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The City May Bring About Its Own Utter Downfall

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Here are three pessimistic panels from CNB15. The first (The City May Bring About Its Own Utter Downfall by Ailie O’Hagan) shows an apocalyptic scene: Belfast city hall in flames while Godzilla rampages. The second shows artists in hoodies and face-masks stealing through the city with brushes and a camera. (Yesterday (Nov. 3rd) saw a march on Stormont to protest cuts in arts funding. See Twitter | BBC-NI) The third has a giraffe in a fishbowl helmet ‘reaching for the stars’ but beneath it is written “Politics is the art of the possible, except in Northern Ireland”.

For pictures of the folks they got to draw panels in September, see the Jackalope Twitter feed.

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Men Of Mayhem

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Following up on last year’s mural of Saul Goodman from the TV shows Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, and the year before that of Breaking Bad character Walter White, Visual Waste chose Sons Of Anarchy character Jax Teller, played by Charlie Hunnam for this year’s Culture Night mural. Hunnam is from Newcastle, England, and previously starred in Queer As Folk. (WP) According to the video (below) of the artist talking about the work, Teller was chosen because “he’s a badass but a leader”.

Also: video of the piece being painted at the Visual Waste website

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Giz A Wee Lick At Ye!

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In the video profile included below, Keith Boe (Fb) expresses a wish to participate in CNB and for this year’s celebration he brought his “creepy stuff” to a car park in Kent Street in the form of skeletal head with a threateningly long tongue.

The artist of the boy statue below is unknown; perhaps JMK.

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Big Men Wail Hammers

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Here are the six posters created by Leo Boyd to accompany a poem by Nathaniel McAuley for CNB15. Four are photographs taken in situ; two others are from Leo’s instagram.

A City-wide Initiative
for the [mass] Production
of Lemons

Instead,
the city plants
for lemons.

Big men wail hammers
parting the streets
in search of earth

seeds grow in
the cupped hands
of patient children

and shoot
from inside pockets
out of sleeves and collars.

Every hole in the wall
is over-packed
with knots of root.

Within the year
the luminescent
cache of fruit

is promised
to be vast enough
to displace night.

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The Woods Are Lovely, Dark And Deep

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An enchanted forest in purple and gold – street art by London-based artist Ed Hicks (Instagram | Fb) for CNB15. The piece is in a narrow alley (Exchange Place, next to the Black Box) which makes quality images of the whole thing difficult to get – you are encouraged to see the full thing in person.

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