Thursday 11 July 2019

The Many Murals In Ipoh

Murals seem to be all the rage in Malaysia, a requirement if you want your city to appear hip to tourists and cool to the kids. What you got, Ipoh?

Some sort of kid, animal mashup. Chicken riding a cow, sure.


A modern design, including painting the blocks and utility lines. Whoa, 3D. Bruce Lee, curiously long, bulky neck. Foreground bear aliens. OK.

Imitation and commerce creeping in. An Ernest Zacharevic rip-off and an Uber delivery service plug. Blue sack to be replaced with a 4pak Starbucks tray of lattes soon. 


Hinting at propoganda, kids joyfully playing while adults tap rubber trees and a smiling field worker. Insert hammer and sickle here.

Curious mural that's an ode to family. Evidently, smelling hands and rubbing feet are ultimate homages.


Up with cute youth, whether on a team of looking like adorable cartoon kids.

Clowntime is over. A damning portrait of the now defeated and disgraced former prime minister, Najib Razak. Boo hoo. 


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