Street Art

Божественото не е нещо високо над нас. То е на небето и на земята, то е вътре в нас.

— Морихей Уешиба

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven and on earth, it is within us.

— Morihei Ueshiba

Marvin The Paranoid Android from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie 2005.

Габровецът винаги пие с мярка, иначе може да изпие по-малко.

*Малката ракия е бягане от отговорност

The man from Gabrovets always drinks in moderation, otherwise he might drink less.

*Little brandy is an escape from responsibility

Text on the top:

Винят мозне оиче

Blame it on the brain

"всички възрастни хора са били най-напред деца"

— Из "Малкият Принц"

"All adults were children first"

— From The Little Prince

Из "Тримата братя и златната ябълка" - Българска народна приказка

From "The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple[a]" - Bulgarian folk tale

Това, дето ми е на главата, мога да сваля, но това, дето ми е в сърцето, не мога да извадя.

из "Косачи[b]" Елин Пелин

What's on my head I can take off, but what's in my heart I can't take off.

from "Mowers" Elin Pelin

Нищо не повишава доверието то между хората така както капарото.

Дюкяни[c]

Nothing builds trust between people like a down payment.

Dukyani

The sign, Дюкяни / Dukyani, refers to small traditional shops.

Чисто нов потник ... За 50 години ти и ба ша ти му видяхте сметката...

Грух Грух

A brand new tank top... In 50 years, you and your father saw his bill...

Gruh Gruh (oink oink)

2019 Рачо Бурата

2019 Racho Burata

"Свободата е на върха на копието"

Мигел де Сервантес С.

из "Дон Кихот"

"Четенето направи Дон Кихот рицар, а вярата в прочетеното го направи умопобъркан"

Дж Барнард Шоу

"Freedom is at the tip of the spear"

Miguel de Cervantes S.

from Don Quixote

"Reading made Don Quixote a knight, and believing in what he read made him mad"

George Bernard Shaw

"Полето ражда тикви"

Балканът-хора

"The field bears pumpkins"

The Balkan people

В Търново има ч посоки: нагоре надолу, по стълбите, и към стария град в Габрово.

There are four directions in Tarnovo: up, down, on the stairs, and to the old town in Gabrovo.

"По цели нощи той разсъждаваше и тютюнът се превърна в огнена мечта, която изгаряше въображението му."

из "Тютюн", Д. Димов[d]

"For whole nights he reasoned, and the tobacco became a fiery dream that burned his imagination."

from "Tobacco", D. Dimov

"Орел, рак и щука."

Петко Р. Славейков

"Eagle, crab and pike."

Petko R. Slaveikov

Taken from a fable popularly known by the same name[e], about three animals tasked to pull a cart - and failing miserably due to pulling in different directions without anyone being able to tell who is right and who is wrong.

Ти ставаш оповорен завинаги за това, което си опитомил.

You become cursed forever for what you have tamed.

This quote, and the next, are probably from The Little Prince[f]. The two paintings are on opposite sides of the same transformer.

Най-същественото е невидимо за очите.

The most important thing is invisible to the eyes.

This quote, and the previous, are probably from The Little Prince[g]. The two paintings are on opposite sides of the same transformer.

A spriggan[h] sculpture by Marilyn Collins.

Close-up of Marilyn Collins's spriggan[i] sculpture.

The remains of the abandoned Crouch End station. One of the two platforms is to the right, and the remains of the station house can be seen in the upper left. Disused Stations has a nice writeup with historical photos of the station[j].

I saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by madness and lust

I have no idea what the heart is for and who Basil is. The text is a modified version of the first two lines of Howl by Allen Ginsberg:

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
    madness, starving hysterical naked,

— Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"[k]

The whole piece, in all its glory. This shot is primarily intended for documentary purposes and is a 185 megapixel image that I assembled from five composite images. It is the first time I do a composite of composites, and this is the so far biggest image I've produced. Since the whole wall couldn't be seen from one spot, I moved between five different locations. The result is that some items (like the black column in the middle) are seen from both left and right, and nothing above the wall matches; as well as nothing surrounding the entrance to the youth club. I've not spent any time trying to get those bits to fit - I figure you're here for the piece and nothing else. The worst bit is the part behind the basketball basket. I stuck the camera in below the basket and then warped the resulting image into place, but at the top of the space where the basket used to be the image underwent considerable distortion. The sky is from a photo taken in Husby. The sky was horribly overexposed in the original, and I thought I would just cut it away - but that didn't work; the big empty area was too distracting. So I figured I might as well put some sky in there. It is a poor comp job, I know. But it's not the point of this image.

This is the state of most of the paint. Hopefully the piece will last another 23 years, at least!

Curt Cobain Rest in Peace, graffiti on the back of the tunnel opening.

The "Pacha Mamma" mentioned at the bottom is Pachamama, the life-giving all-mother that appears in many South American belief systems; in which she is a counterpoint to the "Creator God". When the Catholics came, this setup was mapped onto the Virgin Mary as Pachamama and the Christian God as the creator God. Already one can note the conspicuous absence of one Christian figure in this setup: Jesus. It was in fact quite surprising to me how big a part Mary plays in everyday faith in Peru. There are festivals to the Holy Virgin and she appears in many shapes in churches and cathedrals, often more prominently than Jesus. Perhaps this is the old goddess Pachamama elbowing others out of her way to stand, front and center, in a new shape, on the new stage afforded her by Christianity when the prominence given to her was, intentionally or unintentionally, transferred to Mary?

Not what I'd consider "great art", but the message here - "Water, Yes - Mine, No" - is a very current issue in Peru. It is about a prospected gold mine in northern Peru. The method of extraction used is cyanide leaching[l] - basically, the ground up rock is washed in cyanide which washes out the gold. This method comes with the risk of accidents and cyanide spills[m].

Clinton

1977-2002

R.I.P

In memory of Jenny

Jenny miss U

Art Arnin Sanive (or Sanine)

All Migthy

Should probably be "All Mighty", but left misspelled as search engine transcription.

Clinton R.I.P Jenny

Example of art on the roller shutters of a store. On the right shutter a pair of something that looks like the "Happy Fish" by Pez can be seen making up the eyes of the face.

This is the "Happy Fish"[n], designed by artist Pez[o] in 1999.

Another "Happy Fish" - this time an evolved type with arms and legs.

The text.

The box.