graffiti – Page 2 – Babycakes Romero

20/11/202020/11/2020

#MYLDN (1519)

I don’t necessarily disagree with this equation but did we really need a name for it? Is that helping at all? And why are you trying to make Britastrophe happen, yeah? How is that gonna get us out of this mess? It’s also not very good let’s be honest.

Why do we feel we have to labradoodle everything these days? It’s like everything has to be simplified to fuck and made hashtagable before anyone pays attention? It’s like our current government seem more focused on creating the right slogan rather than implementing genuine measures to combat Covid. The virus can’t read. It doesn’t give a shit what catchy phrase you use. Maybe now the Spin Doctor of Barnard Castle is gone, they won’t focus quite as much on advise that rhymes and think that’ means the job is done.

So featured this week are some random wall scrawls alongside some stickers & posters that have been plastered around to jolt people into thought. I think it is the fact that printing has got become much cheaper which has spurred on a new wave of slightly more professional executions than dragging a fat sharpie across a wall as presentation for people’s message out there on the streets. Its become more and more of a thing as you can see..

Many are of an anti-government nature but as in the drug one above, (which I don’t really understand tbh -are they drug shaming or class shaming ?) they can be sometimes quite oblique in their intention. Although most, it has to be said, are of a political nature as are most things these days and am quite astounded how over-politicised are lives have become recently.

It feels like almost everything goes through this political polarising filter. It would appear our persuasions are being pulled whilst others are pushing their own agendas. There was a time when not everything was about politics. It seems to really dominate all aspects of life at the moment. I think we all need to take a step out of the red corner and the blue corner and stop looking for a fight with the opposition at every turn.

I blame the 24 news feed which just wants to stoke our rage to keep us wired in and the easiest way to do that is to push our respective buttons & beliefs. But all it achieves is increased polarisation when we really all need to be coming towards the middle. I miss the centrism of 90s politics. Less black and white, less hostile, less like feeling you had somehow fallen into a civil war you don’t remember starting.

As for the anti-lockdown brigade trying to incite dissent, (well done on the logo & slogan, lovely work ;) they are seemingly the only ones oblivious to the irony that their activity will most likely prolong the very thing they want to end. And its pretty fucking pointless..I mean, go ahead, ignore the lockdown by all means, then what? What are you gonna do? Everything’s shut for fuck’s sake.

And so I will end this week of walled bulletins the way I started it, with some good ole fashioned sprayed graffiti with no real agenda other than to delight up your day…are you talkin to me? Awww, shucks n stuff..thanks!

18/11/202018/11/2020

#MYLDN (1517)

Ok, personally they wouldn’t have been my first two choices…I’m not gonna go into the first one but full? really? You want the new world to be full? For what purpose? I mean, it’s going that way anyway but who actually wants that?

24/09/202024/09/2020

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just in case he came up to Soho to take advantage of the Eat out to help Out scheme..

22/09/202022/09/2020

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…you’d rather…? The planet wasn’t in turmoil? There were less angry fuckwits around? You didn’t have completion issues? what?? I must know!

This is either the work of the ‘bring down’ dude/dudette from yesterday or there is clearly a trend for half-finished

31/07/202031/07/2020

#MYLDN (1475)

I’m trying to. I really am…actually fuck it, let’s go with full on positive outcome..

Can’t do any harm right?

All shots this week part of my ongoing series “R u talkin to me”.

And so, that’s it from me. I’m off for August as per usual, pretending we are still in Europe & looking forward to some digital detox decompression…

hope you get to enjoy your summer, stay safe, stay sane & stay off the news feed when you can…and see you in September!

BC x

30/07/202030/07/2020

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27/07/202027/07/2020

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14/07/202013/07/2020

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08/06/202008/06/2020

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15/05/202015/05/2020

#MYLDN LCKDWN (54)

The streets of London have spoken. A week of post corona graffiti telling it how it is..or isn’t. A lot of wall scrawlings seem to be the analogue equivalent of click bait, spreading misinformation and provocation. Maybe that was always the point of graffiti with its history of anti-establishment proclamations. In the case of this one I’m not sure whether it’s demanding for the Tories to be wiped out or whether it is laying blame at the Government for the Covid deaths that have occurred in this country…either way it’s difficult to argue against…

Our current leader is a ditherer. Both in action and word. To have someone who is indecisive at the helm when strong and swift decisions need to be made is far from ideal. He is also avoidant which is also not a great trait in these times. This is the man remember, who hid in a fridge during election campaigning rather than deal with the press. Can we lay blame at his feet for the mismanagement of this crisis? Absofuckinglutely.

