Ah, such grand visions.

Ignore the last post, I didn't, not really.

Now in a different place and outside of all the hopes of finding a way into the community of Cork etc., this is going to be where I put the things I see in this new place, Asia.

Gimme a sec! I have a post for you, I just have to write it...

Cork :: Wallscrawl Sept - Aug.

More Cork wallscrawl. Apologies for the bad quality, I left them in my pocket and they went through the wash. This one's a little blurry, it reads:

"Why do Corkmen piss on the toilet seat?
(a) so you can sit on their piss
(b) because they didn't bring their mother with them
(c) because thinking is too hard for them
So basically, you sat on some guys piss, yeah? Awesome."



Outside Ballincollig somewhere.

Laptop O' Clock! Speaks volumes. Cork-Mallow line.

N-side somewhere.
FitzGerald's Park.

Dublin :: Somehow, it's like cheating on Cork :: HCWH

I'd the good fortune to be at the Hard Working Class Heroes festival last weekend. The bands were great, as was the atmosphere (other than the swing to "Wet" the atmosphere took on the last day). One of the really good bits about the festival was the provision of Andrew's Lane for the after-club. The theatre (or club or whatnot) has been done inside and outside by the Dublin artist Maser. It looks great, and even as a club it seemed worth the visit. The plaque outside the door:

The alley around the corner had plenty of stuff. I really like this one. (there's other stuf that I should certainly get & up)


   This guy (girl?) is class. I spotted one of his other ones near the old Mongrel offices a few years ago and foolishly thought it was a one-off curio: ooooh no. 

   This stuff is all over the city centre (by which, the tourist means Temple Bar). My friend over in the 508 initially pointed out the corners and drain pipes these covered: each is a bit of a gem. This is in no way a catalogue of the ones we saw: there were scores of them. 

Though this pic is largely for the small stickers, I love opportunities such as these for people to truly cover a space in all sorts of crap.

That road towards the Tourist Info office.


A great linguist once said...

Mr. F. O' Eight directed me to this door to see another piece by Maser, but it had been replaced by this other piece. Maser again? Perhaps... Really good piece though.

Cork :: More smaller pieces

Just some more Cork bits from walking around.

(once I know how to rotate pictures in blogger...) On the way towards the Douglas road.

I really like stickers. Regardless of how permanent the sticker actually is, they feel less permanent, less aggressive than pieces done in paint. They're small, but it's part of the charm. The little A34 message in shiny acrylic, adhering to the side of traffic cone.
Middle of town.
Cork School of music.
Cork WebWorks

Dublin :: bits

I was recently at the Analog festival for three amazing bands, so took the time to wander around the city a bit (not very much).pillar.

Face Invaders. Class. Just off Mary's Street.
The same face from Hope Street below. Just below Face Invaders
Now this was a particularly strange house (can you click on it for h-res?). Vampire gargoyle over the threshold. Studded door. Hand painted walls. In the centre of the picture is a tree made of barb'd wire, festooned with a crop of dummies(soothers/pacifiers). "Mais non!" you exclaim, "Ca c'est trop diabolique!". Fine:



Really weird. I caught a fleeting glimpse of a man inside, at third floor window, watching the street. Did he do this to the house? Was he real?

Just past face invaders, off Mary St.

Cork :: Hope Street

If you've taken the time to trawl through both the below postings and Cork city, you'll know there are a few ommissions that stick out somewhat; like their perpetrators, loitering, ill at ease, and giving me fouling looks. A good example would be the car park of the north quays.

One other in particular, to such a degree I went out to pick it up and buy it a sandwich:
(Across from FitzGerald's Park, Cork) This one has been around for a long time, and I (everybody) like it more for that- a stencil of a homeless person, getting shabbier over time, fading into the background... Well. It probably couldn't have worked out better.

That's a penguin by the way.

Notice the separate, relatively newer stencil above from the last dublin post.

The above is't necessarily in FitzGeralds Park, but in the mouth of an alley facing it. It's your typical good-o alley; secluded and built so that from the outside you can't see down it's length.


Thus, plenty of people have made their mark on the way through. Afew stencils, a number of 'pieces.The frog!



Yup... Script on the right hand side reads "I'll miss u!!". At least our tourism has conviction.
An elf? With an anarchist ear-ring? Winking? With a mohawk? Yeah. Fuck yeah, Freedom.
Piece version of a stencil thats around...


To be honest, I don't really go in for this sort of stuff. Not just the piece above, but the last few. Not that its not good, but.. It feels too far removed from our cities. Murals of pit-bulls wearing ghetto hoodies and posing like rappers.. I don't object to it. I'd just like to see what else they could do.





I do, however, love wallscrawl.