On the streets - Rotterdam port

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Came across this piece near the ferry terminal in Rotterdam.
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Bits & pieces from Rotterdam

A nice job on this street workers caravan

Ramon's magnificent 4 story building.
There's some pics and a feature on him doing this last year here:
http://ruafestival.org/blog/2009/09/29/577/

Noticed a few nicely detailed hand cut-outs in Central

Placed art by *funk25 (click on image to enlarge)
Unfortunately someone had taken the tile next to this one.

Here's a little snip of some of the Rotterdam stuff. Some very nice walls and some great stencils, which will feature in posts to come, but here's a taste in the meantime...
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Rotterdam electricity box

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Electrics side: (click on image to enlarge)

I've been interested with some of the artists in London using those electricity boxes as their canvases, and it appears to be a popular medium in Holland too. You'd expect to see them covered in stickers for sure, but ground level stencil work is always a bonus...

Here's a couple of pieces I really liked on the same box - one on the front, one on the side.
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Another Tall Story from Rotterdam

Oneo wall. (click on image to enlarge)

Oneo wall. Detail (click on image to enlarge)

Oneo wall. Detail (click on image to enlarge)

Happy snaps: cheer up matie - you're on holiday

Thought I'd chuck up a few pics of this building we'd seen on our way into Rotterdam central. Thanks to Jen's fantastic sense of direction we found the spot again, so you get to enjoy as much as we did.
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Four stories high in Rotterdam

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Caught this nice piece on our way out of Holland. Impressive size and detail. Check it out in the following pics - some nice techniques employed here inc. some great texture effects. The artist is Onesto. There was a plaque at the bottom saying "Dier Gaar Desingel" if that means anything to anyone?

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On the streets of Rotterdam

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On the tail of our recent trip to Holland we stopped for a night and day in the port town of Rotterdam. I wasn't expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised. The port is utterly huge, the largest in Europe actually, and until 2004 was the worlds busiest until it was out-bussied by Shanghai.

Well, that's enough of a history/geography lesson, so here's what you came for... the graf. There was quite a bit of it around the city, so I'll feature it in the coming month. Let's just start with this wall - a collaboration between Dstruct Collective, Lastplak and Others with some help from our own London Police. Nice.
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C215 in Amsterdam

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Well folks, I'm using this as a segway between my last post and my next several, which will feature the best of my recent week with Jen in Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

I knew that C215 had done some work in Amsterdam, but do you think we could find it? Well, after searching long and hard, and stopping into coffee shops often for breaks, we did come across a piece or two indeed...

The next several posts will be stuff from this trip, although I'll try to pick the best of so as not to bore you (I took about 250 shots), so there was a wealth of graf there inc. some lovely pieces from artists from all over the world.

Watch this space for weekly updates...
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