Friday 3 February 2012

Tank Stream Way, street art

Tank Stream Way is a city laneway that features this temporary Laneway Art as part of the annual Art and About Sydney festivalThe side of the Thai Airways International building has been used as a canvas for this "tag wall" or street art by Barry McGee. It has stirred up controversy after the artist was given permission to paint graffiti art on a certain wall along Tank Stream Way but also painted graffiti tags on this wall. The City of Sydney council, which produced this event, has been accused of encouraging vandalism. The shadows and light reflected from the office building opposite add some texture to this shot.

25 comments:

  1. I must admit to being a street art fan Jim. Love this capture and the art.

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  2. Special but nice!
    I wish you a Happy Friday!

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  3. Great shot of this controversial issue.

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  4. I can understand the controversy; your photograph is a fantastic capture.

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  5. I actually like some street graffiti. Great capture! Happy skywatching!

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  6. Well, there is graffiti and some of it is offensive, but I think this is quite beautiful, and a great photo.

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  7. Good capture, Jim. There's an almost abstract feel to this...

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  8. I like it! I guess the lines between graffiti and art blur at some point, but this looks cool.

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  9. That is very interesting. Nothing like that ever happens here.

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  10. new art will always be vandalism to the passing regime



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  11. I think it's looks terrific. It's certainly not vandalism.

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  12. Interesting sky! Great capture!

    Happy SWF. Enjoy your weekend.

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  13. That he asked permission made it an artwork in my humble opinion.
    Also, the street art is done in an artful way, not annoying or daring as so much of it is!

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  14. Emille, he actually didn't have permission to paint this one. Just the other one around the corner which I featured on Monday.

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  15. Well I reckon someone should come along an spray a big tag on his art and let him know how it feels to have people do something to your stuff without permission.

    This one is however better than the one around the corner.

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  16. I like the shadow of this photo! So cool.
    Have a wonderful weekend,
    Yoshi

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  17. Art, graffiti...it's a slippery slope hey Jim!! Nicely shown.

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  18. I would love to be experiencing this whole art work that you have shared!

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