Konny. Paris, 2013.
No more landlord arson. San Francisco. 2016.
Butte-aux-cailles. Paris. 2018. Klim, I gather?
Liverpool. Or is Berlin? (Mexico city. 2019)
I told you a hundred times, stop picking your nose. Butte-aux-cailles, Paris. Zabou.
Near Mission St, San Francisco, 2016. Overtagged, alas.
“Let’s go urgently to the House of buttons. In Polanco! Jules Verne St 95. A world of buttons.” Love this art. Been there for ages. They don’t sell buttons “no more”, but they kept the ad. I featured it several times. Hard to catch. Trees and lampposts are in the way. Mexico city, “bilkul”.
Number 48, Butte-aux-cailles. Wait. 48?
Sofia CasTellanos. Mexico city. (Thanks to Dragos for spotting the T) 😉🙏🏻
Noir et blanc. Butte-aux-cailles.
Détail. (Butte aux choses etc.) Smile. There is even less time than before. 😉
“Keep cool, Blondie. Why the fuss?” House of buttons again. Oh. Wait a minute. Where IS Blondie?
“¿Capucchino to go, Señorita?”. Mexico city.
Fluctuat nec mergitur. Floats but doesn’t sink. Paris’ motto. Butte, etc.
Same artist. Seth I believe. Same place. A very clever and well-known piece. As you can see the lamppost is not in the wall.
Piñatas, Mexico city. Remember my personal all encompassing definition of street art.
Toronto. (c)ourtesy Alex. (Resa, have you seen it?) Visit Resa’s site for great street art:
Street art again. (Anything goes). Bangkok, 2018.
“By the sirens sweetly singing” (Tales of brave Ulysses. Cream, 1967). Florence, 2014.
“Your savings are safe with us.” Singapore, 2017.
Thank you again for hopping along on Equinoxio’s Time-Space shuttle. Still operating. Stay safe and all that.
So playful and vibrant, with a spicing of darkness. My daughter would love the turtles, her number one favourite creature – such grace in the water. Thank you for taking us on the journey.
Avec grand plaisir “Libre”. (Do you know Eluard’s poem “J’ecris ton nom?)
Agree with your daughter. Turtles and sea turtles in particular are great creatures. I was lucky enough to see a few in the open sea…
Have a nice end of week.
These are tons of fun. Thanks for sharing!
Pleasure. 👍🏻
Il y a tags et graffitis. Les graffitis sont vraiment un art très impressionnant, très difficile à faire entrer dans un musée ou dans un livre, monographie-ti mise à part.
Clap clap clap, Brieuc, et merci et porte toi bien également.
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Me gusta las tortugas ♥
Son divinas. Y desafortunadamente muy amenazadas por las bolsas de plàstico. Se las comen pensando que son aguas malas. (Jelly fish?)
Pobrecitos 😦
Nice post! I especially adore the opening piece. No, I haven’t found that one in Toronto. However, I have been venturing only where my legs take me, since the virus hit. Public transport is still too, scary. They have finally mandated masks. Will see how people act. There’s a lot of Aspholes out there. Not as many as some other countries, but that virus is sneaky!
Asphole? LOL. Those are universal… and yes the virus is sneaky. Stay safe “Thérèse”. 😉🙏🏻
You stay safe, too! 😉🙏🏻 ❤
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There’s no such a thing as too much street art! We have a few beautiful murals in Sligo too, each of them incredible in their own way. Thanks for sharing and have a good day 😀 Aiva
U 2.
I like Konny…
She’s from Berlin. A great artist.
It’s always a good time for street art!
😉 Hope all is well with you.
All is well with me, as long as I don’t turn on the news. 😉
Same here. I get hysterical with the news. I don’t watch or read mexican news. I only read a french news magazine on-line. Sort of the French Time or Newsweek. (The latter’s gone, right). And even so, I get so annoyed at all our politicians…
Have a nice week-end Liz
Thanks, Brian. Our garden has shifted into overdrive producing summer squash and zucchini, so I’ll be spending most of Saturday in the kitchen.
