A blue-locked beauty sleeps on the shutter of the Tivoli Barber Shop in North Street, painted by KinMX (Fb) for Culture Night Belfast, 2013.
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Barbershop Blues
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Culture Night work by This Is Filth (Fb) in North Street: “Read More”.
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Lost Soul
Here is another piece of Culture Night Belfast 2013 artwork, produced by Inkie on the shutters – suitably enough – of a tattoo parlour in North Street.
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No Laffin Matter
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man terrorises New York (from the movie Ghostbusters) in this 2013 Culture Night Belfast piece by davidcreative (David McClelland). The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was also the subject of a NOTA piece on Great Victoria Street/Downshire Place (Andrew Stewart).
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Carried Away
This stencil by Visual Waste (Fb | previously) in North Street shows a large black bird carrying off a boy, perhaps in response to the (faked) footage last December (2012) purporting to show an attempt by a golden eagle to snatch a child (youtube).
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CameraMan
Above is emic’s new (2013) piece for Culture Night Belfast (web site This Means Nothing), replacing the piece he did at the same time last year.
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Long Runs The Fox
The new blue face by DMC (Web | Fb) in North Street wears a crown of autumn leaves. (Replaces Praise’s Dot piece – unvandalised | vandalised. In 2016 the DMC piece itself succumbed to the writer’s can – see the final image, below.)
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Ruby
New street art on North Street by MELS (and specifically Viktor Sümegi) shows a ruby-lipped and ruby-crowned female face with sheep’s (?) horns.
Replaces the 2012 ‘Lose Or Re-use’ piece showing a store-front in outline, later vandalised with ‘Fuck Art‘.
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Wee Ruby’s
UDA graffiti on the shutters of a dilapidated building at the top (southern) end of Sandy Row.
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Rebel Without A Pause
Graffiti on the Lower Lisburn Road – “No matter what the name/We’re all the same/Pieces in one big chess game” – Chuck D of Public Enemy, from the song “Rebel Without a Pause” on their 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (full lyrics).
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