Welcoming the HF21 With A Brand New Mural
Like it or not, the Hard Fork is upon us. And if I'm well informed, it should be in about seven days, meaning this will be my first post rewarded according to the new rules. Appropriately enough, I have decided to make a post of a new mural. So new, in fact, that the paint is probably still wet on it.
It is located in the Colonia San Miguel Chapultepec, where the Gral. Pedro Antonio de los Santos street meets the Circuito Interior José Vasconcelos, right next to the metro station Juanacatlan. I've passed by here a few times in the last couple of days, and each time the painting had improved a bit. Now it looks like it has been completed.
Paying Homage to Skateboarding
It is quite a large image, covering a couple of buildings, walls, and gates, and it is composed of a number of individual perspectives of skateboards and their skilled riders.
Some of these dudes are dressed in the baggy pants and T-shirts, commonly associated with skater fashion from the 90's. Others are wearing tight muscle shirts, headbands, and sporting little mustaches, a fashion statement from the 70's, which today's hipsters may have brought back in style again.
Certain parts of the mural focus on the boards, offering an oversize view of the trucks and wheels, while others show the skater from a distance, performing tricks or flying spectacular distances.
The background color is predominately orange, featuring the Golden Gate Bridge, so admittedly there is quite a bit of Californication going on, even though the nearest skater park is only a 15 minute walk from this mural (or less than ten minutes by skateboard), in the Parque Lira. On the upside, the skyline also includes a giant robot, and best of all Godzilla, the quintessential character from classic Japanese monster films.
Unfortunately this time I can't give credit to the artist behind this amazing work. The only tag I could find was by a certain Filipollo, which google could not provide anything on. Whoever it is, though, they are claiming to be very rich, and they do this (presumably painting murals, but probably skateboarding too) as a hobby. Well, in any case, thank you Filipollo for turning this empty wall into something worth looking at.
If you liked this, check out my developing series on Mexican murals:
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- Painted Garage Doors
- New Stairs-Art in my Neighborhood
- Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central
- La Familia Burrón in the Center
- Playing With Bugs on the Rooftop
- A Journey Through Rock and Roll
- Elite Warriors in the Parque México
- Laboratory Work on the Cocoa
- High Above the City
- Feminist Mural on a Blue-Collar Business
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- Commercial Murals for Small Businesses
- A Mural for a Movie
- Get to Know Your Local Cacti
- New Images Covering Old Ones
- A Warrior Princess in Mazunte
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- Murals Under Periferico
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- Respected and Less Respected Paintings
- Under Metro Line 4
- ChaliaKiller's – Murals, Chilaquiles, and Lots More
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- Political Expression: the Painting is on the Wall
- Different Types of Wall Paintings
- The Beauty of Death and the Struggle of Life
- Winston Churchill and the Bike Movement
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