This is a 2012 mural by Cork artist Conor Harrington (whose blog is called ConorSaysBoom) in Hill Street (below the Duke Of York). Two men fence while a third watches on; nature in the form of a deer lies dead on the floor.
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This street art is on a wall/fence that runs right through the middle of Alexandra Park, separating the loyalist Mountcollyer and republican Newington neighbourhoods. The ‘History Comes Alive’ triptych is on the nationalist side.
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The Angry Birds puzzle game (on mobile devices and on Facebook) is a smash hit for Finnish game developers Rovio (WP) and is now a part of popular culture, including this take-off on the Comber Walkway – angry burners.
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Belfast in all its glory, such as [it] is: signs forbidding the posting of bills, a sign forbidding public consumption of alcohol, flyers scraped off an electrical box, double yellow lines forbidding you to park, with a car parked there nonetheless, a rusted postie’s box … and graffiti. Camden Street. Medium-range and Close-up views below.
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Two images of BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, young and old, on the wall of the passageway to the Duke Of York pub in the city centre.
Peel is famous in Northern Ireland for his love of the song “Teenage Kicks” by Derry group The Undertones (WP). A line from the song – Teenage dreams so hard to beat” – was used in this mural/street art tribute to Peel, who died in 2004 (WP).
Update 2013-06-21: the ‘teenage dreams’ artwork on Bridge End has been painted over (Tele | BBC | Irish Times; video from U.tv).
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This piece in North Street, in the city centre, combines realistic buildings with honeycomb patterning run together with cloud-like spray-paint, threatening to envelope the impressionistic figure in the foreground. The surface is the shutter of a shop front. By emic/This Means Nothing for CNB 2012. (The hand in the bottom left can also be found around the corner in Garfield Street.)
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Q: Praise’s piece in North Street has been …?
(a) vandalized
(b) improved
(c) replaced
(d) all of the above
(e) other
Explain your answer in the comments. Also on Extramural Activity: An Essay On The Necessity Of Art | Fuck Art | A Dialogue On The Nature Of Art
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A 3-D/plane-breaking board/collage from the courtyard of the Duke Of York, featuring King Kong on the Empire State building (1933), Atlas (Metropolis 1927), a zombie (also from Metropolis?), riot police controlled by a puppet-master, Hokusai’s Great Wave Of Kanagawa 1830, WWI biplanes, a steamer/cruise-ship with searchlight? and something that looks like the Giant’s causeway?? (Leave a comment if you can correct these, or recognise the car with L plates (Death Proof 2007 – thanks Bob) or Hollister on the document folder.)
2013-02 Update: Artists Ciaran Gallagher and Kathryn Bannister have a gallery of pictures of the piece being constructed and installed. The piece, they say, is inspired by “classics of the silver screen” and was part of Culture Night 2011.
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“No hash, no cash” – Bryson Street, (CNR) east Belfast.
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This recent, biblically-themed, mural is in Bank Square, the open space outside Kelly’s Cellars. Included in the panels are various Bible stories such as Noah’s Ark, the burning bush, and the loaves and fishes. (Mary-Ann McCracken is also included?) Watching over them from both left and right are the pike-men of 1798.
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