Tag Archives: Graffiti art

Teliskivi neighborhood – the land of beautiful murals!

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Saturday, 08-June-2024


On my way to the photography museum in Tallinn, I found one of the most beautiful neighborhoods that I’ve seen to date on my adventures. Everywhere I looked there were beautiful murals, neat shops, and little areas to sit and relax – families eating, kids playing, bros rocking basketball and badminton and other kinds of hip lawn games.

Basically, this was gentrification paradise.

To be honest, it was absolutely gorgeous and probably something like where I’ll hopefully end up living in Dublin. I know, I know, I don’t know if I’m cool enough to hang out with the tech bros who make this place their home, but… I’ll try, okay? It looked so fun to live here! Getting to see pretty murals every day, while eating at cool hip restaurants that you can easily walk to? All while being near a train station?

Yeah, it was fun to wander around. Especially with a gelato cone that I clearly had to get. Heck yeah, Rocky Road!

The Banksey Exhibition in Oslo

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The Banksey Exhibition in Oslo

Thursday, 23-May-2024


Yesterday was my natural history day – the museum, the botanical garden… lots of beauty, but lots of natural beauty.

Today was for something no less beautiful. Today was my art day.

I started off at a really interesting pop-up that I’d noticed while perusing google maps – a show in town, not permanent, for an artist who I’ve enjoyed for quite some time. Banksey, arguably the most publicized graffiti artist in the world.



The exhibition was interesting. It was almost all reproductions, from what I could tell, which was disappointing… but also makes sense in retrospect. My biggest takeaway, surprisingly enough, was just how commercialized his work is. How many pieces have been sold, and just how much money’s been made by his work.

I wouldn’t say that’s a bad thing, though. The final entry in the exhibition was about how he “did what all millionaires do, and bought a yacht”… but, in keeping with the irony of his work, that yacht is actually a rescue ship working to save migrants in the Mediterranean.

Doing that is a good reason to be a millionaire, I have to say.