“Graffiti (singular: graffito;) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted.”
There are some really gifted Graffiti artists out there today expressing themselves on walls, billboards, seats and pretty much anywhere they can convieniently or not so convieniently access. Whether they are graffic designers expressing themselves outside of the workplace, teens fighting the man or the local community support group commissioning a work of modern art to brighten up the neighbourhood a lot has to be said for this type of Art … when its done right.
Lets face it anyone can sign their name on a corner, shop shutter or gate but can everyone do this;
Smashing Magazine have gathered 40 Stunning and Creative gaffiti Artworks for our enjoyment from which I found ekosystem.org which has some really nice examples of graffiti pictures
I’ve taken one or two myself too and I would be interested to hear what you think so please feel free to post your comments
Well thats how long it is until I hit the road from Rosslare to Roscoff, France on a Motorbike trip for a week, I just thought I’d mark it with a count down
Well 5 friends set out from Howth on a very very cold Saturday morning for the 26Km walk from Howth to Dun Laoghaire in aid of Save The Children of Eldoret. Its was a great day with a little pit stop on the way for a nice pint of the cold stuff.. mmm
The premis for the walk was an email from my friend Clare
“I watched the Ross Kemp Kenya special on Sky 1 on Monday and was so moved by what I saw that I am just unable to shake it. I am never usually affected by what I see on TV, its just TV and we have all grown up seeing some fairly horrendous imagery between movies and news reports.
There is a part in the show that highlights the street children of Eldoret, who live in a community where all are addicted to glue. When I watched it I just broke down and I just cant seem to get it together since. I was telling Al about it the next morning and burst into tears again. There is a scene in the show, where a toddler falls over and her mother, instead of comforting her, hands her a bottle of glue. Seeing a mother giving glue to her toddler who cant have been any older than two has absolutely broken my heart. and watching a man I assume to be the father of a young girl picking her up from the street where she is lying, too stoned on glue to move…. I have never witnessed anything so moving. Im fairly sure that this has all been sparked by the fact that the little kid was the same age as Anna, but for whatever reason, I still cry now when I think about it.”
Well its been a while since I have got around to posting between work work and freelance work I have been up to my eyes as well as fracturing my ankle (sniff) so here is a quick update that I will be adding some new projects to my portfolio in the coming weeks.
I have just put the finishing touches to www.explorelightcommissions.com, this was a nice project to work on as Ed and Peter wanted to keep the existing design already in use on explorelight.com but simply remove the shopping cart functionality and add some more informational pieces as well as a more comprehensive navigation. Slideshowpro was used for the gallery, with wordpress on the backend with some nice js for the menu.
Next up I will be doing some more work for Ed and Peter two great photographers building a shop using CubeCart, Slideshow, some fancy backend php and js and finally to complete the work for Ed and Peter which included a Newsletter template for Campaign Monitor and a flier I will be revamping edgordonphotography.com to bring it in line with all 4 sites.
Also in the pipeline is a site called PlantAWall for a fantastic invention but I’ll say no more for now and finally another revamp and restructure for the guys at icom technologies
Comments as always welcome, and check back soon to see the work
Well Happy New Year to all, Christmas was very quite with the usual too overdose of alcohol but hey it was Christmas.
I had a very reserved new year this year with a nice home cooked meal of Beef Wellington, a reserved but enjoyable amount of alcohol and the customary Jools Holand Hootenanny which we excellent. I was especially pleased at the return of Seasick Steve whose performance both last year and this was supreme!
Steve Wold aka Seasick Steve, is an American bluesman, although he denies that what he plays as being blues, and calls himself “a song and dance man”. He plays guitars (mostly personalised), and sings. When asked about his nickname, Steve said: “because it’s just true: I always get seasick. [Read more about Steve]
If anyone missed this unmissable event you can of course catch up on all the action on the official BBC website
