When I was a lad these were very different.......

The only half pipe I knew of was wooden and made in some waste ground woods out of sight,   never did find out who built it.



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Very cool shot!

Are these concrete?

DAFlys Posted at 12-20 01:23
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Great capture DA.    Looks like a skateboarders dream come true.  Also seems like a lot of "art work" has been done on it.

Montfrooij Posted at 12-20 02:45
Very cool shot!

Cheers Peter (he typed Oeter but I auto corrected it for him).  

Montfrooij Posted at 12-20 02:45
Are these concrete?

Yes I believe they are.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-20 03:38
Great capture DA.    Looks like a skateboarders dream come true.  Also seems like a lot of "art work" has been done on it.

Skate parks are totally known for graffiti here. There is a very famous one on the south bank in London. Just along from the Tate.

DAFlys Posted at 12-20 04:41
Yes I believe they are.

We have those here too. Wooden ones are (I think) no longer allowed.

DAFlys Posted at 12-20 04:41
Cheers Peter (he typed Oeter but I auto corrected it for him).

You had more typos today.

Montfrooij Posted at 12-20 04:57
We have those here too. Wooden ones are (I think) no longer allowed.

The wooden I was were all privately built here,  there was one in a park I saw provided by the council that was steel.  The noise was horrible when I cycled past.

Montfrooij Posted at 12-20 04:57
You had more typos today.

Lol.   Autocorrect has been busy.  

DAFlys Posted at 12-20 01:23
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Does it get used much, apart from the taggers practising their "art" ?

DAFlys Posted at 12-20 05:00
Lol.   Autocorrect has been busy.

Thick thumbs ?

DAFlys Posted at 12-20 04:59
The wooden I was were all privately built here,  there was one in a park I saw provided by the council that was steel.  The noise was horrible when I cycled past.

Now that you mention it : we also have metal ones.

DAFlys Posted at 12-20 04:42
Skate parks are totally known for graffiti here. There is a very famous one on the south bank in London. Just along from the Tate.

That's really interesting.  Here, if somebody gets caught they are arrested, fined and responsible for removing the paint.  Couple of local teenagers recently got caught starting to paint the side of a rail car in the terminal yards.  They ended up paying $5,000 fines, week in jail, and 45 hours of community service.

Blériot53 Posted at 12-20 07:58
Does it get used much, apart from the taggers practising their "art" ?

If seen it absolutely mobbed in the summer and ate other times empty or just 1 or 2 people there.   And that might be during school hours come to think about it.

Montfrooij Posted at 12-20 08:01
Thick thumbs ?

always a concern,  yes.

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-20 11:19
That's really interesting.  Here, if somebody gets caught they are arrested, fined and responsible for removing the paint.  Couple of local teenagers recently got caught starting to paint the side of a rail car in the terminal yards.  They ended up paying $5,000 fines, week in jail, and 45 hours of community service.

I suspect these places are designated for it,   graffiti in other places would also suffer fines etc if caught.    I stumbled across a place last year where they encourage it and there was some good art going on,   its on the sea wall by the dartford crossing at 51.467498, 0.288407 if you go to street view you can virtually walk it.

DAFlys Posted at 12-21 01:08
always a concern,  yes.

So it seems

DAFlys Posted at 12-21 01:17
I suspect these places are designated for it,   graffiti in other places would also suffer fines etc if caught.    I stumbled across a place last year where they encourage it and there was some good art going on,   its on the sea wall by the dartford crossing at 51.467498, 0.288407 if you go to street view you can virtually walk it.

Wow, that was some pretty awesome art work at that location.  Seems like a lot of time and effort was put into it.  

DAFlys Posted at 12-21 01:05
If seen it absolutely mobbed in the summer and ate other times empty or just 1 or 2 people there.   And that might be during school hours come to think about it.

School has its advantages then

Blériot53 Posted at 12-21 12:39
School has its advantages then

I think it has many.  But they seem to finish too early these days.

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-21 03:56
Wow, that was some pretty awesome art work at that location.  Seems like a lot of time and effort was put into it.

This one caught my eye when I was there last.  It’s always too busy there to drone the bridge it seems.

DAFlys Posted at 12-21 12:48
I think it has many.  But they seem to finish too early these days.

Agreed. And much earlier than French pupils.

