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At the beginning of December, my parents and I visited Henry Ford's Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum, (Days Out: Henry Ford Museum). We did not get to see and do everything that we wanted to do in Greenfield Village because there's so much to do. We had to split our day between this and the museum. Greenfield Village was the highlight for me as I am a big fan of living history and history in general. Old times have always captivated me, and if I had a time machine, I would always go back in time to a world that has now been lost.

Henry Ford bought and moved all of the buildings that make up Greenfield Village because he knew that his assembly-line method of production would change the world, and history was important to him. He bought homes and buildings that meant something to him, such as his school. He bought the homes of others (Thomas Edison, Wright Brothers, Firestone, Heinz, George Washington Carver, etc.) that meant something to him, and all of these were moved together to create Greenfield Village. He also bought machinery and locomotives.

Steam engine

There's so much to interact with at Greenfield Village, and this was their final opening day before closing for the Christmas season, so there were not many people about. Christmas trees were up in some of the houses and buildings, and the air was chilly, so it did feel like Christmas. 

Cider mill and sawmill

We arrived and got some photographs of some farm machinery in one of the buildings, and then we checked out this steam engine below. Instead of heading toward the "town" area, we walked to a farmhouse (the Firestone family of the tire/tyre fame) first. We got some nice photographs of the buildings and fields on the way.

Corn shocks

Actually, this method for drying corn was still used in the 1950s/1960s and my father remembers having to make these when he was younger, and they didn't do such a great job because several had fallen to the ground. The Amish (Travels to Ohio's Amish Country and A Trip to the Amish Country) still farm this way. 

Hens

When we came to the Firestone Farm, we saw a lot of beautiful chickens. They were hanging around the farm and in the bar area.

The employees who work at Greenfield Village actually do use all of the items produced. We went into the farmhouse and had a chat with the farmer's wife, who was preparing the meal. We explored the house and the cellar area.

Corn-sheller in the barn

The barn is one of those beautiful multi-level barns that is built into a bank, and we had a look around at the different machinery. The wooden machine with a handle is a corn-sheller. You put an ear of corn inside the hole, and you turn the crank, and the kernels funnel out.

Firestone Farm

The chickens especially liked the barn above, with the old wagons. The slat area on the left is where ears of corn are dried out.

Sawmill

We had a look inside the pottery shop and saw pottery being created and painted, and we had a look at the sawmill, but it was not operating. We also had a quick stop at the tin shop and were told about the importance of tin, the glass shop, and the printing shop where we printed a paper using the printing press. There's also a water mill and weaving shop. I wanted to create a glass flower, but we did not have enough time.

Woolen mill and glass shop

Sawmill

Our next stop was at the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Roundhouse. A Roundhouse is where trains were worked on. Inside the Roundhouse were several huge locomotives, and these are in working order. A water tower is near the railway line. Not far away is the station, which we explored. In those days, the station contained rooms for the staion master to live in, a waiting room for passengers, and telegraph room. 

Water tower

Nearby is the Herschell-Spillman carousel, and this is in working order and guests can ride on it for a fee. We did not becuase of the lack of time. There is also a pub near here, and this would have also been a nice option for lunch, but we wanted to see more of the village. We did stop into the general store, and we were told about the history of the building and other facts about general stores.

General store

Chapel, schoolhouse, and courthouse were additional stops. We made our way into the actual "town" area of Greenfield Village, and we started to see more people about on horses or driving classic vehicles. Visitors could ride on some of the vehicles for a fee.

Horses in Greenfield Village

We went into a few homes that belonged to famous people, such as George Washington Carver's log cabin, and Ford's childhood home and the Wight Brothers' home. We were in a little bit of a hurry, so we did not get to do much.

Bus in Greenfield Village

We went to the Ford dealership, and we got a ride in a ModelT Ford. This was a "must" for me, as I've always loved the old ModelT Ford. I used to draw these. I think the ModelT that I got to ride in was a 1923 model. My parents rode in a different model. This was a quick blast around some of the streets, and we were taken to an area that we had not seen yet as we didn't have time.

ModelT rides

After our ride, we walked by a post office and stopped in as I wanted to see if I could send postcards. We were in luck! I have an obsession for postcards, and I always like to buy them and write a travel journal onto them of the places that I have been. The post office actually sold vintage-style postcards, and they had Christmas ones. I bought a couple to post, using modern stamps and prices, of course.

