...............Graffiti in Granada

SPANISH ADVENTURE:

Yes, GRAFFITIdawg has contacts all around the world. Just recently one sent some interesting graffiti pics from Spain. 

 

This first image of a human heart was photographed in Cordoba. The caption attached "The Heart is bigger than the world" both eloquent and apt.


The following images are all found around Granada, Spain. They tell a lot about the cultural diversity found within the area. I've kept the images large so that you are able to see the amazing detail that the artists has been able to capture and express.





Below you will find a link graffiti'd on a wall (click the image).. GRAFFITIdawg checked it out, it's still under construction... but by the looks.. will be up soon.

If you have any graffiti images that you would like to publish on this blog GRAFFITIdawg

Just in...Banksy work destroyed :(

Banksy art of 'Parachuting Rat' gets exterminated in Australia

Workers accidentally destroy outdoor street art of reclusive British artist

 






At left, Banksy's parachuting rat stencil painting as it originally appeared on a wall in Prahran, Melbourne, Australia, where it was painted approximately 15 years ago. At right, the current state of the artwork, now destroyed by pipes servicing a restaurant.

ABC TV

At left, Banksy's parachuting rat stencil painting as it originally appeared on a wall in Prahran, Melbourne, Australia, where it was painted approximately 15 years ago. At right, the current state of the artwork, now destroyed by pipes servicing a restaurant.

Reclusive street artist Banksy can’t seem to catch a break Down Under.

 


Contractors in Australia inadvertently destroyed an artwork this week by the acclaimed British graffiti artist, the third time that misfortune has befallen one of his works in suburban Melbourne in recent years.

Workers drilling through a wall smashed through a picture of the “Parachuting Rat” that was painted on the brickwork outside. The workers were laying pipes for a new cafe, ABC News Australia reported.

The work was painted in the late 1990s, depicting a rat carrying a suitcase and wearing a parachute.
Banksy, known for his satirical anti-capitalist and anti-war themes, has used images of rats in his street art from London to New York.

Another rat stencil work in Melbourne was accidentally painted over in 2010 during a government clean-up effort to fight aggresive tagging.

In December 2008, a piece called “The Little Diver” was vandalized with silver paint and tagged with the words, “Banksy woz ere.” A plastic covering for the piece did not deter the vandal.
Some Melbourne residents said the latest loss of a Banksy original is a blow to the art-friendly communtiy.

“They have unconsciously taken a part of Melbourne, taken a part of history which is really important to do with street art, and just destroyed it without even thinking about it,” business owner Tina McKenzie griped to ABC News Australia about the contractors.

“They wouldn’t even know that that’s a $50,000 piece of art they've just sawed through, possibly even more,” she added.

Banksy, known only by his pseudonym, recently sold a collection of 18 pieces for more than $630,000 in London.

He also unveiled a new piece of wall art in North London featuring a boy sewing British flags, Sky News reported Thursday.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/banksy-art-parachuting-rat-exterminated-australia-article-1.1080361#ixzz1veeixxbf

NEW PHOTOS

I headed out into the burbs of Hobart to find graffiti to photograph with my mobile phone, a normal practice for the dawg.

As I have been driving to destinations recently, I have seen some new works that have gone up....I came across these images not long ago and headed back to take a snap today.














This image is painted on the back end of a private school in the middle of Hobart, the anon artist would have had to scale a metal fence to get to the wall.




Where as this textured line work is situated in a car park just on the out skirts of Salamanca Place. I keep saying this.. but art is in the eye of the beholder.. I will let you choose what your perspective.

Until another day..
GRAFFITIdawg blog..

See what might happen if you write on walls - a cautionary tale


"... This is a beautifully made animated short with a twist in its tail. You do have to watch it from beginning to end and once you do it will leave you somewhat nonplused perhaps.

Whatever, it is an interesting animation, that is for sure - and a cautionary tale for children, perhaps (though perhaps not the more sensitive ones)!

