Badoyle Racecourse, The writing is on the wall.
dublin |
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opinion/analysis 
Tuesday December 27, 2005 15:58
by W - Grassroots Dissent
A shout-out to NoiseHacker.
It looks like the end of days for Baldoyles graffiti "wall of fame", a quiet out of the way spot where young people could practice their art without worrying about the pigs or creating a public eyesore.
The development of €120 million worth of new homes on Baldoyle's racecourse will see not only the destruction of the "wall of fame" but also Baldoyles largest green space and most historic location. This will Leave locals with only two large public spaces, a park prone to dreadful flooding and a seafront with a "fantastic" view of three seperate golf-courses.
As "ugly" as some of this art is, it is at the very least a creative and productive way to spend ones time and it's not even on the side wall of your house. On the ground at the base of where the wall is being knocked down you can see the paint on this wall is eight or nine layers deep, dating back to when graf first hit Baldoyle in the mid-90's. Graffiti is a vent and a legal spot like this keeps it off your walls.
There's a good book on the history of Baldoyle and our Racecourse called "The View from the grandstand". Worth checking out as they build thousands of homes and a shopping centre across it.
Art Crimes; Ireland
http://www.graffiti.org/ireland/ireland_1.html
Baldoyle; Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldoyle
Irish Graffiti Photo Blog
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaqian/search/text:graffiti/
To get to the Baldoyle wall of fame take a dart to Sutton station, walk along the seafront until you reach the tatched cottage and jump over the wall beside it.
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Formerly Thatched Cottege.
Stylish cexy..
Map.
#5576
Does Dublin City Council remove graffiti?
Yes. DCC will remove graffiti, which is political or racist from public property only.
I feel safer already.
Thanks for sharing the above with us. Big shouts once again to Indymedia Ireland for supporting this archive project.
I’ll be back in 2006 with more exciting and challenging images! For an overview of 2005, 2004, 2003, check out this link.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72958
Noise Hacker
ahh this sucks i wanted to head out ther nyways .. ye ...thats a bummer
peace
In cities around the world Sony has been putting up graffiti to advertise the PSP. However, people are reacting. The Wooster Collective recently stated: “Maybe it’s just us, but as we start to receive photos from all over the country showing defaced Sony PSP ads, were starting to think that the Sony PSP graffiti campaign may indeed be a watershed moment in the battle between graffiti culture and advertising”. It is reported that Sony is paying the owners of buildings so they can put up graffiti that will attempt to get the kids to buy their products. More info and images below.
Wooster Collective: “The Sony PSP Graffiti Campaign May Be a Watershed Moment in the Battle”
http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/12/the_sony_psp_graffiti_campaign.html
Wooster collective gallery of defaced Sony PSP Graffiti Adverts
http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/12/woosters_growing_gallery_of_de.html
Sony Draws Ire With PSP Graffiti
http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69741,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
The (anti) Sony PSP Graffiti Campaign
"Graffiti and spray paint are very direct and rather radical means of expression. Tech art often has a motivation in activism, so the two go well together." [Jürg Lehni]
The ‘Graffiti Hacking’ is on the wall.
9 Quicktime Movies which demostrates Street Graffiti Hacking
http://ni9e.com/graffiti_analysis.html
Another Graffiti Hacker movie
http://a.parsons.edu/~roth/thesis/projection_05_15_05/video.htm
Graffiti Hacking
the photo you have labelled as 'The (anti) Sony PSP Graffiti Campaign' is incorrect ....that is the sony sanctioned graffiti done by tatoo cru......the writing beside it is anti sony graf.....
This one is from Glasthule in Sandycove, Co Dublin. I think its a good one! Does anyone know who the man in the image is?
pic from Sandycove
muralismo @ cork:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70860
learned a lot from the muralismos of estelli, revolutionary sandinista heartland of nicaragua:
hope to see muralismo spread all over the world, maybe a dublin project for 2006?
muralismo
Art is dead, but the student is necrophiliac. He peeks at the corpse in cine-clubs and theaters, buys its fish-fingers from the cultural supermarket. Consuming unreservedly, he is in his element: he is the living proof of all the platitudes of American market research: a conspicuous consumer, complete with induced irrational preference for Brand X (Camus, for example), and irrational prejudice against Brand Y (Sartre, perhaps).
Extract from "The Poverty of student life"
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/display_printable/4
The case against art by infamous lunatic pseudo-academic Zerzan.
http://www.primitivism.com/case-art.htm
INSURRECTION POSTER FROM NCAD
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7405/1836/1600/defastattack.jpg
wall-art in various forms existing now for ca. 50 000 years,results from 300 years of graffiti-research via our URL,also recommended latest no.33) volume "Muralism" of "Public ArtReview" just available
insurection
depends on what your view of what art is exactly, what it has been, what it might be
being creative is part of what gives the human animal his sense of being
why did he squash red rock and spit it, and put his hands in goo on wall thousands of years ago?
maybe it excited him?
why dance and do unplanned things in heat of an "insurection", excitment amongs other things?
when doing something creative it is exciting- sometimes one cannot help but do it
rts - something artistic, something political, something fun
why are there not hundreds, thousands, millions on streets of ireland?
what would have to be done to make that happen?
remember berlin....
1989 - 150 people bop on streets
1999 - 1,500,000 people bop on streets
can art change the world?
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71559
critical discussion @ monks garden, venice
(irish forgotten zine library arrives in venice bienelle, the "art olympics" )
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70090
art and politics- OPEN exhibition @ project- temple bar
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65045
INDYMEDIA stuff exhibited in Bosnia state art gallery
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/06/273494.html
INDYMEDIA stuff was exhibited in the state art gallery of Banja Luka, Srpski Republic (serb half of Bosnia) as part of ECO CITY GROUP`s 2 week exhibition there in april 2003. after the initial, 2 week long, stage of project: ECO CITY BANJA LUKA.
Dehors
http://easa.antville.org/stories/1026148/#1027941
Strange days, that’s life thoug. Maybe youd like to watch 2 films now:
FUSPEY film 1
http://www.archive.org/details/fuspey2004
OR HERE http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2003/06/273074.html
Streaming From The Gaff
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/327546.html
see you on the streets - you insurect and ill dance
2006 will see much dancing
we live here now
http://void.nothingness.org/archives/situationist/display/15733
living in the land of sex and sinners.......
gaudi gaudi gaudi SPASS SPASS SPASS
pic at sandycove could be James Connolly
i think it looks more like j.m.synge, author of "playboy of the western world".
sup ppl is der any one who can let me no a few legal spots for writing ...anyone!??
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