City/Town

Full-Bodied

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2014-05-29 BuckfastDog+

A dachshund looks quizzically at a bottle of buckie (Buckfast tonic wine – fortified to 15% alcohol) left on the wall. Street art by Verz (Fb | Web), officially entitled “Sausage”, on the wall outside the Crescent Arts Centre, just off University Road.

Another of Verz’s ‘Dogs On The Street’ series: Psychedelic Dog

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Those Days Are Gone

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2014-05-29 MrSaturdayNight3+

“To put bread on the table, those days are gone, when we all had to to Willie Allen’s pawn.

We met and we married along time ago; we worked for long hours when wages were low.”

Above and below are boards 3 and 4 of the ‘Sandy Row memories’ at the end of Blythe Street, showing Murray’s Tobacco Factory (in Linfield Road/Sandy Row, which closed in 2005 before being refurbished and opening in 2012 as Murray’s Exchange) and the old Belfast & Ulster Brewing building (unchanged image here), home to the south Belfast Ulster Volunteers (Sandy Row History) and most recently (until 2007) the home of Gilpin’s Furniture.

Two other boards can be seen in Mr. Saturday Night. A gallery of all of the pieces on the wall can been seen in a 2007 entry.

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New Graffiti Loading

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2014-05-28 GraffitiLoading1+

The corner of College Court and College Street is something of a contested space, as whatever street art appears is painted over in short order. First there was The Sun Will Make You Blind which was followed by Ballex and now there is “graffiti image loading …” with a progress bar – the third piece in under a year.

Along the same lines, see New Mural Loading.

The Red Ant visible in the wide shot, below, also appears in Cat & Mouse.

Andrew reports that a version of this piece also appeared at The Menagerie in 2010.

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The Row You Know

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2014-05-27 SandyRowHeritage+

“Today is yesterday’s tomorrow”. Vintage images of Sandy Row, including the Ulster Spinning Company and the Royal Bar, make up this “Heritage – Culture – Identity” board on Donegall Road. The central image is part of this photo montage.

Featured previously: Hope – Future – Change – Now

Hour-long video of Sandy Row memories

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Take The Red Pill

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2014-05-19 RedPill+

Reality takes many forms when you participate in Belfast’s Red Pill Spoken Word Showcase. In this David McClelland (a.k.a. Tweet, davidcreative) piece in Garfield Street, the speaker tells a tale of a luchador (Mexican wrestler).

For another luchador, see this piece by Friz: Free For All

Replaces Make Art Not Bombs which replaced Tynee Bear which replaced Not Criminals Just Thugz

Here’s a terrific time-lapse video of the piece being created.

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Gaeltacht Quarter

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2014-05-18 GaeltachtQuarter+

Belfast has seven geographical quarters and an eighth one in the form of Quarter Accountants/Cuntasóırí in Belfast’s city centre. Notably, the signage is in both English and Irish; the business is in the Cathedral Quarter rather than the Gaeltacht Quarter.

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