether different level of skill and artistic merit.
I also noticed yesterday someone had thoughtfully and tasefully stencil sprayed a black Big Ben tower outline on one of the London Road signs.
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From the Murrayfield CC minutes posted on the Roseburn to Leith thread:
"[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."
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'BUS' always seems to sprayed nearby or alongside 'TEL'.
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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?
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From a graffiti conversation of Facebook (re: slowly fading chalk outside Stockbridge Library that reads MONEY IS THE MEASURE OF ALIENATION).
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 SOLIDARITY WITH THE ARGENTINIAN PROLETARIAT.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I enjoy the impassioned promotion of veganism outside the bus stop at the top of Dalry Road just opposite Ryries.
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a longtime favourite of mine outside the Waitrose at the end of Falcon Avenue in Morningside.
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Speaking of nineties graffiti for a long time the fence round this site sported a favourite of mine;
So. That's it then....Posted 6 years ago # -
My favourite whilst a student during Reagan's term was "Lee Harvey Oswald where are you now when your country needs you" - still apt!
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@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).
The bricks of the jewson warehouse on the way to Leslie's Bar had this sprayed on it (as CHDot can confirm)
The Velvet Undererground.
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The bricks of the jewson warehouse on the way to Leslie's Bar
I've been drinking in Leslies since before @gembo was vegan.
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@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.
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@gembo
I fear I shall go to my grave having never spray-painted Velvet Underground lyrics onto a Jewson Warehouse.
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Band name not technically a lyric. Is this a tacit admission?
Eta: IWRATS might make a good "tag" you know...
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I fear even the much-maligned Police Scotland could track down the author of a spate of IWRATS taggings.
I do have a graffiti project in mind, but it is tiny and intricate.
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Google as an investigative tool: I would like to assume they use it, and yet...
But in any case, maybe use gembo instead?
Posted 6 years ago # -
Graffiti for ants?
Eta on reflection that would have to be scent / hormone graffiti.
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I do have a graffiti project in mind, but it is tiny and intricate.
This wasn't your handiwork was it?
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?).
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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.
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@iwrats, same artist that has engraved the rocks, one is a millstone, another is a train etc on the WoL path
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Not sure why they gratuitously chose a photo with a cyclist in it...
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@Murun That's clearly a bus.
Posted 6 years ago # -
cops-seek-help-from-pupils
-> Sounds like the police are chasing the wrong demographic
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@Murun It's subliminal as it looks like they're on another crusade to stir up their raging anti-cycling commenters at the moment.
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.
Call me cynical, but the Chipwrapper has form ;-)
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(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.
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 stepped into a road without looking and was hit by said cyclist.)
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