J’inventais La Couleur Des Voyelles!

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03058 2015-09-23 MarcaMix CNB15 Pipes+

Dublin-based South African street artist MarcaMix (pictured below) was in Belfast for CNB15 in September and painted this colourful mural in Garfield Street. The circular swirl was originally larger and looked like a sun, so I see steam rising off icy fields. Or a chemistry experiment gone gloriously wrong. Other interpretations are welcome in the comments!

Previously: For CNB14 with KinMx: Rocket Cowgirl

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The Short-Timers

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03059 2015-09-23 ADW CNB15 Born To Create+

ADW‘s (Fb) CNB15 ‘combat helmet of crayons’ piece in Garfield Street has already been reclaimed by the Belfast graffitists (specifically NOTA), cheekily turning ‘born to create’ into ‘born 2 destroy’, rather like the ‘born to kill’ from the poster for Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, on which the work was based (final image, below).

See previously: A Short Treatise On The Ephemerality Of Art in which a CNB13 piece was … modified.

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UFF South East Antrim Brigade

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03038 2015-09-23 UFF SEAntrim Fist+

 16 towns and town-lands of south-east County Antrim are named in this recent UFF mural: Rathcoole, Rathfern, Monkstown, Shore Road, Whitewell, Glengormley, Greenisland, Carrickfergus, Whitehead, Ballycarry, Ballyclare, Larne, Newtownards, Antrim, Antrim, Ballymena, Braidside.

This mural was painted in late summer, 2015, on a wall that had been blank since at least 2008. In 2006, it bore a UDA mural, for which see M03060 (in Peter Moloney’s collection).

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Animals Will Only Come To You If You Feed Them

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03044 2015-09-23 Malarky CNB15+

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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Gone Fishing

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03041 2015-09-23 Elph CNB15 Fishing d+

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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