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*Christmas question!*

What is the kind of your favorite cake?

あなたの好きなケーキはなんですか?

 

Christmas series #4

※明日もう一個あるので、覚悟して下さい(o'(ェ)'o)

 

Dec 23, 2008 #461

 

jeux d'ombres et de symétries

Black and white Street Photography Candid people portrait, Borough Market. London.

Feeling single, with many wrinkles this elder questions a former impulse, or what was done with conscience nearing guilt causing tears ... (or blood spilled?)

How do you Flickr Peeps feel about your images being included in Tumblr accounts?

 

I have an image that (for some reason) has thousands of views and notes on Tumblr which is lovely, however, they have the main image hosted there without a link back to the main file on Flickr.

25.media.tumblr.com/aa690c7206e7822a92385dc5c44f9261/tumb...

 

it's kinda bugging me as I recently went through lots of grief trying to get a company to remove one of my images from their website.

 

For some reason I thought the Tumblr community would always retain information relating to the original author / photographer.

 

Any Thoughts?

have you ever drawn a sticker you feel in love with, but you know you should set it free?

some lucky fool is going to get it in a commissioned sticker pack (at joshandjosh.bigcartel.com/ )

Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy

 

If you read yesterday's story of how I nearly lost my tripod then the day didn't end there. Having utilised the tripod the uncomfortable question arose as to who was going to carry it all the way back to the hotel. It's a fine line between audacity and cowardice so I opted for the latter. Stuck on the wrong side of the Grand Canal for our hotel, the nearest bridge to the Salute is the Accademia which would take us well past our hotel, therefore prolonging our uncomfortable equivalent of a Mexican stand-off.... me, Mrs R and the tripod. But just as in any good Indiana Jones movie, there's always a stroke of luck; a get out of jail card to be played at a seemingly impossible perilous situation and I was about to play mine...!

 

Between the Salute and Accademia is the Traghetto di Santa Maria del Giglio, a gondola whose sole purpose is to cross the canal back and forth all day long and all for €2 each - I was so happy at this reduction in journey time that I paid for both of us and even better... our hotel was only 50 yards from this Traghetto pier on the other side. Mrs R opted to go back to the hotel for a freshen up, but considering how I'd carried the tripod for the last 50 yards I decided to venture on and try my luck in Piazza San Marco. An hour spent messing around with long exposures of people in the square with the hope of capturing some mass ghostly effect to show how busy the place was but in truth most of the cruise ship and day trippers had left for the day and the results weren't to my liking.

 

I was stood close by the Cafe Florian wondering what to do next and was it safe to go back to the hotel when I noticed that there were quite a few dazed people still sat at the tables. Many people on Flickr who have visited Venice and stopped for a coffee break have commented how expensive this little indulgence can be and hence the dazed expressions on some faces.

 

I thought I would try another long exposure to see how much movement I could capture in a single frame, especially the movement of the waiters that circle about like phantoms enticing their victims into a wallet emptying experience. With this type of image you really don't know how things will turn out until you've downloaded and viewed your images large... the things you hoped would be there - aren't and the things you didn't want - are, however, I'm pleased with the outcome and it fully justified the tripod!

 

Firstly, the guy in the shorts and t-shirt on the front row - he's totally baffled by what I was doing and didn't move or take his eyes off me during the whole 3 minute exposure hence he's nicely burnt into the image. The fellow photographer reviewing his day's work while ignoring his wife completely and the woman reading a book - obviously passing time to justify those prices. The quartet that looks more like a duet, but best of all, the phantom waiters constantly on the prowl floating between tables on the lookout for their next victims... I mean customers!

 

Piobbico sede mondiale del club dei Brutti, giovani e meno giovani all'iscrizione ...

The Thuringian question ......

Left or right?

Tunnel branch in an abandoned ore mine under Thuringia / Germany

Questioning the question and the intention behind it; is it from

the heart? It should be shouldn’t it? It could be… Or was it a

childhood crush that grew into a something that never should

have been? Past heartbreaks make us weary, but there is a

reason for the hurt. It has to happen for us to be the people

we are today. The question has been raised again… and the

answer is clear. Or is it?

 

-A heartfelt Honest ramble

 

Ippio Payo & Genelabo performen Nobody Ansers Questions - an audiovisual journey

 

Video by : Genelabo

Music by : Ippio Payo

 

Underdeck !!! is 3- rd track from the audio-visual album :"Nobody Answers Questions"

Format: LP/CD

Label: Echokammer EK092 & Geenger Records GNGR 094

VÖ: 20.08.2021

 

After countless collaborations between Josip Pavlov (Ippio Payo) and Gene Aichner (Genelabo) over the last 17 years,

"Nobody Answers Questions" represents uncharted waters for both of them. With only the most basic equipment, they face the passage......

