Fiat lux. Power plant, Bogotá, Colombia.
Simba the lion. Singapore, 2017.
Shere Kahn the tiger. San Francisco, 2016.
Il a un poil dans la main. In French we say of a lazy person “s/he has a hair in the hand”. Obviously can’t work much with a hair in your hand, can you? Tulum, 2020. (Or is that a feather?)
Montreal or Toronto. 2019. (Not too sure). (c)ourtesy Alex. Canada, that’s “fer” sure…
Smile! Butte-aux-cailles, Paris. 2018.
A study in Zapata. Mexico city airport.
Saint-Ouen flea market, Paris. (That flea market was featured in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris.”) (Already said haven’t I?)
20,000 leagues under the sea. Bakalar, Mexico. 2020. (c)ourtesy Gini.
Don’t forget to water the plants. Tlalpan, Mexico city. A joint initiative of the Water authority and Comex, the leading paint manufacturer in Mexico. Many of the water wells are painted with street art. One unique theme: water.
Somewhere under the rainbow… Paris, near Métro Nationale.
One bag of cheetos to go. Canada. Not sure where again. Toronto? (c)ourtesy Alex.
Easter Sunday, Bogotá, Colombia. (Quite appropriate, is it not?)
Think earth. Bangkok. 2018.
A goldfish memory. Bogotá. Colombia.
Let’s go play. Singapore, 2017. This restaurant was completely painted with little boys at play. Quite sweet. (Good beer too)
Eagle warrior. One of the major Aztec warrior castes with the Jaguar warriors. (I seem to remember there was a third caste… will have to go back to Prescott). Mexico city. 2019.
Bangkok art & culture centre. 2018. Garuda the divine bird is second from left.
San Francisco. 2016.
Penang by bus. Rastafarai! Penang, Malaysia, 2017. (Of the universality of certain symbols). Jah!
No idea where this was taken. Who cares? Fly away!
Mr Lung, the Dragon. Chinatown, San Francisco, 2016.
Plant a tree. National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Thank you for flying Equinoxio Airways. I normally try to change topics from one post to the other. Just felt the past Paris street art was a wee bit on the “tags and rags” side. Needed some variety… Stay safe. 😷
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What a fantastic collection! 20,000 leagues under the sea – for all the details and cheetos probably my favorites but they are all heaps fab!
Cheetos I owe to my eldest daughter on a trip she did in Canada. She knows I’m a big street art fan…
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That’s a lot of really great street art. My favorites are Rastafari in Malaysia and the blue dragon. Have you read the December Poetry Challenge poem about Mexican winter? I think you might enjoy it. Gracias, Rebecca
Gracias Rebe. I like them all, but the dragon on the street was impressive.
I haven’t. read it. Is that on your blog?
Yes, the monthly poetry challenge. : )
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Feliz Navidad y Año nuevo if time catches us off guard. 🙏🏻
Como el tiempo vuela, si? Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año a ti tambien!
Stunning work my friend. I’m pleased we are still able to express ourselves in so many dramatic and artful ways. While their is art, there is hope.
Very true. In a -current- world where hope is a tad stifled, Art is a small light. Thanks for the visit and comment. Merry Christmas.
And Merry Christmas to you as well.
Amazing stuff!
So many beautiful examples of street art, thank you! The first one from Canada is huge …
I do especially like the boy from Columbia and the little girl with the cat from Paris.
Those are some of my favourites too. I wish I had seen the one in Canada. My daughter took it. it’s an entire building.
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Fly Away est à Florence peint par un (probablement, sinon une) artiste qui s’appelle Exit Enter, https://exitenter.it/
Merci et une douce et souriante journée à toi Brieuc.
PS. J’ai beaucoup fréquenté Florence. La mécanique des lasers de aeolus vient de Campi Bisenzio, juste à côté de Florence.
Serait-ce à Florence? Il me semblait avoir pris ce cliché à Paris vers la Rue de Seine. Ah! Je peux vérifier avec l’info de la Photo.
Quelle chance as-tu avec Florence. Aeolus était vraiment un projet interantional. Je pourrais passer des mois à Florence demain, sans hésiter…
Bonne nuit cher ami. A+
Bah, il se pourrait bien que le gars ait pratiqué à Paris également !
