1000

Well, as so many others have said, I never expected to get to 1000 consecutive blips. Doesn't time fly! The process has really affected the way I both view the world and my photography.

Whether you like my pictures or not, the one thing that I hope that I have really been able to do is to open other people's eyes to graffiti and street art that they perhaps were not aware of before - or maybe they did see it but just dismissed it as mindless vandalism. It may be vandalism, but it's certainly not mindless!

Some people don't like tagging and make a distinction between that and pretty much everything else. Personally I've seen plenty of tags that are way more thought out than some (rather pretentious) street art, and I tend to think that I'd even rather see a crappy tag than a plain grey wall any day of the week. I've tried to show a real mixture of both street art and graffiti from right across the spectrum - because it really is more of a continuum without borders than many of the protaganists like to admit.

I was talking to a well-known graffiti artist once about a throw of theirs on a roof top that I'd seen and they were a bit embarrassed about how rough the piece was, but they made the point that sometimes it's not about the skill it's about the spot. The thing that makes good street art and graffiti for me is more than technique, it's about being free - going to places you're told not to go and doing things you're told not to do.

Anyway, thanks to everyone for looking in at my pictures. I'm going to try to keep on blipping interesting pictures if you can try to pop in and have a look at them from time to time.