His election to P.M in December convinced me that there was nothing good going to happen in this country during his reign of power and that was before Corona. And this is beyond party politics. This is just based on him being competent (or not) in governing. He showed himself to be a useless clueless fuckwit on numerous occasions during his time as foreign secretary alone, forget about every gaff before that, so it really comes as no surprise that this fuckwittery continued once he was ruling the country.

And so once again we are being looked at with disbelief and pity from the rest of the world, who are slack-jawed by the incompetent actions of our government. You could say they are doing everything they can in an extremely difficult situation and they didn’t know what was coming but they did and they’re not. The advice from scientific experts was simple as to how to go about containing this virus…extreme lockdown, mass testing and contact tracing and they didn’t and still aren’t doing any of these things to the extent required for them to be successful.

So now what? Johnson’s recent speech was mocked for its confused and contradictory nature but it feels deliberate as it essentially absolves the government of responsibility and implies that its basically every man for himself. So we have to all just get on with it and hope for the best? Right, cheers for that…

14/05/202011/05/2020

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13/05/202013/05/2020

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When I was 15 years old I was in Class 5g at school. Is there a connection with the controversial mobile network currently being installed across the globe and the name of my class? No, there isn’t. Or is there?? Am I involved in the conspiracy? Not at all. Or is my admission followed by a swift denial in fact a cover up double bluff to make you think I’m not involved? And before I get sent hate mail and death rates I should say that I’m not actually involved. It has nothing to do with me.

Is the outbreak of Covid-19 anything to do with 5g? No, no more than I am but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything wrong with 5g. But by putting 2 and 2 together and getting ‘corona consipirasuey’ isn’t helping a genuine need to demand that this, soon to be, all pervasive tech be tested more than it has been which is not at all. Its potential harm to our health needs to be established before we get bombarded by its radiation from every single direction.

Meanwhile the whole insanely contagious Covid virus thing is a difficult thing to get your head around but that doesn’t mean it isn’t real. It is happening and it wasn’t man made although we are technically responsible, not for its creation, but for its spread into the human population through the side effects of intensive farming & habitat destruction. Air pollution has also exacerbated its harmful effects and under funded under-prepared pandemic departments were not equipped to deal with it despite governments being informed that something like this was always a case of ‘when’ not ‘if’ . Pandemics are not a new thing. This is just the next instalment in the continuing battle between viruses and living organisms which has been fought since the dawn of time, we just weren’t around to see the other episodes.

We are drowning in misinformation and up to our earballs in bullshit. So infinitely more important than trying to consume everything the internet is bombarding us with, we need to be able to disseminate what is factual in origin and what is supposition based on opinion. And even though the powers that be lie through their front, back and side teeth on an almost daily basis they ain’t lying about everything. And they ain’t lying about this. And unfortunately people’s unwillingness to believe it is in fact causing it to spread further as people are not taking the required precautions. I kinda get it. Corona is a proper headfuck. Firstly its effect on people is so vastly different..from no symptoms at all to death and every gradient in-between so it feels unreal. But the diverse reactions to our bodies do not mean it’s not a reality but as you also can’t actually see it, it makes it even more difficult to believe. But if you want to see the reality, go to the hospitals. go to the morgues.

I love a good conspiracy theory, who doesn’t? But you can’t just accept them as real until you have done your own research from multiple and reliable sources and fact check the shit out of it rather than just share something you got sent on whatsapp. Also, disinformation is spread when people are trying to cover something up so you have to work out what that is, for what reason and who has to gain. As the ole saying goes..follow the money.

In the case of 5g ‘they’ have done everything they can to supress any negative reports about it in a very forceful manner. They have taken down thousands of facebook pages & youtube videos and removed any dissent whatsoever because it is worth trillions to those rolling it out and they don’t want any negative publicity. Is that a conspiracy to cover up? Yes. Is it something more to it than that? Probably not, but they once again are putting profit before people and clearly will risk any health risks on the population in the process.

If you want a great conspiracy theory about Corona it’s that we are in fact in a virtual simulation and our computer masters needed to restrict where we go so they can update the system and do essential maintenance. Think about it. If they keep us confined they won’t have to run the entire program for each individual. Really makes sense if you think about it..but like a lot. Like till your brain seeps out of your ears in a mad bid for freedom to avoid thinking about it anymore. Please see scientific documentaries ‘the matrix’ and ‘devs’ for more info.