En fait, je résidais à Prato beaucoup plus calme et très accueillant. La seule chose qui m’y manquait était un solide petit déjeuner. Et quand j’étais un peu libre je prenais le train pour Florence.
Une belle journée à toi, Brieuc.
Je viens de regarder. Ça a l’air très joli. Et en train de Florence, ça fait quoi? un quart d’heure vingt minutes?
Une demie-heure de mon temps … et ça ne coûtait presque rien !
Une belle journée à toi, Brieuc.
Et par de beaux paysages. Bon ouiquande Gilles.
Wow, some of these are truly amazing. I love street art and never get tired of it. Thanks for sharing and have a good day 😀 Aiva
My pleasure Aiva. I hope the new lockdown is not as hard as the first one?
Between you and I we must have thousands of photos of street art! If you asked me ten years ago I probably would have told you I didn’t have much interest. Look at us now!
Spot on. I think street art has exploded from tags and graffiti to a major art form. Plus my attention was drawn to it around 2015 by Pau l Bell. He does good on Street art too…
I wouldn’t be surprised that you should have 1009’s of them. All well on the home front? You’re back working at home right?
No I’m still in the office. But all is well. Merry early Xmas to you and yours!
Be very careful. In the office and elsewhere. A friend’s husband went to San Diego and came back with the bl..dy virus…
Will you take a break the next few days?
Encore un beau voyage au travers de belles photos
Merci à Equinoxio Airways
Toi aussi Brieuc, reste en sécurité
Avec plaisir Mélie. T’inquiète. On fait gaffe. Toi aussi je suis sûr. Bonnes fêtes. 🎈
Bonnes fêtes également Brieuc
Biz Mélie.
So many that stand out, loved Easter Sunday, Bob Marley, loved the hairlarious one too. Fly away seemed to me a riff on Banksy.
Glad you liked the selection Paul. Apparently the fly away artist is known. According to Gilles Labruyère, s/he is… (Lemme copy the link)
Exit Enter, https://exitenter.it/
Sadly the link didn’t work, but thank you for trying.
Ooops. Such fun with modern day electronics. I sometimes almost miss the days of the punch cards. Let me see if can find the references in the comment. (If the comment has not been deleted yet by WP)
I remember an old IBM, solid steel casing, bigger that the grand oak sideboard my mother had. Punch cards and A2 sheets
You do too? I started working with an IBM 360. Big as a room. Air-conditioned. And programming shhets with 80 columns. You are a man of the world…
O I didn’t operate them, just noticed them. My wife actually worked with them 🙂
She did! Give her my regards and compliments. I enjoyed those days of cumbersome work. Taught you structure. You couldn’t just go ahead and code “whatever”. There were very strict steps to follow, and to look for an error afterwards was horribly time-consuming. So you had to get it right the first time.
It is one of the reasons today’s programmes are so “heavy” (MBs-wise) It’s because they’re badly written and full of parches…
Cheers.
I think you’ve created a metaphor for modern life in general 🙂
Have I? Mayhap. 😉 Thing is programiing has become so lousy we will have a major breakdown soon… Without hackers. It may come from netlfix, or Apple, or Windows. Google was just down an hour or so last week. Imagine a major bank breakdown… Chaos. Good “Dayyy” my friend.
😉 yes, total chaos, have a wonderful week – though I’m wondering if we will see you on Wednesday (our time) with your regular post. 🙂
You too.
There will probably be no post next Tuesday, a we are going to Cuernavaca, South of Mexico. Rented a house for a week. So I think I will not post until next year…
Take care Paul. Merry Christmas.
Yes, safe travels and a Merry Christmas.
Artist is called ExitEnter.
This link should work:
https://exitenter.it/
Perfect, many thanks, I think i’ll be in there a while 🙂
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Wow!!!! That was fabulous. Loved the wonderful artwork. Tk u.
A pleasure Gigi. Glad you liked the selection. (And for me it’s like “traveling” virtually)
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These are amazing!
Thank you. Much obliged.
