{"id":11473,"date":"2017-08-01T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=11473"},"modified":"2021-09-11T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T08:13:10","slug":"painting-in-the-streets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/steemit\/painting-in-the-streets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PAINTING IN THE STREETS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"PostFull__header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong>PAINTING IN THE STREETS<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PostFull__body entry-content\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"MarkdownViewer Markdown\">\n<div>\n<p>Street art has a long history, with certain times and places like New York in the 80\u2019s being famous hotbeds of urban art action\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly my own hood, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand has a thriving street art scene. Unlike the old school street art, a big difference here is that this is not rushed illegal tagging, bombing, or graffiti. It\u2019s actually commissioned art work paid for by the city council.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmdWPDFoNR8H7R61XBEBxR2KHGF15BtfYPiGA788iyC1Qz\/street1.jpg\" alt=\"street1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here the artist turns up with a car full of paint, and spends days carefully painting it. Typically the art work is pretty big \u2013 up to about 5m x 3m (15 foot x 9 foot) in size.<\/p>\n<p>Often it does have an old school hip hop style, and you could imagine it was knocked out by a crew from New York in the 80\u2019s, but some of it is quite different.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmSXzEShVAaeQLrmpvUunBoD2epEUAu5rNmnw9e69FQ1Gd\/yo.jpg\" alt=\"yo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of my other favourite local artworks:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmRXgCSZLznkQezsAbVGFyhb4YzHtqSuBygyTYVHrTj7wm\/tram.jpg\" alt=\"tram.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmZXBeFZJY6DDLQczoPPqaJ61b9XVauHspDyzTvpmW9knh\/wall3.jpg\" alt=\"wall3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmY4bN9VZzVAwKnDPMRrN3NYsRzjXb2Lrydd27oKr7rvZu\/wall2.jpg\" alt=\"wall2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmfSTucGWoPK3GXRru665yQaJqPmUjGApqH87DmdefHPGN\/motorbike.jpg\" alt=\"motorbike.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The regular graffiti is just not as professional looking<\/p>\n<p>I also like to paint things, but my own art is just painted on little canvases, and they are strictly for indoor use, like delicate pedigree cats.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmaAsZVbuudxRS1An6d7t81ZoyXW8Bq6C6hfbVMBAnxwo6\/art1.jpg\" alt=\"art1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>I took the photos, but apart from this last painting of a pink dog none of the art is by me<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>MY MINIMALIST STEEMIT SIGNATURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/i.imgsafe.org\/bc47d3ff8c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/i.imgsafe.org\/bc1d48a059.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For more info, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/introduceyourself\/@sift666\/my-whopping-great-steemit-signature#@nonameslefttouse\/re-sift666-re-nonameslefttouse-re-sift666-re-nonameslefttouse-re-sift666-my-whopping-great-steemit-signature-20170505t010758927z\"><strong>MY WHOPPING BIG STEEMIT SIGNATURE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/i.imgsafe.org\/bc1840a363.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"QCZWJAooaw\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/frot-design\/painting-in-the-streets\/\">PAINTING IN THE STREETS<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/frot-design\/painting-in-the-streets\/embed\/#?secret=QCZWJAooaw\" data-secret=\"QCZWJAooaw\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;PAINTING IN THE STREETS&#8221; &#8212; FROT\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAINTING IN THE STREETS Street art has a long history, with certain times and places like New York in the 80\u2019s being famous hotbeds of urban art action\u2026 Surprisingly my own hood, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand has a thriving street art scene. Unlike the old school street art, a big difference here is that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[36,40,66,34],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14092,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/steemit\/badcock-beats-a-woman-to-death-with-a-stick\/","url_meta":{"origin":11473,"position":0},"title":"BADCOCK BEATS A WOMAN TO DEATH WITH A STICK","date":"June 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Down at our local art gallery, John Badcock is having an exhibition. He is a photo realist, and his lead painting is of a naked man beating a woman with a stick. 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