Mural Pano

22 Sep 2007

Found this mural (which I assume is only half-completed) on my recent street art exploration, and it's another piece that makes me wonder how the artists are doing this - meaning have they been granted permission, are they commissioned or are they doing it covertly? I took the shot standing in a vacant lot sandwiched between two recently constructed townhouses, so presumably in time another townhouse will be built and the mural will be hidden forever. (So does that make for a covert piece or merely a sympathetic owner who doesn't mind a temporary bit of art on their wall?)

Definitely some work by Benzo in there and possibly other artist/s I'm not familiar with (ie the graf pieces). I'll have to check back and see if more is added or it's painted over.

Small note about the post production of this shot - it's two stitched shots taken with my 10-22mm, which explains the distortion on the sides. Photoshop CS3 did a (literally) seamless job of photomerging them, leaving me to pay attention to my usual sharpening/curves adjustments without farting about with blurry overlapping seams. Go Photoshop! (Shame about the new logo tho... what were you thinking Adobe?!)

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