 

Firefly, Metallo, Black Adam, Question, Nightwing, Cyborg

 

Hello all! I've updated some figs and made some new ones as you can see. First, Firefly. I really like how he turned out. He is kind of based off his appearance in "The Batman" tv show. Just with red as a main color. With Metallo I didn't want to make him all Robot so I tried to make him like the Superman Animated Series version. Black Adam is just the New 52 version. Question has a suit and trench coat. Nightwing has EG combat pants. Cyborg doesn't have the robo arm and his head is now the Nick Fury one. Hope you like 'em!

 

On another note, I now have Skype. If anyone wants my username just fm me and I will send it to you.

 

Thank you to legoman685 for telling me to make Firefly and Metallo.

We didn't go for theme so much in this shoot. I just knew there were wildflowers out and it was our last chance to capture them in their glory. You can tell that some are decaying in this photo. We definitely caught them just before their season was behind us.

 

I always appreciate shooting with Ellen. We're good buddies, and she's always happy to model, which is awesome as I'm always happy to avoid a) a self portrait and b) "Hey do you want to model for me?" - for some reason that's a really anxiety prone question. I'm sure I'm not the only one who hates that line. :P

A pleasant end-of-summer surprise was finding this Question Mark nectaring on the Heptacodium….along with a couple of Monarchs and Hummingbirds.

This is without question the most daring photograph I have ever uploaded to my Flickr stream, and I don't think I am ever going to try to outdo it for audacity. I was actually quite hesitant to upload it at all, in large part because of the well-known fact that I do not like tattoos or other forms of body art, and do not wish to appear to be endorsing or encouraging them in any way. But while I don't know if I will leave it here, I finally decided to add it to my stream, for several reasons. First, this very personable woman was obviously enjoying herself at Comicon and was a good sport about posing for me. I gave my Flickr URL to her and her husband, and I think she deserves to have her picture here at least long enough for her to check it out and see if she likes it. Second, laying aside for the moment her tattoos, this is probably only marginally more revealing than the bellydance photos I uploaded about three years ago, and which are going to stay on my Flickr page, partly because my wife happens to like them. (She was with me when I took those, in fact.) Third, I know that at least a few of my regular viewers will applaud me for stepping outside the box and doing something truly out of the ordinary, at least for me. And finally, with regard to the tattoos themselves, my feelings about them do not require me to ignore the fact of their increasing popularity, or to fail to acknowledge the artistic talent that goes into creating them. For what it's worth, even my friend Marietta, who is one of my favorite models, has one, and the tattoo appears in some of my pictures of her.

 

So with all of that in mind, I add this to my stream, at least on a provisional basis. If it gets a lot of good feedback, I will most likely leave it here; if not, it will probably come down in a few days at most. But either way, don't expect to see many images like this one posted by me in the future.

Doodles of unused sticker designs for comic con.

someday they will get made!

There has been a long standing question between for photographers since the advent of digital technologies. Do you shoot Film or Digital and which do you prefer? Well to be honest in my case, both and neither. Film and digital both have their place and ultimately are tools for our creativity,...

 

stewartmarsden.co.uk/2017/05/07/lightroom-film-style-pres...

3d human with a red question mark

Yup. That would be an owl hat.

And just maybe it's for kids.

And yes it was a Christmas present from Kendall!

And of course, I love it. (:

 

Haha apparently I have begun to collect owl things I now own a pair of owl earrings, and owl necklace and this adorable owl hat.

 

Be jealous. (:

  

formspring.

facebook! :)

Invercargill and the province of Southland.

