jonesy
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January 2008
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spudniks/urban urchins, by jonesy on Apr 26, 2008 1:08:33 GMT 1, Had a great day visiting galleries in London, went to Black Rat and saw some of the Bleks for the new show, very impressive...but ...what's with the day-glo creatures on the bus stop roofs on the route up from the West End to Shoreditch?
This may be old stuff to London groovsters but sitting on the upper deck of the bus I saw these great creations on the roofs of bus stops on both sides of the road.
I couldnt get a photo but they looked liked potatoes painted in flourescent colours with spikes, also multi-coloured, coming off them. Some of the spikes looked like cotton ear buds painted in bright colours, and some were just masses of wooden sticks (like sea-urchins), but they were just such fun to see, really subversive in a way, and once I spotted them and pointed them out to others on the bus they prompted a great response from all sorts of people, and , to whoever did them, they are great, really powerfull in a quiet way.
One woman said they had been around for a while and then were cleaned away but came back a few weeks later, and she loved seeing them....just so cool whoever does them, look like aliens watching the city but also benign and are real urban art.....good drills +1
Had a great day visiting galleries in London, went to Black Rat and saw some of the Bleks for the new show, very impressive...but ...what's with the day-glo creatures on the bus stop roofs on the route up from the West End to Shoreditch?
This may be old stuff to London groovsters but sitting on the upper deck of the bus I saw these great creations on the roofs of bus stops on both sides of the road.
I couldnt get a photo but they looked liked potatoes painted in flourescent colours with spikes, also multi-coloured, coming off them. Some of the spikes looked like cotton ear buds painted in bright colours, and some were just masses of wooden sticks (like sea-urchins), but they were just such fun to see, really subversive in a way, and once I spotted them and pointed them out to others on the bus they prompted a great response from all sorts of people, and , to whoever did them, they are great, really powerfull in a quiet way.
One woman said they had been around for a while and then were cleaned away but came back a few weeks later, and she loved seeing them....just so cool whoever does them, look like aliens watching the city but also benign and are real urban art.....good drills +1
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