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Stop 1 - A Chanel Bag
ACDC Lane is a great environment for experiencing street art and the radical nature it encompasses. While walking through this laneway, keep an eye out for an item that looks slightly out of place. A white item resting on a window ledge. At first…
Starter
STARTER - Mario Café
[stage 1: A rejected culture]
We start with the starter from the Mario cafe, which is founded in 1986 by two Italian-Australians. This is also one of the very first cafés opened in Fitzroy where many artists would like to…
Refreshment
Refreshment: The Easey’s
[stage 4: a combination]
Here comes to our final stop: The Easey’s, which subverts the tradition concept of a restaurant. You will never see these things anywhere else: Electronic gamer as tables, Train timetable as menu,…
Dessert
Dessert: The Grace Café
[stage 3: important culture icon, part of live]
After filling up your belly with premium Wagyu beef burger, lets go for something sweet. We can walk through the rose street car park where all street art activities are…
Main Dish
Main Course: Brother’s Burger
[stage 2: Commercial development]
After finishing the starter and walking along Brunswick street, we are able to see the iconic Smug’s mural. This piece of work used to appear on the front page of Age due to the…
Final Stop: Croft Alley
With courage and strength, Mike, Sully and Barry were ready to face their fears and rescue the princess. They marched upon the dingy cave in which the princess was held captive, its high walls enclosing and frightening. The wicked enchantress’ eyes…
Fourth Stop: Heffernan Lane
Quickly their vain hope for further prophesies grew tiresome, as, worn out and devoid of hope, the trio began to doubt their ability. It seemed as though no matter what they did, they could not progress, the buildings grew taller, and their courage…
Third Stop: Literature Lane
The Oracle of Eilidh was not only the sole keeper of wisdom and knowledge, but her powers were limitless when it came to helping those with a worthy cause. After a long search, the trio finally found her, hidden, etched into the buildings around her,…
Second Stop: Niagara Lane
After a long and difficult trek, Mike, Sully and Barry found their first clue: a puzzle which, in order to find the Oracle, the trio first had to solve. After looking at the sets of images, our heroes were forced to decipher what the images meant.…
Anahata
This is an amateur figure painting of a girl in the yogic position called “Camel Pose”. The shading on her is slightly confusing and underdeveloped, but I enjoy the shape of her. I enjoy large-scale figures because I feel like it makes graffiti more…