The question that has always puzzled me is why does a city of 50,000 people exist on the southernmost tip of NZ which has the bleakest climate? Invercargill is the coolest, most bleak and cloudiest city in NZ. It averages just 1,600 hours of sunshine a year compared with 1,500 for London, 2,050 in Christchurch, 2,800 in Adelaide and 3,200 in Perth WA. It has around 200 mm of rain every month of the year and it is a very windy city. It is in fact one of the largest southern cities in the world only surpassed by Ushuaia and Punta Arenas in Argentina and Chile respectively. But because of its latitude it has long summer days. Even in mid-October when we visit the length of day will be around 13.5 hours with the sun setting around 8:20 pm. In high summer twilight ends around 10:30 pm with a 16 hour long day like in Scotland. At this time of the year one can often see the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights an atmospheric phenomena of subarctic regions. Like Dunedin Invercargill was settled by the Scots. Many of its streets and families have Scottish names. It developed as an offshoot of Scottish Otago. The Surveyor General of Otago selected the site for a new town in 1856 and laid out the streets in a grid pattern on this very flat city. The first land was sold in 1858 and by 1861 Invercargill was a very small but flourishing town. Why? Because it had three main riches, apart from some gold found in the hinterland in 1860: it had the largest most fertile plains of NZ; it had a coastline rich with oysters, lobsters, cod fish and abalone( paua); and it had heavily forested mountains with hardwoods which were in great demand throughout the world- rimu, totara, silver beech etc. These basic factors meant that the province of Southland when it separated from Otago in 1861 had a bright future. The land, rainfall, soils and seas would provide for the people as it had done for the Maoris before the whites arrived. Southland consequently has had a rich and varied agricultural past ranging from sheep pastoralism, grain growing especially oats for porridge and barley for illicit whisky making (how could the Scots survive in this cold climate without whisky?) ,linen flax growing and milling, dairying and milk processing, fish and seafood canning, timber cutting and timber mills, and meat freezing and butchering works. These rural industries necessitated railways and like Dunedin Invercargill become a major rail head with lines going north to Lumsden, Kingston and Queenstown in the Alps, across to Gore, and west towards Fjordland and the richly forested valleys adjacent to it. Timber in particular needed the railways. Invercargill established railway workshops and the manufacturing steam engines for the railways of NZ. Its first railway line was built in 1867 to the Bluff, the port for Southland. It was connected to Christchurch by 1878.

 

In the 20th century Southland has developed hydroelectricity which in turn has attracted industry to the region. Possums introduced from across the Tasman in 1858 have become a major pest but they have also spawned a new industry- possum textiles and woollens; red deer were introduced from Europe in 1901 to Fjordland and now with the advent of helicopters and helicopter farming they are “farmed” for venison and processed near Invercargill. The story of Southland and Invercargill is one generally of success and success based on the climate and the resources of the land. For example, dairying has been strong since the early 1880s and continues today with Fonterra Milk processing mainly for export to Asia; linen flax milling continued until 1956; flourmills have processed wheat and the oat mill in Gore produced porridge oats; and Chewings Fescue was found to thrive in Southland and has become a major industry producing lawns for houses around NZ. Southland introduced prohibition in 1905 which lasted until 1945 and the illegal moonshine or whisky making in the hills east of Invercargill near Gore continued whilst that was in place. But the really big success has been hydroelectricity which began with Lake Monowai Power station in 1925. It still powers Invercargill and feeds into the national power grid. More recently the enormous Manapouri Power Station 200 metres below the water level of Lake Manapouri near Te Anau in Fjordland was completed in 1971 after work commenced in 1964. It is the largest hydroelectric station in NZ and the second largest power station in NZ. It was developed for Comalco to erect an aluminium smelter and refinery at the Bluff near Invercargill which is now run by Rio Tinto and employs nearly 3,000 people from Invercargill but its financial viability is shaky and the plant has been threatened with closure. Another major industry of Invercargill is fertiliser production.

 

•Invercargill is a Scottish settlement. 40% of Invercargill’s suburbs and nearby towns have Scottish names and the first Presbyterian Church was the leading church of the province. The current church replaced an earlier 1863 church in 1915 when it was completed. It is built of brick with a domed roof, a 100 foot high tower and it is in the Italian Romanesque style. It is on the highway from Dunedin at 151 Tay St. Next on the right we will see St Johns Anglican Church( 108 Tay St) in red brick built in 1887; almost next door is the impressive Town Hall and Theatre ( 88 Tay St) built 1906 in classical style; next is the YMCA building of 1910 at 77 Tay St; at the roundabout (the location of the Boer War Memorial) at the end of the street is the old Bank of NSW built in 1904 on the right whilst on the left is the former Cornerstone Bank of NZ building from 1879 ; as we turn right into Dee St. you will see a plethora of brightly painted heritage buildings all in good repair – partly because the city’s young mayor from Auckland has supported and encouraged this to revitalise the city. At 136 Dee St is the Blackman building with the large black swan on the roof line and further along (178 Dee St.) is the Gothic St Pauls Presbyterian Church built in 1876 and added to in 1881. Next we turn right into Victoria Ave to visit the Information Centre, the Southland Museum and Queens Park with its rhododendron dell. After our visit here we will pass the City water Tower (a flat city needed a tower for water pressure) built in 1888 with 300,000 red, yellow and black bricks. 101 Doon St.

