Author Topic: Graffiti (Read 9157 times)

۩ Imperator ۩ · « **on:** February 5, 2006, 11:19:16 pm »

Just got back from Barcelona, where there was loads of really good graffiti. Thought I'd start this thread so that when people see especially artistic or amusing graffiti, they can take a quick picture and post it here to share the wealth.

My two favourites from this weekend are attached below, one of them just being quite nice artwork, and the other just being completely random.

Incidentally, the funniest graffiti I ever saw was daubed in green paint in 2 foot letters on the front of Birkenhead Library a couple of years ago:

NAT CARSON HAS MONGY KIDS.

Genius.

NickoH · « **Reply #1 on:** February 5, 2006, 11:23:07 pm »

My most remembered graffiti was in Stanley Park, near the gap turning onto Anfield Road which said 'All Away Fans Die'.........tickled me everytime we saw it.

Please don't post back about fans dying, etc.......... don't mean it like that.

Terry de Niro · « **Reply #2 on:** February 5, 2006, 11:27:23 pm »

I like the "completely random" one Mark. How long did it take you to draw that?..

۩ Imperator ۩ · « **Reply #3 on:** February 5, 2006, 11:30:59 pm »

Quote from: NickoH on February 5, 2006, 11:23:07 pm

My most remembered graffiti was in Stanley Park, near the gap turning onto Anfield Road which said 'All Away Fans Die'.........tickled me everytime we saw it.

Please don't post back about fans dying, etc.......... don't mean it like that.

That one was on a toilet wall in Girona airport. Really made me laugh.

kavah · « **Reply #4 on:** February 5, 2006, 11:50:25 pm »

"Liverpool Champions yet again"

was a vintage piece. on a substation, on Wood end avenue i think? between Speke and Hunt Cross. I always vowed I'd 'restore it " when we won the league again.
It would be worth getting arrested.

Elli · « **Reply #5 on:** February 6, 2006, 12:08:06 am »

This was in Barcelona 2 years ago, probably still is. I liked it:

Sarge · « **Reply #6 on:** February 6, 2006, 12:10:50 am »

Funny one i seen in Belfast around the time of the Anglio/Irish Agreement read,

Ulster says no but the man from Del Monti he say Yes and he is an Orange Man

Class

Fat Tony · « **Reply #7 on:** February 6, 2006, 12:35:49 am »

Does anyone know what the fuck that 'PIES' graffiti is thats all over Liverpool and Birkenhead? Always wondered that.

Murf · « **Reply #8 on:** February 6, 2006, 12:39:50 am »

American

Terry de Niro · « **Reply #9 on:** February 6, 2006, 12:55:00 am »

Quote from: Fat Tony on February 6, 2006, 12:35:49 am

Does anyone know what the fuck that 'PIES' graffiti is thats all over Liverpool and Birkenhead? Always wondered that.

I think it's something to do with some of the band, that used to be The La's

Murf · « **Reply #10 on:** February 6, 2006, 01:00:54 am »

As I was going over the far Kilkerry mountain
I met with captain Farrell and his money he was counting
I first produced my pistol, and the produced my rapier
Said stand and deliver, for I am a bold deceiver

Terry de Niro · « **Reply #11 on:** February 6, 2006, 01:03:07 am »

With me ring dum a doodle um dah
Whack for the daddy o
Whack for the daddy o
Theres whiskey in the jar

Graham Smith · « **Reply #12 on:** February 6, 2006, 07:52:59 am »

Sheffield University 1981

All over student pub bogs was "Hunt Bromley Got Ringo".

Could never work it out - thought it was something rude for years.

Only discovered what it was years later in a totally random way.

For two points - anyone else able to work it out?

Jimbo. · « **Reply #13 on:** February 6, 2006, 09:31:56 am »

Spray painted on the wall of a school round by me.
Just said

SEX

Quite.

The not so lazy.boy · « **Reply #14 on:** February 6, 2006, 09:47:01 am »

Quote from: Smoth on February 6, 2006, 07:52:59 am

Sheffield University 1981

All over student pub bogs was "Hunt Bromley Got Ringo".

Could never work it out - thought it was something rude for years.

Only discovered what it was years later in a totally random way.

For two points - anyone else able to work it out?

The Gunfighter...

"That's a fine life, ain't it? Just trying to stay alive. Not really living. Not enjoying anything. Not getting anywhere. Just trying to keep from getting killed… Just waiting to get knocked off by some tough kid, like the kind of kid I was" - Jimmie Ringo

Graham Smith · « **Reply #15 on:** February 6, 2006, 09:59:50 am »

Quote from: lazy.boy on February 6, 2006, 09:47:01 am

The Gunfighter...

"That's a fine life, ain't it? Just trying to stay alive. Not really living. Not enjoying anything. Not getting anywhere. Just trying to keep from getting killed… Just waiting to get knocked off by some tough kid, like the kind of kid I was" - Jimmie Ringo

Top Work.

Kid comes running round the corner shouting

"Hunt Bromley got Ringo". Classic.

Odd graffiti for south Yorkshire bogs though.

ewok-red · « **Reply #16 on:** February 6, 2006, 10:45:04 am »

The Albert Cock · « **Reply #17 on:** February 6, 2006, 01:04:02 pm »

loads of boss graffiti around Venice, mostly just cool pictures though, really contrasted with everything around it!

Danny Boys Dad · « **Reply #18 on:** February 6, 2006, 01:12:56 pm »

According to some graffiti on Hawthorne Road there is a chap called "pancake" who is allegedly a "grass". No idea of the source of such information and how reliable it is though.

crownpaints · « **Reply #19 on:** February 6, 2006, 02:35:59 pm »

I actually found myself being sued by the advertising firm Moore-O'Ferrell after I'd sprayed a graffito onto one of their hoardings.

