Location search

[SteveG]

I'm looking for a good location that has lots of spray painted wall graffiti, preferably very colourful. It can be any style but again preferably Urban texts rather than drawn objects. I'll be in London next Sunday so info before then would be greatly appreciated if not London anywhere really between London and North Yorks ......cheers.

ps: Or.....North bound between North Yorks and Newcastle....lol

[SilentEclipse]

Here at the skate area on the southbank riverside walk between the royal festival hall and national theatre

[SteveG]

thanks Jo...you're a star. I had a funny feeling you'd be "in the know" ....would have PM'd you eventually

[sleepytom]

trouble with the Southbank is the skaters - you won't be able to shoot much their without them getting in the way.

Somewhere like the greenway is probably a better option as it is much less busy and has better light than the dingy old southbank.

[sleepytom]

http://www.ukgraffiti.com
http://www.bashin-brum.fanspace.com/

[magiclantern]

the streets of LS6 leeds are alive with graff art

heres a simple compilation i made of some over the years

YouTube - ls6 art

YouTube - ls6 art

[6071842]

yeah southbank is cool. if you are there early enough they wont be many skaters or any for that matter. its shame that the southbank spot has shrunk in size! it used to be massive!

other direction and in edinburgh you have a place called bristo square and the subways and outside of there has loads of Graff!

i cant think of anywhere in newcastle tbh. i'll have a little think

[SteveG]

Thanks for the extra info guys. Leeds doesn't look like the material I'm looking for although the next time I'm down I'll have a better look round.

Cheers for that info Tom, that wall looks perfect & the links may be handy to have a search through too.

I'm going to do some filming before going to Plasa next week so it will be early morning probably well before the skaters are out of their pits Some filming around the tourists sites afterwards should see me arrested or at very least harassed

[6071842]

before the skaters are out of their pits

no decent skater will even get on there board until after 1pm

also Southbank seems to change all of the time as well masses of kids working on pieces! brilliant

[sleepytom]

you'd be suprised - i've seen people skating there before 8am. the graf does change all the time and is normally not very good as a result - the concept of only painting over stuff if your going to paint something better doesn't seem to apply on the southbank. But depends what you want init - if steve wants some shitty standard hiphop loops then the combination of poor graf and bad skating should sort him right out...