Street Graphix

3 little birds on my Cape Town doorstep

2010-03-12T23:23:00.002+01:00

Three little birds ...

on my doorstep

... singing sweet songs

all lit up in green neon

except for the one ... the one that got away

and flew

flew away

somewhere else

down there

in Cape Cape Town

it was a one way four way way day

but don't worry

that there little bird

has

still

got

a mes sage

for you

and you

Yo Heads Up this is Cape Town

2010-03-04T14:30:00.004+01:00

Welcome to Cape Town South Africa

Mad Yo

There by city centre M3 to Gardens centre

City bowl YO

Heads up

SOLO ONE

2010 Cape Town Mzansi Wam'

Heading outta the city M3

Hola!

Don't pay the securities

they not always there

they just want your money

and to keep you in fear...

here:

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Welcome to Africa

2010-03-02T14:26:00.004+01:00

Ahoy, Ahoy, Ahoy

Welcome to Africa...

Cape Town, Mzansi styles, street graphix and graffiti in the mother city

Molweni y'all

Here they got diamonds on the sides of

their walls,

yeah

diamonds on the sides of their walls...

yeah then find them all here...

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Flow bro bordeaux logo

2010-01-24T21:53:00.005+01:00

so there you go

no logo bomb

in bordeaux

the flow bro's

just round the corner from this:

hoarding heading

out of the inner to the docks

there where them flow bro go

les freres coulures

dropping right there round the corner

tags and their tile them some such thing

Free public art for the win in Bordeaux

2010-01-19T18:21:00.004+01:00

still down there

where the

skatepark is

some lovely curves sweet hips and spine

all through the

line time and time

again for free

mmm here her sweetly...

and then wrapped wrapper round there some more from mad71

free public art for the win there nearby the old gentrified docks in

Bordeaux

just goes to show what happen

when tax payers money get spent wiserly

honesterlyerly

Free skates for boys and girls in Bordeaux

2010-01-13T19:32:00.007+01:00

It's for boys and girls anyone can come along and play ride them steel rails down all day and into the night.

Bordeaux Maville Skateboard Ahwe!

...and on into the park itself with a king hanging in waiting for you to drop in and get down there

roi style

ahwe the

king in his palace by bordeaux or maybe

somewhere you don't want to go, who

knows, maybe its just not cool but hey!

it's just pictures man...

or maybe just move to marseilles

Free social skatepark in bordeaux for the kids win

2010-01-10T20:56:00.007+01:00

i wish i wish apon a concrete fish that I may be up again and there lie this . . .

but first-lie-aye a picture....

kiddie pronk park ahwe for free socially, pay them damn taxeses man

again and again but this is . . .

bordeaux skateprackt . . .

starters for 4 spaces to place precious boards downs on is.

here next step u-p is still social free in B B .

there in Bordeaux

#bombs raining down ion them {

thi ' sis the first lil' step learning up step to get a pop up out of check 'em bumps skateboarding . . .

then when it was THERE then
MAD 71

...com

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sedz 'nuff. but try the website o-r try this mad71\

go figure...

Down there in Bordeaux there is a social funded semi autonomous zone skatepark doo dah doo dah

2010-01-09T04:48:00.018+01:00

there in front of 'em, laid out at the
confluence

of key brands, quai des marques, getting krusty and shit...

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Ahwe in bordeaux a social space

quasi-autonomous as longas you want to (can do?) ride all four parts of it...

skatepark bordeaux

for free because

there in the gentrifycaterers

laid down is a whole part of

social city allow

in there near where is the final heroes

of city planning

allowed

these no-comply's deserve their whole own mad thing so 'nuff said . . .

apart from

dah . dah . dah . dah . doo dah , doo dah

...extra skateparc/k BD, coming up

selection by MrQ

Bordeaux is the krusty bomb

2010-01-06T17:36:00.018+01:00

So there, then, right round the back in an alley that looked like a bomb from wwii had already hit it and never been cleaned up,

a little yard of broken down fencing where kids could kick a ball around and be just hidden out of site from the gentrified gentry of Quai Des Marques.

Here.

This paper atoll blowing up in Bordeaux

So there it was this pasted up bomb plot massive 2 metres by 1.5 all stuck and peeling into the street from the wall.

Graphix like this making rare unexpected appearances in hidden corners of Bordeaux.

Bringing smiles to faces.

Slave history covered up by malls and skateparks aside, Bordeaux is the bomb.

So on another note near the university that day when the students were planning on rioting,

but mainly making their money out of selling socialist workers papers,

our friend Krusty arrived for a bit of a lie down.

Go Bordeaux.

SkatePark Marseilles : Pop up post toaster

2009-03-21T03:37:00.022+01:00

what else can be said.. but SkatePark Marseilles

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Marseilles Skatepark

2009-03-20T00:50:00.007+01:00

Damn! What else is there really to say apart from Skatepark Marseilles.

I remember first seeing this on a real old Tony Hawk Playstation game years ago, then I finally got to skate it last week!

Left my board in Africa but a kind dude lent me his for a quick skate around after I took some pix of the graffiti in the park.

The Skatepark itself is worth more than just just one quick pic so here are a few toaster stickers that I found nearby to start ya off with.

Toasterama! and now a close up, check those smooth lines just ready to pop you up all steamy crunchy nice.

More pics of the park to come...keep posting toaster!

Stickers for life : Street art for good

2009-03-19T00:19:00.016+01:00

Sweet! Life is good when you see these kinds of sticker paste it up, art on the go, for those in the know.

This little gem I found in an alley way just off of Rue Saint Ferreol in Marseilles.

Just round the corner is a corpo extravaganza street, with nary even a tag in sight, bleached walls with only corporate art allowed, everything else scrubbed clean and pristine by the people paid by the powers that be.

Then in the side streets and alley ways the city comes alive again with all sorts of cool stuff rearing it's collective head.

In the funkier alley ways and lanes behind and off the its a drag shopping drag there are even some shops that have adapted street art into themselves, perhaps as a much needed antithesis to all the corpo crap in the sanitised and official part of the the city.

The side streets also have much more interesting shops, although their prices reflect the posh rents they pay.

This is a pic of a shop which uses spray art for its logo. (Just say no kids)

Masked Man of Marseilles : Graffiti France Street Art

2009-03-18T17:18:00.019+01:00

I found this beauty just off Avenue Jean Lombard in Marseilles, France.

It's such a killer bit of street art showing what can be done with graffiti that I decided to use it for my title page also!

The piece is fairly old already, it's dated '05, and there were a few other great graphs around the corner from it, but the powers that be, have obviously got a bit wise since then 'cos there is a big slobbering doberman protecting the site now!

Marseilles has got a wide range of styles of graffiti, most of it visual pollution tagging (omer you know who you are ;) but there are some really vibrant marks that take graffiti into art and make the cityscape a better place to see.

Seeing as how this blog starts off in Marseilles, France, here is a little bit of homage to the local football team Olympique Marseilles.

Alles L'OM or Go Olympique Marseilles.

The day that I shot this photo they kicked their big rivals Paris in the derby so plenty fun that night in Marseilles!