Horse-drawn wagon

We had to make our way back to explore the museum. The building in the photograph below was moved from England, or at least the decorative elements were. It was a watch and jewellery shop in London. In Greenfield Village, it is a sweet shop. The clock figures move.

At some point, I need to visit Greenfield Village again and see the bits that we were rushed through and spend more time on some of the other areas. For an interactive map of all of the buildings and a description of the buildings, visit: http://www.thehenryford.org/village/map.aspx

For more information about the Henry Ford Museum, read my entry Days Out: Henry Ford Museum, which we went to visit after Greenfield Village.

Stencil street artist C215 is one street artist that I enjoy discovering when I am wandering the streets in east London. The artist is Christian Guémy from France, and he has painted his artwork in various cities over the world. His work is primarily portraits and images of cats. The portraits include the homeless, orphans, the elderly, and his own family. Often, the pieces are easy to overlook, and unfortunately, a lot of his work was tagged over quickly. It looks as though some of his London work was targeted by the same vandal who used the same colour to paint over his word. I find this sad as the work should be appreciated and enjoyed by others.

Last week, a large wall with C215's work was painted in east London. This is the first large-scale piece by the artist that I have seen in London.

In addition, I have taken many photographs of the artist's work in London, which I have included below. The majority of these were taken at the beginning of last year, and a lot of them have since been tagged over now. Sadly, only about five of these remain but have faded considerably, so I am glad that the artist is back in London. Maybe more of his work will appear in the coming weeks.

The photographs below are ones that I have found tagged over, and they were not around for long before being tagged over by the same person. (In one instance, however, the image was worn off.) I have included the image below along with what it originally looked like.

C215's cats are one of my favourite pieces. I've discovered a few of these cats around east London. The placement of a random cat in a wall in east London brings a smile as they are unexpected.

The images below are Google's resuls of C215's cats. I would love to find more of these cats.

During my visit to Dublin last autumn, I snapped a few photographs of street art that I came across when I was exploring the city. Most of the street art was located in the Temple Bar area of Dublin, but some of it was further afield, in the vicinity of the Guinness Storeroom factory area. I was actually a little disappointed because I thought that Dublin would have more street art. Some older pieces, which I discovered online before I went to visit Dublin, had been covered up and tagged over, which was a disappointment. Nevertheless, I did manage to take quite a few photographs, including the below mural by artist Conor Harrington. (Read more about his work and see some photographs of his work in London here: Street Art: Conor Harrington.)

Conor Harrington in Dublin

The below quirky fantasy scene is a collaboration from several artists: Fri2, Dahleo, Novice, and KYLR.

Fri2, Dahleo, Novice, and KYLR

I also snapped a photograph of some large African-style masks that I saw in Dublin. These were located to the west of the main part of the centre of Dublin.

Masks

A couple colourful pieces below as from Marcamix.

Marcamix

I am not sure who painted the goth-style female characters, but I like the style. I saw a couple of these in Dublin.

Dublin goth girls

I also found somevarious pieces, such as a spray can and part of a soup can from Canvaz, lips from Solus, stencil work by Zlashing, and Dublin Wifi mosaics. The Wifi mosaics reminded me of Space Invader's work.

Various Dublin street art

There was also a large mural in progress on a side of a building in the Temple Bar area.

Painting in progress in Temple Bar

Additionally, check out the following unknown pieces. I like the workman on the side of the building. I'm not sure who the artists are for any of these, and getting photographs of some of them was difficult with vehicles in the way.

The below photographs were taken of the same building with various pieces of artwork on them.

Dublin's signal boxes also contained some artwork. Below are the ones I was able to locate to photograph. They are looking a little worn now.

Dublin signal boxes street art

I also discovered some artwork hanging on scaffolding on Upper O'Connell Street. I am not sure what it was all about, but there was a sign up describing it. I was waiting for the bus back to the airport right next to it, so I did not get time to look.

I hope that you have enjoyed my tour of Dublin's street art.

