Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged "street art", cartoon, character, figure, graffiti, mural, painting, Porto, Portugal on March 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Heroic Graffiti” : Porto, Portugal, 9th September 2011
Another fine example of street art from Portugal’s second city, Porto.
What does it mean? Who does this figure represent? Who cares – it’s great!
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Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged "street art", art, cartoon, character, cutout, figures, graffiti, Porto, Portugal, urban on March 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“Porto Street Art 1″ : Porto, Portugal, 9th September 2011
Porto, like Lisbon was found to be host to a lot of interesting and experimental street art that was way beyond the standard spray can type stuff found elsewhere.
“Porto Street Art 2″ : Porto, Portugal, 9th September 2011
Being a cloudy and dull day, I was really lucky to bump into all these gems on what I’m assuming is an unoccupied or condemned building.
“Porto Street Art 3″ : Porto, Portugal, 9th September 2011
Good to see some people not so downhearted at the effects of the economic recession that they can’t still attempt to inject a bit of mirth into sometimes bleak urban environments…
“Porto Street Art 4″ : Porto, Portugal, 9th September 2011
You can see larger versions of these pictures here, here, here and here.
Posted in Photo of the Day, tagged butcher, character, market, mascot, meat, pig, pork, Porto, stall, toy on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Porto Pig” : Porto, Portugal, 9th September 2011
My first full day in Portugal’s second city of Porto got off to a particularly poor start – cloudy, cold and raining.
I wasn’t sure what to do – there wasn’t much point in going to see the sights, which all seemed to be shrouded in very low fog, so I headed out for a large indoor market housed in a giant old building.
Even here there wasn’t much to see and the photographic angles were few and far between, but I did see this slightly chilling pig effigy sitting in front of a dirty-looking butchers. As a non-eater of red meat, I found this a bit nauseating, but the composition was too good to pass it by. Besides, it’s not for me to judge the choices of others…
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