6870. Dean Lane skate park (821)

Fade and Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, February 2025
Fade and Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, February 2025

Keeping up with Dibz and Fade, even over the winter months, has been challenging. Their high-end graffiti writing is creative and imaginative, and some of the best you’ll see in Bristol and beyond. Sometimes the pair paint in themed colour schemes and play off one another, but this collaboration presents two very different pieces with only a shared background to link them.

Fade, Dean Lane, Bristol, February 2025
Fade, Dean Lane, Bristol, February 2025

On the left, Fade has painted a stunning tribute piece for Chaos, who in his own words is ‘lost but not forgotten’. The yellow letters are filled with three horizontal stripes, nicely blended, without any hard edges. The little white trims do a lot to create depth, as does the thick black border. A beautifully finished piece, as you’d expect from Fade.

Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, February 2025
Dibz, Dean Lane, Bristol, February 2025

To the right, Dibz has painted a crazy colourful explosion of a piece, which is a ‘heavenly birthday’ tribute piece for Benson Much, and knowing this, you can make out the letters BENSON. This is an absolute stunner, there are no two ways about it. Each component of the work has been allocated a different colour, not only on the surface, but also in the drop shadow. This demonstrates Dibz’ complete understanding of light and shade and colour matches and when combined with his extraordinary talent you are left with something that you can’t help but admire. A fabulous collaboration.

Grenoble Airport

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Mind boggling chaos

assistance invisible

not fit for purpose

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by Scooj

Grenoble Airport, France, February 2024

Head above water

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The world in free fall

bad news seems to trump the good

keep breathing keep faith

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by Scooj

Shut the door on your way out

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Elizabeth Truss

useless right-wing think tank stooge

you will not be missed

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by Scooj

Interesting to note that in the Daily Star’s contest about who would last longer between a lettuce or Liz Truss, the lettuce won. A meme that will haunt her forever.

Liz Truss

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Peter principle

power beyond competence

so out of her depth

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by Scooj

* Peter principle:

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to “a level of respective incompetence”: employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.

And then there were five

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Cruella knocked out

one less racist in the pack

I hope they all lose

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by Scooj

Spectacle

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Old warring factions

each one hungry for power

the gloves are off now

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by Scooj

• The chaos left behind by Boris Johnson’s long-awaited resignation is resulting in an inglorious bun-fight for the Conservative party leadership… again.

A very poor quality field, most of them tainted with the corrupt Johnson regime, they lied for him let’s not forget. A real race to the bottom.

Last days of the Raj

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Shallow victory

enough time to do untold

and lasting damage

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by Scooj

* So, predictably, Dictator Johnson holds on to power for a little while longer. I have lost faith in him, our government and am horrified by the mess our country is in. Brexit, which Johnson championed, has been the ruination of our nation, as was predicted, but it is rarely mentioned in the media as a primary cause of the chaos in the UK.

I heard an interesting challenge to Brexiteers, the other day which was; “if Brexit were to end tomorrow, what would you most miss?” I only saw one answer which was “independence”. Well it has been a very high price to pay, coming in at twice the cost of the impact of COVID in the UK, so far.

Johnson and his cabinet seem intent on waging war on the decent citizens of this country, in the name of what exactly? I just don’t get it, and I don’t understand why his supporters put up with it. All too depressing.

Chaos

 

Unseen enemy

wreaks havoc and misery

and we run amok

 

by Scooj

Charlatan wing

 

Win at any cost

me first, England first, them last

confidence tricksters

 

by Scooj