Doors 110 – even more graffiti/street art doors (groan…)
I promise that I will get back to some ordinary doors soon, but I am rather enjoying my archive graffiti doors at the moment so might persist just for a couple more weeks if that is ok with you.
In my last Thursday doors post I think I had broken into 2017, so I will kick off there. Enjoy…
Inke, Upfest, Bristol, July 2017Laic 217, Moon Street, Bristol, May 2017Andrew Burns Colwill, Gathorne Road, Bristol, May 2017Kin Dose, Stokes Croft, Bristol, September 2016Talmo and Miel, North Street, Bristol, June 2016Deamze, Kings Square Avenue, Bristol, April 2017Copyright, Upfest, Bristol, July 2017Decay, Wilder Street, Bristol, April 2017Boogie, Moon Street, Bristol, July 2017Louis Masai, North Street, Bristol, July 2017Oze Arv, Upfest, Bristol, July 2017D7606, Charles Street, Bristol, July 2017Bex Glover, Upfest, Bristol, July 2017
So another Thursday doors draws to a close, I hope you enjoyed it. See you next week.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you really ought to take a look at the Norm 2.0 blog – the originator of Thursday Doors where there are links to yet more doors in the comments section at the end.
Doors 109 – yet more graffiti/street art doors (bear with me…)
Is it really the fourth of June already? Is it really 2020? What happened to the last five decades? Time seems to be accelerating with every moment that passes at a time in my life when I would rather like it to slow down, perhaps even go in reverse.
Very busy at work at the moment so this is what you are getting – doors from 2016/17:
Copyright and Paul Monsters, North Street, Bristol, April 2017Coloquix, Moon Street, Bristol, August 2016Decay and John D’oh, North Street, Bristol, July 2016Fiver, St Andrews Road, Bristol, December 2016Whysayit, Upper York Street, Bristol, January 2016Copyright and Gemma Compton, North Street, Bristol, July 2016Alex Lucas, Picton Street, Bristol, March 2016
I realise that three of these are shutters, but shutters are kind of doors too aren’t they? The last picture is the shop and home belonging to the Artist Alex Lucas, which she decorated herself. Over the last week or two she has been making good use of the current lock down restrictions and re-painted the whole thing. One for my street art posts fairly soon I think.
May I wish you all a very happy week.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you really ought to take a look at the Norm 2.0 blog – the originator of Thursday Doors where there are links to yet more doors in the comments section at the end.
Doors 108 – a continuation of graffiti/street art doors
Let me open a small window into the world of Scooj during lock down. I am a civil servant and have been working full time throughout the coronavirus outbreak, indeed work has been somewhat busier than normal because of the virus and the communications work I do.
Mrs Scooj also works in the civil service, so we have both been working from home, pretty much flat-out for the last ten weeks or so. My wife drew the long straw and works in the study with our main desktop and I am working in the dining room.
Our teenage children are both at home and keeping them motivated is a real struggle and heaps a whole ton of additional pressure on all of us. Although we have has a few flare ups (inevitable in these circumstances) we have had some really good quality moments together as a family which I am sure we will all treasure. However, spare time just seems to evaporate.
All this is a bit of a long-winded way of saying that once again you are going to have to put up with archive images of doors, because although I do have some new door photographs, I can’t get anywhere near the desktop PC to prepare them for Thursday doors. So old graffiti/street art doors it is going to have to be. I hope you enjoy:
Laic217, Wilder Street, Bristol, January 2017Andy Council, North Street, Bristol, January 2017Face the Strange, Upfest, Bristol, July20163Dom, John Street, Bristol, May 2016Sweet Toof, St Andrews Road, Bristol, January 2017Angerami, Upfest, Bristol, July 2016Laic217, King Square Avenue, Bristol, February 2017Jonesy, Leonard Lane, Bristol, August 2015
That’s all folks for another week. I hope you aren’t getting too tired of these urban graffiti doors. I hope I get a bit of time to share some more regular doors next week.
Take care, wherever you are.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you really ought to take a look at the Norm 2.0 blog – the originator of Thursday Doors where there are links to yet more doors in the comments section at the end.
