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What is amazing about Leake Street is how busy it can be on a weekend morning or weekday evening with Graffiti artists. I have been before and seen it full of people. I was impressed by the planning that went into some of the larger works.

It has now become something of a photographer's hotspot, with many amateur photographers taking their SLRs down there to try and capture arty shots of what's going on. If it gets too 'popular' it seems possible it will end up being something of an artficial impression of itself- the recent opening of the "world of vans" skateboard shop/event space seems to indicate this "selling out". It hasn't stopped me popping down with my SLR though...
it's certainly popular, we produced our artwork, went for lunch, went back to see it again and it was no longer there, as dg says the walls are palimpsests of overlapping designs. So make sure you take photos of your work as soon as you've finished it.
Good memories of seeing the startings of this at the 'Cans Festival' of 2008:- https://www.flickr.com/photos/32293736@N04/sets/72157629626012215/
Good, too, that the place is still going and constantly evolving (even if it is sometimes a little sad to see some of the outstanding ones being quickly lost under fresh paint)
I'd never bothered to look up 'palimpsest' before. Now at last I know what it means!
A stinking, intimidating and probably dangerous eyesore. Can it not be transformed into something useful?

To call that mess "art" is surely a joke, though it isn't terribly funny.










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