 

Other heritage buildings include:

•Anderson House built in 1828 in neo-Georgian style for a wealthy businessman Sir Robert Anderson who had links with forestry, timber selling and the Southland Building society. His estate with 30 acres and his art collection was bequeathed to the city and the house became the city art gallery. It was closed in 2013 because it did not meet earthquake building regulations.

•The three story WEA building built in 1912 as a Coffee and Spice mill at 100 Esk St which is also the main shopping street. The spice firm was established in 1872 and some parts of this remain behind the 1912 building. It is now the Southland Education Centre for adults. The beautiful Southland Times newspaper office (1908) is also in this street at number 67.

•The Catholic St Mary’s Basilica built in 1905 in neo-classical style a bit like St Peter’s in Rome but tiny. On corner of Tyne & Ninth Streets. Near there at 80 Forth St is the 1926 classical style Masonic Centre.

•The decorative and fanciful Railway Hotel built in 1886 with classical features and a few Australian Federation era features. It is at 3 Leven Street behind the City library at the end of Esk St.

 

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La Marche Solidaire pour les Migrants Vintimille-Londres, est arrivée à Paris ce dimanche

Would it still be historically accurate to give a Russian the gaiter legs on the right? I was going to get a matching marine torso to use with it yesterday but thanks to friggin CB day they sold out within 30 minutes.

Boquillas Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas. View large on black

 

Horses are such amazing creatures. Here's the story. At Boquillas Canyon in Big Bend National Park, Mexican Nationals try and earn a living by selling souvenirs at three times less than they sell for in the BBNP shops. They sit across the Rio Grande while their souvenirs sit unattended at the overlook.

 

When a "customer" comes, this guy mounts his horse, crosses the Rio Grande and risks arrest by Border Patrol. The horse, knowing what is to come, stops to take a drink in mid-river and the "cowboy" grabs a branch off of one of the shrubs to use as a switch. Then the horse races up a near-vertical cliff side to reach the selling ground. Without question, this steed takes his rider to the top, not missing a beat.

 

Devils Parchment texture thanks to SkeletalMess.

10 x 13 cm collage

The Birth of Venus: Sony A7 R RAW Photos of Pretty, Tall Blond Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens & Lightroom 5.3

 

45surf Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography! & 45surf Hero's Odyssey Mythology Fine Art! :)

 

New Instagram! instagram.com/45surf

New Instagram!

instagram.com/johnnyrangermccoy

 

New blog celebrating my philosophy of photography with tips, insights, and tutorials!

45surf.wordpress.com

 

Ask me any questions! :)

 

Sony A7R RAW Photos of Pretty Blonde Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens! Lightroom 5.3 ! Pretty Hazel Eyes & Silky Blonde Hair!

 

And here're a couple of HD video movies I shot of the goddess with the 4K Sony:

vimeo.com/45surf

 

Enjoy! Be sure to watch in the full 1080P HD!

 

The epic goddess was tall, thin, fit, tan, and in wonderful shape (as you can see).

 

Follow me on facebook!

www.facebook.com/45surfAchillesOdysseyMythology

 

Epic Goddess Straight Out of Hero's Odyssey Mythology! Pretty Model! :) Tall, thin, fit and beautiful!

 

Welcome to your epic hero's odyssey! The beautiful 45surf goddess sisters hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Odyssey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.

 

New 500px!

500px.com/herosodysseymythology

 

Pretty Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess! :)

 

She was a beauty--a gold 45 goddess for sure! A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.

 

Modeling the Gold 45 Revolver Gold'N'Virtue swimsuit. :)

 

A laid-back,classic, socal lifestyle shoot!

 

May the 45surf goddesses inspire you along am artistic journey of your own making!

 

All the best on your Epic, Homeric, Heroic Odyssey into the Art of Photography from Johnny Ranger McCoy!

 

All 45surf Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography is shot in the honor of Dynamic Dimensions Theory's First Law and equation: The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c: dx4/dt=ic.

 

All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johny Ranger McCoy!

 

Sony A7R RAW Photos of Pretty, Tall Blond Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Laguna Beach! Victoria Beach! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens & Lightroom 5.3Sony A7R RAW Photos of Pretty, Tall Blond Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Laguna Beach! Victoria Beach! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens & Lightroom 5.3

 

instagram.com/45surf

 

Fine art swimsuit model, ballerina, and ballet photography!

