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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.
Stoned
CCCP
iPod Choonz
Brick by Brick (this would be great replicated all the way down!)
Lapin!
The Ganja Monkey
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.
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.
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.
There was recent trend for Lenin-themed "vodka bars", but I can't see the Hitler-themed beer halls appearing any time soon...
P.S. I like the ipod.
Yeah i'm sure those che guevara t-shirts were in the spirit of what he fought for....
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.
"Yeah i'm sure those che guevara t-shirts were in the spirit of what he fought for.... "
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. :-)
I have noticed there is some quite good graffitti down there sometimes. I do like the Moai head, that's quite funny.
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.
Well, if you want despot reggae, there's a classic about idi amin...
Been a while since I saw someone actually wearing one.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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 !
Ok sorry slight rant but all that guff gets me !
Hey I know those tunneling muso's....:-)
Do you indeed? Me too, used to live with Pickles.
''Just cause its shiny and well executed dosent make it art.'' i can't say either of those apply to this particular graffitti.
I think the debate 'what is art' is even more problematic than H******s. And outside the scope of this forum. :P
Sage words indeed!!
I used to like two pieces in the Clyde tunnel.
"Saddam Husain - Man or Moustache?"
and
"Free tights for men."
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.
I'm stoned sprayed on sandstone wall of a tunnel with Easter Island Tokin' dude. What's not to like?
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.]
the man starts in white paint
Pam, I'm sorry
I love you
Call me
The woman [Pam] then comes in between the man's lines but in red paint
We're finished
get over it
This is most definitely art. [possibly by {Pamela Sinclair and her ex?}
Used the graffiti, with my views on Modern Art, after going to the Modern Art Gallery at lunchtime, in a Blipfoto rant today.
I prefer the look of the natural, weathered stone. I think the graffiti spoils that.
Not quite the innocent tunnel, but the A1 underpass that's meant to be the cycle route between Millerhill and Newcraighall.
And someone clearly took exception to the graffiti being sprayed over the graffiti!
Again, not the Innocent tunnel. But relevant I think
No it's not. It's dark blue by kaputniq, on Flickr
Hehe. Pretty sure spray paint isn't though. Even if it is, you
know, green.
Some more graffiti has gone up in the Innocent tunnel after the
last lot was washed off.
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.
The graffiti-ists of the Innocent Tunnel have nothing on those of the Bypass Underpass at Loanhead;
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...
If only he'd got the first four letters in the right order...
Best thing about Berlin is the graffiti...
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