Your welcome
I’d love to fly away ☺️ Actually I feel like running away more than I ever did as a teen 😉🙃🙂love these street art images Brian…makes me happy ☺️🙏 hope you’re well ~ hugs hedy
Well, thank you. Glad to make a friend happy. 😃
Running away? My feet are itching…
Take care Hedy.
You do always thinking of you and your loved ones at this time…sending all good things 🤗💫❣️
Danke wel Hedy. 💕
Will you be able to see some of your family this Christmas?
Fabulous x
Thank you Dear. Will you be able to spend some kind of Christmas with your family? Things sound a tad hectic in the UK right now…
Yes I will be home, I am doing a training course at the moment and training others in the office so I came home early before London went into Tier 3. Busy now catching up with my singing practice 🎶. Best wishes Charlotte
Good. I imagine musivians and singers are like pilots you need to practice all the time… Happy holidays Charlotte. My regards to “soon-to-be” hubby.
Hello Brian, lovely street arts. Merry Christmas!
Salamat Arlene. Likewise. I hope you will be able to gather the family for Christmas, 🎄 🙏🏻
I’m really hoping Brian. Have a lovely weekend.
Salamat, salamat. You too.
Just the scale and panache of these stuns. Like Cheetos girl best. Who would have thought street art would become so integral to modern art and to the cityscape.
The Cheetos girl is fab. A blogger lives in Toronto, she always shows great street art. I think it is a very interesting social phenomenon. The place: the street. The themes. The contrast between our often drab 21st century cities and the colours used to brighten up. Worth studying.
priceless!
Thank you. A nice way to “see” the world…
What a collection !
Thank you. Glad you liked it…
Merry Christmas.
This collectin is very striking! I have to say, I don’t get Honeynut Cheerios woman. The purple-robed demonic creature in the Saint-Ouen flea market, Paris is my grading avatar.
Those Canadian street works my daughter brought back last year were very… creative. 😀
That demon was very strong. Reminded me of a French comics author called Philippe Druillet. Have a great Sunday Liz
Wonderful collection. That’s the nicest looking power plant, by far, that I’ve ever seen. I recognized #5. It’s in Quebec City. I have a pic of it from 2017? So many of these are striking, like Goldfish Memory. I’m glad you captured the simple Fly Away. Such efforts brighten people’s day.
We have a local artist that does small chalk drawings all over town. They don’t last long and you never know where they’ll appear. Some examples are found on his website: https://zinnart.com/
Bonne fin de l’année!
Yes, it must be Québec. My daughter went to Toronto with her husband and son, then to Québec, and I never remember where she took one shot or the other…
I always find it wonderful how – perfect – strangers walk in each other’s steps. Happens to me a lot with blogger friends. We sometimes “miss” each other by months…
I’ll check zinnart…
Bonnes fêtes.
Wow. Just visited Zinn. Perfect. That guy is a great artist… Thank you.
Thanks for these, Brian. Obviously, I’m of the view that one can never have too much street art. Love that piece on the UNAM building, and “Cheetos Woman” is great as well. I’m also glad to be acquainted with the phrase, “Il a un poil dans la main”. There’s a very high likelihood we’ll be relocating to a French-speaking country in the not too distant future, and it should come in “handy”. Hope all’s well?
Those two pieces are great indeed. Obviously I like them all. (Hence the selection), Yet it is always interesting to see one’s preferences… (Once an analyst…)
A French-Speaking country now? Are there still any? 😉 My curiosity is piqued. You will let us know in due course.
That expression is quite old. Very… “peasant”. My grandfather used it a lot. And he came from a long line of peasant people. Has to do with grabbing a shovel, spit in your hands for a better grip.
All well, thank you. Best of luck in your new venture when it is confirmed. Cheers
As a university student, I remember visits to my grandfather, an old farmer who at one time ploughed the fields with horses. Without fail he would grab my hands, make a big display of inspecting them, and then announce to anyone in earshot that these were hands that had never seen a days work.
All will be revealed next year, although I fear I’m now guilty of over dramatizing!!
