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sl8

(13,736 posts)
Sat May 6, 2017, 08:55 AM May 2017

Moscow's grimy trucks inspire street art


In this photo taken on Saturday, April 22, 2017, a drawing of an angler is made on a muddy back of a truck by artist Nikita Golubev in Moscow, Russia. The grimy trucks traversing the polluted and dusty streets of Moscow have inspired Golubev to use white vans and trucks as his canvas to create this ephemeral street art and signs his drawings Pro Boy Nick.(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)


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AP PHOTOS: Moscow's grimy trucks inspire street art
Published on April 28, 2017 5:10AM

MOSCOW (AP) — The grimy trucks traversing the polluted and dusty streets of Moscow have inspired a new kind of street art in Russia's capital.

When Nikita Golubev sees a dirty white truck or van he uses it as a canvas for his drawings.

With his gloved hand, he draws giant pigeons on the back of a delivery truck.

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But none of it lasts.

"Everything is washed away with the first rain," Golubev says. "It goes away and nothing remains."

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Moscow's grimy trucks inspire street art (Original Post) sl8 May 2017 OP
Russia has better roads than the US. putitinD May 2017 #1
And now they're pulling ahead, with regards to grimy trucks. sl8 May 2017 #2

sl8

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2. And now they're pulling ahead, with regards to grimy trucks.
Sat May 6, 2017, 02:12 PM
May 2017

Time for our creative types to get their asses in gear, methinks.

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