Who is it?
as i said, its a turing test
looks sorta similar MO to this picture
I don’t think you know what a Turing test is
i dont, im a robot
I think that was famously compiled from children’s handprints or somesuch was it not?
I’ll go and photograph the mural of AT and post it.
Story is, I’ve got a great pal, one of my best, lives across the road. He grew up in children’s homes in Manchester, but has made a very good life for himself as a largely commercial property developer. He has a reputation for being hard nosed, but he would do absolutely anything for his friends. His employees love him.
Anyhow, when the mural first went up about a year ago, on an old small building beside princess parkway, we were in the pub. I never found much in Manchester to be proud of, in truth, its a bit grim and gritty, though I’ve been very fortunate with friends here, but it was the first thing I had seen in 15 years that gave me a glimmer of pride in the place.
I told him this, and what a fantastic piece of work it was, and told him it reminded me in some ways of living in Glasgow, where, beside the M8 was an old gas tank, one of the vast round ones which you still see occasionally, as they are often listed. This one had “Glasgow’s Miles Better” blazoned across it. I absolutely loved Glasgow, I still do, I loved living there, loved the city and the people and was proud to be a glaswegian, and it always raised my spirits seeing it driving home.
He half smiled and half grimaced
“I knew” he said “as soon as I saw it that this would fucking happen”.
He went on to tell me that he had bought the building for cash on a whim, an old toilet block, and within a month of cleaning it up, had been offered, quite literally 25 times what he had paid for it by an advertising hoarding company, due to its location. He wanted to sell, but he had a business partner of sorts at the time, who told him to ask for twice that, and as a result of this greed on your man’s part, the deal fell through.
Now at the time, he had a lady worked with him for years, who had been a council planner and became a gamekeeper turned poacher, who advised him on all his planning applications. She is a really nice lady, with a gent of a husband, who I’d often have a chat with in the pub. About three years prior to this, they got up in the morning and found their only child, a twenty year old lad dead in their porch. He’d come in from a night out, collapsed at the door, and lay there all night til they found him. You can only begin to imagine the impact this must have had, and still has, but they continue to drag themselves on.
Since then, every penny she makes, she puts into a foundation that she founded which funds murals in his memory, of which there are about ten huge ones around the city, all different artists, and, bizarrely, not a single one has ever been defaced.
In any case, she was working with my pal for years, and asked him could she put a mural up on the building whilst he was deciding what to do with it.
(He told me that as soon as he saw it, he knew it was too good to deface, tear down, or cover over, and funnily enough, says that whilst I was the first to say it, loads of people have said it since).
So, back in the pub that night, he told me the story, and ruefully said “that fucking painting is going to cost me a fortune”.
But you know, I don’t think he’d change any of it now, bar the tragedy that inspired it.
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it was indeed, there was ironically murder over it when it was first displayed
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So is it a mural of your mate?
yuore now giving barns as wedding presents?
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Would you not just have got a tattoo of it, on your neck?
I don’t have a big thick neck like the side of a jax or a tyrone footballer.
Looks nothing like him in when you see it, though I can see why you might think so from the photo.
Mr bean looks more like Adam Johnson
He’s a ringer for Adam Johnson. It’s kind of creepy that anyone would paint such a likeness to Adam Johnson on a wall.
I was nearly in tears reading that.
big time , people dropping their kids over for a sleepover and flatty has a massive picture of adam Johnston above the fireplace
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Who’s adam Johnston mate?
And I had you down as a hard hearted ex communist.
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Why are you so vexed by all this mate?