The long blue fence that runs along the edge of middle meadow walk to the meadows is plastered in festival posters at the moment. I like the idea of scraping off areas of poster to spell the word "CREATE" in GIGANTIC letters. Then later add "RE" to make it "RECREATE". Then it could become "RECREATION".
I scraped some off today with one of the video boxes and that wasn't so cool. A steamer would do the job nicely. Or several visits back and forth to Forest to get hot water? Hmmnn... There are natural gaps in the posters which will work for the letters "C" and "E" at the end. The letter E needs some extra material for the middle bitty, maybe some Forest literature or some environmental fliers.
It's got to be FUN though. Come and join me! I'm not sure if I'll even do it at all on my own. So C'mon! The more the merrier! Bring Music and Mellowness!
CREATE. Idea for LARGE street art piece. Steamer needed
And so we scraped
So. Nana and me went down there with hot water, cloths and Free SHop videos to scrape off the shit. Looks like these videos are shit scrapers though. We need to come back at this with proper metal scrappy things.
- Tom Findlay
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The Quarter Mile people have a team who come round and scrape all this stuff off, I'm surprised they haven't done it yet...
Someone re-directed me here to view your project...
regards
Tom
Someone re-directed me here to view your project...
regards
Tom
Scrapy scrapy
Thanks for that Tom. You seem to have to scrape so hard that the paint comes off the fence. Those Quartermile people must use some sort of solution to scrape that stuff off.
- Tom Findlay
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Rip off wud be more appropriate...
The Quarter Mile site was sold off for a song to the Banks and their Developers, and the most famous living architect in the world Norman Foster's partnership are playing a design role.
This site cud have been given to the local housing associations to build dozens and dozens of flats for students and other folks on low income.
Instead its been optimised to create or is it recreate very expensive flats well out of the reach of mosts folks who live around the meadows. What the benefits to the local community might be is dozens and dozens of minimum wage jobs cleaning and table wiping.
An organised meadows community cud have stopped this overt greed and made the politicians and planners have a think and a rethink...
regards
Tom
This site cud have been given to the local housing associations to build dozens and dozens of flats for students and other folks on low income.
Instead its been optimised to create or is it recreate very expensive flats well out of the reach of mosts folks who live around the meadows. What the benefits to the local community might be is dozens and dozens of minimum wage jobs cleaning and table wiping.
An organised meadows community cud have stopped this overt greed and made the politicians and planners have a think and a rethink...
regards
Tom