Tag: 2018

Thursday doors – 9 December 2021

Doors 172 – Holiday doors, Umbria and Tuscany, Italy 2018

I have decided to join in with Dan’s suggestion for this week’s door theme and bring you some of my favourite doors from a holiday we had in Italy in August 2021. You might well have seen these doors before, but I don’t think that matters too much. In these pandemic days we can only dream of future overseas holidays or reflect on holidays past.

I hope you enjoy this selection:

Double door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy, August 2018
Double door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy, August 2018
Graffiti door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy, August 2018
Graffiti door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy, August 2018
Door of the dead, Corso Cavour, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy, August 2018
Door of the dead, Corso Cavour, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy, August 2018
Grand door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Grand door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Another green double door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Another green double door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Green double door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Green double door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Double door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Double door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy
Door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy, August 2018
Door, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy, August 2018
Brick wall, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy - Haiku
Brick wall, Citta di Castello, Umbria, Italy – Haiku
Door in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Door in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Interesting door, Via Dardano, Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Interesting door, Via Dardano, Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Door in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Door in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy

It is actually rather nice to unearth these doors for you and this post inspires me to keep hoping that our trip to Italy in 2018 will not be our last.

If you have made it this far, you probably like doors, and you really ought to take a look at the No Facilities blog by Dan Anton who has taken over the hosting of Thursday Doors  from Norm 2.0 blog. Links to more doorscursions can be found in the comments section of Dan Anton’s Thursday Doors post.

by Scooj

2580. Upfest 2018 (171)

Well I don’t know about you, but I am getting rather excited about the return of Upfest which will be running in Bristol from 29 to 31 May, although some of the premium walls will be painted during the week before the festival, to make sure they are completed when the main pulse of visitors come.

Sake One, Upfest, Bristol, July 2018
Sake One, Upfest, Bristol, July 2018

So (I hate anyone who begins sentences with so) just to whet your appetite I thought I’d take a little look back at Upfest 2018 and some pieces I haven’t yet got round to posting, starting with this beauty from Sake One. In the WIP photograph the artist was taking a break with his (I assume) family, which was lovely to see. Quite a lot of artists had their families and children buzzing around which made the whole thing feel a bit more inclusive.

Sake One, Upfest, Bristol, September 2018
Sake One, Upfest, Bristol, September 2018

I didn’t get to see the completed piece until some while after the festival, mainly because I think he finished it after I had left. Alas, this is another one of those spots that seems to have a car permanently parked in front of it, so you’ll just have to make do with these pictures. A fabulous piece from a fabulous artist.

1946. Shoreditch, London (18)

Ok, ok I hear you, I should have posted this last year, but I didn’t right? so I am doing it now. Continuing on the theme of trawling through archives, I found this piece by Bonzai from a trip to Shoreditch back in February 2018, but hadn’t made the connection to the piece I posted by Bonzai from my more recent visit in November.

Bonzai, Shoreditch, London, February 2018
Bonzai, Shoreditch, London, February 2018

These pictures are a bit rubbish for two reasons. I had dropped and broken my camera about five minutes earlier and so had to use my iPhone and the road was rather busy, and I couldn’t get out far enough (without risk of death) to catch the whole piece. Maybe this is why I never posted it first time round. It is a great piece though…that melting chrome look is stunning.

Thursday doors

Doors 42

This week I have a rare treat for you…doors from Cortona. I spent last week on a family holiday to Umbria in Italy and this first set of doors is from a day trip we took to this Tuscan town set on a hill top in the province of Arezzo. Close your eyes and imagine the heat, sounds and the smells of this medieval town. Perfect.

Passageway off Via Nazionale, Cortona, Umbria, Italy
Passageway off Via Nazionale, Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Door at the end of a passageway off Via Nazionale, Cortona, Umbria, Italy
Door at the end of a passageway off Via Nazionale, Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Door in Cortona, Umbria, Italy
Door in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Door in Cortona, Umbria, Italy
Door in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Porta Colonia, Cortona, Umbria, Italy
Porta Colonia, Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Interesting door, Via Dardano, Cortona, Umbria, Italy
Interesting door, Via Dardano, Cortona, Tuscany, Italy

by Scooj

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