Skart

Skateboard & art = Skart

I was almost out of Graffiti Alley..

.. when I noticed these small bits of art.

Faces over abstract, on what appeared to be the toe end of skateboards,

were screwed to poles and posts.

It was in the Grarten! Graffiti & Art & Garden = Grarten.

Love it in the Grarten, where art grows like wild flowers, so I went back and found more.


Clad in dirty shoes and shorts
his face streaked with dirt,
he swoops past like a bird in flight
thrilled with disaster to flirt.
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Like nothing you’ve ever seen before
the skateboard on which he rides,
a platform piled high with recyclables
no one his wild recklessness chides.
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A pair of dark eyes, wild and bright
glow beneath his unkempt crop,
he takes a sharp corner rather wide
there is no-one to make him stop.
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We find our pleasures in different ways
it’s human nature to laugh and enjoy,
he’s found a way to make the most of life
treating his load like a favourite toy.


Roberta Eton Cheadle

Robbie, who wrote The Silver Lining is a fabulous writer, artist and photographer.

You can skateboard virtually to either of her 2 blog sites. ROBBIE’S INSPIRATION

OR ROBERTA WRITES

Some of the pieces had a cool red and white sticker on them.

I saved my fave piece for last. It was the only face on what looked like a … breadboard?

Now, I think- the heel end of a skateboard?

Pics taken by Resa – September 17, 2024

Toronto, Canada

The Artist: Chris Dyer

Click on pic! Go to website!

Can You Spot the Fake Street Art?

A wall was painted for a scene in a movie. After the scene was shot, the wall was painted over. I knew from the first piece, that something was off. Let me know which one you thought was fake in comments. Answer at end of post.

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Pics taken by Resa – 2023 & 2024

Toronto, Canada

They shot a movie once, in my hometown
Everybody was in it, from miles around
Out at the speedway, some kind of Elvis thing
Well, I ain't no movie star
But I can get behind anything.

When You Blow at High Dough - The Tragically Hip

1500 Posts Gala

Welcome blogivision viewers to GLAM’s 1500th post! It’s a G0-Go Gala & I’m MC Boogapony Holly.!

Tonight’s theme is GLAM’s tagline, “Luxuriating in the Arts”. You will be treated to poetry, music, dancing, painting, comedy, graffiti and lots of cool fashion, as I work my way through costume changes.

My fab outfit above is inspired by the poem below, which in turn was inspired by a different outfit. That said outfit was inspired by a fusion of 2 groovy personalities. One was real, and the other imagined. Try and guess the answer to this riddle! Outfit, more clues & answer are at the end!

Okay! Time to liven things up! Time to“Pony On Down” Graffiti Alley to the vintage harmonies of “The Beach Boys”!

That was exhilarating and exhausting. Good thing I have this stunning Graffiti Lux art wall that looks like stained glass to lean on. Which brings us to the art part of our show.

Below is a mural, rendered in a realism style, of Charlie Chaplin and a vaudeville company in 1914. Charlie stayed at the now decrepit hotel it is painted on. Learn more about this mural on a podcast featuring moi, on Tea Toast and Trivia!

However, art has been created in many styles over time. Right now I’m thinking of the successful artist of the 60’s, Andy Warhol. He began the Pop Art movement. Crazy what he did with soup cans.

Not to be forgotten is Op Art. However, to be totally original, I’m starting the Oops Art Movement, as imagined above!

 Now, for the first time on any stage anywhere, to present GLAM’s commemorative gift to all of you, is my kid sister. Take it away Boogalu LuLu!

So, umm, like before I tell you what the gift is, I got this song to play for you. Don’t let the treacle voice of 26 year old Bella Poarch fool you! The  message is killer.

Okay, so like, you’re all getting a free Boogapony Holly Paper Doll download. Don’t worry, the paper doll won’t kill you! Although you might get a paper cut, so there is that.

Click on cover to view &/or download

 ….. And thank you Boogalu LuLu! That was … a song!

Now it’s time for more clues and the  RIDDLE ANSWER!

Here I am in the originally inspired fusion outfit, that inspired Holly’s poem. Take a good look! There’s 2 personalities in the styling.

More Clues – can you guess who the 2 personalities are?

Before the curtain closes on GLAM’s Go-Go Gala, I’m going to Go-Go my way through some surrealistic art to the sounds of  Corey Hart singing.

Thank you all for being here to help me celebrate, dear friends! Now, I leave you with a parting question and a final fashion tip:

QUESTION

If a multitude of graffiti tags are all piled upon each other in 1 spot, does that create a work of art in its own right?

FASHION TIP

Go-Go Boots go with everything!

Boogapony Holly character © Resa McConaghy & Holly Rene Hunter – Since January, 2018

Drawings © Resa McConaghy

“Flower Girls” – poetry © Holly Rene Hunter

Music selections by Holly Rene Hunter

Charlie Chaplin mural by Mandy van Leeuwen & Jennifer Johnson

Silhouettes on a Fence

There’s a fence on Lansdowne. It seems a mile long.

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Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

For the last 5 years, it surrounds a TTC construction compound.

Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink
Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

Doesn’t seem like our tax dollars are going anywhere, fast.

Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink
Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

Nonetheless, the link fence surrounding the idle compound…

Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink
Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

…is adorned with black wood cut-outs.

Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink
Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink
Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink
Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

Seems in Toronto, although certain urban progress is ridiculously hindered, art flourishes.

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Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink
Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

The Following pic is taken from inside of a plexiglass TTC shelter.

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Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

Pics taken by Resa – October 10, 2016

Toronto, Canada

The Artists:

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Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink
Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

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Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink
Artists: Scott Eunson & Marianne Lovink

Big Easy

Presenting …. The Big Easy in Ottawa.

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Painted on a medium stucco, I was having a few challenges shooting this.

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Of course, the stucco was nothing compared to the big asp semi-trailer truck that parked in front of the mural.

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I captured enough before it was too, late.

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♬ ♬ ♬ I’m sure the guitarist is singing to  Marina & Belén ♬ ♬ ♬

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Pics taken by Resa, June 29, 2016

Ottawa, Canada

The artists are unknown to me

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Birds of a Feather

Street artists like to paint walls, so they found 2 in Cambridge.

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Artist: BirdO

They finished down by the river, then did group pieces on the walls they found.

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Artist: Shalak Attack

Love the humor here!

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Artist: Bruno Smoky

When I departed, Sath was just about to add his contribution, as was Tensoe2.

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Artist: Sath

As I never saw the finished piece, I’m posting these 2 close ups of Sath’s river piece. It is gorgeous!

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Artist: Sath

  So far next years festival is planned for the 11th & 12th of August.

Below, Shalak is painting her part of the other wall I did not get to see finished.

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Artist: Shalak Attack

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Artist: Dave Bonzai

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Artist: Odeith

Here we see: l-r – Mediah, Tensoe2, Shalak, Odeith, Smoky & Dave Bonzai. Blow it up to see them better!

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If not for a day of rain, I would have gotten to see the 2 wall pieces finished.

Chalk Artist Unknown to me. Will update
Chalk Artist Unknown to me. Will update

 Next year will be awesome, I’m sure! August 11 & 12, 2017.

Pics take by Resa  – August 13 & 14, 2016

Cambridge, Ontario

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Also, Angels’ kisses & many Thank You’s to Brian Price & Linda Daniher- Festival Organizers

& big thank you’s to all the Official Sponsors of the first

CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL STREET ART FESTIVAL

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Artist: Shalak Attack