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dangerous dave
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12 years ago

this just popped up on another forum and im unsure of what to make of it the photography is awesome but then to paste the images all over workings im not sure about

http://vimeo.com/56719388

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simonrl
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12 years ago

As I understand it the images are designed to be very temporary. Nothing at all was painted directly onto the rock; and I seem to recall being told they were pasted up with a mixture of slate dust and water?

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by

Vanoord
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12 years ago

Well worth a watch! :thumbup:

There's a thread on here somewhere about the installation in Braich Goch - I believe the art can be removed quite easily.

Can anyone identify the untopping right at the start of the video? If it's been recently filmed, I suspect it's Maenofferen?

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

LeeW
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12 years ago

I liked it, some great pics as well.
It reminds me a little of some of the colliery painted memorials I see (have seen) on walls dotted around.
I don't see this as being any different to the 'old graffiti' on the walls etc. It's just folks expressing themselves. And as long as it's not destroying or harming anything; and it's not everywhere I can't see a problem.
I know I'm not from North Wales but locally where I live & travel I do see a number of new pit village memorials (usually winding wheels) going up quite alot; and usually the old mines there have been landscaped and you wouldn't know anything was there.

I like how they have shown photos of the people - it kind of reminds you that there was people working there, and generally people can more easily connect with other people (as opposed to buildings).

I see this has a different type of memorial which I like.
😉 :thumbsup:

I went in a mine once.... it was dark and scary..... full of weirdos

When do I get my soapbox, I need to rant on about some b***cks

DylanW
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12 years ago

Yep! David Jones Quarry! And my shot!

A sibrydodd yn welw ei wedd, rhowch garrag las ar fy medd, o chwaral y Penrhyn, lle''r euthym yn blentyn i''r gwaith.

Lister
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12 years ago

Absolutely fantastic. A lot of work has gone into that video & the result is just brilliant.

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Teigl
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12 years ago

Superb. A happy time can be had playing "spot the location" ...this has been a very worthwhile project.

If the phone didn''t ring, it was probably me.

dangerous dave
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12 years ago

I like the idea behind it and think it was quite good just was a little bit dubious after the whole debarcle with the guys spraying graff and claiming that was art last time

somersetminer
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12 years ago

liking that video a lot, have no problem with the pictures either, they are not etched on the walls and will weather eventually. nice to see the guys still doing the job being represented in this way, there tends to be a lot of hand wringing about how things are not done 'properly', the way the old men did it, anymore.

simonrl
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12 years ago

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"dangerous dave" wrote:
I like the idea behind it and think it was quite good just was a little bit dubious after the whole debarcle with the guys spraying graff and claiming that was art last time

Definitely hear what you're saying Dangerous, I was really annoyed at that spray can toting non-entity and his 'art' coming to Dinorwic :guns: :guns:

This is quite different though. And I think the images are really stunning.

As an aside, if Mark at Corris Mine Explorers was involved you can be 100% certain it was done with complete sympathy to the surrounding.

This is from his Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.454915334551477.100466.106431149399899&type=1

Quote:

They are big rolls of paper, in sections and go up just like putting up billboards. Using a paint roller this then builds up the picture. Because we have stuck them to the rock face with just slate dust and water no damage is done to the quarry. At anytime I can remove them with a hard brush but I hope you and others will like them.

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Strangely Brown
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12 years ago

#11

"DylanW" wrote:
Yep! David Jones Quarry! And my shot!

I noticed the secondary blast/shock to the left of the brown stuff, I assume shock travelling to a fissure in the rock at this point?

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

ICLOK
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12 years ago

#12

I think the whole thing was visually stunning... :thumbup:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!

viewer
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12 years ago

#13

beautifully shot film. Out walking last week i did wonder what the 'posters' were at Talysarn Hall, Dorothea and now it is clear.

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jaiyls
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12 years ago

#14

"DylanW" wrote:
Yep! David Jones Quarry! And my shot!

Shot?...f...ing shocking by the looks of it; mining corn flakes now are we eh? 😢

Have you got any blocks boy?

Vanoord
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12 years ago

#15

As of this morning, there's a BBC photo feature on this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21215559

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

scooptram
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12 years ago

#16

3 of the paintings are of blokes i used to work with at Llechwedd ahh good old days :thumbsup:

AndyC
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12 years ago

#17

"jaiyls" wrote:

"DylanW" wrote:
Yep! David Jones Quarry! And my shot!

Shot?...f...ing shocking by the looks of it; mining corn flakes now are we eh? ;(

I was wondering about that - I was at Talysarn Hall in the first week of December and did not see anything then. Either I was incredibly unobservant (not impossible, going on form) or they went up after then.

Been injured while at work and are not to blame?

Get over it.