Sounds like a good plan. 👍🏻
Mission accomplished, and the kitchen mess cleaned up! (By my long-suffering hubby, of course.)
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Street art is always interesting! Haha, yes the number 4 of the 84 is the wrong way around … or both … 😉
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I’m off to find the siren, a wonderful variety of street art. My father once braked the car lightly when he saw me picking my nose, and I complained, to which he replied, that my finger would jam so far up that it would never come out again 🙂 there’s something about street art that captivates me. Thank you Brian.
Good luck with the siren.
Your Dad? That’s the way we were raised, right? 😉
Street art fascinates me. Didn’t pay much attention until a few years ago. Now? With the Iphone, any art I see, snap. It seems to me street art is a “resurrection” of art after the long deconstruction led by Picasso, Braque, et al. It is very alive. Cheers.
Agreed, art is emerging from the street up. 🙂
At least something is emerging… Cheers
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Are you on Instagram? If you are search for Jenny Vyas. Check out her murals.
Have meant to open an account for a while. Never seem to have the time. 😉 When I do I will look her up. Thanks for the tip.
Excellent series, Brian. So clever and fun.
Thank you Jane. Those pieces are inspiring. 😉
Have a great week-end. 🙏🏻
What a wonderful collection!
Merci… I wish I had a few at home… 😉 Hope all is well with you?
Mon plaisir… I wish I did, too.
Disons qu’il fait très chaud and working in 33C, feels like 40C heat is not pleasant…
C’est vraiment un climat extrême. De -30 a +30? Pffff.
Oh que oui… Welcome to Québec!
What fun and great street art. Thank you so much. Hope you are all still doing well.
Hi Gigi. Glad you liked it. We are fine, thank you. Bored to death inside. I think we’re going to take the car out tomorrow for a ride… crossed-eye emoji.
Have a nice week-end.
How practical to see some streetart here, then I must not go downtown of Berlin what I actually avoid by any means. In the last montha I have seen new streetart only in a small village and even at a hiking-trail. Now just waiting for real holidays in August. Stay safe! A bientot 🙂
Glad I saved you the trip.
Bonnes vacances.
Again, the eclectic collection is highly entertaining. This time though I cannot decide which I like the most. P.S.: What do you mean by they have stopped making buttons?!
Phir milenge. 🙂
I think it was a button store. Hence the painting above. But since no-one practically knows how to sew, it’s a clothes shop now. A bientôt.
Ah…I was alarmed to think there might be no more buttons left in the world! How daft of me. Till next time then.
There might soon be a time when buttons can only be found on Amazon. 😉
Il y a de grands artistes qui savent égayer nos rues ! J’adore !!
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Street art has so much character. My fav is the skeleton serving coffee!
Haha! That one is quite close to the house.
Your archives for street art must be massive
Nice post amigo
And my fav froM this post was the faucet leaking flowers 🌺 out
My photo files are massive. Covering a century and a half. I have undertaken a major re-classification effort. Too many folders in too many computers and back-ups…
I like the faucet too. Simple but very pretty. Hope all is well with you?
Yes amigo
Things are pretty good here
Special year for me personally (long story for another time) and then trucking along on some simmering (dusty) projects –
Oh and thought of you last week because I think I have enough fire hydrants for a post!
Now this is crazy to have you be the main person that comes to mind with fire hydrants – because you are the street art man, the people photographer, and the family history man. But hydrants come to mind and so that is what it is….
I will let you know when I post –
Have a good day
LOL. I’m a jack of all trades. Glad you have been snapping hydrants. All the merit goes to my friend Tiffany Choong at Bulan lifestyles. She’s the one who made me notice hydrants.
Look forward to your post.
Stay safe. Stay well. (And have a special year) 🙏🏻
🙂 I will check out Bulan lifestyles
I can send you the link if you like…
please do 🙂 –
and I decided to break my “Hydrants” post down into two or three posts – still not sure – but would love the link to maybe add it to my post
She hasn’t done hydrants in a while. Not sure she still has that series… lemme check, and I’ll send you the link.
