How’s about ye?! FGB (ig), Leo Boyd (ig), and KVLR (ig) added three pieces at the end of April to what is now the “Belfast Stories” construction hoarding. FGB’s piece, shown above, was inspired by the fact that the northern branch of North Street was called “Goose Lane” (tw) at the time of (Chichester’s) Belfast Castle, as herders headed through the north gate (see the map at Lennon Wylie).
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In the film Back To The Future, Doc Brown builds a time machine out of a DeLorean by adding a “flux capacitor”. In the second film in the series (IMDb), Doc and Marty take the DeLorean – now with a thruster and wheels that flip horizontally in order to act as jets – into the future (that is, 2015). The movie franchise has given a long life to a car that in practice was made – in Belfast – for only seven years (WP).
Street art by Glen Molloy in Corporation Street, Belfast.
Previously in Larne: Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines.
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If you don’t behave, you might end up like this person, whose punishment is to look at the street art in Union Street, outside the Sunflower.
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Street art by Rob Hilken (web | ig) in High Street and Church Lane, Belfast.
“My mural on the corner of Church Lane and High Street is inspired by the businesses in the immediate area. The circle forms represent sun and moon, the sun rising and setting at the beginning and end of the day and the moon illuminating the night sky. The colour palette evokes sunrise and sunset, and the glamour of the local nightlife. The local businesses include cafes serving food from morning until night, bars where people socialise until the early hours, as well as barbers, hairdressers, nail bars, piercing studios and tattooists for the image-conscious crowds that inhabit the area. The mural aims to add to the identity of the area as somewhere where people go to socialise as well as enhance their own image.”
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This mural is at the entrance to Dunclug Park, in Ballymena. The wall was formerly the site of ‘The Seven Ages Of Dunclug’ (C03798) which (like the Cú Chulaınn installation that is still standing) replaced a Tricolour. By emic (ig) with support from the Dunclug Youth Forum and the Housing Executive.
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Good Morning Ballymena (Fb) is a telephone helpline for the elderly. Emic has drawn a pair of wrinkled hands radiating a signal for the organisation in the Alexander Street car park.
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Here are images of street art in the green space off Queen’s Parade, (following on from Sharon Regan’s boards along the street – Nature Is Healing). The works are:
Friz’s (ig) Snow Patrol ‘Wildness’ cover for their “Ward Park 3” festival,
unknown artist “As they reach for the heavens/They forget to be earthly good”.
local artist Carla Hodgson’s (ig) “Rock, Paper, Scissors” octopus,
Codo (ig) x Jimbo Slice (ig),
FGB’s (ig) “Don’t look wack in Bangor”,
HM Constance’s (ig) stag.
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After centuries of pitiless exploitation by Bangor locals, a new hope is taking the knife into its own hand and striking back – revenge of the crustaceans. Work by Irony (ig) on Mill Row.
In Belfast: a lobster is boiled.
In Bangor: an octopus plays rock-paper-scissors.
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