 

The Birth of Venus: Sony A7 R RAW Photos of Pretty, Tall Blond Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens & Lightroom 5.3

 

45surf Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography! & 45surf Hero's Odyssey Mythology Fine Art! :)

 

New Instagram! instagram.com/45surf

New Instagram!

instagram.com/johnnyrangermccoy

 

New blog celebrating my philosophy of photography with tips, insights, and tutorials!

45surf.wordpress.com

 

Ask me any questions! :)

 

Sony A7R RAW Photos of Pretty Blonde Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens! Lightroom 5.3 ! Pretty Hazel Eyes & Silky Blonde Hair!

 

And here're a couple of HD video movies I shot of the goddess with the 4K Sony:

vimeo.com/45surf

 

Enjoy! Be sure to watch in the full 1080P HD!

 

The epic goddess was tall, thin, fit, tan, and in wonderful shape (as you can see).

 

Follow me on facebook!

www.facebook.com/45surfAchillesOdysseyMythology

 

Epic Goddess Straight Out of Hero's Odyssey Mythology! Pretty Model! :) Tall, thin, fit and beautiful!

 

Welcome to your epic hero's odyssey! The beautiful 45surf goddess sisters hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Odyssey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.

 

New 500px!

500px.com/herosodysseymythology

 

Pretty Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess! :)

 

She was a beauty--a gold 45 goddess for sure! A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.

 

Modeling the Gold 45 Revolver Gold'N'Virtue swimsuit. :)

 

A laid-back,classic, socal lifestyle shoot!

 

May the 45surf goddesses inspire you along am artistic journey of your own making!

 

All the best on your Epic, Homeric, Heroic Odyssey into the Art of Photography from Johnny Ranger McCoy!

 

All 45surf Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography is shot in the honor of Dynamic Dimensions Theory's First Law and equation: The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c: dx4/dt=ic.

 

All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johny Ranger McCoy!

 

Sony A7R RAW Photos of Pretty, Tall Blond Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Laguna Beach! Victoria Beach! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens & Lightroom 5.3Sony A7R RAW Photos of Pretty, Tall Blond Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Laguna Beach! Victoria Beach! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens & Lightroom 5.3

 

instagram.com/45surf

 

Fine art swimsuit model, ballerina, and ballet photography!

No Mysterians though

  

Question Mark and the Mysterians was a band that had a big hit with "96 Tears" back when I was a teen.

Mixed-media photogravure. 2005.

Wartender am Lütticher Bahnhof

Busted out a handful of stickers last night, getting in the groove!

 

I have to make alot since people been picking up packs like hotcakes from my store: joshandjosh.bigcartel.com/

.... A placard displayed on the makeshift box containing the statue of Canada’s first prime minister on the lawn of Ontario's Legislative Building, raises questions whether the statue will be removed. In 2020, the statue — erected in 1894 to honor the history-making founder of Canada — was being protected in construction-like scaffolding while authorities decided how to restore the plinth / pedestal & statue. The statuary monument was doused with pink paint by Black Lives Matter & Indigenous activists, angered about decisions made in a far different time. Hidden away from the public for over a year, a strange notice on the box covering the statue raises more questions than answers:

 

“The Legislative Assembly of Ontario is a place for debate and deliberation on issues that matter in our province. Though we cannot change the history we have inherited, we can shape the history we wish to leave behind. The speaker of the Legislative Assembly is considering how the depictions of those histories in the monuments and statuary on the Assembly’s grounds can respect all of our diverse cultures and peoples.”

 

You would never know Sir John A. Macdonald is memorialized behind this strange wooden tomb. This makeshift sarcophagus certainly makes it look like they are going to either restore it back to how it sat for 127 years .... or remove it to satisfy cancel white culture activists ....

Clerkenwell used to get new Banksys regularly 25 years ago. Rats appeared on street corners down at Smithfield as well as the occasional larger work such as the Girl and the ATM. Even now Banksy occasionally graces a wall with his presence in the local area.

 

This morning it seemed like he might have struck again on the site of a previous 20ft high statue by him in Clerkenwell Green. The "balloons" are actually gold toilet seats, appropriate to the hoardings that have entombed the Green's Victorian Toilets for literally years now.

 

It is art but is it a Banksy? There is nothing from Banksy to say it is despite the plausible positioning and Banksy's style. Some suggest that the execution is not up to Banksy's standard but most tellingly no TV crews appeared to turn up . Nor did any "entrepreneurs" to remove the piece largely on a single sheet of ply which is surprising given a genuine Banksy of this size would set you up nicely assuming you could find an art fence for hot property. The copyright warning at the bottom of the white notice suggests it is an April Fool.

 

All that said, it still appealed on a beautiful crisp Spring day.

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