I can well imagine the scene. And a Lake District accent. (I assume there is one!). Precious memories. When I was 6 my grandfather took me to his vegetable garden by the railroad. (He’d upgraded from farmer to railroad man). There were some green leaves in the grey earth. He pulled one. A carrot. Brushed the earth on his blue sleeve. Handed it to me: “here, son. Eat that carrot. The best you’ll ever eat.” I was 6. Looked at the earth on the carrot, and bit. He was right. The best I ever had. 🥕
Look forward to the announcement…
Happy New Year again.
A lovely story Brian, I think our grandfathers would have had a lot of horticultural conversations – if they’d been able to understand each other. He had a Westmoreland dialect, very important to make the distinction from the Cumberland dialect – they were the former (and rival) counties that were merged in 1974 to become Cumbria. Westmoreland is listed on my birth certificate so I have a bias! Both dialects have Celtic and Norse origins and there were times when it was all but impossible to understand him. He always used the old numbers, so instead of one, two, three it was yan, tyan, tetherie. Almost died out now of course, but the local museum of Lakeland life has lots of old recordings. Makes me feel rather nostalgic.
Fantastic. Though my English is rather middle -of-the road “Posh”, I can’t really tell most Brit accents. Scot, of course, Cockney and posh. That’s about it.
But you confirm that each particular region has its “touch”. (I really need to make that tour of the UK I’ve had on my mind for years.
Love the detail about the numbers. I will try to commit to memory. My grandfather also had “patois” expressions. Also likely gone now.
But don’t be nostalgic. YOU remember. That’s enough.
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The amount of incredible art you find around the world on the streets is simply mind-blowing. Such incredible talent and out there for the world to enjoy ~ great finds you have here. The first one, Fiat lux in Bogotá, Colombia is mesmerizing… Cheers to you, my friend!
I’m a Gipsy I guess. I am fortunate to travel a bit. And see different things. So I keep my eyes open and see so many different forms of expression… Glad you liked it.
Fiat lux is a power plant near my my mother-in-law’s place in Bogotá. All the walls are covered with great art.
Cheers.
Since I was so amazed at the two Canadian pieces, I photo searched them. The first is in Quebec, as has been established, and the cheetos woman I don’t know where it’s located but it’s an art piece called “Breakfast” and it’s by Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart, 2018. I find it extraordinary. Thanks for this entire gallery.
Wow. How did you search them? Do you upload the pic for an app to search? If so, tell me how. Please, please?
And yes, Québec. My daughter had gone with her family to Canada for a vacation. She passed te photos to me, but I did not record where was where…
Thanks for the info. 🙏🏻
Ahh right, you weren’t there yourself. Now I get it. It’s really simple. You right-click on the desired photo to open it in a new window. Then you copy its URL and paste it here: https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en after you click on the little camera icon, where it says Paste Image URL. And voila’! Really useful too.
It works. I did not understand the url thing until I realized I had to copy the url of the published image… Merci.
What a selection! Mind blowing. Admiration to the artists!
Street art is one of the few recent trends that I put some faith on. There is so much talent there… all is not lost. 😉
Yes, so much talent. Bravo to the artists!
They are amazing. Everywhere I go. Talent and talent and talent.
Long live humanity!
Yes. An unusual comment. One hears so much -deserved- criticism about the human race. But, it’s like Life: they’re all we have. 😉 (And cats and dogs and what have you. But still…)
Ah, one day I praise them, another curse LOL
Same here… Take care my friend.
You too.
These murals are amazing!!!
Thank you. I must admit I’ve been lucky. travel enough to see such wonders. (And a few others.)
Cheers
No problem! And I agree. As I begin to travel more and more, my eyes and mind open to how beautiful life really is! Stay blessed!
Brian, thank you for this great series of artistic murals! One is more beautiful than the other!
In Germany it is basically illegal to spray pictures on strange walls.
Graffiti artists are only allowed to work legally on so-called “Wall of Fames”.
There are now fantastic, large, legal works that are presented on guided tours of the city called “Street Art Safari”.
Brian, I wish you all the best!
Rosie from Germany
I understand and approve that law. We live in a part of the city that has many colonial buildings going back to the 26th, 17th century… and idiots tag the walls. Now, some home owners give authorization to street artists to paint their house. Which is good.
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