Last summer, several London-based street artists painted walls at South Bank for the South Bank Festival. Visitors could see the artists at work and also create their own. I have already blogged about the work by Phlegm and ROA, both well-known street artists, who created the two largest murals at South Bank. (Read the article here: Phlegm and ROA Street Art at South Bank.) Other street artists involved in the festival included Dan Kitchener, Stik, Wahaca, and Grems.

Dan Kitchener painted one of his unique city street scenes. This one features a city street scene with a lot of people carrying umbrellas. I enjoy seeing new pieces from him. This one was located at the back of the buildings. (I blogged about him last summer, and you can read the article and see more of his work here: Street Art: Dan Kitchener.)

Dan Kitchener

Grems is a street artist from France, and his work is colourful; some of the work features a lot of shapes. I love the buildings mural below.

Grems

The following photograph contains additional work by Grems in the background. I am not sure about the artist who painted the other work.

Grems and unknown

Spzero and Squirl (along with the other street artists they collaborate with) created a mural on a wall at the back of one of the buildings on South Bank. It was difficult to get photographs of the mural as there were items in the foreground blocking it. However, here's a piece of the mural by Squirl.

Squirl

Stik painted a mural under the bridge on South Bank of several stick figures. The stick figures started at babies and ended up as children and then families. The public painted clothing and other items on the figures to make them more colourful and individual. (You can see more work by Stik here: Street Art: Stik.)

Stik

Street artists Remed and Saner created a few pieces of street art for the Wahaca restaurant at South Bank. The murals are inspired by eastern and Mexican influences.

Saner and Remed

I am hoping that there is a South Bank festival with some new street art in store for 2014. I was not able to make it in 2013 and only snapped the photographs a couple of months later. It would be good to see the street artists at work.

Last month, Dscreet painted a mural on the Village Underground wall, which replaced the colourful 'Badgergate' mural by Ron Martin (Street Art: Martin Ron's "Badgergate" Mural). The mural is a tribute to 'Monty Python' and features lyrics to the song 'Look at the bright side of life'. The words "C'mon Britain, cheer up" possibly refer to people being a little bit down in the past year, since the highs of the previous year with the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee. The mural also features one of Dscreet's trademark owl characters.

The mural did not seem to last long as it has been painted over fairly recently, but no new artwork has taken its place yet.

I posted some photographs of Dscreet's work throughout London here: Street Art: Dscreet 

The Toaster Crew started painting images of toasters around London in 1999. I captured a couple of these toaster images around Shoreditch. The large one, which appeared on Hackney Road, has since been painted over.

Toasters

Toaster with a space invader 

An interview by the Toaster Crew is located here: http://streetartlondon.co.uk/blog/2011/02/21/street-artist-interview-toasters/

The official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/toasterseverywhere

I had been seeing a lot of new work pop up over east London by one of my new favourite street artists last summer - ALO. (I covered ALO's work in two separate editions this spring and summer:  Street Art: Alo Aristide Loria and Street Art: Alo, Part 2.) I am glad to see that more work keeps appearing on the streets. In fact, the building on Great Eastern Street was painted at the end of summer. I am hoping that there will be new street art from ALO in London for 2014.

Great Eastern Street building

ALO's work has been popping up for several months, and I spotted some new work a couple of weeks ago. This selection of photographs have been compiled over the past several months, and some of these no longer exist. I absolutely love it, and it is one of my favourite.

Various work and close-ups

Poor vs Poor

Liminal

I love the red-haired girl piece above.

Yellow is a common background colour of the work, and the man is holding a wine bottle.

Fragmented

Ego

Drone and a man with a cup

Drone

Deceit

Girl with ribbon in hair is crying

More tears

Several months ago, I was unable to track down any information about this artist. Since then, I learned that he is from Italy and has a Facebook page and a website now. More of ALO's work can be seen on the Facebook page and website: 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aloartofstreet

Blogspot: http://alostreetart.blogspot.co.uk/

Hunto is the name of a street artist with several shutter and wall designs in the east end of London. He is originally from Italy, and his work shows that he is inspired by Picasso and the cubism art movement. His work is characterised by bright colours and Piccasso-esque figures. Often, his paintings depict sensual scenes - food and relationships.

He painted some work in London at the end of last year, including the below contribution with artist Millo.