Doors 106 – Some more archive street/graffiti art doors
Although I did manage to snap a few doors over the last week, I haven’t yet had time to download them from my camera, so for today’s Thursday doors I am trawling through images I have previously posted on Natural Adventures of street/graffiti art that feature doors. Up-cycling if you like.
Most of these doors have not appeared in Thursday doors before, so unless you read my street art posts as well, most will be new to you. These ones are from 2016 (so expect plenty more to come for future posts).
Stinkfish, Rivington Road, Shoreditch, London, August 2016PZY, Tropicana, Weston-super-Mare, August 2016Shok 1, Fournier Street, Shoreditch, September 2016Decay, Backfields Lane, Bristol, September 2016Aspire and D7606, Charles Street, Bristol, August 2016Deamze, Devon Road, Bristol, May 2016Dale Grimshaw, Upfest, Bristol, July 2016Angus, North Street, Bristol, June 2016
That’s it for another lock down week. Look after yourselves and keep posting those doors.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you really ought to take a look at the Norm 2.0 blog – the originator of Thursday Doors where there are links to yet more doors in the comments section at the end.
Just in case anyone is suffering from withdrawal symptoms from a regular dose of Nevergiveup’s (#followmyrabbits) rabbits, I thought I’d throw in one of dozens still unpublished on Natural Adventures.
Nevergiveup, Leonard Lane, Bristol, July 2019
This beauty was sprayed on one of the doors at the eastern end of Leonard Lane, and I think I must have photographed it fairly soon after it had been painted because it is very crisp and clean without any tags. This one is notable for the use of lots of colours, maybe he was using up dregs. Lovely rabbit this one, and a great location.
I am a little pressed for time this week, so here are a couple of doors I photographed over the last two days during my brief walks escaping from lock down.
I really struggle with social distancing, it feels so unnatural and uncomfortable. Crossing into the middle of the road to avoid oncoming pedestrians on the pavement feels embarrassing, almost insulting, but I guess we all have to do it. I am lucky that it is impacts like this that have most affected me so far, they are trivial compared to the impacts on others.
The point being that my walks are not linear but rather they are zig zaggy and the upshot is I do walk to places I might not have walked before and get to see interesting things.
The first door is up some steps, that look like they could do with a bit of repair work. Not a house for people with mobility problems. The wall on the left of the steps has a great warning to us all… zombies are coming.
Steps and daisies lead up to a yellow door, Gloucester Road, Bristol, May 2020
The second door isn’t really a door, it is more like a window, both physically and metaphorically. Lock down has certainly led to a surge in creativity, with gardening and baking topping the charts, but a local family (I am guessing) have made this brilliant model of a home in lock down. Take time to look at it and see what it tells you about the family. I think this is lovely and a great capture of life in the time of Coronavirus.
Behind a glass door, a scene from a lock down household, Bishopston, Bristol, May 2020A wonderful interpretation of lock down life, Bishopston, Bristol, May 2020
That’s it for another week. Look after yourselves.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you ought to take a look at the Norm 2.0 blog – the originator of Thursday Doors where there are links to yet more doors in the comments section at the end.
Doors 104 – New York City paste up and sticker doors
Lock down continues and the weather has become a little unsettled, which adds up to a failure to find some new fresh doors for you this week, so it is a return to my archives and some doors from a family trip we took to New York in October 2017.
Each morning I would rise early and wander around the East Village area where out holiday appartment was and snap up some street art before the rest of the family got up – I combined shopping for breakfast with getting my street art fix, a win-win situation.
Many of the doors in the area were peppered from top to toe with wheatpastes and stickers. Here are a few of them to give you a flavour of the district:
Wheatpaste door, East Village, New York, October 2017Painted door, East Village, New York, October 2017Wheatpaste door, East Village, New York, October 2017Wheatpaste door, East Village, New York, October 2017
You can spot a paste up by Phoebe New York to the right of the door buzzer.
Wheatpaste door, East Village, New York, October 2017
There are two more Phoebe New York paste ups here, one above the boxer on the left and one at the bottom right of the door.
I hope you enjoyed this little tour, brief I know and I am sorry about that.
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you ought to take a look at the Norm 2.0 blog – the originator of Thursday Doors where there are links to yet more doors in the comments section at the end.
