Throw-ups on the Dandy line

Some of Melbourne's most productive artists. Covering surfaces quickly, a throw-up provides an alternative to an elaborate piece. Simple yet effective

 

Pam stands

Pam the Bird-Blog post

The unveiling of the larger than life identity of Pam the Bird comes in the face of the law. Pam painted Melbourne and it's really unfortunate how the city has symbolically failed to embrace a vibrant underground street art/graffiti culture. It stays contained to areas like Hosier where unless you're ten feet tall, struggle to find a new spot. Artists need to go further afield. A targeted crackdown will see the accused appear in the magistrates court alongside another writer of heights.   

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The Guardian-Pam

St Kilda junction

An entre serving of the St-Kilda junction walls before the main course blog post served later.

 

Backstreets of Brighton

Highway/Freeway graffiti in Melbourne is a relatively recent phenomenon. It kicked off across many arterial roads around 2010. Nowadays its full of tags, throw-up, elaborate pieces. The Eastern and Monash Freeways are plastered with graff. Drive west and the pieces are double storey stompers. The boundary is limitless (Sofles). Throw Pam the bird into the mix, who seemingly fly's around Melbourne and suddenly nothing is impossible and the limits shifts again. The level gets lifted and suddenly the whole scene is shaken up for a recalibration. Pam the bird is just mocking the city's ability to kid a lid on the graffiti scene. Painting The Westgate road signs and the Cheese-stick and everywhere else in-between. 

The train lines are central to the history and development of almost any graffiti scene world-wide. The freeway scene added this intersectionality with train lines. Crews have new territory to claim. Some Freeways follow train lines the classic being the Nepean Hwy and the Frankston & Sandringham line where you get the likes of crews like Criminally Insane. Alternatively The Eastern Fwy catches the Dandy/Pakenham, Belgrave and Glen Waverly lines. All of which have a long history of writers including the staunch and unwavering Kicking Some Ass and Midnight Rockers.  

Few flicks from Brighton. Good graffiti amongst the yuppified landscape.   

300th post-Bradmill

Bradmill sits as a hollow empty shell where life was once abundant with workers in the cotton textile factory. The industrial complex silent, filled now with the sounds of the busier then ever West Gate Freeway and the occasional train. The building stands as a monument of the west sides former blue collar workforce. Yarraville history and origin fades with relics of its former glory like Bradmill stand still amongst the 'progress' and development of residential urban sprawl. Capturing infill development of spaces rezoned for much needed housing, even though we don't pause to consider the increasingly affluent aspirations of the middle class. 

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Rural tennis courts

Abandoned, north central Victoria

 

Jewel Spiders upon entrance

Fairfield-2016