tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post5744898540218909001..comments2024-03-28T21:25:08.138+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: The Words Of The Prophets.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-1076337042639162102021-02-19T21:43:37.127+13:002021-02-19T21:43:37.127+13:00Mark W about the G.I. image? I did wonder if it ...Mark W about the G.I. image? I did wonder if it was a Banksy? Was it?greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-70290800922070226812021-02-19T12:08:43.344+13:002021-02-19T12:08:43.344+13:00Nick J.
It is on Wallace Street. First appeared i...Nick J.<br /><br />It is on Wallace Street. First appeared in 1981. Originally it just said IAN CURTIS but has been updated a few times.Shane McDowallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09354384369518580573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-46764450996330319062021-02-19T12:06:56.883+13:002021-02-19T12:06:56.883+13:00Nick J.
It is on Wallace Street. First appeared i...Nick J.<br /><br />It is on Wallace Street. First appeared in 1981. Shane McDowallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09354384369518580573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-92021185854603424362021-02-17T18:29:05.662+13:002021-02-17T18:29:05.662+13:00Shane, I am old, Curtis would be around my age if ...Shane, I am old, Curtis would be around my age if not deceased. That graffiti was up by Wellington High wasn't it? Nick Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12609312325425361413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-22249267126965279802021-02-17T14:04:29.099+13:002021-02-17T14:04:29.099+13:00Do these words from The Sound of Silence echo your...Do these words from The Sound of Silence echo your thoughts Chris?:<br /><br /><i>I've come to talk with you again<br />Because a vision softly creeping<br />Left its seeds while I was sleeping<br />And the vision that was planted in my brain<br />Still remains...</i>greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-31899354369161467812021-02-17T13:47:12.395+13:002021-02-17T13:47:12.395+13:00Touching modern ways to get brain movement in unco...Touching modern ways to get brain movement in unconventional ways, this link is a bit of eye candy about starting something that travels a long way when the conditions are right to produce an outcome that can hardly be envisaged. If that outcome is a good one, it would be great if similarly the thoughts and ponderings that we put into the matrix produce results efficacious in every way.<br /><br />The wonderful machine of Rube Goldberg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBOqfLVCDv8<br />Totally irrelevant - Lily the Pink - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ak-JkzfKcgreywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-75946271384200602202021-02-17T11:14:13.744+13:002021-02-17T11:14:13.744+13:00"1949
With the invention of the modern aeroso..."1949<br />With the invention of the modern aerosol spray can, spray paint cans quickly followed, with the first canned spray paint emerging as early as 1949. It was invented by Edward Seymour and the first sprayable paint colour was aluminium."<br /><br />The GI pictured in the story must be time travelling. Mark Wahlberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17959889940311304180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-48502509190478115882021-02-17T11:09:34.749+13:002021-02-17T11:09:34.749+13:00A graffitus? is a clever message in short joined-u...A graffitus? is a clever message in short joined-up thoughts. One I remember was not political but an advertisement in Australia I think by Hovis Bread - 'What you eat today, walks and talks tomorrow'. <br /><br />It's a ancient way to convey thoughts, maybe even a conversation with strangers. Humans firing off valid points about civilisation or shared universal experiences. I was given a year book of graffiti gathered by Nigel Rees - one for today is 'Vindaloo purges the parts the other curries cannot reach'. The others are reaction to advice to the public, complaint about the train union, and satire from Balliol College, Oxford. Another - 'Don't vote. The Government will get in'. Oxford. <br /><br />It is possible that graffiti from Oxford might be more high-minded and less concerned with political struggle than from Notting Hill. May graffiti continue - as WH Auden said in 1 September 1939 which I often quote - 'Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the just Exchange their messages: May I...Show an affirming flame.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-8887843115938711332021-02-16T16:21:20.972+13:002021-02-16T16:21:20.972+13:00The wonderful Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquia... The wonderful Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat show at NGV in Melbourne in 2019 emphasized the importance of graffiti in the development of their art and politics<br />https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/30/basquiat-and-haring-unprecedented-art-show-revives-the-manic-draughtsmen-of-80s-new-york<br /><br /> Tagging is part of graffiti- the mark of identity that used to accompany the work of art of graffiti; now however we have the tag without the work of art - and even worse, the city-council approved decoration of street art which is depoliticized...<br /><br />As my 11-year daughter said, graffiti is authentic and has a purpose, while the problem with street art is that it doesn't look original...<br /><br />Mike Grimshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01806767454101371478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-46674058101151077132021-02-16T13:29:32.147+13:002021-02-16T13:29:32.147+13:00Best piece of New Zealand graffiti : " We hav...Best piece of New Zealand graffiti : " We have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity " sprayed by punk-anarchist Neil Roberts shortly before his suicide bombing on the Wanganui computer, November 1982.<br /><br />Second best : The gigantic words IAN CURTIS sprayed onto a wall in Wellington.For the old people on this forum, Ian Curtis was the lead singer of British post-punk group Joy Division.Shane McDowallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09354384369518580573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-87126018289943867742021-02-16T11:16:30.428+13:002021-02-16T11:16:30.428+13:00The best one I ever saw was on Petone railway stat...The best one I ever saw was on Petone railway station. Someone had written "Why don't all youse coconuts go home?" To which someone replied underneath "Don't be stupid, if we did the all Blacks would be shit."Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.com