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If you're American, you won't know what irony is.
Well, you might know that it's like bronzey and goldy but made of
iron. However, the irony I'm on about is something slightly
different. Irony is my entry for Men In Hats on my
links page. I've been to lazy to
update it to say that Aaron Farber does actually update more
regularly now. Ahh well, hopefully he'll forgive me when he
sees what me and some of my cronies done. Over 3 days in the Easter
holidays of 2004, myself, Paul
Ferguson, Duncan Oag and Peter Bell painted the most fantabulous
sight you ever did or did not see. A Men In Hats mural which, quite
simply, was perfect. Below are photos taken during the process of
painting the mural, as well as pictures of the completed beauty. All
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Day 1 |
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Duncan Oag on the morning of the first day of
painting, looking ready |
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| Duncan looking surprised next to
some stepladders on the first day of painting |
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| Paul
Ferguson and Peter Bell filling in some white gaps Duncan
missed |
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| The bottom half of
Paul, the bottom 90% of Peter
and me, having rushed in to be in a photo |
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| Duncan's bottom, with a smiley face
we painted on it you can't actually make out |
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| Paul drawing the first sketch of
Aram on the wall, with Gamal next to him |
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| Duncan painting Gamal's tie |
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| Duncan being prodded with a stick |
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| The summation of the first day's
work |
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Day 2 |
| Duncan working on Sam, while
Paul and Peter work on Mayor
Jeb |
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| Peter's eye |
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| Duncan painting some of Aram |
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Paul painting Beriah |
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| Mayor Jeb |
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| Jeriah |
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| Gamal, Duncan and Aram |
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| Me appearing to be painting my
nails with Beriah, Sam and Mayor Jeb in the background |
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| God bless
Paul's photography....
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| Aram's head... |
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| Beriah and Sam |
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| Gamal and Aram |
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| Duncan's penis extension. I mean
camera |
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Intermission |
| Some sort of weird goose I took a
good photo of... |
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Day 3 |
| The team, with a piece of paper
standing in for Duncan who was revising that day |
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| Beriah and Sam, completed (pretty
much) |
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| Mayor Jeb, completed |
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| Peter,
Paul and Duncan's Stand in |
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| Duncan's stand in stuck to the wall |
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| The credits... |
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| Red paint (sorry, blood) scraped
down the wall by a ghostly hand (Paul's) |
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Paul's name-brick |
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| The mess we left in our wake |
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| The Mayor and Jeriah |
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| Sam |
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| A sign telling you to use on
electrical fires (memo to self: never lend
Paul your camera again) |
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| Duncan (who turned up to collect
his brother's sheet when the painting was done... Lazy bugger) and
Jeriah |
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| A better photo of the credits (I
took it.) |
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| Duncan leaving before we asked him
to help tidy up. |
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The end |
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