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That’s the link to her most recent post:
https://bulanlifestyle.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/groovy-candy-70s-vibe/
She’s an artist. Draws one sketch a day.
so excited to check it out
She’s a great artist and blogger. And a good friend. Met her in London and in Malayisia…
Yeah! Found Tiffany’s hydrants:
https://bulanlifestyle.wordpress.com/?s=hydrant
You know, I now recall visiting her blog before – I just totally forgot – maybe you mentioned it way back when – either way – I forgot and glad to visit again – I am going to post shortly – be in touch B
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Possibly. I need to spend more time visiting. Things have been a bit hectic lately. See you soon Y. 😉
well as you so well know – we do what we can with what we time we have and where our path leads each season
“Turn, turn, turn…” 😉
thanks again for inspiring me amigo – here is my post link – TTYS
https://wp.me/p1VBv6-55o
Love these!
I have so many photos of street art, I’ve been thinking of publishing a post on them for a while now, but have too many other things to write about yet! 😉
Do. That would be lovely. A street art post has the advantage of being fast to write. Upload the pix, a small caption, and voilà. How have you been?
Great idea!
All good and shifting between abodes on Friday. Still no sign of returning to Italy just yet.
How have you been?
“I’m going slightly mad”. 😉 Wasn’t there a song by who knows who?🤔
That’d be Queen, mon ami. See here and here. 😉
Actually the whole world is going insanely mad. And I just can’t tell if that’s a bad thing or a good thing, after all…
Thanks, multumesc, merci Dragos. I thought it might be Queen, but I’m not so knowledgeable on them. 😉
Good to hear from you. I hope you are well with your 47 felines. 😉
Insanely mad is quite appropriate… Sigh…
Ah, don’t mention it. I’m not very knowledgeable of Queen either but when a bell rings…
This may be tough for you to know but my “children” are almost all gone. Fleas came back, a viral disease spread and there are but a few left, with slim chances to survive. Sent them all out on July first but it was already too late. 😦
Oh… I’m very sorry about your kitties. You must be very sad… I know they were a great company to you, despite the problems and worries… Ever so sorry my friend.
Merci, mon ami. It’s been devastating. Wish the very few remaining would go away far from here, maybe they’ll manage to avoid the virus and stay alive. I’ll never raise any kind of pets ever again.
I understand. When Miao Dedong died, we swore we’d never have more pets. 😩
Didn’t realise you were a Queen fan 😉
LOL. NOt really. More of an acquired taste. I’m more of a Clapton, The Who, British Rock any time, fan, amongst others. I sort of “missed” Queen at the time. But later on caught one or the other tune. Truth is: they were great musicians. Their music will stay for a long time.
Sounds like we enjoy similar music tastes. Yes, they were great musicians and I didn’t really get into Queen until much later in life.
Same here. And we probably do share some tastes. I was raised more in an Anglo-Saxon way from 10-12 onwards. The records available at the music store held by a Sick gentleman in Nairobi were all in English. (I still have the original ’67 Live Cream album and the original Double white Beatles LP…)
Ciao, ciao
Wow, sounds wonderful!
What a beautiful variety of street art! You’ve surely been around …
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Oh and I think it’s “Sofia Castellanos” (you missed the T). Enlarge the picture, you’ll see the partly hidden T. 🙂
I was wondering about that. Casellanos is not a “normal” Spanish name. Didn’t see the T though. (Now I did) Post updated. Thanks for your attention to detail… (Do you speak some Spanish too, along with your many talents?)
Kinda hard to explain. Guess I was born with this “gift” – or better call it a curse – to get drawn by flaws however minor. I do understand Spanish to some extent but it’s more about the way something sounds to me. And I mean literally – most times I “pronounce” words in my mind and it’s like they were spoken out loud, then I memorize the way they “sound” together with their image/spelling. I hear or read things a few times and it accumulates; then when something sounds similar but not exactly as it’s in my “memory bank” a red flag pops out. That name didn’t “sound” right in my mind, so… 🙂
It’s the way your memory is wired. Edward T. Hall did some interesting experiments on the way people memorize… Everyone is different.
