Here is the CNB15 piece by MELS2 (Fb), showing (in the wide shot, below) four bloody hands, with blood red nails, belonging to a blonde-haired, black-lipped woman looking askance at the viewer. The inspiration for the work is Dublin photographer Monika Lejman/Mona Leymann.
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Braddell & Sons sell fishing equipment in North Street and this year for CNB15 their shutters got the Elph treatment: a boy sits fishing in a mind-melting landscape. The little fish named “Fish” on the left (in the wide shot below) is for a guy who used to play the arcades further up the street. (Fb)
Previously by Elph: The Piano Has Been Smoking | Eyes Wide Shut | The Imaginarium | Let’s Melt
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The piece above by Malarky (aka Malarko) for CNB15 in September was replaced in short order by the RAZER tag (and face), below.
The wide shot shows the other pieces in the North Street car park: Femme Fatale by Mels from HTN/CNB15 and Fight Or Flight by Friz and Danleo from CNB13.
Malarky also did the piece immediately below in the lower Kent Street car-park.
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L.A. artist StarFighterA (Chirstina Angelina) was in Belfast for CNB15 and painted this three-headed, four-storey, piece of street art on the side-wall of the Irish News’s offices in Donegall Street. A full shot and another close-up are below.
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Dublin artist James Earley (Fb) was in Belfast last week for Culture Night (CNB15 ) and painted this large-scale horse on the side of the National Grande Café. A wide shot and in progress shot are below. Here is a short video of Earley discussing his work; this piece is in a less-definite stained-glass style than previously – see his Wolf for CNB14.
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Not exhausted by last year’s monster piece (Home Taping Is Killing Music), here’s another tall, tall, CNB/HTN piece by KVLR (Kev Largey | Tw | Instragram) next to Psychonautes’s Jay Adams Soul Sailor, Hicks’s The Woods Are Lovely Dark And Deep, and Conor Harrington’s The Duel at the Black Box in Hill Street.
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Actor Leonard Nimoy died on February 27th, 2015. He is best known for the role of Star Trek‘s Spock, a part he played for 49 years. The mural above brings the character from space to the streets, with gold chain and skull hat. “Trek yourself before ya wreck yourself.”
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A robin sits atop the skull of a cat. Work by Glaswegian street artists Spore, Ejek, Rogue-One, and Vues Oner for the Release The Pressure festival in London/-Derry/Doire back on July 25-26th. See below for a shot of the whole thing and a video of the piece in production.
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Gerard ‘Mo Chara’ Kelly painted these three images of Patsy Cline in the back garden of a Springhill neighbour. Cline died in 1963 at age 30; the three panels show different stages of her short career: the first shows her in cowboy gear, before turning to pop music, the second is based on a 1957 publicity shot for her new label, Decca, and the third shows her in 1961. Her cover of Don Gibson’s Sweet Dreams was released as a single in the wake of her death.
Here is video of Patsy singing Willie Nelson’s Crazy and, below that, Marsha Thornton doing the song from which today’s title comes:
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This shrine to a deceased youngster – “John Mongan, died 15th May 2011” – is near the entrance to Ardcaoin, Belfast.
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