Thread: Street Art

Originally Posted by Joe 90

"It's a great way to tell a story and engage with the community. An image that will remind somebody or inspire someone. Whether it's me or somebody else, it's a positive way to use space and a positive way to tell a story."

Good luck to the guy and almost anything would improve Pontypool, however most school kids do such graffitoes, some may see this as democratising aesthetics or just sumbing down to those of limited talent like me. Like a tribute act to RG the authot of TinTin.

The real story is many former industrial communities were located where there was coal steel textiles thayt no longer provide long term stabel incomes sufficient for success , the young go to Uni and never return and the valleys are left with drug and trash polluted ghettoes with hard to heat 19th century terraced slums.

In the 1960s Wilson encouraged the NEDC to bring foreign onvestment but the Japanese et al just brought screwdriver assembly with all the tech profits and patents resting with parent companies.

Young realize the state is broken and affordable family housing means working to pay a landlord a return to Victorian values, from what I see and read of places I kmow the Anglo Saxon model of vaste transfer to the wealthy is mirrored from NYC, London Sydney Toronto and Melbourne where a single worker even 2 worlkers have virtually no chance of the freedom of home ownership unless wealthy parents who help or they inherit a family home. Rant over.

Thanks for all the great street art while taste varies nice to see places brightened up.