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Tony Alva Soul Sailor

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Surf- and skate-boarder Tony Alva (web) is the subject of this Psychonautes (web | Fb) stencil in Garfield Street. In addition to another Tony Alva, Psychonautes has also done portraits of two other skateboarding legends – Steve Caballero and Rodney Mullen – in the Frenchman’s adopted hometown of Cork. Some idea of the method used can be gathered from this video of the production of a piece for a tapas restaurant in Dublin.

Replaces David McClelland’s Take The Red Pill

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Art Lab

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2014-09-26 CNBHBombInkie+

Inkie (Tom Bingle WP | Fb | Web) did five pieces for CNB 2014. Two of these have been featured previously – Boogie Down Belfast | Sleep Sweetly – and the other three are shown here, including two sigs in different styles. All three are in (upper) North Street.

Previously, from CNB13: Lost Soul

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It’s A Jungle Out There

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2014-09-24 CNBTwitchLion+

The king of the jungle is wearing a wide-brimmed purple fedora, in the middle of a long, three shop-front piece by Twitch (Fb) – wide shot below. The sunflowers are for the Sunflower bar, on the other side of the street.

Previously at the Sunflower: The Men Who Stare At Bikes  | No Topless Bathing – Ulster Has Suffered Enough

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This Means Nothing

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2014-09-24 CNBEMicLights+

Here’s emic’s (Eoin McGinn, This Means Nothing) main piece for CNB 2014, in (upper) North Street.

Also by emic for CNB14: Lost In The Music. For CNB13: CameraMan. For CNB12: Through The Fog. Previously: Deconstructions | Through The Mists Of Time

2016 Update – the mural is “enhanced” by CASP:

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We All Skream

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Here’s DMC’s (Fb | web) CNB 2014 mural in Kent Street, featuring dubstep artist/producer Skream (Oliver Jones), who was one of the artists at the Red Bull Music Academy at the end of September (which was also promoted in KVLR’s piece – see Home Taping Is Killing Music).

Previously from Dermot McConaghy for CNB 2013: Long Runs The Fox

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Let’s Melt

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Two Scottish street artists, Conzo Throb from Glasgow and Elph from Edinburgh, combined to produce the street art above. It features Elph’s distinctive psychedelic landscapes with Conzo’s Taps Aff, with Terror Cheb protruding. (A wide shot is below.) They also each did an individual piece for CNB14: see previously Fill Up On Colour (Conzo Throb) and The Imaginarium (Elph) as well as Elph’s work for the Menagerie bar in The Piano Has Been Smoking and Eyes Wide Shut.

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The Phantom Queen

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2014-09-24 CNBFrizEve+

The Morrígan (the phantom queen or the great queen) is a character from Irish mythology, appearing prominently in the story of Cú Chulaınn. She takes various forms – crow, cow, wolf, eel, as shown on the right-hand side of the mural above – in addition to appearing as a young and old woman and as a trio of women. (For more info, consult WP.) This is new work by Friz (web | Fb | Tw) for Culture Night Belfast 2014.

Previous work by Friz

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