Bortusk Leer stufff

Bortusk Leer: little dog thing
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad

Bortusk Leer copper
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad

Check the following links for more Bortusk Leer fun! I shall be on the lookout for more of these...

http://flickr.com/photos/tags/bortuskleer/
www.bortuskleer.com

Another Kid Acne lady

Another Kid Acne lady
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad

Vindictive poetry

Traffic wardens
Awkward thick
Creeping lurking pouncing
Sneaky little worms
Just like children
(But hey
Someone's gotta do it)

Merchandise

Poster and 2009 calendar can be purchased below.

Kid Acne stabby women

A couple of Kid Acne's "little stabby women", which have been cropping up in major cities across the UK according to www.kidacne.com.

Kid Acne warrior, originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

Kid Acne hunter, originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

Old gate and stencil

 

An ink pot, and a turd in a dog bowl?

Haven't got a clue what these are supposed to be but i find them appealing. An ink pot, and a turd in a dog bowl is my best guess.

As ever, if you know who/what this is, let me know in the comments!

Eating animals

Planet helpless

Planet helpless
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

On Flickr this is the 9th photo of this particular wall. But hey, the lighting worked out well.

what

After a fine summer break MCR Marks is pleased to return to its task of documenting mancunian street art wherever I stumble accross it.
This from Hammo recently appeared near the wonderful Matt & Phredds. Now you can piss up against a wall with a picture of someone pissing up a wall painted on it, even if you're too drunk to appreciate the situation. 

Long arms, short legs

Long arms, short legs
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

I think this is lovely. It can be found where the mancunian way passes over upper brook street.

The artist is called Hello. It looks a bit like Monsieur A, with its
long limbs at least.

Tea, Spliff, Tea & Spliff: a series of stencils from under the Mancunian Way

 

Eurocultured 2006

It has been suggested that they call "Eurocultured" as they do because there's more funding available for a festival of European cultural *stuff* than there might be for a free party with music and graffiti. I couldn't possibly comment on this.

Anyway, the street-artist roll-call included Rookie, San, Klit (photo 2 below), Ruse76 (who has decorated the cornerhouse window in the past, Matt Sewell who did the mural on the wall of Common, Dreph, Guy McKinley, and ooh loads more.

This year's festival was pretty rained out, especially on the Sunday, and the street artists were stop-starting with the showers. Browse all the photos on Flickr, there's some superb ones. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=eurocultured

Here's my top 4. As ever, if you know who the artists are, let me know! Particularly the top one, which seems very familiar. Big love! It's God, looking at himself in a green-tinted mirror, in the bath, surely?




 

Canal Street / Princess Street

Canal Street / Princess Street



  

A colourful little space invader, bigger than most, which I walked past hundrends of times before spotting.

A natural selection

We flock to the city, attracted by that sort of culture and vibrancy which only seems to spring up when people live piled on top of each other in their thousands or millions. But that urban edge comes with a price - as the people pile in the nature is squeezed out; we are removed from our natural habitat and we feel an ennui at its loss. And that's undoubtedly what motivated the artists below to bring a bit more sky, parrots and potted ferns into Manchester's grey corners.




 

Hmmm writes!

I want to share with you the following missive I recieved from Hmmm.

"Hmmm has many guises and faces on and off the street. How glad I was to find an example of some scrawling I had done under the influence of somewonderful drug: Booze. Keep your eye and lens open as some more jollies should be hitting the northern qtr and beyond over the next month.

Hmmm"

Oh, and some links Hmm sent links to some pictures too: Storm trooper and New Orleans.

Guero

Guero is Mexican slang for "white boy". It is also the title of Beck's latest record. I thought at first this was some corportate sponsored graffiti advertising the record, but it turns out it's about a little boy nicknamed Guero.
The artist has a flickr site at www.flickr.com/photos/karmacomazzz

The ubiquitous 30dz

The ubiquitous 30dz
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

Right next to the mushroom feautured below, on the wall of a car park in the northern quarter

Super Mario mushroom

Super Mario mushroom
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

Beer and murals

Four murals from local bars. (1) from the Cornerhouse, (2) from Rodeo (obviously), (3) Matt Sewell's mural from Common and (4) from the back yard at Space (put up during the 2005 "Eurocultured" festival I think).





 

Hmmm!

Hmmm!
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

The sqaure headed guy who says "hmmm" has long been a feature of the mancunian landscape. This one's on Oxford Road.

Square cows and click

Square cows and click
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

I quite like the square cows... the "click click" thing is a club night in Mnachester. It's supposed to be a rocket next to the speech bubble thing.
New wakefield street.

