Just to kick it off with a royal flavour.

You beat me to that with seconds to spare?? : )

Love the silos painted – they look like giant rolls of carpet.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . This is the life that goes
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I waited for quite a while for the damn seagulls to behave. Threw bread at them; made silly noises; nearly got run over by a car; but every time they came past I?d just got tired of holding down the focus button?

Tons more here

This is another one of my faves.

You can see what a gaping hole it fails to cover.

Andre took art off the pedestal. But we demolished the pedestal too.

Far out.

I didn't capture the scale at all well, but it really is rather overwhelming in situ, considering it's about fifty foot high.

1) Park bench, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, Wirral. May 16 2012

2) & 3) Brick Lane, London, May 28 2012

Oh, carry on! It's like you were waiting for the day.

Wow, I hope those banks are well pinned down!

Heads of state...
the Queen has company?
and is that corrugated irony I spy as well...

That's a fantastic way to add to a tourist tour of sites, as well as just generally improving an urban environment.

I put up that photo mainly for your amusement. ;-)

Since we seem to be stretching the ?Street Art? theme somewhat.

Don't know what you mean. ;-)

Fantastic stuff, everybody.

Well, funnily enough I wasn?t referring to your rubble or container banks, as it happens. ;-)

More tagging than art, but the chairs make it special...

Papamoa!
Sweet. Was it you that had the Heath Ledger Joker one? That was scary good.

WOW!

One of my favourites, now gone of course, is another of Askew One's pieces.

Monday, I?ll be on it!

Great.

I?m going on the hunt for more hidden treasures too. There does seem to have been a greying out of much of the inner city.
Art off the beaten track ? found in a old toilet block at Waikowhai Reserve, Hillsborough.?

I like that. The buildings fight back.

Cool, I'll have to have a wander when I am working in Chch for a few days in a week or so.

A few more: Here

Great David. These are spectacular.

I like Askew?s silos, but his paint splattered cherry picker was even cooler.
#like

Is meta-photography a thing? Apparently it is. ;-)

A million miles away from?.

part way down Dominion Road

Awesome!

How very cool/nice/grouse/good.

Yes! Full of viridian ghosts.

So much amazing artwork in this thread.

Man, the random tags on top are sucky. Couldn't they find a blank wall??

Post, then edit and add photo. Can have up to 3 in a post but have to add them one at a time.

Great stuff everyone. So glad this thread is bringing out the good stuff from all over the country.

LOVE that middle one! A very energetic drain.

?. the skyline is not what it was nora

Heh. :-)

Maybe someone left her cake out in the rain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eQOYimLUt4&feature=related

The side of a new building, nearing completion, in Wynyard Qtr.

Talk about just desserts for such an infamous song.

Nice pics David, like the shells over on the other thread, this here's Westhaven...

Look closely for the odd detail

i'll try again when there are no cars.....

Still sloganeering after all these years.

Fat boy, round the back of the PKU School of Government building (why I chose the Art on the Street thread, but I promptly forgot as soon as I went to upload photos).

Dawn light, reflected twice to hit the back of the?

Am I imagining it, or is the only non-brown part of him the tip of his penis? Is that deliberate, from wear, or vandalism?

I can think of several possibilities. One is the combination of my crappy cellphone and the reflected at least twice dawn light on the last clean air day before that wave of apocalyptic pollution made it up to the northwest of Beijing. Wear, though,?

Wider shot reveals the secret of their cheerfulness despite being out in the midday sun on one of the particularly warm days a?

No offence to the fat boy, but you don't get a population of one point something billion without the occasional hook up....

Anyways, he got a bit snowed on yesterday.

And apparently somebody in Beijing wants to restart the Boer War, or something...

Well-behaved statues on the wharf, naughty people on the lake.

...this road that gets too much traffic to be reduced to one lane carved out by passing cars. Gee, thanks Xialufengying for all the practice driving in snow.

The trees all lined up?

Made for a beautiful dawn, though. Those little bumpy bits in the background are the peaks of the Jundushan, the mountain range that separates us from Beijing.

She loves striking a pose, she's got it down to a fine art. Then after a few poses she runs up to?

?Reminder from the people?s police:
Many thefts occur here. Please pay attention to protecting your valuables.?

I like how Chinese police post notices like this, either notices or reminders or pleas for locals who may have witnessed an incident in the area to come forward.

And you think?

? means male, man, masculine. ??(nánrén) means man or men. Full slogan (white characters along the top + ??) reads "Cut off the cigarette in your hand, go back to being a real man". On the wall of Yanqing County Hospital.?

And I'm told that when I was out setting off the New Year morning fireworks – just to make sure Nian gets the message – that she was bouncing up and down, hands in the?

Manhole cover disguised as a puffa fish.

Reminds me of a shop in Madrid called Fancy Men. Do have a photo somewhere, but it would have to be located and scanned....

¡Sí Señor!

Take your pick, votes please..... personally I rather like Numero Uno, though Numero Dos counters this cloudy grey day rather well.

Numero Uno
Numero Dos

Sorry all, I?ve been neglecting you.

Then the corresponding part of Askewone?s?

And Askew with Olivia, who seemed to be there attending to business a lot of the time.

or an outbreak of club foot?

but here is the evidence of the club foot outbreak....

Amazingly, someone has gone through a lot of trouble and money to preserve this sign. It was carefully braced, lifted, and hauled off in one piece this week. To where I do not know.

that structure has improved so much since last time I was down there