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Mitch Spector: I took updated photos exactly one week later, on Sunday, October 12th. As they continue to strip away pieces of the building, it's interesting to see what sat hidden underneath the wrap-around sign all those...... localrez: Finished piece: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kezam/2915758801/... Evansy: it may not be banksy but its still a talented piece of art... Laura: Wow, amazing piece of work! Is the piece any longer than what was photographed?... Frank Sulman's: Dear fellow people of Montreal City, it is sad to see that we are losing a great piece of history and landmark Bens Restaurant.
It was brought to my attention at a meeting this summer that...... Mitch Spector: These photos were taken during the early morning of October 5th. Despite the former restaurant site still, for the moment, standing, it is an interesting contrast when comparing the photos (above) from 6 months earlier.
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The...... fesoner,OMC: yo,they are not the same person man,you guys are retards
sane and smith were bros
and ja,big ups to you man
you're my freakin idol
fuck rtd,pussy ass hatin no ups motherfuckers
you the real deal,and there's no one better
RIP...... luna park: it was a giant, impressive piece of rooftop graffiti done by a guy who goes by read more books AKA reader AKA booker... the big skulls made me happy every time i rode past on...... Ph.: Hey, I live about three blocks away from it :-) What's a read more piece?... luna park: this building used to have the most incredible read more piece... until recently.... unknown: I met my now fiance in a small town. I learned that he was born and raised in CG until he was shot not in his neighbor, but on the southside of the Chi. The...... Chueco DTB: I saw the sane's piece also yesterday. its still there with all the other graff, theres a lot on queensboro plaza under the train, there mostly tags.... keprecon: Ok, so i've got this fairly large sized piece, all hand drawn with all sorts of markers, pencils, and pens. Is there a household item I can use to seal the sucker up to keep...... Raquel: Hu there, I just read your article concerning Don Justo 's cathedral and I loved it, mainly because I think you describe perfectly the dream, the persistence, the hard work of this man.
I have visited...... RiCH1: SPIN........whoever you are.......you killed that shit on the 'Rock', sun!.....Rock On! Ya gotta turn yer head kids, to peep that one out.....right at the bottom of the escarpment waterfall on the 401 into the Hammer!...... og Shie 47 Los Angeles: the evolution of graff in la are the artists and u have to be good.so many people faded cuz they were limited on their skills. back in the day u could rock throw ups and...... BARON VON FANCY: Baron Von Fancy is not a man, he is an idea. And you cannot kill an idea.
He has been called an artist. He has been called a maniac. He is a recluse. He never...... WinstonSmith: Wow, what a great image! It would be a great thing if some writters could come by and do some nice end to end pieces on each level. What happened to that buildind...... Dam, was it the late 80's too...?: Shit, I guess late 80's too, my crew laid the base wall paint down for a lot of the pieces under the light shafts north of Freedom's pieces... So, my old works are probably under...... Man, I used to have some nice pieces up in there....: Man, Back in the early 90s... I used to have some nice pieces up in there.... XerxesOne, Central Park Posse (CPP)... )Sigh( No respect given to Freedom's art, from what I can see......... Elkin School Rulz!: I think we should have a stickball tournament for all former Kensingtonians. But where do we find a Pimple Ball? Man, I miss them days. We didn't care how hot it was,...... Excuzmepleez:
This post is in response to "remember 1966."
I remember the sad accident. It happened on Troutman Street between Central and Evergreen and it involved a boy named Joey Mistretta who was 9 years...... LOOK CLOSER: Please tell me that I am not the only person that notices the frightened boy all the way to the right in the left section of the 2-piece mural. Everyone views the picture as traveling...... santoro: for those of you concerned about your ink running just photo copy your origional and paste the copies yea you can only do them the size of a piece of paper but thats all you...... Duffman1: I worked there in the 70's. It was called Textile Piece Dye works. I think the major pictures shown are of Brewster Print works next door.
It was dreary there back in the 70's. But Polyester...... New Jack Hater: But Bilrock, everyone knows who he is and has seen his stuff. Which is the exact opposite of you, which makes you a HATER.
Hate, hate, hate. Thats all you do on here. None of...... BILROCK 161: FREEDOM is a big fake. He was a toy who never paid his dues(what?, 10 pieces, maybe?), never got up, got his ass beat at NOGA, and hung out with other toys(eg. AW.). His perpetration...... ASEC ALG KOB: BEL! Infamous in Norwalk. I remember when you first started out and when I first started to be interested by graffiti. When you hit up my elementary school! AHahahaha that was great though. It had...... Hands and Feet: Just got this today. The reality is this all started about the mid fifties or earlier. I remember moving several times before I was five years of age. This was due to depressed economics in...... John Q Public: Igor is a fucking cunt, I am going to crack his fucking skull open. You fucking piece of shit faggot.... Roke3 Nyc: This masterpiece measures a staggering 250’ x 55’ (nearly the size of a football field) and took 125 gallons of latex roller paint and a year of carefully planned nights to complete. Every supply...... Who Cares for Kensingtion: OG FROM GCC, Good piece! Take it back 1 block at a time. All in a given block may not participate, but those that do should stick together and clean it from end to end...and...... ekspo: [[img:28495]]
this is the picture i took yesterday.
this is sane's piece on the hellsgate bridge.
i dont believe he fell off this bridge and died, but if i am wrong, please correct me.
RIP SANE!... ekspo: i was comin home from jfk yesterday and saw sane's piece on the hellsgate bridge. i will try to upload the pic.
did he fall off the hellsgate when he died?
RIP SANE... WR: Had my bike stolen out of my garage this afternoon, probably an hour before I was gonna go use it. Now, I got the thing for free from my neighbor, so I'm not out any...... stan: I live around 116th street. A year ago I found a way in (and while down their noticed a few ways out.) I went down with a friend, a lighter, and two cellphones (which we...... Peter: weve had the discussion re: graf versus vandalism on here like 500 times, and its surprising how every other person has their own specific definition of the term "graffiti", to the point where it becomes...... vanessa: what a total shame, i was nearly about to comment if it would be able to purchase one of his pieces!... Who Cares for Kensington: Carol, I left the neighborhood because I felt forced to do so by crime and apparent bleak future prospects.I moved to another section of the city that wasn't the greatest, but it served and a...... Jamie: Fuckyeah. I can have a little piece of {Brooklyn} right here in {Lincolnshire} any time I like. Screw the carbon footprint... Gremlin: 64. You've acquired a taste for crèton.
65. You don't own a house or condo but you own your own appliances, and if not, your roommate does.
66. You've never bought a piece of furniture, because it...... Peter: if i had a dollar for every time ive heard someone from a hard/bad/depressed/rebuilding neighborhood comment something like ##"_______ is really that bad and has been for years"##... [[76:cabrini green]], [[1727:henry horner]], [[4368:hutchinson]], [[646:bushwick]], to...... Who Cares for Kensington: Everyone has someone else to blame and I guess that's the ameriacan way for losers these days. Buildings, streets and real estate agents do no breed ignorance, but sub-cultures do and Kensington is definitely a...... Don worry bout it : Yo lookout for ''thin'' hes everywere i was in the car and saw his shit everwhere, whats up with segr i see him on the highway but his stuff isn't too good , not saying...... The GumbyUF MSD: Bushwick...oh, Bushwick. How I love and miss thee. Sorry I left you, but I had to explore other states and neighborhoods. Needless to say, you are still the very, very best piece of real estate...... eskae: sweet
thanks for sharing
I remember seeing those chris papes pieces through the grates in riverside park back in 888...nice to know that thye are still riding. And nice to see twist stuff from the 90's...... Marj: I saw them day by day as I drove by pull away the stone walls. For a while the left stand a large piece of a holy picture. I was thinking it was be nice...... colavitos ghost: there's a "joseph m. gallagher middle school" in my neighborhood that is home to a particularly humorous piece of partial signage.
the last two letters of the first name have fallen, leaving the interesting...... remember 1966: trying to piece together deatils of a memeory. kid was killed in mid to late 60's when he was running thru the sewers that were being worked on around troutman. apparently he drowned. Does...... Jamie: And further to that, here are some photos of the actual work in-situ.