DAFlys Posted at 12-21 12:50
This one caught my eye when I was there last.  It’s always too busy there to drone the bridge it seems.

Wow, that is truly magnificent!  Whoever painted that is extremely talented.

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-22 05:43
Wow, that is truly magnificent!  Whoever painted that is extremely talented.

Yes,   its painted around a corner and the 3d effect was outstanding.    Ive been there a few times to drone the bridge but the weather was always to iffy to risk it.

Fun fact,   parking for the place is next to the church that was in the film Four weddings and a funeral.

DAFlys Posted at 12-22 05:50
Yes,   its painted around a corner and the 3d effect was outstanding.    Ive been there a few times to drone the bridge but the weather was always to iffy to risk it.

Fun fact,   parking for the place is next to the church that was in the film Four weddings and a funeral.

Now that is quite the interesting fact.  Wasn't that the movie that starred Hugh Grant?

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-23 05:36
Now that is quite the interesting fact.  Wasn't that the movie that starred Hugh Grant?

Yes thats the movie.   To be honest I wasnt aware of it at the time I parked there,  but I looked at some of the signs and it twigged.  

DAFlys Posted at 12-24 01:18
Yes thats the movie.   To be honest I wasnt aware of it at the time I parked there,  but I looked at some of the signs and it twigged.

   

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-24 06:15

Its a strange church and in a strange location with a large proter and gamble factory by it.

DAFlys Posted at 12-24 06:32
Its a strange church and in a strange location with a large proter and gamble factory by it.

Yeah, that is a bit of an odd design for a church.  

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-24 07:18
Yeah, that is a bit of an odd design for a church.

Church design here varies alot,  if you go 50 miles north of here many change and become round,  in this case Im surprised the factory got building permission to be so close.

DAFlys Posted at 12-24 07:44
Church design here varies alot,  if you go 50 miles north of here many change and become round,  in this case Im surprised the factory got building permission to be so close.

I was wondering how they were able to build so close.  Here builders can ask for variance but for safety there remains still a set off distance from the nearest building.  I guess that is something they learned from the great fires of Chicago so many years back.  The house were so close together that the wind just spread the fire from house roof to house roof.

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-25 04:05
I was wondering how they were able to build so close.  Here builders can ask for variance but for safety there remains still a set off distance from the nearest building.  I guess that is something they learned from the great fires of Chicago so many years back.  The house were so close together that the wind just spread the fire from house roof to house roof.

I will have to do some digging into that.   Here growing near other properties isn't a. problem if they are the same type,   most of our buildings are brick and mortar so fires dont spread like they used to.

DAFlys Posted at 12-25 04:45
I will have to do some digging into that.   Here growing near other properties isn't a. problem if they are the same type,   most of our buildings are brick and mortar so fires dont spread like they used to.

True about bricks not catching on fire but I've seen a few fire remains where the bricks actually melted.  

Can't remember seeing too many wooden half-pipes myself lately either. I guess the advancements also happen in extreme sports, like the evolution of skateboards and rollerblades.
Our town has a skatepark, but for what I know it is maintenanced quite badly and too many people tend to leave a lot of trash there. :-(

As for the graffiti, I consider it as a medium in a way I do consider aquarelles, oil paintings, acrylics, graphite artworks etc. To be more precise, not itself being a good or bad thing, but a way to express views and thoughts both good and bad. It depends on how and where it is done. At it's worst, it can be ill-willed vandalism ruining culturally important buildings and artworks with bad-looking, simplistic scribbles or asinine obscenities - but at it's best, it can absolutely be art that needs true skill and effort to execute, brings joy to both the creator and the people who see the results and can give colorful, delighting visuals on the tunnels and public spaces instead of the boring, depressing gray visual mass of concrete.

DAFlys Posted at 12-21 12:50
This one caught my eye when I was there last.  It’s always too busy there to drone the bridge it seems.

This certainly goes to the category of talented graffiti makers. Looks really great! Whoever did this knew their craft well. :-)

DowntownRDB Posted at 12-25 05:50
True about bricks not catching on fire but I've seen a few fire remains where the bricks actually melted.

Now that would have to be a hot one.

HGDC84 Posted at 12-25 12:22
This certainly goes to the category of talented graffiti makers. Looks really great! Whoever did this knew their craft well. :-)

Indeed H,  thats why I took a shot of it before it gets graffiti'd over.