25 Des' 2010 Fantastic Merry Christmas Graffiti

Christmas Graffiti. Month of December, precisely on December 25. Christian congregation will celebrate their special day is Christmas. Days where the Christmas tree, Santa and accessories are always there at the moment. And every year do not forget to celebrate graffiti as well, on every wall street is filled with ornaments and paintings with a beautiful Christmas theme. Christmas greetings in graffiti, maybe it's the right theme for this time. Try to see some pictures we got from the streets, how to make street artists and graffiti painting special for you during Christmas.

Some graffiti is simple. The point is to tag and run. These spray paint tags started in NYC and Philadelphia but now are found all over the world. Tags are not always about gang markings. It is a debate among many if graffiti is a form of street art or vandalism. From sweet or funny tags to more sinister Christmas works, urban walls and trains are common places for graffiti writers to leave their holiday message.

This wall was photographed and posted as Evil Santa. This particular wall can be found in Greece. With a project this large, the undertaking is much less of a tag and more of a celebrated work of art. Graffiti in all forms can be found spray painted in all corners of the planet. It is one more common bond that makes us all united, as is celebrating this holiday season.

Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin was once a large department store but now is run by artists. The exterior has huge, colorful graffiti-style murals.

The “legal wall” of Madison Event Center was recently made festive and bright by graffiti artists DEXTER, PAGE, CRE, BLAME, APHEN, GNES, SREK, AREA, SERP, and DOSE. Dexter wants her to eat his candy. Dose created a vicious snowman. Besides legal graffiti like Nightmare Before Christmas, Page adds detail to Santa’s machine gun. Srek also sends his Merry Christmas.

This limousine was tagged after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The Christmas graffiti occurred after Wal-Mart was looted. Even in the midst of disaster and bad times, street artists who some consider vandals still tried to offer peace and season’s greetings.

Trains are an extremely common place to find graffiti. Street artists tag trains and send their graffiti on its way to chug through an endless path of cities and towns. Trains are a popular target all over the globe. Many graffiti loving people post their artistic finds such as candy-cane train, the blue famous freight train painted end-to-end with Christmas graffiti, and the Merry Christmas tag on the bottom train.

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The Rain in the Lane Mainly Flows Down the Drain

Wednesday I decided I'd work from home - around 9.00 am the rains came and didn't stop all day. Not just drizzle but great huge buckets of torrential rain were tipped all over Melbourne and Victoria.

This is the water that flows less than one kilometre to our lovely Port Phillip Bay.
With it flows any garbage that thoughtless people may decide to empty
 from their vehicle instead of the recycling bin at home.

Our street became a small river as the flow of water either side of our street met in the middle. Any depression in the ground surface became a small pond. The front lawn took on the feel of a sodden carpet in a beer house.



And she said more wet weather to come.

 All this overflow finds its way down the drains taking with it rubbish from the gutters. The other day as I drove into my street I saw the packaging of a finished McDonald's meal. Rather than taking the rubbish home some person stopped at the corner, opened the car door to leave his/her garbage in OUR street. It's most probably now somewhere in OUR Port Phillip bay.



The forecast for the rest of the week looks like more wetness but with temperatures almost tropical.

 After all the rains we've had, I see our water reserves have now reached close to 53% capacity. That might not sound great but some of the dams are full capacity while some still need a top-up.



Scenes from the Melbourne torrential rains experienced this week.

 Hopefully the weekend will bring less rains because my lawns are growing very quickly. I think this weekend might be the time to purchase a motor mower. I love my push mower but the grass is longer and I'm older.
Friday night I'm taking my father to watch the bike racing at the indoor velodrome. There's a race on that I won in the early 70s that's been run since 1925. We'll do some father/son bonding over a Guinness or two.
Sunday Sue and I have a dinner to attend on Sunday night at an Indian Restaurant called "Roti Boti", how appropriate.

I can feel a weekend blog happening.

Graffiti Rap - Hip Hop Street Art

Music Hip Hop and Rap is a culture that already exists and is attached to an image of the black community, but now the music has evolved far and already affect many people regardless of tribe, race or differences. Music is an art which creates a voice of unity to all people, as well as the graffiti that has existed since time immemorial. Developed in accordance with the wishes of the times. Hip Hop, Rap and R & B come together and join with graffiti in a difference that are embedded in a more complex art. Until now we will see that music Rap, Hip Hop can not be separated from the graffiti itself, try to see Chris Brown in the musical album that elevates the art of graffiti in the rhythm of the music that has united so many differences. Graffiti Chris Brown's example ....

