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Originally Posted by Norma J
Alexandros Vasmoulakis.
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That's gorgeous.
Locally, on the back of Banksy being somehow the most famous artist ever (he's from here) there's a load of council-sanctioned 'street art' that, while pleasant at times, has hacked off bits and bobs of the graf community. There is some good stuff, but I tend to think that it's more interesting in the local skate park, where the graf doesn't stay up for more than a month at best. Also, the kids in the skate park doing the graf don't tend to have degrees or the ability to fill in arts council applications, so there's a definite slant towards art that's not really representative of the local communities.
Also, there's a hell of a lot of well-meaning 'ooh, Disney/ McDonalds is capitalist' type stuff, the only good one of which is this one:
