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Near Carnegie

"Identifying Toys" (for beginners)

Toys are often graffiti artists who have just started graffiti and are trying to establish an identity and develop a style. Their lack of skill is often criticized by established artists. They also don't fully understand the culture and the untaught rules like respecting elders and the notion "don't cap what you can't burn".

A classic toy mistake is getting the proportion of a piece wrong. Start the lettering large and shrinking or enlarge the letters as the piece goes on. 

This is an average graffiti piece. Maybe acceptable in a regional town but not in the dog eat dog world of Melbourne. It lacks total imagination each letter has the same shape. 

This piece displays a bold attempt to create a aesthetic piece. There is most of the core elements of a piece (fill, highlights, outlines). However it has poorly executed can control and spatial awareness. As many people learn in kindergarten colour in between the lines not over them.... 

Abandoned Woolshed, Launceston, Tasmania

North of Launceston CBD lies the suburb of Invermay. The town is largely built on a former swampland associated with the Tamar and North Esk Rivers. The low-lying landscape makes it prone to flooding. Markers on electricity poles illustrate past flood peaks (including the devastating 1929 flood). The Launceston City Council and Launceston Flood Authority have invested a significant amount of money to reduce the future impact of floods. In May 2015 Launceston councilors voted to demolish the former Tasmanian Woolgrowers agency store as part of the compulsory acquisition associated with the construction of the flood walls. 

This big building has been empty for a long time. There's plenty graffiti art accumulated on the walls. Its going to be sad to see another site lost to the "progress" of development. Local bmx kids have claimed the smooth wooden floors by sweeping tracks and making some sick DYI jumps.

Belgrave Line Beef

Cevor and Sider have started a battle around the Belgrave-Lilydale train lines. Cevor deliberately wrote over one of Sider's most prominent pieces and said "You wanted it." Since this happened many of cevor's pieces have been capped in retaliation, including at Croydon, Ferntree Gully and Upwey train stations.

Fresh is Best Part 1.

Hosier Land, Melbourne

Check out these fresh 2015 pieces from Melbourne's little laneway.

Burnie's Creative Side

Just last year saw the demolition of an iconic abandoned building in Burnie. Nestled right next to the Bass Hwy, this building was a part of another era. It was abandoned for close to ten years and the Burnie Tourism Association wanted it demolished. This was the Burnie hub for street-art and graffiti until it was knocked down last year. Further information on http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/692823/burnie-eyesore-still-standing/

 Before

 After

 Roof of the Building

The wall that faced the Bass Hwy.

Residential piece

Opposite the Mordialloc High School lies this legal piece. This is a well executed piece with a complex letter-form. It incorporates a stylized character which is cheekily admiring the piece. Nice use of a wide range of colours including non traditional fill of pink and light blue. 

Mordialloc

"No Boundaries"

 Underneath the Western Ring Rd of Melbourne, I found this... Its rare to see fade out pieces without outlines. Its a lot harder to produce pieces like this and still maintain the overall flow of work.

Glenroy

Testosterone

Hidden walls in suburbs and cities are safe place for artists to express their feelings. Graffiti is dominated by heterosexual, male artists (often ego trippers). These are the more pleasant graffiti pictures, which to large extent avoids misogynistic graffiti sometimes seen mostly in male toilets and under bridges. I have never seen any graffiti which is by females idolizing the male genitalia. This is probably reflected by the way different genders think. 

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Its simple and probably not scientifically sound but you get the idea.

 Rowville

 North Melbourne

This attempts to counteract all the erect dicks, and illustrates the bleeding obvious that no one has erections all the time, even in this hyper-sexualized  society we live in.  

 Rowville

Again another image idolizing the male genitals making it look strong and powerful.

Hugh Dunit

Renowned Melbourne artist from 1980's. Using the moniker Hugh Dunnit to say who done it (graffiti)? Known as a king from his era. Some pieces remain, but many have been painted over. He was a pioneer, making use of high accessible walls, inaccessible to buffers to produce heavens (pieces above ground, usually on rooftops or buildings).

For more photos http://graffitiphotofreaks.tripod.com/Graffiti_Photofreaks/id33.html

Richmond

Random pic

Sydney

Abandoned (Tepid Baths), Hobart

Down on the Southern Island of Australia is the smallest state, Tasmania. Despite only 1/2 million people on this island and 200,000 of those in Hobart, the graffiti scene is well established.

Hobart Graffiti (Tepid Baths)

(Repost)

Sinch lives on.......

Since the death of prominent graffiti writer Sinch, many writer's have taken to the streets to commemorate a dedicated graffiti bomber. 

Noble Park, next to Princes Hwy

Noble Art

You rarely come across walls plastered with tags. The general rule is if you can paint something better cap it. But in this case other writers have respected the tags by not painted over it. 

While society hates tags, graffiti writers admire the hand style used. Graffiti is one of the only art-forms which pushes the boundaries of what is aesthetically pleasing by the confronting, product placement.   

Back lane in Noble Park

Space savers

Graffiti is basically changing the style of the letter-form but keeping the essence of its structure. Graffiti artists do some amazing works in a small limited space. This concrete wall is only about one meter wide and yet 5 letters are squeezed on and the piece remains legible.

Greensborough, Victoria

MR and Yucks in Oakleigh

Where have we come from?

I searched through the inter-web to try and find the oldest photo of graffiti. I found this from the Victorian State Library records. 

I came up with this pic of Box Hill from 1977. Graffiti has changed a lot since then. This photo shows graffiti as a dialogue between the writer and society. This wall faces the train line and would be seen by the passing train audience. The political graffiti is indicative of the time it was painted during a period of political awareness and progressive thoughts and ideas.  

Graffiti

South Yarra

Claiming your yard

Melbourne's south-eastern suburb of Dandenong is known for its bad reputation. With  little graffiti around town, this area is competitive with most high profile spots already taken particularly by notoriously productive KSA crew (Kicking Some Ass). 

Shoam piece in Dandenong. 

Whose land?

The Shipping container has been painted on so called "private property." 

Street view Jan 2010

It looks like a paint and run job which looks old only because the paint has been hammered by the hot afternoon sun (west facing). 

Gorge Rd, Yarrambat, Oct, 2014

Someone's noticed a prominent, prestigious spot high on the hill with a captive car audience. They've painted a shitty throw-up. Another crew or two have come along noticed the lack of talent and capped the work and produced something, they think is better. Street view enables us to look back and view the history. 

1984 fast forward to 2014 Big Brother is watching

Video surveillance is meant to make the public feel safe. However its actually a strategic way to monitor and  control civilians. More CCTV does not reduce crime.

New upgraded Mitcham train station

There is a strong anti-surveillance sentiment from the graffiti community.