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barber shop wheatpaste

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below: In the Belgian Quarter of Cologne, where the streets are named after Belgian cities, there is a barber shop (and hair salon) where the exterior wall is covered with paper.

a woman sits on a small stool outside of a barber shop, on her phone, all of exterior wall is covered with graffiti slaps, stickers, and paste ups,

below: Blue hair, purple hair, and a fat yellow bumble bee.

paper graffiti on an exterior wall, a woman with very blue hair that is tied up in two buns, one on each side of her had, also a big fat yellow bumble bee and a light blue doll by angry amily and lady mkei, with purple hair

below: These are Angry Amily drawings on brown paper

angry amily long haired young girl with green hat, beside brown teddy bear character, another fat yellow bumble bee

below: Another section of the wall – The portrait, lower left, is probably about Sophie Scholl and the white rose movement. Scholl (1921-1943) was a German student who was active in the White Rose Movement, an anti-Nazi organization at the time of Hitler’s rule. She was executed on 22 Feb 1943.

below: Evyrein’s Elon Musk/Mask is in the middle. Notice the little Hitler mustache. Also, the placement of Elon’s body over the stiletto heels is marvelous! To the right of Elon is a little pink octopus hanging onto a red heart by 8arms2hug, a maker of octopus-themed street art.

below: Cats and rappers. Garfield is on his phone while under a three-eyed cat. The three men are Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell of the hip hop group RUN-DMC. The group was formed in 1983.

below: The images of people on cans of spray paint is the work of The Postman. Much of his art focuses on celebrities, many of whom, such as Grace Jones and Sid Vicious pictured here, have appeared on these spray paint cans. Tweet cat (now sporting a German fedora) sneaks into the photo too.

below: Many little things can be seen up near the top of the wall.

below: “The tide is high; my love is low” by Behind Green Eyes, is reminiscent of lyrics from song by Blondie, “The tide is high but I’m holdin’ on, I’m gonna be your number one.”

spam is the signature on blue graffiti, text graffiti by behind green eyes that says The tide is high my love is low but I'm hoping on, other text graffiti that says try before you die.

below: A series of cartoonish characters in various colours form a column beside a window. Lots of merde there too but I am not sure if that is part of the original drawings or if they were added after.

paste up graffiti on a wall, 7 cartoonish characters in a column, all in different colours, the word merde has been written over each one in white ink or white marker,

below: A large blue cat by Metraeda prowls beneath a portrait in shades of brown.

two large paper wheatpaste, one is portrai of brown girl with long brown hair, and the other is a large blue cat (cougar, bobcat, lion?)

below: Pope with a gun. Pope Benedict XVI in fact. The hat in this picture is the same as the hat worn by Benedict XVI in the picture used by Wikipedia. It is an image of Jesus holding a cross while he sits with two sheep.

graffiti image of pope benedict the 16th, holding a large pistol gun

below: Zoologne, aka Marcel Kreutzer is the creator of the small round sticker with the oval yellow happy face standing beside a plant. There are quite a few similar stickers all over Cologne. As for the fiddler, I have no idea who produced that image.

slaps and paste ups on a wall, a man in black pants and white shirt, playing a violin. sticker by nanE, another sticker by zoologne,

below: The signature seems to be RUDE and might be your opinion of the image as well.

RUDE stencil graffiti, young girl vomiting

below: An unhappy green bomb with a microphone. Or at least it looks like a comic drawing of a bomb – that way I can say that it’s unhappy because it’s bombing on stage.

below: Reading cross-legged on the floor.

paste up by angry amily, black drawing on brown paper.

below: Bee nice or buzz off, as well as Support your local Antifa.

slaps and wheatpaste on a wall in the Belgian quarter of Cologne

below: Diskettenlaufwerk is actaully the name of an Ultimate Frisbee team. NanE (or Nanelife)

slaps and wheatpaste on a wall in the Belgian quarter of Cologne

below: Clint Eastwood is portrayed as The Savior in this paste-up. Actually there is quite a bit here – a very small pink Ghostcat, a yellow smiley face, a NanE slice of bread, “Love knows no conditions” text by BehindGreenEyes, as well as a pink and black portrait by Pixmen… and more

stickers and pasteups on a wall in Cologne or Koln, urban art, Clint Eastwood as the savior, loves knows no conditions, a yellow happy face,

below: A cute little girl and an even cuter little red block with googly eyes.

pasteups on a wall in Cologne, little girl in orange dress, beer de froo, small red block with googly eyes

below: More paper.

