Here are three images of the Dan Kitchener piece for this year’s Culture Night Belfast/Hit The North. According to Dan’s web site, it took about 11 hours to complete and is inspired by Ayumi LaNoire.
See also: DanK’s CNB16 piece, Blurry Eyed
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Here is Faigy’s (Fb | Tw) piece for CNB/HTN17, taken before he had quite finished. You can see the completed work on his Twitter feed.
“By my calculations a cart wheel takes about 4 metres to do.
It is 50 miles to the Dark Hedges from here.
There are 1609 metres in a mile, so it is 80,450 metres to the dark hedges from here.
If travelling from here to the Dark hedges via cart wheels it would take 20,112 and a half cart wheels to get there.
A tumble over is roughly 2 metres long.
Its 330 miles to Skellig Michael from here.
There are 1609 metres in 1 mile.
1609 x 330 ÷ 2 = 265,485.
Therefore, it would take 265,485 tumble overs to Skellig Michael. For some strange unknown reason this essential tourist travel information isn’t available in Belfast so I’ll just have to add a sign post to this piece I’m about to finish to help people out …”
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Over the course of May, June, and July, Glen Molloy (Fb) painted eight portraits of local musicians on the hoarding in front of the Harp Bar in Hill Street: (l-r) David Holmes, Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly, Una Healy, Van Morrison, Bap Kennedy, Brian Kennedy, Fatboy Slim.
Above and immediately below are close-ups of Fatboy Slim and Gary Lightbody, followed by some group shots and a wide shot.
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“Some days I am more wolf than woman and I am still learning how to stop apologising for my wild.” Words from poet Nikita Gill illustrated by Conor McClure (web | Fb | tw) for Culture Night Belfast/Hit The North 2017.
Previously by McClure: Spring Wings.
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An additional elephant piece, in Royal Avenue, by Falko One (Tw | Inst | Fb), who painted elephants in three east Belfast locations for Hit The East.
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We begin our 2017 Culture Night Belfast/Hit The North coverage with New York street artist and co-founder of the LISA (Little Italy Street Art) project The DRiF (aka Rey Rosa) (Fb | web | tumblr | tw) who came to town to paint a Belfast version of his “Tiny Dancer“.
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Here are two images of memorials dedicated to local residents without any apparent connection to politics. The picture above shows a painting of poppies on the garden wall of Susan Davidson’s house in Tiger’s Bay, Belfast. The image below is of a plaque in Creggan, Derry, to Billy and Shiela Quigley, who died in a car cash in 2004.
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Poet Seamus Heaney died on this day 2013 and the gravestone erected in St Mary’s, Ballaghy, on the same day the following year. The epitaph is “Walk on air against your better judgement” from the poem ‘The Gravel Walks” in The Spirit Level.
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Olympic boxing champion (and former Ireland soccer player) Katie Taylor is currently 6-0 in her professional career. Her image is being used here as an inspiration (or warning?) to the children of Victoria nursery in the New Lodge. She was also featured in a mural outside Coláiste Feirste in west Belfast.
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Extramural Activity 