Midtown by Phil Penman.
11 Likes
What an image. It actually makes you draw your shoulders in against the cold and wet.
3 Likes
There’s a 1950s/60s GEC design for 400W from 10 KT88s in P-P (5+5). But I count 11 big bottles in the pic …
1 Like
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels,
9 Likes
True.
But she never put out any oil rig fires, did she?
5 Likes
If you were guessing how graffiti art arrived in the UK, you might think of films like Wild Style, Bombin’, Style wars or Beat Street inspiring budding Banksys. The truth is a little more obscure—and it predates those films by a few years. The story starts here:
The Clash were in New York City, where they befriended Futura 2000 (a friend & fellow exhibitor with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Dondi). They loved the energy of his work and brought him on their world tour to paint live backdrops as they played. When the UK leg kicked off in 1981, Futura wandered the train lines—as was his wont—and painted..
The first aknowlewdged piece of Graffitti art in the UK was
On the met line in Ladbrooke Grove which became the hot bed for Graffitti in the UK subsequently.
Funny to think of how this proliferated, into contemporary culture today - So much of Graphic Design, advertising, street cluture fashion etc all traced back to 1 New Yorker on his day off.
9 Likes
To catch the Dogs and Cats to sell on?
2 Likes
looks like a Patterdale on the left.
1 Like
Why is bowler hat man holding a very small boy in his right hand?
Has he run out of meat and about to feed him to the canines?
3 Likes
WEE CHILDREN! FIRST OF THE SEASON!!
1 Like
From Glasgow Reddit.
7 Likes
That’s got to be staged, surely?
Possibly but the reddit thread suggests it’s not. I’m inclined to think it’s not been staged.
It’s the West End so possibly some arty student things going on… However, that could easily been a picture of my girlfriend and I back in 97 or 98 not long after Absinthe was made legal again.
2 Likes
/r/accidentalrenaissance is the place for that.
1 Like