I have heard this a lot from people, particularly those who are still in full time employment during this difficult time, that counter-intuitively there seems to be less spare time, rather than more. Working at home when the whole household is home creates a whole raft of time-thieves. Home teaching, cooking extra meals, general care and a job that has become busier thanks to the virus.
Even though I have taken a week off this week, I have filled my time with the allotment, garden and other jobs. The upshot is that I am doing a very quick and easy Thursday doors this week. I have been going through my street archives and thought I’d bring you some graffiti doors. You might have seen one or two of these before. I have a rich vein of material so expect more like this in the coming weeks.
Nick Walker, Anchor Road, Bristol, April 2015
This door was stolen a few years ago and then returned when the thief realised that selling it would give him away. It is by Nick Walker who now lives in NYC.
Alex Lucas, Stokes Croft, Bristol, December 2015
An iconic landmark in Stokes Croft from Alex Lucas.
Rowdy, Picton Lane, Bristol, November 2015Aspire, coal tit, Devon Road, Bristol, May 201623 Magpies, Warden Road, Bristol, May 2016
This wheatpaste was one of several from 23 Magpies, and on the back of this I bought an original piece of artwork from her.
Alex Lucas, St Andrew’s Road, Bristol, March 2016Angus, Dean Lane, Upfest, Bristol, July 2016
Just start singing along!
Din Din, Lime Road, Upfest, Bristol, July 2016ArquiCostura, Upfest, North Street, Bristol, July 2016
That’s your lot for this week…
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you ought to take a look at the Norm 2.0 blog – the originator of Thursday Doors where there are links to yet more doors in the comments section at the end.
I have encountered Zabou’s work in London, Bristol (at Upfest) and in Cheltenham at last year’s paint festival, where I was lucky enough to meet her and have a quick chat, in which I basically gushed about her work and probably made a bit of a fool of myself. I seem to recall that I said I would send her some posts I had written about her work, but typical of my general uselesness I haven’t done it.
Zabou, Shoreditch, London, August 2016
This is a fabulous piece in Soreditch of two angelic figures looking like they are going to get up to no good with spray cans at the ready. The piece has a kind of ’50s retro feel about it, maybe it is the hairstyles. If one took a look at it today, it might be easy to assume that the masked ladies were protecting themselves from the Coronovirus with their facemasks. It is interesting how things can be seen in different ways depending on the context or socio-political landscape.
The new world in which we all find ourselves is taking a little getting used to. I have managed to get out and walk the dog every day (the dog I never really wanted, but wouldn’t be without now) and have found something of a routine, which helps to maintain some kind of sanity. Recently, Montpelier and St Werburghs have been destinations of choice, not least because of the rich seam of doors to be found there.
This selection from a couple of weeks ago are typical of the Montpelier area. Montpelier is an interesting district and is at the heart of middle/working class alternative thinking and alternative lifestyles sometimes rather romantically depressed up as a Bohemian hub. Certainly the area is artistic and there is a real mix of housing from rather grand to not so grand. For door lovers this eclectic mix provides so much opportunity. Expect more doorscursions from me in Montpelier in the coming crazy weeks ahead.
No more chit chat (relief all round). Some doors:
Worn and weathered garage door, Montpelier, Bristol, March 2020Garden gate, Montpelier, Bristol, March 2020Garden gate, Montpelier, Bristol, March 2020Door within a sliding door, Montpelier, Bristol, March 2020
This garage/workshop door really is my kind of door. It has everything… character, door within a door, function, age, neglect all round interest. My pick of the week.
A pair of doors with beautiful stained glass widows above, Montpelier, Bristol, March 2020Door with beautiful stained glass widows above, Montpelier, Bristol, March 2020
The last two pictures of doors were included not so much for the doors themselves, but more for the very stylish stained glass triptych above. I can feel myself thinking ‘they just don’t make ‘em like they used to’ when I see door architecture like this. Modern design and materials are all well and good, but cost has compromised so much in the way of decoration.
That’s your lot for another week – there will be more next time. May I take this opportunity to wish you all a happy Easter and happy Passover
If you have made it this far, you probably like doors and you ought to take a look at the Norm 2.0 blog – the originator of Thursday Doors where there are links to yet more doors in the comments section at the end.
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