many stickers pasteups on a wall in Cologne, The corona brothers, nane apple faces, paradoxon, black and white women's portraits,

below: Skulls and more

pasteups on a wall in Cologne, chicken, heart Joiny in blue, man, Nane fish, black bomb 4 skulls,

pasteups on a wall in Cologne or Koln, love rocks, a black and white portrait of a man,

below: It looks like a chicken in orange and blue as well as an anatomical heart with slight modifications. Perhaps that’s where his heart lies, or where it longs to be.

pasteups on a wall in Cologne, orange and blue chicken, anatomical heart divided into sections,

below: A big hug for Mopsy! Lots of love for an amazing character!

graffiti stickers on two metal poles, On the left at the top, are four monsters, 2 are purple, one is turquoise, and the fourth is yellow. All have big teeth. On the bottom, an orange cat is giving pug Mopsy a big hug. On the other pole is a weird green cow with text eat more weed

below: Encouraging words by Luna in a white circle with an Australian themed sticker by Tweet below it (kangaroo, emu and balloons!). On the other pipe are two creatures. The one on the bottom is a collaboration between MyCuteCreatures and Joiny.

4 graffiti stickers on 2 metal poles. Words by Luna, aka wortevonluna, in a round white sticker, another sticker is by tween street art with a kangaroo, an emu, some flowers, and lots of balloons. Another stricker id a my cute creatures image“Sei doch mal – Nicht so streng mit dir – Du hast die wahl – immer, jetzt und hier” br> Don’t be so hard on yourself. You have a choice, always, now and here.

Photos taken November 2025

Tattersall and Stevenson Lanes

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below: Step Right ….. and Follow along!

pink spray paint arrow pointing right

below: In Melbourne’s CBD, Tattersall and Stevenson alleys are connected. They are also covered with a lot of paint and paper! As I wandered through these lanes I tried to capture some of the more interesting things, both big and small.

stevenson alley, lots of graffiti and street art, trash bins, metal kegs stack against one wall,

below: Spiderman likes taking pictures

graffiti in an alley, an image of spiderman with a camera, a pair of red underpants with waistband words going going gone, also a sticker with words end medical weight stigma

below: The Street Art Hunters (aka SAH) are dressed in hot pink!

graffiti poster by the street art hunters, group of three dressed in bright pink coveralls with black masks, psychadelic colours background

below: A purple Frankenstein along with his bride, also in purple, hanging out together behind bars. Artwork by Moon of Jupiter Art (aka Ryan Callisto)

graffiti poster by Ryan Callisto, a purple Frankenstein, along with a purple bride of Frankenstein, on a wall behind green metal bars, in an alley

below: Now in green. A small Complimentary Nuts paste-up is immediately below this version of Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein, “7 out of 10 dentists say that your teeth are awesome. The other three need your cash”.

Frankenstein and his bride, both in green, looking at each other, paper paste up graffiti in an alley

below: A third poster by Ryan Callisto. This time Frankenstein is just a tattoo on her arm.

below: “You’ve got to love Melbourne!”

graffiti with words, you got to love melbourne, with lots of hearts as well

below: Fall in love, not in line

paper paste up graffiti, with words fall in love

below: “Sending you love because wow! what a shithow” and Love is Hell.

graffiti

below: “What if we kissed in the smouldering ruins of capitalism?”

small sticker graffiti in an alley, with cursive writing that says,

below: Little beaded diamond shapes like these have appeared all over downtown Melbourne.

graffiti, little diamond shapes covered in beads to make designs

below: Every deck of cards needs a Joker

playing card with large face the Joker, from the Batman series

below: Two artworks, paper paste-ups. A woman’s portrait on top and a playing card style image of Jimmy Hendrix, the H of Hearts, below.

paper paste up graffiti, two pieces, in an alley, top is a portrait of a woman, and lower is playing card style, on black, h of hearts,

Graffiti paste up image, playing card style, I of hearts

below: Prince, in purple, becomes the P of Hearts in this playing card style image.

graffiti paste-up image of Prince singing, in purple, P of hearts,

below: When someone came along with a can or two of spray paint, the little girl with the “Just doubt Fascism” sign survived. The bug on the right is probably not too happy with the situation.

below: A musical bluebird by Lukas Kasper.

below: Is it smiling? or smirking?

