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 F. O' Eight directed me to this door to see another piece by Maser, but it had been replaced by this other piece.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.

Dublin, World:: random

Oh it's so late. So late it's 9am. Anyway: last of the backlog. Places not in Cork, or not quite graffiti. Dublin kicks us in the face repeatedly for graffiti I'm afraid. However, as the impending economic bagelcollapse ..impends, I foresee an era where every city, villlage and township will have their own gang culture, and they'll be throwing paint and stencils everywhich way. We'll get some real pieces up then, rest assured.

Ha! Sleep hallucinations. They genuinely aren't the same things as dreams.



Dublind

Nederland.
Dublin ariport.
Bulgaria. Not mad about large amounts of anything.



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Cork Crawford Museum of Fine Art

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Really like this one.

Dublinder

Cork:: PutEmUp! ...and BONUS picture!

Surprisingly, I'm calling this one GetEmUp!.
Once again through my Co-Conspiring friend Deltaetcetera, these were along O. Plunkett to the Grand Parade. Really like the linework and perspective.


This one is Just For YOU! save the file, prin it out, write something inane in the speech bubble, such as "this got put up, and then disseminated across the intersea". Of course, I make this offer completely without the creators knowledge.. I can't believe I feel the need to say that. My thought is that his person was from some bigger pond, passing through, by the quality of the print etc.

I'd crush that little scumbag kid's face.

BONUS!

Half-mermaid? It's cool to see original artwork on the walls (ie: not a cautious print)

Cork:: Notebook Girl

Im going to call her Notebook Girl.
I don't know her gender, nor do I know it's a notebook. Something makes me think it's a girl though, and they ain't got no signature so... So she deserves an erroneous nickname.

I really, really like this stuff. I'll buy her a pint and apologise for assuming her gender. For assuming there's only one of her. I might even check her out, and steal her sketchbook off to the bathroom.

I know that I've lauded plenty of stuff in three posts, but if you don't like what she's done, then you're not waking up properly in the morning. If you draw or write or some such, you know how personal it'd be to wheatpaste prints of your stuff around town. I'd never do it because it would scare the carp out of me, but...
Although I suppose it's not so hard if your stuff is Good...

Photos were sent to me via my Co-Conspirator, Deltasomethingorother..
Photos all over the Cork Centre.

Cork:: the Other type of graffiti: the Misty past to the endJune-08-present

Once again, piles of pieces, all from Cork. I really hope this is still there; it's as old as the hills, but I think they destroyed it along with that lovely alley of Paul St.. KONG was the first name i really saw on Cork's streets (or remember seeing, which is more important). Either way, I haven't seen anything new from him/her in a while. Which is a real pity. (S)He had style, tact, and taste.

Hurh hurh hurh... Back when Transformers was still a relatively sacred relic.



Yon obligatory Vibe pieces! This guy gets a whole granny-basket of points purely for getting up so very much; he's all over the place. Not to mention his stuff is well good. I'm not very into tags, but Vibe puts the effort into being much more original than your average marker-armed whelp...

White ninja? Guy with glasses and well tended-uni-brow? Some sort of.. granny?..
Off Barrack St.
The barely-legible scrawls beneath this guy say "Thats Brilliant" and "Agreed". And its true! Strangely though, this stencil is underground in the UCC Kane bathrooms.

More... Vibe?


JF had a nice sponge-bob on Oliver Plunket St, but it was taken down (twice) before i could give birth to a digital camera.

This guy is one to watch, and not just because these are really good..
JF. I'm watching you JF. There can only be so many "JF"s in the phone book and voter's registry...


Barrack St.
Barrack St. I love things like this. Understated and slightly out of view. Using Stuff lying (growing) around.


RF23 is another anonymous face you see around a lot, but not enough. He had lots of vinyl stickers (lucky bastard), and was generally Class. Either funny, or the tasty side of poignant, or just cool. Crane Lane (the actual lane, not the club on the adjacent street).




Once "saw" a scrawl that said "I love hopeful street art"


South Mall

Oh you Knid, you are vile and vermicious. For some reason i always imagined they looked something like this. Note writing under eye.




These guys are all localised on a sheet of plyboard on N. Main St.: There's loads of them! By volume and qulity, there's something else behind it, but... Who knows. (*hint*)

You heard it here first. Or in the UCC jacks where it was.
the 508 is reborn.


This guy I really like.. Little lumps of clay stuck to the wall, carved, then varnished. Really, really cool. And they even have that most valuable of modern traits: randomness. In spades. I saw one that i think was about having tea, and another about.. I have no idea. Really really like it though.
We let ourselves down be not ruining those shitty Elysian boards, which surrounded the building site. They were screaming out for defacement, and only a brave few went forward. This piece is cool because it replaces the identical slogan for the Elysian.

Pretty certain this is religious, less certain that its a trail.. This was in Cobh, and I saw more going up to Cork. Circa Easter I think?



Ugh. It has become properly bright out.