man on a bike

A man on a bike goes through a tunnel

This place must be your favorite haunt. The man on a bike is so tiny. Nice photo

Stunningly beautiful image, graffiti and all.

I must admit that on the whole I dislike graffiti wherever it exists, particularly when its just a word or a name scrawled on a wall. but I think it added interest to the texture on the tunnel photograph. A little further away I found this, so some people have got time on their hands if they can spend it doing whatever its supposed to be. All this area is due for demolition in the near future so I don't suppose it matters too much.

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Originally Posted by masque

I dislike graffiti wherever it exists

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It's really no different to ancient cave art, Derek.
It's cultural, but somehow we think of the modern stuff differently to what they painted and scratched into rocks and cave walls..

As long as they paint it on their own cave wall I'm all for it, but when they deface property that is not theirs, imposing their statements of whatever they want on the rest of us, that's when I think flogging and forced labour are highly underrated. One man's cultural is another man's antisocial.

It's a great photo, Derek.

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Originally Posted by Big Frank

As long as they paint it on their own cave wall I'm all for it, but when they deface property that is not theirs, imposing their statements of whatever they want on the rest of us, that's when I think flogging and forced labour are highly underrated. One man's cultural is another man's antisocial.

It's a great photo, Derek.

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Good point Frank. I personally find graffiti repellent, although some is well done. There is an artist struggling to get out of those people and I guess that's their means of expression. Take the sidewalk pastel paintings I have seen on the web. I guess that's a form of graffiti too but a beautiful form. Why do I not think of that in the same way as other graffiti I can't help thinking, those are so nice that's it's a shame to put so much work into something that gets washed off in the first rain, but then it is graffiti none the less.

This stylish photograph gives me the impression of an eye. Out of the corner of which, the cyclist approaches in a dream-like scenario.

The image is superb Derek, the textures the lighting, the depth :-)


Of course there's graffiti and there's ... Banksy ...

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That's a good one zaphodeist. :D=D>