painted street art on a brick wall, blue and yellow striped snake like creature with one big eye and a small mouth with yellow teeth, looks to be smiling
In an alley, wall and shared street zone signs are covered with stickers and spray paint graffiti

below: Two megaphones… and a very determined look on her face

black and white paste up a woman holding up a megaphone in each hand, partially obscured with pink spray paint

below: It’s always fascinating to see how some bits of graffiti last so much longer than others. Even if they are left untouched, they slowly weather and fade away until almost ghost-like.

old remnants of paste ups on a wall, one is a rabbit with long ears, eyes cast downwards. the other is a woman in profile with a very large hat

below: While we are on the subject of “vintage” graffiti, there are four pieces on this wall by Junky (aka Daniel Lynch) They are looking a little rusty and forlorn. I first encountered ‘recycled’ cans like these when I was in Melbourne in 2016. See post, Junky Recyles

wall in an alley, some junky projects recycled cans 3D artworks

below: Button-eyed face

faded and weathered paper paste up in an alley

Paper paste ups on a dark wall in Stevenson alley

a section of wall in an alley completely covered with stickers

sticker graffiti with three male faces, on a painted wall, with hand painted hearts

below: What is a Lost Form?

black and white stickers on a pole in an alley, both about Lost Forms,

below: Door covered with posters, street art images

door covered with about 12 posters, all images, graffiti, in an alley, Stevenson Alley

below: Closer view of the posters on the bottom half – SAH, Tweet

about 6 pasteups on a door in an alley, all images

below: top half

about 6 pasteups on a door in an alley, all images

below: Scrawny alien-like character with big yellow eyes and spikey hair. Is there a pop culture reference for this guy?

graffiti, image of skinny alien-like character with big yellow eyes, spikey hair, wearing headphones

below: The Postman and David Bowie

graffiti paste up by artist known as the postman, image of david bowie on a spray paint can

below: A blue Care Bear sticking out his tongue, and Robbo-T times two wandering in the forest.

stickers and graffiti on an alley wall, small blue care bear sticking out its tongue, a robbo-t paste-up of two little robots in a forest

below: Pink hair and blue eyes, times two

below: “Praise be the form eaters”. Any ideas as to what this means?

below: Looking a little closer… Still not sure….

below: Red eyes burning small but intense.

below: Parrot

street art painting of a parrot

street art painting, poster, of a woman's portrait, with red spray paint defacing it


below: Little yellow LEGO guys from Street Art Hunters, one with a gun and the other holding what looks like a container? a camera?

stickers and paste ups on an alley wall, above a door, one is yellow lego characters by street art hunters

below: That’s probably Michael Jackson in the middle.

older graffiti portraits painted in an alley

below: Dried flowers.

graffiti paste up, detailed black and white drawing of dried flowers, on a black wall,

below: “Woman with Feathers”, a collaboration between Adnate and Shida, 2012

portrait of a woman, surround by wispy feathers, high on a brick wall, by adnate and shida

paper paste up graffiti, a realistic image of a hand holding a marker, and a drawing of a blue scooter with an orange balloon

below: “How cool are you in the hot city?” – and more ‘messiness’ in Stevenson Alley.


spray paint covers most of a black and white sticker of a face so only the eyes show

abstract formed by close up of graffiti scrawls and spray paint in various colours

Photos taken March 2025

with a green crocodile in the middle

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A collection of slaps, pasteups and stickers, on a wall in Montmartre, with a large green crocodile (or alligator?) head in the middle. Maybe it’s Krok.

below: A Gameboy … The 9 of clubs says that it’s all smoke and fucking mirrors by Broken Hartist … the climate change slogan that crops up all over theplace “There is no Planet B”.

below: The Postman has done many pieces with artists and celebrities on spray paint cans similar to this one featuring Jim Morrison. He died in 1971 but his fame lives on.

below: Little Miss Tickles? or Sunshine? or something similar, along with Tropa do Carallo which turns out to be the name of a band.

below: Batman and Robin in an amorous pose on a sticker by Brazilain artist Eraquario, a portrait of Diana Ross by Narotones, and a big green teddy bear by Keja Creation.

below: Half hidden behind a bandana. painted on the page of a book where the last lines are, “J’entends le feu parler en raint de tiedeur. J’entends un homme dire qu”il n’a pas souffert” (translation: “I hear the fire speak in warmth, I hear a man say that he did not suffer”). It is a poem, ‘Dit de la Force et de l’Amour’ by Paul Eluard.

below: Nat at Art portrait with purple lips.

Photos taken March 2023

More Montmartre graffiti can be found at “five little posters on a wall”