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And here is the photo published by The Daily Mail in their story: [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024884]] which appears to be the original source of all...... Jamie: Yes. That's clearly not a Banksy piece. Congratulations to the mainstream media for putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 5. That's not even an AK is it? And one of the 'girls'...... EvilGentleman: Wow. Knockout urbex piece, Peter! Love it!... The Hapless Hobo: That is absolutely gorgeous! How could they have possibly had the heart to whitewash such a wonderful piece of artwork?
Thank you for preserving it in photography for us!... Mitch: Pretty sad, it's quite literally a piece of Montreal being erased forever (I can't even visualize that part of downtown without that tiny 3 story building with the red "Bens" sign). I last passed by...... anon (d122-109-199-99.adl12.sa.optusnet.com.au): Hi Eric,
Yes I do remember you and your Mum from when I was delivering greengrocery round Eldon road and Harewood road around 1950 just before I got married.
It was Fred Wolfendon who had the old...... Joanne amorello-minor: Hi Guys...
sorry i've not been on for a while..had my reasons!well with many thanks for their help which without I would still be lost to Alan Taylor and Marissa we pieced up a lot of...... ?: I got respect for JA, but can someone give me a reason why he went over Saber's piece? It took Saber like 35 days or something like that to make such amazing piece. Why would...... Michael Yacques: Most people in florida who think they were bitten by a brown recluse spider Or Black Widow because of decaying flesh on a wound they have, are wronge. MRSA staff infections are rampant in florida.Ask...... EvilGentleman: Nice find. I understand there's not too many pieces of the Toynbee tiles left nowadays...... rob: It always strikes me as sad when people scrawl their shitty graf all over an interesting piece... if90b: New workout by on right side of I-84 heading west after 181st exit. There used to be a LUNAR out there on the fence and it got cleaned, then a few weeks later was...... Peter: hmm, i guess i got thrown by the part where you said ##"I know that cant be a Coupe piece in BK##. no one ever said he was from brooklyn. this is a relatively famous...... Peter: yes... did you notice where it says "{louisville}, ky... 2002" directly above the {coupe} piece? i suppose even {graf} writers go out of town from time to time, you know?... anon (74-128-38-7.dhcp.insightbb.com): Coupe is from Louisville not Brooklyn. I know that cant be a Coupe piece in BK.... Josselyn K: I really love this mural it looks beautiful when kids get involved in these master pieces. ... CE: The first picture is why I love vernacular architecture so much, you can get such a feeling of place from it. When I first looked at the first picture, I forgot to look at...... Peter: destruction or art? i always find it interesting when people refer to graffiti as "destruction", as its not like theyre carving their tag into the wall with an air-chisel or something. painting seems to be...... prospects wife: I hear ya. It just makes me so made that people would rather believe stupid crap than ask questions. I never really intended to attack lames on this site. The one particular person I...... BigGaloot: Moved here to Hutch 11 yrs. ago for better job. Now job market is terrible here and no new industry moving in. Reminds me of Great Bend KS where all the old...... RandomName: MAn I found this page searching for too old skateboarding like a lot of you. I hate this idea to pieces. in the time it takes you to turn 15 is the same time it...... Marisol F.: Awesome piece, I graduated from Bushwick HS in 1983 and let me tell you those cement plain walls never looked so BEAUTIFUL, Kudos to the artist and the mentors who guided this project!! EXCELLENT, keep...... Tex : Yes come on down, you'll are welcome! It's a little piece of heaven down here, I earn about twice as much (72k) as what I made up there, no state income tax, no taxes on...... Andrew Smith: Hi James, glad you want to add photos.
If you want to add photo's first you'll need to resize them to no more than 600 pixels wide, in photoshop or the like.
When typing your post in...... CartLegger: nice shots Peter.
They remind me of an cherishable short piece by Joseph Mitchell, about the shad fishermen of Edgewater, NJ. An excerpt from "the Rivermen" is here: [[http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=46]]... sean: this is crap because the oars, pieces of their rafts, and all of there possessions were found in the water. Then after a few weeks a body was found in a prison uniform, and...... alma: well, between flashing and a rape, there's a whole world. flashing, in purist america, really is overrated. and "blondes" overreact. "oh my god, he was doing "that" ya know" and stuff.
a poor, clueless, lifeless guy,...... Jick: yo jick you dont even know what your talking about shut the fuck up.