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Mural Wildstyle Graffiti Alphabet : Letters A - Z Street Art

Mural Wildstyle Graffiti Alphabet : Letters A - Z Street Art

Graffiti Alphabet Wildstyle characters depicted in a wall street. Letters A - Z painted in such a way and is decorated with several colors that are full of colorful impression. This makes the different effects of previous graffiti. All the letters A through Z sari united in one design so it makes an impression like a puzzle, where we will not know what the purpose and meaning if one piece is missing, and will be perfect when all these pieces together in one part of the alphabet graffiti design.

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How to Draw Graffiti Names on Your Name?

Many who love the art of graffiti with the reasons vary, but most of all it can be concluded that they might be interested in seeing the colorful graffiti with beautiful colors, bright and every shape has a different style.Although graffiti art is most widely known as art drawn by vandals on public walls with spray cans,This time I will explain the stages of how to make graffiti name is good and right. Before we start how to make graffiti a good name, good and true then you should first preparation needed supplies and equipment such as light pencil, preferrably HB, and a set of permanent magic markers with a variety of colors.

1. Next, you need to Decide on the style of the texts. There are literally Thousands of styles to choose from. Just take a look at the Thousands of font types Freely available on the Internet for download. You May Want To visit one of these websites and choose a font design That you really like. You'll be using this as your reference. Some websites even allow you to create a preview image with the selected font type. Simply save the image to your computer for reference.

2. Start your drawing with pencil on the surface. Draw lightly at first so you cans erase That you make any Mistakes. Sometimes, your texts May be too big or small, and you cans Easily rectify this by using a dust free eraser.

3. Once you're satisfied with how the graffiti name looks, trace the outline with a fine magic marker. The shapes will from start to emerge now. Then start filling in the different letters with colors. Be bold and creative here. After all, it's graffiti texts, so You Want it to come out attractive, bold and stylish.

4. Use a different color shades to create Some just inside the Outlines. This will of create the illusion That the texts are 3D. If you're familiar to using Photoshop or any image editing software, this is similar to creating the emboss effect.

5. Drawing the drop shadow is optional but if you Want your graffiti name to look more alive and realistic, by all means give your graffiti name a light shadow below.















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A TASTE For TRAVEL

After our first trip away together we did get a taste for travel, literally - it was about food and wine.
We started late with the travel bug – we’d both did a little before meeting each other. Sue did a whirlwind European trip while I did 3 months on the West Coast of USA as a racing cyclist in my late twenties.

After our 2006 trip to France and Italy by the slow travel method we were hooked. The guided tour with a whole bunch of other tourists was not for us. Travelling in our own leased car and staying a week at a time gave us the thrill of meeting people and absorbing more of each region where we stayed.

I had my long service leave due so this trip was seven weeks long which gave us more time to explore the wonders of France. In Australia, employees are rewarded for loyalty (or laziness) if you are with the same company for 10 years (pro-rata) and 15 years.

Our 2008 trip started with a few days back in Paris at a hotel directly across from Gare de Lyon and on this trip I had my bike neatly packed away in an over the shoulder carry bag. It would be a few days before the bike would come out the bag and be reassembled.


We stayed within easy access of Gare de Lyon. Learning from our previous experience of 2006, we wanted to be within walking distance from the TGV station this time. We had learn't that Parisian taxi drivers are not always punctual.


The plan was to walk across the road to get the TGV for Avignon as we did in 2006. We would then pick up the car and spend a night in Arles before our week in Saint Remy de Provence.


Sue at the market in Arles, stocking up for our week in Saint Remy de Provence.


After that we would revisit Saint Chinian before heading off to Albi, Confolens, Vers and for another whole week at Le Bugue in the Dordogne. The charms of this area was its history, terrain and the food.


We were totally mesmerised by our week in the Dordogne - and I had my bike this time.


We then took off to Normandy via Chinon, and Le Mans in the Loire. The Bayeaux Tapestry was high on Sue’s list of things to see. We did an overnight night stop on the coast at Arromanche to take in the D-Day landings before spending three nights in Honfleur – just a great town.



Chinon, the food, wine and our B&B have a special spot in our memories that will live on forever.



As we traveled further north the weather changed but
 Honfleur still had an amazing allure despite the colder conditions.

The trip finished with the luxury of one whole week in a Paris apartment on the left bank but more about that much later in the trip.

Join us each Wednesday in France.

Graffiti Alphabet : Letters A-Z Canvas for Interior Design

Graffiti and graffiti, always never-ending to be discussed and described. Graffiti wherever and whenever it is always there. Graffiti does not have to exist on the street walls commonly regarded some people as being controversial. But for lovers of graffiti are very fanatical, they can change the view of some person with an idea of the diamond. Make graffiti alphabet in a canvas and stick it on the wall home, office or wherever it is. Graffiti Alphabet as interior design, drawing instead. This is art that looks beautiful wherever located. Graffiti Alphabet: Letters A - Z Canvas

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