{"id":965,"date":"2011-12-01T22:57:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=965"},"modified":"2012-12-24T21:57:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T10:57:56","slug":"not-newtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2011\/12\/01\/not-newtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Newtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_966\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/08e-cP1030597-PennantWang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-966\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-966\" title=\"08e-cP1030597-PennantWang\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/08e-cP1030597-PennantWang-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/08e-cP1030597-PennantWang-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/08e-cP1030597-PennantWang-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/08e-cP1030597-PennantWang.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pennant Hills, NSW, 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pavement graffiti can be found everywhere if you keep an eye out for it. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I always say, but looking back through my archive of photos I wonder if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really true. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy for me to find pavement inscriptions because I live in the inner-west of Sydney where feral art and graffiti of all sorts is a common feature of the landscape. I have also travelled in regional New South Wales a fair bit, and have found some great examples on country roads and highways.<\/p>\n<p>But what about the tidy or more conservative suburbs in the wider city? Do I have many photos of pavement graffiti from these places? The answer is No.<\/p>\n<p>I guess there are two main reasons for this. Firstly, although graffiti <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> drawn on the asphalt acres of suburbia, it is less prolific than in Glebe\/Newtown\/Darlinghurst. Secondly \u00e2\u20ac\u201c dare I admit? \u00e2\u20ac\u201c on my daily rounds I stick to the inner city and rarely venture into the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcburbs.<\/p>\n<p>But here is a small selection of examples to show that submerged stories do erupt on the paved surfaces of the suburbs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_967\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/08p-cP1050108-MarsfieldPigs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-967\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-967\" title=\"08p-cP1050108-MarsfieldPigs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/08p-cP1050108-MarsfieldPigs-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/08p-cP1050108-MarsfieldPigs-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/08p-cP1050108-MarsfieldPigs-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/08p-cP1050108-MarsfieldPigs.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;F--- the pigs&#39;, Marsfield, NSW, 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And my End-of-year resolution? More walking in unfamiliar parts of Sydney.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_968\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11e-cP1000039X-ManlySmile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-968\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-968 \" title=\"11e-cP1000039X-ManlySmile\" src=\"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11e-cP1000039X-ManlySmile-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11e-cP1000039X-ManlySmile-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11e-cP1000039X-ManlySmile-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11e-cP1000039X-ManlySmile.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;Smile - You are beatiful!&#39;, Manly, NSW, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pavement graffiti can be found everywhere if you keep an eye out for it. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I always say, but looking back through my archive of photos I wonder if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really true. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy for me to find pavement inscriptions because I live in the inner-west of Sydney where feral art and graffiti of <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2011\/12\/01\/not-newtown\/#more-965\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,80,76],"tags":[3,5,7,84],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-parts","category-personal-notices","category-suburbia","tag-graffiti","tag-newtown","tag-sydney","tag-wangs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}