It was for "Monsters Of Rock"... and I'd sprayed "in church hall in wet".

morestellata · « **Reply #20 on:** February 6, 2006, 02:41:55 pm »

On one of those hangars at Birchwood ,big fuck off letters; LIVERPOOL FC. THE URCHINS.
Always made me smile when driving past on my way home to civilisation.

nidgemo · « **Reply #21 on:** February 6, 2006, 02:44:27 pm »

Quote from: ewok-red on February 6, 2006, 10:45:04 am

Hardly graffiti, when it's by one of britians most celebrated new artists

ewok-red · « **Reply #22 on:** February 6, 2006, 02:51:37 pm »

Quote from: nidgemo on February 6, 2006, 02:44:27 pm

Hardly graffiti, when it's by one of britians most celebrated new artists

really? isn't graffiti always art?. or can art not be graffiti when it has assumed status from the art elite? discuss

♠Dirty Harry♠ · « **Reply #23 on:** February 6, 2006, 03:06:34 pm »

Hi Trevor you leave Little Mo alone, or else...

In Belfast somewhere as far as i can recall

Bucke · « **Reply #24 on:** February 6, 2006, 03:06:42 pm »

Quote from: Fat Tony on February 6, 2006, 12:35:49 am

Does anyone know what the fuck that 'PIES' graffiti is thats all over Liverpool and Birkenhead? Always wondered that.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=94337.0

markcd · « **Reply #25 on:** February 6, 2006, 03:07:49 pm »

Quote from: nidgemo on February 6, 2006, 02:44:27 pm

Hardly graffiti, when it's by one of britians most celebrated new artists

...or a media whore who's happy to sell his version of rebellion to the highest bidder.

۩ Imperator ۩ · « **Reply #26 on:** February 6, 2006, 03:14:35 pm »

Quote from: nidgemo on February 6, 2006, 02:44:27 pm

Hardly graffiti, when it's by one of britians most celebrated new artists

If it's scrawled on a wall, I'd say it's graffiti.

ewok-red · « **Reply #27 on:** February 6, 2006, 03:30:36 pm »

Quote from: markcd on February 6, 2006, 03:07:49 pm

...or a media whore who's happy to sell his version of rebellion to the highest bidder.

or the man who has made a living out of what he does well, is creative and challenging. if he is sellign rebellion, whatever version, he willl be in good company...elvis, the clash, the pistols, dre, eminem, chumba's, most of the YBA's etc etc

youtookmyname · « **Reply #28 on:** February 6, 2006, 03:33:19 pm »

Barcelona does have a quite a problem with grafitti but some of it is really good. I snapped these two on the back of a market stall in La Boqueria. They were just outside my mate's front door.

That stencil posted earlier on is by Banksy. His site is worth a visit:

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

markcd · « **Reply #29 on:** February 6, 2006, 03:56:15 pm »

Quote from: ewok-red on February 6, 2006, 03:30:36 pm

or the man who has made a living out of what he does well, is creative and challenging. if he is sellign rebellion, whatever version, he willl be in good company...elvis, the clash, the pistols, dre, eminem, chumba's, most of the YBA's etc etc

I couldn't agree more.

But, there are genuine people out there using street art as a political tool, not just packaging half-baked philosophies for a bunch of guardian reading Nathan Barleys, whose only idea of radicalism is getting 'one-up' one of their shit-head friends in skating shoes who've never skated, buy buying a pre-framed Banksy print from POW.

Elli · « **Reply #30 on:** February 6, 2006, 04:37:03 pm »

Oh, and then there was this one in Budapest last January

I think it was somewhere on Margisziget (the island in the Danube).

۩ Imperator ۩ · « **Reply #31 on:** February 12, 2006, 07:43:11 pm »

Another one from Barcelona. The eagle-eyed among you might spot another RAWKite in shot.

hooded claw · « **Reply #32 on:** February 12, 2006, 07:45:41 pm »

Quote from: ۩ Imperator ۩ on February 12, 2006, 07:43:11 pm

Another one from Barcelona. The eagle-eyed among you might spot another RAWKite in shot.

Must have been warm, if he wasn't pimpin' in his fur coat.

glass_ankles · « **Reply #33 on:** February 12, 2006, 07:51:30 pm »

If anybody knows Newcastle, then they MUST have seen the word 'INCH' at some point....it's fucking everywhere, all over the place.

Will try find some pics to post

Elli · « **Reply #34 on:** February 12, 2006, 08:00:05 pm »

Quote from: glass_ankles on February 12, 2006, 07:51:30 pm

If anybody knows Newcastle, then they MUST have seen the word 'INCH' at some point....it's fucking everywhere, all over the place.

Will try find some pics to post

INCH", you mean

Shanks1965 · « **Reply #35 on:** February 12, 2006, 08:20:34 pm »

I have no pic, but I was down in the Crewe area a few weeks ago and drove past the ground. On the wall of a building just outside the ground are the words in big black paint "GRADI OUT BENITEZ IN."

Branno · « **Reply #36 on:** February 12, 2006, 08:28:24 pm »

The best graffiti ever.....

"Bloody Romans!!!!"

۩ Imperator ۩ · « **Reply #37 on:** February 12, 2006, 08:31:38 pm »

Quote from: Branno on February 12, 2006, 08:28:24 pm

The smallest photo ever.....

Joshytoohotty · « **Reply #38 on:** February 12, 2006, 09:57:55 pm »

Love the one on the train coming into Liverpool,

"The famous road end"

and of course, on the same line,

"EFC R SHIT"

nyujvary · « **Reply #39 on:** February 12, 2006, 10:07:54 pm »

Check it out...

http://www.graffiti.org/