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Camera: Minolta X-300S
Lens: Minolta 50mm F1.7
Filter: Hoya Red(25A)
Film: Ilford Pan 400 (Expired 06/2013, shot at 200ISO)
Processing and Scanning: Gulabi Photo Lab, Glasgow
Post Processing: Photoscape X
Photographed at Scribbled Hearts - 2nd March 2014
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Finished the Hearts of Stone DLC main story the other day, it was a fantastic ride. Probably tied with the Undead Nightmare DLC for Red Dead Redemption as my favorite. Best antagonist ever. Can't wait for Blood and Wine.
He said he had enough exploring the back garden and decided to broaden his horizons just a 'small' bit!....
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Nope. Not drawn at all, just in case that isn't abundantly clear already. Just trying out a Photoshop action that Adobe shared with the world this past week.
The Queen of reef fish in Darwin Harbour. These beautiful and large angelfish are found in silty coral reefs throughout northern Australia, where they predominantly feed on algae and marine invertebrates. Females (pictured) have different body patterns to males, whose line patterns are more horizontal and less scribbled.
Male Scribbled Angelfish are territorial and will drive other males away from their patch of reef. When ready to spawn, males will perform a courtship display of swimming rapidly backwards to attract the female. The pair will then spiral towards the surface together and shed eggs and sperm, where in excess of 5000 eggs can be fertilised.
I'm continuing my action series. Here is a full zoom with a lot more lights with Christmas trees featured in the action subject. It's certainly greatly multicolored lighting. The jiggles add to the action. This is a confusion that I really like. These are just the lights while the lens was being manipulated, sort of. This represents a zoom from the reported 70mm to 24mm; the jiggles are not at all incidental as I have not yet jumped into tripod action. The jiggles can really add interest or miss completely. Reality is highly overrated.
I was driving around town that night but was really slow to remember I never finished my color lights or rose experiments. What a knot head to not immediately jump at another opportunity to try out the tricks before next summer's fireworks and the fair rides. I am still not out of snaps of the other subjects but I hope my breadth has expanded. I did vewwy, vewwy wittle warping and editing, for me at least, to present it the way I wanted. I have learned to slow the camera down even further to three seconds this time but I left the lens setting at f:/16. Three seconds is about enough to accomplish a wide array of tricks if prepared and prepanned so to speak. Of course this digital experimentation is cheap. I did set the camera to a shutter delay of one second and that was a help in preparing for the action. I will continue with that. I had fun shooting all of these and they were a breeze to edit! I get mostly muted colors in the ag settings I have shot, so I revel in JUST COLORS. And this title DOES have a nice touch for the actual scene, don't you think? I spent two hours giving this stuff titles.
The Origins and Purpose of Street Art and Graffiti — A Historical Essay.
Prehistoric and Ancient Beginnings (40,000 BCE – 500 CE)
Graffiti’s origins stretch back to humanity’s earliest visual culture. Prehistoric cave paintings — including hand stencils created by blowing pigment through tubes — functioned as some of the earliest “tags,” marking presence and identity. These date from 40,000–10,000 years ago.
By the classical era, graffiti was widespread across Ancient Greece and Rome, where people scratched messages, jokes, political commentary, and personal boasts into walls. The oldest known written graffito dates to around 500 BCE.
In Pompeii, graffiti served as advertising, satire, political slogans, and everyday communication, revealing the lives of ordinary people rather than elites.
Purpose in this era:
1. Marking presence (“I was here”)
2. Social commentary
3. Recording daily life
4. Religious or political expression
5. Communication by non‑elites otherwise absent from written history
Medieval to Early Modern Graffiti (500–1800 CE)
Graffiti continued through the medieval period, especially in religious and rural landscapes. In the Middle East, the Safaitic inscriptions — scratched onto rocks across Syria, Jordan, and Arabia — are the only surviving record of an ancient Arabic dialect.
In Europe, travellers, workers, and even antiquarians carved names and messages into castles, churches, and monuments. At Stonehenge, 18th‑century visitors left carved signatures, showing graffiti as a record of presence and identity.
Purpose in this era:
1. Recording travel or pilgrimage
2. Personal memorialisation
3. Folk expression by ordinary people
4. Documentation of labourers and craftsmen
The Birth of Modern Graffiti (1950s–1970s)
Modern graffiti culture emerged in Philadelphia in the 1950s, led by figures like Cornbread, who pioneered tagging as a form of self‑promotion and identity.
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, graffiti exploded in New York City, especially on subway trains. Writers such as TAKI 183 and others transformed tagging into a competitive, stylised art form.
This era marks the shift from simple inscriptions to complex lettering, murals, and large-scale public visibility.
Purpose in this era:
1. Personal identity and fame (“getting up”)
2. Reclaiming public space
3. Youth expression in marginalised communities
4. Resistance to social and economic exclusion
The Rise of Street Art (1980s–2000s)
Street art evolved from graffiti but expanded into stencils, wheat‑paste posters, stickers, installations, and murals. Artists like Keith Haring, Jean‑Michel Basquiat, and later Banksy brought street art into global consciousness.
Street art differed from graffiti by focusing less on lettering and more on imagery, political messages, and public commentary.
According to The Art Story, street art grew from the belief that art should be:
1. Accessible to everyone
2. Outside traditional institutions
3. Democratic and empowering
4. A counter‑attack against advertising and corporate messaging
5. Purpose in this era:
6. Political protest
7. Social commentary
8. Challenging authority and capitalism
9. Beautification and community identity
Artistic experimentation outside galleries
Contemporary Street Art and Graffiti (2000s–Present)
Today, graffiti and street art occupy a complex space between vandalism, public art, activism, and cultural heritage.
Graffiti remains illegal in many contexts, yet it is also recognised as a vital form of urban storytelling, especially for marginalised voices.
Street art, meanwhile, is often commissioned by cities, festivals, and cultural institutions, blurring the line between rebellion and acceptance.
Current purposes:
1. Urban regeneration
2. Tourism and cultural branding
3. Community identity
4. Political resistance
5. Artistic innovation
Street art and graffiti are not modern inventions — they are part of a 40,000‑year human tradition of marking presence, expressing identity, and challenging power. From Roman jokes to New York subway tags to global street murals, they remain one of the most democratic and immediate forms of public expression.
I spotted this very cool carving in a log while out and about with the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro lens.
Six minute portrait scribble on paper with Bic-pen
How-to Portrait Scribble video by Rancid Sis
Published on Jan 20, 2017
Six minutes portrait scribble with a cover of Chopin played by Hermione aka LuVHermit
Rancid Sis Arts, Cartoons and Drawings
52 in 2016 Challenge
4. Graffiti
There are already some great shots in the group for this theme and I was going to post something colourful and artistic looking when I decided to go with redressing the balance. This is, imho, the reality of a lot of urban graffiti - needless scribble :(