Yeti thoughts

Yeti thoughts
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

Oxford Road, under the Mancunian Way.

Not a happy man

Not a happy man
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

An Iraqi torture theme going on here, I assume, but it's hard to tell... Oxford Road, under the Mancunian Way.

Not a real girl

Not a real girl
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

New stencil opposite Pure Space, which used to be Generation X.

Stickers!

...from the first international sticker awards.

The hotspur portrait gallery

In the last week four large and quite fantastic faces have appeared on Hotspur House, behind Oxford Road, apparently by two different artists. Anyone know who they are?!

UPDATE: Yes, some-one does! They are by Kid Acne (left on the first one below) and Drephos (right). Thanks! Kid Acne has a website, and makes records, which you can listen to on myspace.

Revamped speed camera sign

revamped speed camera sign
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

That'll be Mr. Eggs again, then.
Go to flickr to see more! (Not in a sexual way though.)

D*face paste-up

This tattered thing was found somewhere in the Northern Quarter... view all d*face on mcr marks (3 to date!)

Deutsche Post fish

Deutsche Post fish
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

Drawing on post office stickers is a pastime of street artists everywhere. Here's a German päckchen sticker on a Manchester security camera pole, by the person who does the fish.

Best

Best
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

One of many pictures of George Best around Manchester. legend has it they appeared on the walls of their own accord, at the very moment he died...

Neither big nor clever

Two photos to file under "neither big nor clever"; the latter can be sang to the tune of "Sheena is a punk rocker" if you feel inclined.

Torn swoon paste-up on old knitwear shop

For knitwear



Torn swoon thing

The London Police

The London Police
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

This little sticker, seen on Princess Street, is the logo of TLP. I wonder if they have anything a bit, well, bigger around Manchester...

Gorb vs D*face shop shutters

This can be found somewhere up there in the northern quarter, up where all them new trendy bars are. D*face has appeared here before, Gorb has a photolog here and you can read an interview with him on Fatbombers here.

Blue invader

Blue invader
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

An attractive blue space invader somewhere above a shop in the northern quarter.

Speaker

Found somewhere behind Picadilly, December 2005.

Kill your boss!

Kill your boss!

A sticker from Bodz. This was on walk up to Picadilly station, but I don't think it lasted too long.
see all bodz on mcr marks

Three more from Mr. Eggs

Mr. Eggs is a prolific and interesting graffiti artist of Manchester's very own, hooray! Sadly his website got messed about with recently, and most of the recent paste-ups along the dark and dodgy route down Fairfield Street (see below) have disappeared - presumably a victim of the City Council, which hates free art.

These new photos were submitted by a reader (believe it or not I seem to have acquired one).

Technical problems

My laptop died recently, so uploading photos has become a little challenging. I've taken some great ones though, and I'm looking forward to showing them to the world, as soon as I become technologically enabled once more.

Mean time, I bought the space invader map of Manchester, which came with some stickers about Rubik's Cubism. You may see one or two in town. Nothing to do with me, mind.

Also, how evil are tats cru? "The TATS CRU furnishes advertising and design services to businesses reaching out to young urban consumers ...". More whores at the capitalist gang bang, to paraphrase Bill Hicks.

So these TATS CRU guys sprayed fake graffiti adverts for some Sony console thing on rented walls. There's lots of discussion and pics on wooster and an article on wired about it.

Old tomato clings on

Old tomato clings on
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

MCRmarks being about more than just street art, here is a piece of tomato which has been stuck to a wall on Princess Street for as long as I can remember.

Tenzin on the supermarket wall

Face stencil on the supermarket
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

These faces were sprayed up all over town (perhaps all over the country) and then, two weeks later the explanation was added, in the form of the words "SENTENCED TO DIE" and "SAVETENZIN.ORG" stencilled below each one.

Good marketing from the crafty bhuddist types, there.

Dirty Blondes

Dirty Blondes
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

See this work in its full glory on the Wooster Collective site.

1 pint six eggs

1 pint six eggs
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

No eggs on North Western Street

No eggs on North Western Street
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

Blue egg in polystyrene

Blue egg in polystyrene
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

Just past the Star and Garter

Frog perspective

Frog perspective
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

By the same guy or gal who did the fake frog street sign.
Cornerhouse wall, October 2005

Mr Eggs's cup

Eggs cup
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

Princess Street, October 2005.

There's more and bigger stuff on the way from the egg man. see mreggs.com. coo coo cachoo.

Allergic

Allergic
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.

On Bunsen Street, near the brothers and the butterflies

Brothers and butterflies on Bunsen Street

Brothers and butterflies on Bunsen Street
Originally uploaded by beatniksalad.