This gentleman was born in Montreal after WWI, most likely to a working class English-speaking family on the Plateau. His life didn't amount to much and it ended up in 1985 but somewhere along the line he unknowingly left a legacy that just everybody in the world knows about today. Look closely at the face to see what it might evoke.Hint ... - he was close to "God" without ever even knowing it.
Hint 2- what is the name of the appendage in front of his belt and what kind of velocity adjective might you possibly describe it with?
Hint 3- the things behind his glasses became part of the planetary mass consciousness 13 years after he died.
AMSWER! Ginger nails it. It is indeed Edward Walter Fryer, the Montreal native who fathered legendary Eric Slowhand Clapton, who was famously dubbed God on perhaps the best-known graffiti ever. In 1998 Clapton wrote a song about the drifter musician father he never met In My Father's Eyes, (?) hence the refence in the hint. Well done to all those who tried and failed miserably but spectacularly to answer this.
Gaëtan Dugas?
ReplyDeleteNo, I see Dugas was a lot younger - born in 1953. No idea who, then.
ReplyDeleteAhhhh, gotta love the Direct Film birdie. I had forgotten all about it. Wasn't it on the walls of the metro between McGill and Peel or was that too short a distance to get enough speed. And on a similar but off-topic note, what was the story with the tunnel walls Snowdon. They always looked like they were about to be finished but never did.
ReplyDeleteThere used to be artwork on the Snowdon tunnel walls opposite the platforms. They were soft blurry expressionistic pieces on the theme of the seasons, but they were defaced with graffiti and have been taken down. I don't know whether there are any plans to replace them or put up something else more resistant to graffiti.
ReplyDeleteThe “artwork that used to be on the Snowdon tunnel walls” is being restored, after being vandalized for 20 years.
ReplyDeleteA portion of it is already back in place, on the line 5 lower platform.
(This is the longest artwork in the Métro, totalling 2000 feet long).
Eric Clapton's dad?
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