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Late-July 2023 Photo Uploads
Thanks to: Esmeralda; Kellan and Maddie; Brooklyn Street Art; @Louniki_; @radicalgraffiti; @regoef; @mensch_huis; trifluoracetic-acid; FICKxDINGERZ
Spinning: PetroDragonic Apocalypse and a DJ Pod 2000 birthday mix-tape
Austria (just one)
Canada (just one)
Illinois, USA
Peru (just one)
Philly, USA (just one)
Viking Graffiti in Scotland
Maeshowe's Runes - Viking Graffiti
When Maeshowe was first excavated, in 1861, the chamber's original entrance passage was inaccessible.
So, to allow access, the excavators drove a shaft down through the top of the mound. Once inside, however, they found proof that that they were not the first to have broken into the tomb. The walls of the Stone Age chamber were covered in with runic graffiti.
The 30 inscriptions found in Maeshowe, make it one of the largest, and most famous, collections of runes known in Europe.
According to Orkneyinga saga, over 800 years previously, in the darkness of an Orkney winter, a group of viking warriors had sought shelter from a terrible snowstorm.
Leading the men was Earl Harald, who, at Christmas, 1153, was making his way from Stromness to the parish of Firth.
New Pics - SNIK - then mostly just one or two
Thanks to: Esmeralda; Brooklyn Street Art; @Louniki_; @radicalgraffiti; @regoef; @mensch_huis; trifluoracetic-acid; FICKxDINGERZ
Spinning: the laundry
A few more from the UK
The Rebel Bear (just one)
Osch (just one)
Just one in Vienna
Bambi (just one)
One from Hungary
One from Norway
One from Sweden
Slovenia (just one)
New Pics - An Early July Mish Mash
Thanks to: Esmeralda; Kellan and Maddie; Brooklyn Street Art; @Louniki_; @radicalgraffiti; @regoef; @mensch_huis; trifluoracetic-acid; FICKxDINGERZ
Spinning: Spartanburg Phish; Frost Dead; birds and traffic; Winterland Dead; Acoustic Junction filler
>NEW< DJLU (CO)
Cartooneros (in London)
In the UK
Misstencil (just one)
Sol back in SF!
Empty Boy
Detailed photo-based stencil artist from Bogota, and frequent collaborator with Stinkfish.
Martin Whatson
Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aesthetic combining abstract movement with figurative stencilled compositions.