Bombing The Bridge Over The River Kwaide

Like the bamboo bridge over the River Kwai, Bell's Bridge over the River Clyde is a sturdy structure. Yet, as we all know with all man-made structures, and especially with that Kwai-straddling bamboo span, they are not immune to bombing...

And so, soon after, maybe a week or so, graffiti removal guy comes along and wipes the slate clean but as usual it's a half-hearted affair and so I decided to mock the poor guy even more...

I don't mind GRG removing the narcisstic teenage scrawling - it's a bloody eyesore and tells us nothing other than the tale of yet another ego-obsessed clown.... But leave the good stuff...

Or else.

 Vinz, John, and Spud.

 Modern Life: Getting shot in the head, more getting shot in the head, and crack.

Plenty of foot traffic from all quarters... Bell's Bridge is a fine site for the aspiring street artist who wants to impart a little wisdom upon the ever-descending IQ of the masses. And it's only five minutes from my gaff.

Self-Publishing on the City's Walls

It seems ridiculous to have fraudsters and liars preaching to us via 20 foot high lettering and billboards the size of football pitches. Whether banks with dubious pasts or pornographic websites who are attempting to normalize perversion through their clever and creative wording (lying), we are, if we live in a city, being constantly raped by advertisers and their shit mendacious messages.

Recently, just along the expressway, two huge electronic advertising podiums were installed to target the car-drivers. Right beneath one of them is an underpass which sees a lot of graffiti (most of it narcissistic and without any clear message). It was here that I put up my first stencil, a simple image of Vinz (from the film La Haine) pointing his fingers (gun style) at the mirror with a single word beneath: Capitalism.

Out of all the graffiti there, only this one was removed by the council-sanctioned idiot who is charged with graffiti-removal. The others were left intact because they displayed a happy friendly image of the world, colourful, smiley, artistic....

I was irritated by this. Here, we have state-sanctioned billboards promoting tosh (and renewing the capitalist quagmire) in 20 foot lettering, and here's poor little revolutionary me writing a tiny stencil in letters half an inch high. I suppose I should be proud, that these tiny letters have managed to irk someone so much that they have erased it from existence. It reveals a lot about the conventional mindset of state-sanctioned people....

At any rate, I went back the next week and did eight stencils where the single one had been... 

Idiots get to learn the hard way.