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I'm gonna live forever, I'm gonna learn how to fly, high!

OK, so I am a bit of a sucker for the first version of this film, so I am interested to see what the remake is like. They're doing some pretty serious promotion both in cinema and ambient, and it has been done very nicely. I walked past this street stencil the other night:

and right up the road was the AdShel - not sure if that is Meg or Lucy's silhouette going on... sorry:Nice placement too, right outside Massey University:

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Permanent Ian Curtis comes back

Ok, possibly the last post on this - sorry for the constant updates.

There have been some additions to the Ian Curtis memorial wall. For one, it looks like someone has included Michael Jackson

There is still the chalk one:
However this one has been done in paint:
I loved this:
sitting on the footpath next to the wall. Looks almost official.

We refuse your grey walls!

And we refuse to allow you to take away our Ian Curtis Wall.

Pity it'll wash off in a decent downpour.

RIP Ian Curtis

The graffiti squad are cracking down, and they are cracking down on 'graffiti' which has been around longer than I have been alive!

According to Stuff.co.nz the "Ian Curtis RIP" tag was painted on the Wallace Street wall in 1981 in memorial for the Joy Division singer. 28 years later, granted, it had become slightly defaced over the years, is now gone. This image was posted by Stuff:

Last night as I walked past the wall however, it was very much black out there:

It is a shame, and even Wikipedia has updated it's mention of the wall in the Ian Curtis wiki:

"A wall on Wallace Street in Wellington, New Zealand, had the words "Ian Curtis Lives" written on it shortly after the singer's death. The message is repainted whenever it is painted over, and another wall on the same street now bears the message "Ian Curtis R.I.P. Walk In Silence" along with the dates "1960 - 1981" (sic). Both are referred to as "The Ian Curtis Wall". However on Thursday 10th September 2009, the wall was painted over by Wellington City Councils anti graffiti team."

I notice too, that the stencils on Taranaki St where these stencils are have have a bit of a makeover. Goneskis. Interestingly the stencils which I have shown in this post are still there, it was the large stencils/graff art (one of

which were a bunch of skulls which I missed taking a photo of dammit!) that have been painted over, including this one (which I stole from @thomasscovell's twitpics - sorry Thomas):

Yeah, the wall is now very much grey. Suck.

More animal heads

Bang Bang Eche have animal heads too! Looky:

Bang Bang Eche - (You + Me) As Thick As Thieves from Bang Bang Eche on Vimeo.

What am I talking about? I was going on about animal heads on people the other day in a post here, then I went to Crazy Horse for a drink and they have beautiful art work with animal heads and now even Bang Bang Eche are rocking them. Must be the new cool thing. Wonder where I can get one for myself...

Vivisection is Shit

I quite agree.

This little cutie is sitting on the side of the road just up the way from my house. Hanging at the bus stop, making a point.

Here is a close up of the puppy:

And the little delight he left behind:

Once again, using street art to deliver a message. I love it.

Wanna see this for yourself? You can find it here:

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