big ups. ppls kta the rest of the hammer could take one with the exception of a few.. aor RC keep holdin...... SKIP365 bbk ssp : anyone that says that this stupid toy neck face is a god knows NOTHING about graff.neck face scribbles his horrible tag with no handstyle. heres a few REAL legends.
cope
stay high 149
revs
cost
etc
neck face is no...... Aingeal: Being from the Bogside, Doire, (Derry). I've developed a strong sense of awareness, passion for all people, and the need to uphold my Irish heritage. I was saddened to read Seamus's (from the south) comments....... Hobson: I lived in Israel for 4 years in the early 70's. I bought one of these from a medical student who was leaving the country. It was 11 years old. I paid $125.00 for it....... sep1 N.P.S O.B.S: that piece is nice homie . keep doing wat u do . N DONT FORGET "COPS NEVER SLEEP CUZ WE NEVER STOP"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. alright man im out 1. ... Rudy: FROM THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE - March 18, 2008:
As of April 14, 2008, large trucks with more than two axles will no longer be allowed to travel through the Washburn Tunnel. Lately, large trucks often scrape...... DAMN: This page has been here for about 4 years and after reading all this shit i got the following
1) JA (if actually him) posted twice. TWICE!
2) Bombing gets the job done faster than piecing
3)JA's...... bubba: What I dont understand is....if so many people dont like the HA, why do you "know" so much about them. I cant count how many times I have just read that they are dope...... Post-84 New Jack: Thanks for the lolly, W-Bear. I'll be sure to pass it on to my son. He's teething right now and its a bitch.
As for you, Bilrock Rolling Thunder Whiter- oops, I mean Writer. You failed...... unitaz one: im feeelin THEM METRO pieces!! BAD ASS ARTWORK!! Props
UNITAZ1... Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Marissa
There was a reason it was named as such, because that piece of ground they were built on and the land stretching back to where it meets Boat lane, has only a couple of...... MERSE: Its all about writing clear...sure, it takes serious talent to be able to make sick wildstyle pieces, but when you can't fucking read it, and it takes you 3 hours to do, what the fuck...... Gav: real estate is a long slow thing. those properties are being amased by some developer that might be waiting for the last piece (little old lady)to fall into place. Think 20-25 yrs out,it's not that...... Peter: its {smug} and {osker}. i was holding my breath trying to not be the first to mention it and out myself as the resident graf nerd fanboy, for what its worth.
that photo is a great...... Rob Tynan: Hi Alan, Cyril
The doctors surgery is still there. It was originally built as a single storey building, because of the previous subsidence problems. The structure remained in one piece, so they added another...... Sheila Hilton: My children talked about playing on "the Jezzies". I didn't realise at first that they were talking about the jerry works. It was always the jerry works; never the jezzies when we were younger. We...... EvilGentleman: El, since they were government-funded homes originally intended for the families of veterans returning from WWII, it is most unfortunate that the government decided to stop funding them.
If you look at the comments in the...... Elicar: If something is dear to you, take care of it.
Nobody cared ENOUGH for Benny Farms. Otherwise, it would not be in such a state of disrepair.
Would you rather be sentimental and let the mosntrosity...... Peter: i gotta second it as {rems}... the new stuff on that wall is much more intricate and better; its generally ok to go over a simple piece with something of higher quality, which definitely seems...... REAP: yeah ja is a legend and has alot of stuff up but...thats not really cool how he went over sabers big piece...like i know saber dissed or went over one of ja's boys but saber...... j.smith: Shiny unhappy people
All is not well in the world of pearly royalty. Beneath the peacock feathers and rhinestone finery is stirring a nasty battle for the soul of the kingdom. In Guildford county court this...... Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hi Joanne,
I'm pleased to hear you have the information you have been looking for. At least now you can find some answers and piece together the early years of your life.... Good Luck.
Alan/Rob, ...... Rob Tynan: Does anyone from Cadishead remember the piece of land opposite Victory Road between Liverpool Road and the canal. It was owned by someone called Wilkie who it was said, used to chase kids off with...... Ronald V. Regan, Sr.: My mother (Paula/Polla) Zelius (married nams Regan) was born on BArren Island in 1906. HEr mother was Genevive, and dad was Vincente' Zelius.
There were a total of five children in the Zelius family. By......
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