Mural - Goodrich Road.

[SCSB79]

Has anyone seen this new piece of "artwork"?? Looks like a couple of monsters with a girl skipping in between???

Saw it briefly as I drove by yesterday and have to say it looks well, erm, different!

Massive figures on the end terrace property on the junction of Goodrich and Barry.

[Polly D]

I like it! Don't know whether it's meant to be there or not...but it's good.

[DonGee]

I spotted it yesterday, I like it too, no doubt others won't!! Although I wouldn't like it on the side of my house.

[SCSB79]

I saw the start of it being done, didn't know what it was at the time though...

Middle of the day on Saturday.

[damzel]

I like it, makes my kid giggle on the way home. Better than a big blank white wall although I can't quite work out why they decided on 2 monsters with a girl skipping in the middle, does seem a bit odd!

[uppereastsider]

I don't mind it being there but having said that i may feel differently if it was on the side of my house... Isn't allowing it to stay there inviting more like minded artists expressing their 'talent' all over the neighbourhood?

[kristymac1]

Saw it on Monday and I really like it - my daughter's 3 and she stared at it for a while, pretty puzzled but no nightmares....

[HonaloochieB]

I've only glimpsed it from the bus and on each occasion I've been returning from the Plough having spent a considerable sum on their Addlestone's cider.

Would it be alright to have a proper, more sober, gander and get back to you?

Hope so.

Thanks.

[HonaloochieB]

Anyone care to join me in referring to it as a 'muriel'?

You know, what Hilda Ogden of Coronation Street used to call she and Stan's indoor wall painting?

When Coronation Street was worth watching and no one called it 'Corrie'.

That was that bloody nuisance of a lead singer from Echo & The Bunnymen, Ian McCulloch who coined that, I reckon, I recall the NME interview when he banged on about it.

I quite like him really, but he shouldn't have started that old Corrie shite up.

[kwi]

!!!BANKSY!!!

[HonaloochieB]

kwi Wrote:

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> !!!BANKSY!!!

Now stop it KWI.

NATSY WESTY? BARCLAYSY? HSBC-Y?

I know they've not been too good an' all that, but it's doubtful they're responsible for this.

[Horsebox]

SCSB79 Wrote:

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> Has anyone seen this new piece of "artwork"??

> Looks like a couple of monsters with a girl in between???

It's a mural in support of breastfeeding, or so I heard.

[AnotherPaul]

I like the monsters. Not so sure about the beetle bonnet girl tho.

[Shaila Shah]

So any idea who's done it? Looks vaguely predatory to me...Are they her friends? are they stalking her? Does she know they are there?!

[Earl Aelfheah]

Anyone have a photo they can post?

[damzel]

I'll take one tomorrow and post it. I noticed today there's a signature in the bottom right hand corner with a web address. Sadly I'd forgotten it by the time I walked 2 mins to my house. Age is creeping up on me

[awilliams123]

I live very close to it and I'm sorry but I don't like it. I agree with a previous post that it could possibly encourage others to do the same around the neighbourhood. Makes me feel like I live in the hood. Not every area in every city needs to be marked with expressionist crap.

Encourage breast-feeding...please...

[DonGee]

As I said I do like it, but do agree that it may encourage others to follow suit, and how on earth will this encourage breast-feeding?

[HonaloochieB]

awilliams123 Wrote:

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> I live very close to it and I'm sorry but I don't

> like it. I agree with a previous post that it

> could possibly encourage others to do the same

> around the neighbourhood. Makes me feel like I

> live in the hood. Not every area in every city

> needs to be marked with expressionist crap.

>

> Encourage breast-feeding...please...

I think it's a little odd but colourful, and until the originator decides to give us his interpretation of what he was all about, then I'm a little in the dark.

I assume whoever's house it is on the side of, gave permission for it to be applied there.

It doesn't look like a spontaneously applied graffito.

Also isn't every neighbourhood a 'hood' somewhere?

Just like when taking a drink at any time, it's always five o'clock elsewhere in the world?

[HonaloochieB]

DonGee Wrote:

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> As I said I do like it, but do agree that it may

> encourage others to follow suit, and how on earth

> will this encourage breast-feeding?

Follow suit to paint something you like on the side of another house?

It wouldn't be so bad, would it DG?

And as for encouraging breast-feeding, maybe the original artist was conducting one of those 'viral' thingummy do-dabs that we plain folk don't really get but influence our choices.

I mean you never know, do you? Frankly I'd not put it past them.

[Nero]

Since the muriel has been up, I've seen two new examples of tagging within two minutes' walk of it. One is on Goodrich Road, on the side of a house near the lock up garages, just before Barry Road and the other is on the wall of Summerhill school. I'll report both to the council on Monday.

[damzel]

This is it. I wonder if the owners knew about it.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Looks like a Hoodie with two rather large dogs on a lead...least its on a lead!;-)

[SCSB79]

Nero Wrote:

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> Since the muriel has been up, I've seen two new

> examples of tagging within two minutes' walk of

> it. One is on Goodrich Road, on the side of a

> house near the lock up garages, just before Barry

> Road and the other is on the wall of Summerhill

> school. I'll report both to the council on Monday.

I noticed one of those today.

Re the original one from this topic - It must surely have been done by the owner of the house as it was started in broad daylight a couple of Saturday's ago by a couple of people, maybe three... I saw them doing it... was a female doing the painting at the time I went by...

[WickedStepmother]

I think awilliams123 is asserting that A) bottle-feeding leads to anti-social behaviour such as graffiti and B) therefore we should all encourage more breast-feeding in an effort to hold back the tide of such undesirable behaviour.

I'm not commenting on the validity of this belief in any way, merely interpreting the post.