Hunto and Millo

Another work on Rivington Street, which appeared at the end of 2013, was sadly tagged over before I was able to get a photograph.

Hunto tagged over

An interview of the artist Hunto can be read here: http://blog.globalstreetart.com/post/45262573713/the-graffiti-cubist-an-interview-with-hunto 

The artist's Facebook page is located here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Huntoland/155393097814272

A few months ago and soon after the MadC mural was painted (Street Art: Murals by Reka and MadC on Chance Street), the last and most recent artist to add their mark to the street was an artist from California known as Above. In between two walls dominated by Ben Eine's (Street Art: Ben Eine) work, Above painted a series of arrows on the corner of the building. Above's work uses stencils, and some of the work features large and bold arrows. He has also painted his arrows on some shutters in Brick Lane. 

In addition to the arrows, the artist has painted some stencil work in London where the artwork changes depending on the time of day, and he paints a lot of artwork that changes that depend on timing - being in the right place at the right time and viewing from the correct angle. The below stencil is to be viewed at night as the street lamp casts a shadow from the parking sign on the left of the picture directly below, and it looks as if the figure is doing a hand-stand on it. At the moment, I have taken a photo of the stencil doing a hand-stand on a parked car. Below this image, I have included a close-up of the artwork.

Although the stencil above had a protective sheet of plastic around it, this was partially taken down within a few weeks, and another artist tagged over it. At the time of publishing this, it has since been removed from the wall. (For more information about the artist, view https://www.facebook.com/goabove.)

New street art appeared in the last couple of months with Christmas and New Year's themes. At the end of this entry, I have also added a few pieces that I photographed last year. Some of these no longer exist as street art is always changing, but I thought that I would include them. Artists Nemo, Nando Mambo, David Walker and others are featured.

The New Year's Eve piece is by street artist Zabou, who creates many stencil pieces in east London. The piece says "2014 has started. Let's get wasted!"

Zabou

Another piece to appear had appeared before Christmas and was located in the same place as Grafitti Life's Bart Simpson artwork. This piece, by Grafitti Life, features Bart and Homer Simpson and a Christmas tree. I am not sure what caused Homer to strangle Bart, but it may have related to the spray can under the tree and the words 'merry xmas' scrawled onto the wall.

Grafitti Life

One of the earliest Christmas pieces to appear was a whole building on Great Eastern Street painted with Christmas themes and words, including peppermint cane hearts, birds, holly, mistletoe, bells, crackers, Christmas pudding, and more.

Christmas building

With the theme of giving animals as Christmas gifts, artist Teddy Baden painted this warm-looking pug dog with the words "A dog is for life not just for Christmas" on a door in Shoreditch.

Teddy Baden

Another piece, a wintery one, included a skiier. 

Marino

Just off of Brick Lane, new Christmas pieces by Fan Horror Crew featuring balloon or sweets creatures appeared. These include a humbug-balloon reindeer or sheep and a licqourish snowman and balloon Santas and reindeer.

Fan Horror Crew

Fan Horror Crew

Fan Horror Crew

Additional work by a group of collaborative street artists also popped off just off of Brick Land and also off of Great Eastern Street. The following is by Lost Souls and SPZero. The other one is a contribution and appears off Great Eastern Street. These artists always collaborate on their work, and I saw this one and many others in progress. In particular, they have been busier in the past couple of months.

Lost Souls, SPZero

Captain Kris, Squirl, SPZero, Lost Souls

A Christmas tree and message appeared on a road in Hackney.

Truff-1

In addition to the Christmas and New Year's pieces, I've included some other artwork by other street artists below.

Nemo and Dias often create work featuring carrots or chillis. These can be seen over east London.

Nemo and Dias

Nando Mambo's work features realistic portraits of superheroes. Batman, Wolverwine, and the Incredible Hulk have all featured in Nando Mambo's work. The Incredible Hulk is the most recent piece, and I never got a photograph of the finished piece before I went on holiday.

Nando Mambo

David Walker uses spray paint to build up his artwork. A common subject is portraits, such as the two below that I photographed a little while ago now. More about David Walker can be found at http://www.artofdavidwalker.com/.

David Walker

Ozmo

Vinz


Rone with Nemo and Stik

Clet Abraham

Paola Delfin

Stika

Zadock