Graffiti in Brighton
April 30th, 2003 | Published in Uncategorized | 16 Comments
I’ve not noticed much quality graffiti in Brighton in recent times which is a surprise considering the large underground community here. Indeed, apart from some pretty nice work around Cheapside (pic above - more in ‘more’) there’s a dire lack of any graffiti apart from the odd tag here and there. Shame. Anyway, thought I’d post up some pix of the above mentioned work as it is pretty good…
Feel free to post links, pix etc of quality graf if you know of any…
Update:
just had this link emailed to me - there is some very nice work there, although not in Brighton…
April 30th, 2003at 8:11 am(#)
a link to all the stuff I’ve snapped. Nothing particularly beautiful here tho, it’s mainly political stencil stuff.
April 30th, 2003at 8:59 am(#)
i hadn’t seen that link on your page Tom - didn’t know you were so into graf…
cheers for posting it tho! the political stuff is pretty interesting - although the placement of it isn’t radical enough for me generally…
April 30th, 2003at 9:08 am(#)
tbh I’m not *really* into it, just find some of it a bit pretty. I had this grand vision of cataloguing all that I found in Brighton when I got a cameraphone, but haven’t really gotten round to it…
April 30th, 2003at 9:24 am(#)
let me know if you get round to it!
April 30th, 2003at 12:16 pm(#)
you’ve seen the piece a friend of mine did in exeter on our site ?
its good stuff.
hes a good writer. and hes been snapping work of all kinds for years in bristol and exeter.
hes trying to get a site going. its nothing spectacular but when hes gets it sorted it’ll be nice.
http://www.mediumart.co.uk/bristol
some nice work in brighton there.
May 3rd, 2003at 2:57 am(#)
Hey Pete,
I’ve got an interest in graf as well and I’d like to see a decent Brighton website.
There was Tatty Seaside town (http://www.graffiti.org/brighton/) but that hasn’t been updated in a couple of years and theres also Booda(http://www.booda.co.uk/) but that again doesn’t get that frequently updated.
On a related note I’m loving all the street posters and stickers that are cropping up around town. Theres an exhibition running in Brighton this month exhibiting artists from all over the world (http://www.postex.org). And for some good examples of this stuff theres loads of them on the boards around the site where they’re building the new library on Church St.
Damn, wish I wrote this much in my own blog!
Mat
May 3rd, 2003at 9:18 am(#)
hey Mat, i love the whole sticker/flyer thing too. it would be good to have a contribution site so that people could post this kind of thing…
tom (hume) has a friend who is studying all of this kind of thing i seem to remember…
true viral marketing is becoming an incredibly interesting subject - have you heard about the use of ‘beautiful’ people who are briefed on a subject/brand and then sent out to ‘chat’ others up and during the discourse mention that brand as being ‘cool’? then the subject (target) assumes that because this ‘beautiful’ person thinks a brand is cool, then they do too and try to impress their circle of friends with their amazing foresight in fashion or whatever… clever?
some sticker buffs have a similar subliminal idea that although you might not actually register the sticker in your mind, you’s still actually seen it and therefore ‘know’ the brand. all very interesting.
i’ll pop down to that exhibition and post some pix maybe…
January 9th, 2004at 9:24 am(#)
<img src=”http://www.booda.co.uk/booda2k4/images/template/images/logo.jpg” width=”76″ height=”129″ border=”0″>
about my site don’t get updated much. I update it when I get enough pictures to make it worth updating. I take all the fotos myself and get emailed the odd few.
was updated on wednesday. I have been taking pictures regularly in brighton for the last 3 years, and only update when i have at least a few pages.
It ain’t really worth updating a picture a day, it becomes a chore. plus ppl would rather have a beefy update than a poxy couple of pictures.
all my updates have atleast 50 pictures in, categorized by author and place.
rant over.
peace.
bo0da
<img src=”http://www.booda.co.uk/booda2k4/images/template/images/logo.jpg” width=”76″ height=”129″ border=”0″>
January 9th, 2004at 11:20 am(#)
nice update
will have to post that one.
January 9th, 2004at 3:15 pm(#)
Booda, If you want a hand automating the uploads to take the hassle out of it then give me a shout.
January 10th, 2004at 3:15 pm(#)
thanks for the link bo0da. I’ll repost it in the main area this week…
Hey SWIN! Long time fella… How are you? Last thing I knew you were off to the US…
January 12th, 2004at 7:30 am(#)
hey man. yeah that still is the case.. just been up at my parents over christmas and the new year, im off to LA in two weeks, then on to NZ a few weeks after that.
looking forward to it, got some great work lined-up
(still looking for cool stuff to see/do though, so if anyone has any LA tips it would be appreciated !)
hows u anyhoo ? still causing trouble down in london-on-sea ?
January 12th, 2004at 1:03 pm(#)
yeah, i had a look at php and stuff like that, but my server doesnt support php. unless i give them more money.
they run out soon, so im going to move to fastnet. there a brighton based company that come highly recommended.
what did you have in mind?
January 12th, 2004at 1:04 pm(#)
do any of you paint?
February 1st, 2004at 3:17 pm(#)
Check out Brighton Damage
for brighton graff
June 3rd, 2005at 9:37 am(#)
this piece of graffiti is really sexy i think !!!!!!!
i wish i could be able to do this kind of shit