Part of the
philosophy of graffiti is that it is a living, breathing street art.
Whether or not you think of graffiti as a highly-skilled street art
or an ugly, criminal activity, there is no denying that some pieces
make you wonder just how the artist got up there? The advantage of
these spots to the artists is that their art is difficult to remove
and/or spray over, which gives exclusivity to the piece. These hard
to reach works are sometimes known as “heavens” or “giraffiti”
due to their nature, which as well as being high to reach, also risk
death or serious injury to the artist.
In this piece, we
are going to have a look through some death defying graffiti spots!
SAVE THE
PALESTINE – Brooklyn, New York City, USA
This has to be one
of the most dangerous spots. The lengths some artists go to with a
political message can be awe-inspiring. This piece looks to be about
some 60 feet or so above ground level. Not only that but it looks
very difficult to get up!
Photographer: LJTee
Golden Gate
Bridge – San Francisco, USA
One
of the most insane spots, which is on the top of Golden Gate Bridge
in ‘cisco. This spot is about 746 feet high. Look how small the
cars look!
STENZ –
Reading, UK
The 15 storey, 50m
tall Western Tower is one of the tallest buildings in Reading. STENZ,
TPK and CUF have all managed to throw up their all-be-it eyesore tags
on the derelict British Rail Offices.
Photographer:
Ali_Explores
TAHOE tag – On
the Freeway, USA
The TAHOE tag can
usually be found on trains and walls, but with this spot being above
another dangerous US freeway.
Various –
Plymouth, UK
Under motorway
bridges you can normally find graffiti spots. With the large blank
concrete pillars and quiet scrub land surrounding, it offers artists
perfect conditions for throwing up some larger pieces of work - with
no exception of under the A38 in Plymouth. As spots become harder to
find, artists try to find more difficult spots to use, resorting in
climbing pillars and along metal girdlers to some of the spots seen
above, which are about 20 foot high!
photographer:
markplymouth
mah mah – North
West London, UK
Sites along railways
are a fairly common sight for graffiti and street art. This site can
be found along the over ground in North West London. Not only a
hazard due to trains passing and electricity running through the
rails but some of the tracks are also elevated meaning a nasty fall
if you are to get it wrong.
PEAS – North
West London, UK
Heading Northbound
on the M25 in South Buckinghamshire, one can find the PEAS graffiti
tag on the “Over the Misbourne Road”. Over the years it has been
modified to read “GIVE PEAS A CHANCE” which you can tell from
photographs of the site, and the white paint runs on the latter words
sprayed to accompany PEAS. The bridge is some 30 feet or so above the
M25, one of the busiest motorways in the country.
photographer:
catseye1812 - Alyne
Lidgley
PLEGR – L.A.,
USA
This spot is in the
101 Highway in LA. As you can see, the drop is a good 20 foot or so
down to solid concrete, with the ledge about 3 foot and an 8 inch lip
to shuffle along. It doesn’t bear thinking about losing your
footing on this one.
JOBS –
Minneapolis, USA
This JOBS piece up
on Highawatha, Uptown Minneapolis is a dangerous spot for sure. Over
6 Storeys high, don’t fall!
Str8er Up High
photographer:
esteloco27
FOE and more -
Unknown
This spot is mad.
Not only can you barely see this ledge, but how do you get there
easily? As well as the drop, which “looks” nearly as high as a 50
storey building!
Titan and 2Buck -
Ledge Art 4 Storeys High
ADZE – L.A., USA
A mad bridge spot by
ADZE. This is underneath the freeway in LA, which looks like artists
would need harnesses and pulleys to navigate under here.
photographer:
esteloco27
Under the Bridge
- Unknown
Author bio:
This post was
written by Paul Smith of Ecocleen
Graffiti Removal. You can visit them online at
http://eslsolutions.co.uk/
or follow them on Twitter @Ecocleen.
the one on the golden gate bridge is photoshopped.
ReplyDeletethis is not how spraypaint would look there. cant be done with a marker, either.