Article about graffiti (Soviet Blocks project) in the Iskar district of Sofia produced by Berlin Kidz and documented by Good Guy Boris. The art work was reported on in the Bulgarian media where it was speculated to have been produced using a drone or even contain extraterrestrial meaning.[1]

On the 27 June 2024 the graffiti was featured on the Bulgarian news channel Nova News in a segment presented by anchor Daniela Pehlivanova.[2]

Links for Morgnshtern? English bit about footy,[3] and sports in general,[4], and specifically about sports organisations.[5]

Link to Chłopska Sprawa and Fara św. Krzyża w Tczewie for article illustration!

Links for BB: Study of coverage in Przekrój,[6] newsreel produced by the Warsaw Documentary Film Studio.[7]

Burning Candy
A collaborative mural by members of Burning Candy in Hackney Wick
Notable workTelepathic Heights
Style'savant-garde'
MovementGraffiti, urban art, street art

Burning Candy (alternatively Before Chrome[8]) is a street art collective from London, United Kingdom.

Artwork by the collective was incorporated into the work of the artist John Dolan.[9]

Telepathic Heights mural by Burning Candy in Stokes Croft
A silver Burning Candy tag adorns a building in Shoreditch High Street

Participants

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Burning Candy is known to include the graffiti artist Cept, Cyclops, Australian artist Dscreet, Gold Peg, LL Brainwash, Mighty Mo, Rowdy, Sickboy, Sweet Toof, and Tek33.[10][11] The collective's origins have been described as a knitting circle that originally took place in the basement of a Mecca Bingo hall.[12]

 
A throwup by Burning Candy member Tek33 on Leake Street, incorporating the artist's trademark pitchfork[13]

Random bits & bobs

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  • Reference for Gitowscy?[14]
  • Link to Radical Peasants Party programme[15]
 
Trainspotters at Doncaster railway station in the twenty-first century.

Comics

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Trainspotters have been depicted in comic form in various publications. In 1987 a Viz strip featured a new character called ‘Timothy Potter, Trainspotter’.[16] From the early 1990s Acne comic included a trainspotting character called Borin Norman and a recurring strip titled ‘Train Spotters’.[17]

 

A tetsu-doru (鉄ドル) is an idol, while solottetsu (ソロ鉄) denotes an unmarried female railfan.[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Mysterious graffiti in the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria". Newsflare. 27 February 2024. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  2. ^ Pehlivanova, Daniela (27 February 2024). "Мистериозни графити се появиха върху фасадите на блокове в София". Nova News (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  3. ^ Borys, Bartosz. "The Warsaw Jews and football before the war". Jewish Historical Institute.
  4. ^ Gliński, Mikołaj (28 January 2015). "Be Strong and Brave: Jews, Sport, Warsaw". culture.pl.
  5. ^ Bańbuła, Joanna (July 2019). "Jewish sport associations in Poland before World War II". Israel Affairs. 25 (4): 754–762. doi:10.1080/13537121.2019.1626103.
  6. ^ Stefańska, Katarzyna. Izdebska, Agnieszka; Konończuk, Elżbieta; Płuciennik, Jarosław (eds.). "Bikiniarze w „Przekroju". Podwójna narracja" [Bikiniarze in Przekrój: Double Narration]. Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich. Space as a Category of Culture. 66 (2): 219–233. doi:10.26485/ZRL/2023/66.2/4. eISSN 2451-0335. ISSN 0084-4446. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  7. ^ Lemańska, Helena; Szelubski, Jerzy; Łapicki, Andrzej; Janik, Wiktor; Zawarski, Stefan. Kaźmierczak, Wacław (ed.). Operator was podpatrzył (Newsreel) (in Polish). Warsaw: Polish Film Chronicle.
  8. ^ NoLionsInEngland (18 October 2008). "Burning Candy Show". Graffoto. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  9. ^ Claassens, Carina (2 September 2013). "Interview: John Dolan". Street Art London. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  10. ^ Rushmore, RJ (17 October 2009). "Burning Candy Mural". The Thousands. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  11. ^ "SOS – Dscreet". Street Art News. 18 May 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  12. ^ Osburn, Chris (September 2010). "Interview with The Baron: DOTS". Whitehot Magazine. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  13. ^ Chris, Tiki (4 September 2007). "Londonist Interviews ... London Graffiti Artist Tek33". Londonist. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  14. ^ Olszewski, Przemysław. "O Git-ludziach i międzydzielnicowych bójkach". pragagada.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  15. ^ https://polona.pl/item-view/a831e924-608b-4613-bf6a-3720d6094508?page=0
  16. ^ Bradley, Simon (2016). The Railways: Nation, Network and People. St Ives: Profile Books. p. 530. ISBN 978-1846682131.
  17. ^ Chambers, Thomas (2023). "From Trespasser to Nerd: The Changing Image of Trainspotting in Post-War Britain" (PDF). Nuart Journal. 4 (1): 50. ISSN 2535-549X.
  18. ^ Kikuko. "Koya-Kosenkyo 向野跨線橋". kikuko-nagoya.com. Retrieved 17 January 2024.