A little girl stumbles across a doll shop that has, in its window, a doll that looks incredibly like herself. What happens next? You have to watch it to find out!..." Kuriositas

For all the graffiti artists out there, this could happen to you *wink*
Cheers
GRAFFITIdawg 2012

YOUTUBE: Hobart Graffiti Web206

This week the web publishing activity has been optional, (the dawg loves a challenge!) so I dove (like a high dive!! and not a flying bird thingy...) into my image files,, put on the "runners" and.... Trekked out and about around Hobart (lots of sore paws!!!) to find some more great graffiti heritage to publish in digital form. Enjoy, was so much fun making this.. am thinking of making another... let me know what you think.. comment if you would like to see another vid! Gd.

This video may also be viewed on YouTube in High Definition
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All images in this clip are owned and supplied by GRAFFITIdawg


Music: Grunge (November 4, 2006)
This audio titled “grunge” is part of the collection: Community Audio
Artist/Composer: John McQuiston
Shared under the Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Retrieved from http://www.archive.org/details/TwoGrungeGuitars

.....................TWITTER


Image 1


What happens when: dawg takes to twitter as her nemesis loulounilly!
Hash tags: #graffiti, #socialmedia, #tagging

This week I have been looking into Twitter, how the graffiti community communicate via this form of social media. My first tweet and hash tag for this week’s experiment with social networking has been somewhat successful. Because I consider that graffiti should be defined as social media I used #socialmedia in one of my tweets.  “Is #graffiti #socialmedia? http://graffitidawg.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-graffiti-social-media.html”. The post initiated a response, re-tweet and inclusion in an associated Twitter paper.li web page by Danny Peters http://paper.li/dannypeters_/1310827243 which looks at Social Media 2.0 Trends.

The hash tags #socialmedia #graffiti initiated the incorporation.

VoCKlantreizen Danny Peters
Social Media 2.0 Trends is out! bit.ly/oXQUuM Top stories today via @admmarioartur @loulounilly

My second tweet utilised another one of my blog posts, this time about the consequences of getting caught tagging along with the link to the GRAFFITIdawg blog: http://graffitidawg.blogspot.com/2011/09/graffitidawg-looks-into-results-of.html. I have the use of a platform called Tweetdeck, combined with a service called Deck.ly (instead of 140 letters Tweetdeck/Deck.ly allows for double that amount) which enables me to write longer tweet posts).

There was disappointment on my part that the tweet “Do you think people should be given a jail sentence if they are caught”, using the hash tags"#tagging" #graffiti? http://bit.ly/n2hYbH” did not generate any responses even after personally re-tweeting the post. To be very frank Twitter is unpredictable with who follows what in which trend, and admittedly, graffiti and associated artistry does not appear to ‘trend’ very well.

Graffiti is a tough medium to chat about via social media without getting into a ‘degenerate youth’ conversation with some interesting characters. After some in-depth research across twitter trending hash tags, my favourite subject does not appear to be popular (who knew!).

As a prolific Internet user, and a fan of social networking, I tend to have Twitter/Tweetdeck quietly humming in the background of my computer/iPhone; this allows that inter-connective-ness across the twitterati to multiple personalities who deem it interesting to connect right back.

IS? Graffiti Social Media?


View more presentations from Niels Hendriks Susan Herring and associates have concluded that, '... social networks consist of people connected through various social relationships and exchanges ...' (Herring et al, 2005). dawg is prepared to argue here that GRAFFITI and its derivatives (paste-ups, tagging etc. etc.) is just that - socialisation , but in pictorial form. Artists and taggers express themselves to each another and to an ever widening audience (thanks to the Internet) in a manner that is saying something about them in a language that others can understand
Image 1.
Image 2.
Image 3
So by graffiti(ing) on my own image, what does that say about me? 
Are we all contributing to social spaces by using a variety of
graffiti, to send a message in one form or another to each other like the
Ancient Egyptians did with pictographs?. (dawg does
not condone the use of illegal drugs btw...Image 4.
((which has now been painted over by the Hobart City Council 10-10-2011))
So is graffiti a social message then? AND who are they talking to about what?

Image 4.