And in this case it had to be CasTellanos. Felt weird, but I was in a hurry. Castel = castle = château = what in Romanian? Probably similar.
Yes, it’s exactly the same: castel (pl. castele). Castle caretaker: castelan – very similar to Spanish.
Very. Our own château is just a deformation of c=K into sh… Brazilians, especially in Rio tend to pronounce their Portuguese with sh instead of S.
So in Romanian ‘e” would be a mark of plural?
Well, Portuguese is one language I didn’t get close to, for various reasons.
Romanian is a difficult language in regard to its grammar, although it’s a phonetic language which makes it easily spoken.
The e plural suffix pertains to both feminine and neutral nouns. Masculine plural nouns use i instead. However there are exceptions where feminine plural will use the i suffix instead of e.
I’ve seen how difficult Romanian can be. Too many influences clearly. 😉 You say ‘da’ for yes! I have noted down e for fEminine/neutral (which implies you have 3 cases) and i for masculIne. Good. Exceptions? They’re part of the fun…
A bientôt.
I guess our spoken/written language today is more of a melange of words taken or adapted from various other languages, with small leftovers from the ancient original one. The dictionaries may list a lot more ancient words but they’re rarely used today, maybe more in the countryside.
And there’s also regionalisms that can screw up one’s mind if they’re not used to them. 😀
‘Yes’ is ‘da’ as in Russian, but ‘No’ is ‘nu’ not ‘niet’. 😆 And then there’s ‘Maybe’ – ‘poate’ – closer to peut-être/puodarsi.
Wouldn’t it be best if we could just communicate telepathically, send/receive pure thoughts instead of struggling to translate words that may deceive or be misinterpreted…? Oh, in that case I guess politics would dissapear as a notion. How marvellous would that be, huh!? 😉
Telepathy? I will second the motion…
Woohoo, again! Never too much 🙂
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“Smile while there is still time” love that!! 😊
Apparently each time we smile, our heart rate slows down and we feel more relaxed because of the chemical release that follows!! Maybe a smile a day ‘helps’ keep the doctor way!
LOL. I’m sure it does. 😉
Wonderful street art photos. Thank you so much for sharing them.
My pleasure. Glad you liked it. Thanks for the visit and comment.
Wonderful street art, so full of color, of life!
“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live –moreover, the only one.” (Said Emil Cioran -a great philosopher and essayist, very dear to me …)
Have a good week ahead! (ad libitum)D.
I need to “get” to Cioran. He is on my shopping list on the bookboxes along the Seine. This quote sounds very much like Camus.
Now, beyond that, I personally believe that Life indeed has no meaning, but since Life is all we have… let’s make the best of it, shall we? 😉
Thank you again my dear for your wonderful thoughts.
He is also an existentialist like Camus or Sartre… 😊 With pleasure!
as always, a beautifully curated selection — tx for the germ-safe outing 🙂
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Love those colorful streets. 🙂
This is fabulous, how did I miss it? I you’ve captured some beautiful wall art. It’s hard to pick a favorite but “By the sirens sweetly singing” (Tales of brave Ulysses. Cream) is absolutely gorgeous! Thank you, we will never grow tired of your awesome posts and tours around the world. Be well, stay safe dear Brian. 🌸
It was a great post to put together. I do have many favourites, but I agree with that one. Plus it is a fabulous song. (Still have the original LP…) 🙏🏻💕🌹
It must be worth some mula! I really enjoyed this. Your post are fantastic 🌹💕
Viel dank. I don’t know whether they are or not, I just take great pleasure in putting them together… Thanks for the feedback. 🙏🏻🌺
always my pleasure!
Amazing post
Thank you. 🙏🏻
You can never have too much street art, imo, Brian. That piece by Seth is wonderful.
Agreed. You are the Street Art Sensei. 😉
And Seth is a great artist. The lampost is very smart. Lots of his work at the Butte-aux-cailles. (For your next Paris trip)
Cheers Paul
wish we had few of these artists in Kolkata!
No street art in India? How surprising.
The best kind of art is street art 🙂
Oi “Menina”. Tudo bom com Vc?