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Monday 11 October 2021

Monday Mural - Welcome to Darwin

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.  Thanks, Sami.

Painted by "Portuguese maestro" street artist Odeith for the third Darwin Street Art Festival in September 2019, it can found at West Lane in the city centre.

He's transformed the corner incorporating an electricity box which was transformed into a small van.

Check his web page, for some amazing 3D murals!

And you can also listen to this ABC interview with the festival organizer and the artist in Darwin.                                        https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-art-show/darwin-street-art-festival/11525492





Image from the internet where you can see the corner before it had the mural painted.





57 comments:

  1. I was blown away by the car created from the utility box. When I first scrolled down to add my entry, I didn't realize it was part of the mural. I especially like the shadow created by the Roo. What an extraordinary find, Sami.

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    1. Thanks Elizabeth. It's a great illusion

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  2. ...WOW Sami, this is amazing. Thanks for showing the last picture, this artist did a fabulous job.

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    1. Thanks Tom, the last picture really shows what was done.

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  3. Loving the Kangaroo and it's baby. btw I've tried and tried linking up to this but blogger wont' accept my photo no matter how many times I resize it.

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    1. Thanks Amy. Not sure what is wrong, I thought it could be the link itself.

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  4. really neat transformation of a dull corner!

    best….mae at maefood.blogsot.com

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  5. The inclusion of the utility box is so cleverly done it does my head in and I don't know what I am really seeing. Well done Odeith.

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    1. Thanks Andrew, indeed very cleverly done :)

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  6. Dearest Sami,
    Kudos to this Portuguese artist!
    Love the Kangaroo with its Joey and also that electricity box! Genial idea.
    Hugs,
    Mariette

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  7. what an amazing mural. with an incredible trompe l'œil....

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    1. Thanks Kwarkito, it is a fabulous mural indeed :)

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  8. The kangaroo is superb. But the van idea is super-cool!
    What a great idea. I'd love to see more of these on our utility boxes.

    Thank you for hosting, Sami. :)

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    1. Thanks Dee. We have a lot of our utility boxes being painted here in Perth

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  9. Ver a diferença entre o antes e o depois é ver a noite e o dia.
    Boa semana

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    1. Obrigada Pedro, grande artista que ele e!
      Boa semana.

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  10. An amazing transformation. Very creative.

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  11. This is very clever. I didn’t imagine the van to be be a mural at first…but 👏👏👏

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    1. It is quite clever indeed. Thanks Teresa

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  12. How clever! I was surprised like everyone else - so glad you saved the pre- photo till the end

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  13. Oh, wow, Sami. These murals are life-like!!! I even found my BOSE there! The roo on the car! Uhhhh... and the spider. The cameleon! Thank you, what a very, VERY talented artist!!! Wow.
    I would kick the rooster, maybe. Destroyed a whole holiday... No sleeping in, yeah, I get up at 04:40 a.m.in work-life (haha...) but when on holiday... nahhh. That "monster" woke me every darn morno.
    Bright side: We were the first in the ocean :-)

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    1. He is an amazing artist for sure. I'm hoping to find some of his murals when I visit Portugal sometime in the future. Thanks Iris

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  14. This is wonderful. Thank you for showing how it looked before painting.

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  15. Wow a very great way to make a mural in 3d. I love it.

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  16. This is nothing short of brilliant, Sami. Darwin! There's a town I should visit. I seriously doubt, however, that I ever will. I have only one child, a daughter. Had she been a boy Darwin would have been his name.

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    1. Thanks David, hard to believe but Darwin had the best murals I've ever seen! You would love visiting the national parks in the Northern Territory for the unusual bird life. Interesting about the name, I don't think I've ever come across anyone named Darwin, but I've heard of many Sydney's.

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  17. Wonderful and the electrical box is amazing!

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  18. That is truly ingenious. I thought it was a strange looking van when I fist looked at the photo. Clever.
    Just thought I'd mention that I'm having trouble with the Linky. It doesn't recognize my photo, just the photos of people who have already commented.

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    1. Thanks Sharon, not sure what is happening, you are the second person who has a google symbol instead of the photo of the mural.

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  19. Sami you found a cool one.... AGAIN!

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  20. Nicely done! It took me a couple of seconds to realize the van was part of the mural.

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    1. Yes, it's so well done, you almost think it's parked right there! Thanks Zhu

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  21. Oh, I thought the van was real! This is marvelous.

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  22. I Sami, for some reason I can't link my post to this site.
    https://mamacormier.com/2021/10/12/the-beginning-of-a-new-mural/

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    1. Hi Carol, not sure why it happened, I've entered it. Thanks :)

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