Graffiti — Street Art — Urban Art

Gallery 3
from November to December 2014

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Some Graffiti and a Knock

The panoramas 26 and 33 are a commissioned work on the back of a sports stadion nearby. The other three panoramas are graffiti from an underpass.

Notice: When we photographed them, an older woman turned around and looked at us like a werewolf. She obviously thought, we would be gangster???!!! She was at the other side of the street, not stopping to stare, and finally I put my arms on the railings, starring at her, too. Yuck! I was nerved of her pushiness. A minute until she turned away.

And double yes: Every image has its own history.

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Message in a bottle and sunsets

Not having solved the problem with our Graffi-Tours-Mobile, we are still back on the road again. You can find a small industrial estate in the near of the harbour, freight wagons and small walls of approximately one meter height.

Some wagons are from Berlin/Potsdam, what the sprayer noted. The style is surely different.

And you find wagons, which come from the French frontier or were driven through France, because the graffito-style and the shadows are not like »German Art School« (see image 1, above).

Like a Message in a Bottle this wagons are driving through Europe, sending us a graffiti style and greetings from an other world.

Mobile Art Exhibitions
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Because of the beginning night, some photo are blurred, sorry. The second photo above is from a hidden wall of a building. Its rear stood near a family of bushes. You can find a depot for trams, a commissioned graffiti work at the wall of a hot-dog stand and much scribbling from dark sides, too. We have to hurry. This suburb is dangerous ...

Notice: ... sometimes there walk people, who do not use their knives to cut tomatoes and onions, but who are »off their onion« and want to show how strong they are.

But the sprayer were active, at least many month before, and used much neon-colours, which our camera like to take with its flash.

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Railways, Railways and again and again Railways

A little trip in the surrounding of our suburban. It was a foggy, cold evening and thick fog wandered over the fields behind the industrial buildings. They seemed much more unfriendly in the fog with some trees without leaves. In the moment, it became dark at 16.30. Light in the windows of the companies. Busy looking secretaries behind their monitors, some workers leaving, tired, but with quick steps. Some of them had no cars, no bicycles.

We took a tripod and flash. Under the bridge, it was much darker ... One big graffito on a »prison wall« (a noise protection wall). We avoid do walk far away from our car. Later, a man watched us. He waited near a little railway station. He phoned, he followed us.

All over, people do not like photographers, if they do not wear shorts and sunglasses. And those guys and girls, who take shots from graffiti walls seem to be real devils.

Best photo: BIG 21. A ghost-shop, left for years. Crumbled away colour let the front look like wearing a graffito. The lights of the passing cars ... STOP!

I forgot: You must have MY VERY OLD TUBE MONITOR, this one, which makes no difference between brown, blue, green and black and which let image 15 and image 24 look ultra black. If not, you must work with the tone curve and darken the whole picture, to get the atmosphere. But then: real atmosphere, real art! And the others ... Yeah!

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A Suburban Railway Station in the Dark — 10-Minutes-Snapshots

It was a spot trip with time pressure. 500 meters to a health food store, where we bought our milk and vegetables. We always buy there, not only because of our health and to strengthen the organic market, but also to help the natural animal keeping.

You know, that they put thousands living chicks in a shredder if they are male, because they only need hens?

We only eat eggs from happy hens.

We had only ten minutes for the photos. 70 steps down to the station with the big panorama. The night-modus failed and we must take a flash. Hard to stitch. We hurried under the near bridge. Photos. 70 steps up, over the bridge, again downstairs. Back to our Graffi-Tours-Mobile ...

Yes, we hurried indeed, because we had a date with a car garage. They see a technical change to save our Graffi-Tours-Mobile. 4 meters metal to weld ... We will see and you will hear ...

By the way, the prices, the inflation ... By chance, we had a look at an online shop ... You know, that our Digicam Samsung UCA-3 will bring 0,87 EU cent = 0,50 dollar cent, if you want to sell it? We find, snapshots are snapshots. Why more and more better and higher polished photos? Our old camera into the trash? No! It makes wonderful snapshots. Our old car into the trash? No! Its driving us from A to B. Is there no way to combine progress and sustainable thinking? — Please?

Do not sleep during the economic lessons. Think better, what you need or throw away.

We have only one planet.

The panorama is very well, I think. Sizes? One brick wall section is 4 meter high and has a width of 3 meters. We present some round-shots, that you can see where we were, where the graffiti-sprayer worked ...

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Some Shots on a long long Walk

8 km back and forth to the bio-supermarket. A nice round along a 50 m wide river with much rushes, meadows, lights of the city and high and low tide. We had high tide and walked parallel to the water. It was cold. At 04 pm it is dark outside. Generally it is dark outside, because it rains, rains, rains cats & dogs. No it rains elephants & whales.

Oh, I forget, elephants and whales had nearly been extincted. Yes! I have it! It rains cyanide. Because the mines plunged headlong. And the engineers told us: Sorry, we have not seen the desaster. Also they did not recognize that the barrels with nuclear waste were rotten. Maybe they put their cameras on the wrong side and behind a curtain. They have to. I must trust them? Whom I can trust?

Back to the multiple rain.
YOU don't go out!
YOU don't go out to make photos!
And YOU dooon't gooo ooouuut, if you have to go by foot because your car is in the garage. Sorry.

We show you some graffiti of our surrounding. So you see, that we are yet there.

In some days we plan a short trip to shoot a handful new photos, too.
And if our Graffit-tours-mobile is repaired again ... and if it is not raining ... we will drive in three other suburban areas estimated 15 km away, where we expect a lot of graffiti.

It is an ideal zone. Because there are nooo jobs, nooo money, a lot of blocks and skyscraper and young adventurers. You drive 25 minutes with the car. But if you take bus and tram, you have to change three to four times — duration: 1,5 hours. Too much time!

We are pleased to see mooore, mooore, mooore graffiti, you tooo?

S T O P! Am I neoliberal, if I want always more?
Let me have a look in my bank safe with the share (of stock) papers. Empty? Damn!

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Fog & Frost on Xmas

Hello, hello, and happy Xmas!
We are back again with two famous galleries on a cold winter day.

At first, you can see the backside of an industrial building with a very coloured graffiti-wall. It was a hilly ground and some snapshots were blurred, so we can't stitch them.
Photos: Pano 01 and 02, Snapshots 1-13 belong together. The big graffiti are on a balcony is five meter height.

Then we drove to a siding with 12 rails. It became dark and we have to hurry (like always!). The siding is not more than 100 m away from the harbour. Fog quickly arose.
On some photos, you can see it very clearly (best on pano 13 — the shimmering dots are fog pearls).
The big steam (pano 15, 17 and snapshot 33, 37 etc.) is no fog but cold breathe after a sprint.
Pano 17 and snapshot 37 belong together.
Some other could not be stitched because of the diffuse light.

And isn't he a wonderful BANANA MAN on pano 06?

And yes, I have a new monitor, because my old black-picture-monitor on day says BYE. Hope, I will overwork the gallery by time.

NOOO FEEEBLE now,
because I now CAN see what I DO, yeah ?!?
It will be SUPERCORRECT or maybe not?!?

And yes, we have back our Graffi-Tours-Mobile. 4 m metal on the ground and on the spars and and and ... Now, we are mobile again. Hurrah!

But that means not, that we have time. What a luck, that the siding is only 3 km away and that the wagons are coming and going. Maybe it could be exciting ...

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