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Old wartime fuel tanks provide a canvas for graffiti/street artists

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 23 May

In bushland near Albany on West Australia’s south coast are seven abandoned wartime fuel tanks that were once vital wartime infrastructure. The towering concrete walls of these tanks are now providing a canvas for street/graffiti...

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Apologies and probably checking out till we get better reception

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Sep

I’m sorry I posted the same thing twice. I’ve been battling to get online and it’s as slow as a wet week so after posting this, if I’m able, I’ll give up until we’re somewhere with better reception. I’ll spend my time responding...

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Street Art in Freiburg, Germany

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Aug

I’ve been going back through a lot of photos and came across some photos of street art and sculpture from Freiburg in Germany. I wrote four posts on here about our travels and included some videos of my photos. Sometime after...

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Street art in Dowerin, Western Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 2 Sep 24

Our small country towns are struggling to survive. Some have had some very innovative ideas in an effort to entice tourists to visit/stay/spend. The kangaroos and emus here are made from corrugated iron. The emus in particular...

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Street Art in Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 9 May 23

Vince took this photo for me through the car window. It’s on a brick wall in Ballina, a town in Co. Mayo, Ireland. They have an agricultural show there each year. Probably very similar to the state fairs that America has. The...

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Street art in Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Dec 22

Our son lives in Collingwood, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was once one of the less affluent suburbs but, being so close to the city centre, it is now quite a trendy place to live and is gaining a name for...

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An old man of the sea, Bunbury, Western Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 4 Aug 20

On Sunday, we went to a theatre in our nearest city and watched back to back foreign films. We had an hour to fill in between the two films so went for a short walk around the complex. There was some street art on one of the walls...

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Mural in Willow Glen

Michele @Aquitaine24 (12000) • San Jose, California 28 Apr 20

Wi!low Glen is a historical neighborhood in San Jose ,California. It used to be a separate city. Later San Jose incorporated it. There are a lot of old buildings on Lincoln Avenue, the main drag of downtown Willow Glen. Here is...

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The mailbox has feet

Michele @Aquitaine24 (12000) • San Jose, California 27 Apr 20

Can you see the feet on the mailbox? Someone knitted chicken feet for this mailbox. I have seen knitted wraps on outposts and similar items.This is a little different. It is clever. Do you have anything similar where you live?

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This is crochet on a pole

Michele @Aquitaine24 (12000) • San Jose, California 20 Apr 20

Have you ever seen something like this? This pole is wrapped with crochet. ?it's of colorful yarns a d some flowers It is quite interesting. I have seen this on trees before This is l on Lincoln Avenue in the Willow Glen part...

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Graffiti or street art?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Feb 20

We saw very little graffiti in Nepal while we were visiting. Rubbish and litter was another matter. Of course, graffiti has gained a new respectability with being renamed ‘street art’. I wonder if there is a distinction between...

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Street art

LowRiderX @LowRiderX (22901) • Serbia 5 Mar 19

The art that turns the street into a canvas. It does not matter if it is painted on a wall, a building, a street, a fence ... completely changes her look. I could not resist without photographing this picture under one of...

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Street art in Nepal

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382440) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Nov 18

Our son in Melbourne, Australia, has broken his wrist. He fell while photographing graffiti although the more socially acceptable term is now ‘street art’. Because he doesn’t have a partner, he was entitled to receive help with...

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Truffles

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43655) • Denver, Colorado 14 Jun 18

If you haven't noticed, @JudyEv posts a lot of discussions about groovy artwork that she sees around Australia and during her travels. Pigs in particular seem to be everywhere! So I figured I'd join in the fun and post a...

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Graffiti undercity

Shane St Louis @TwentySevenSins (321) • St. Catharines, Ontario 8 May 18

in the city of St. Catharines, If you go downtown on St. Paul Street you will see a lot of city people and transit buses with a lot of traffic, But if you're new to the city you don't seem to see this under the road area that has...

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Street People

Shane St Louis @TwentySevenSins (321) • St. Catharines, Ontario 19 Jan 18

I usually traverse around St. Paul Street in St. Catharines, I usually see these paintings on the wall in one of the alley ways, This one is truly amazing as it makes a lot more sense than a lot of other peoples art on other...

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The Affirmation Station

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43655) • Denver, Colorado 14 Dec 17

We had an extremely busy day today, but while we were at the main bus terminal awaiting a transfer, I noticed a new piece of street art, the Affirmation Station, and I managed to get a photo. As you can see, the Affirmation...

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Graffiti of our streets

Nadia Den @denadej (79) • Smila, Ukraine 30 Oct 17

Do you like such an art as graffiti? What is your attitude to it? Sometimes it looks good, but it also happens when it even spoils some surfaces and houses or blocks of flats.

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Droid Makeover

pgn @pgntwo (22405) • Derry, Northern Ireland 27 Oct 17

A wonderful piece on a local news site caught my eye today, as would anything related to the original Star Wars story: That famous whistling, clicking robot from Star Wars, the droid R2-D2, has been immortalised by graffiti...

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Art Lover

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43655) • Denver, Colorado 2 Apr 17

You see that cool work of art in the photo? That's my bike. See that other cool work of art? That's Tower of Bikes, a tower of bike frames welded into a sculpture by a guy (I'm assuming) named Sean Mueller. Each year, Colorado...

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