What do you think of graffiti?

[Abaddon]

Indeed it is very sweet

 

[Lone Wolf]

Here's some graffiti that one of my friends saw on a trip to Souther Cali this Winter break:

These are OK, althrough I wouldn't even call it "grafitti".

yeah, but graffiti can really hardly be worse to look at than grey walls.

A bad painting can be worse then no painting at all. At least, the grey walls have a kind of solid, minimalist aestetics.

 

[Oruc]

To live in a society that will turn and attack racists if given a lead.

I know a few casual racists they never get attacked

 

[Abaddon]

I know a few casual racists they never get attacked

Has anyone taken the lead to do so? Why did you stay quiet about it?

 

[eastsidebagel]

In the vast majority of the cases I've seen,graffiti is "mild" vandalism. Opposed to this are of course the examples which Abaddon has shown, those are clearly art and make a house front or a boring blank wall much more appealing.

 

[Oruc]

Has anyone taken the lead to do so? Why did you stay quiet about it?

because they were my friends? and the others were my co-workers? and I usually joined in.

 

[Phlegmak]

Has anyone taken the lead to do so? Why did you stay quiet about it?

There is tons of racism in New Orleans. Should I have attacked every black person who said a harsh word to me or any other white person?

 

[Phlegmak]

Here's some graffiti that one of my friends saw on a trip to Souther Cali this Winter break:

Spoiler :

I mean, c'mon. That stuff is just cool.

Most of that's not graffiti. Those are murals. The only one that's questionable is the painting of the Rejected characters (spoon guy and banana).

 

[Abaddon]

There is tons of racism in New Orleans. Should I have attacked every black person who said a harsh word to me or any other white person?

Who said anything about physical attack? I will vocally disaprove if someone is. So far that has brought me nothing but respect for doing so. An I am not meaning attacking me, I am meaning just random comments, jokes etc.

Then again, im not in a college with a load of kids, so i kinda want to guide them out of it as they mature.

 

[Oruc]

Who said anything about physical attack? I will vocally disaprove if someone is. So far that has brought me nothing but respect for doing so.

Then again, im not in a college with a load of kids, so i kinda want to guide them out of it as they mature.

You mean you are in a college with loads of kids? College was the only place I've been in where casual racism was frowned upon by almost everybody (though I still managed to find the few nutjobs to hang out with)

 

[Abaddon]

They are a load of agrics... quite sheltered i think!! lol


Jus so everyone is sure, i'm 22, done uni, but now as a "mature" student am going to an agriculture college mostly populated by 16-18 year olds.

 

[holy king]

They are a load of agrics... quite sheltered i think!! lol


Jus so everyone is sure, i'm 22, done uni, but now as a "mature" student am going to an agriculture college mostly populated by 16-18 year olds.

that sounds incredibly fun.

 

[dojoboy]

I know it when I see it.

 

[Oruc]

They are a load of agrics... quite sheltered i think!! lol


Jus so everyone is sure, i'm 22, done uni, but now as a "mature" student am going to an agriculture college mostly populated by 16-18 year olds.

"This is a plough. This is a cow, you must milk it."

 

[RedRalph]

Banksy is a tossarse but I have no big problewm with graffiti in general. A lot worse things out there.

 

[Abaddon]

that sounds incredibly fun.

Like you wouldn't believe. Got to be careful tho.. its a live in college.. everything is a bit incestous and STI riddled!

"This is a plough. This is a cow, you must milk it."

Essentially, but obviously into a little bit more detail

 

[Samson]

Most of that's not graffiti. Those are murals. The only one that's questionable is the painting of the Rejected characters (spoon guy and banana).

What is the distinguishing factor? The permission, medium, style, quality or what?

 

[Newbunkle]

Graffiti is vandalism and ruins the living environment of everyone else. If someone wants to make something look like crap, they can do it to their own property. Leave other people's/the community's property alone.

 

[RedRalph]

Charlie Brooker on Banksy http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/sep/22/arts.visualarts

Here's a mystery for you. Renegade urban graffiti artist Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive proportions, yet he's often feted as a genius straddling the bleeding edge of now. Why? Because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots. And apparently that'll do.
Banksy first became famous for his stencilled subversions of pop-culture images; one showed John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson in a famous pose from Pulp Fiction, with their guns replaced by bananas. What did it mean? Something to do with the glamourisation of violence, yeah? Never mind. It looked cool. Most importantly, it was accompanied by the name "BANKSY" in huge letters, so everyone knew who'd done it. This, of course, is the real message behind all of Banksy's work, despite any appearances to the contrary.

Take his political stuff. One featured that Vietnamese girl who had her clothes napalmed off. Ho-hum, a familiar image, you think. I'll just be on my way to my 9 to 5 desk job, mindless drone that I am. Then, with an astonished lurch, you notice sly, subversive genius Banksy has stencilled Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald either side of her.

Wham! The message hits you like a lead bus: America ... um ... war ... er ... Disney ... and stuff. Wow. In an instant, your worldview changes forever. Your eyes are opened. Staggering away, mind blown, you flick v-signs at a Burger King on the way home. Nice one Banksy! You've shown us the truth, yeah?

As if that wasn't irritating enough, Banksy's vague, pseudo-subversive preaching is often accompanied by a downright embarrassing hardnut swagger. His website is full of advice to other would-be graffiti bores, like: "be aware that going on a mission drunk out of your head will result in some truly spectacular artwork and at least one night in the cells". Woah, man - the cells!

He goes on to explain that "real villains" think graffiti is pointless - not because he wants you to agree with them, but because he wants you to know he's mates with a few tough-guy criminal types. Coz Banksy's an anarchalist what don't respect no law, innit?

One of his most imbecilic daubings depicts a monkey wearing a sandwich board with "lying to the police is never wrong" written on it. So presumably Ian Huntley was right then, Banksy? You absolute thundering backside.

Recently, our hero's made headlines by sneaking a dummy dressed in Guantánamo rags into Disneyland (once again fearlessly exposing Mickey Mouse's disgusting war criminal past), and defacing several hundred copies of Paris Hilton's new album (I haven't heard her CD, but I'm willing to bet it's far superior to Blur's godawful Think Tank, a useless bumdrizzle of an album, whose artwork was done by Banksy - presumably he spray-painted it on a brick and hurled it through EMI's window, yeah?).

Right now you can see some of Banksy's life-altering acts of genius for yourself at his LA exhibition Barely Legal (yeah? Yeah!), including a live elephant painted to blend in with some gaudy wallpaper. This apparently represents "the big issues some people choose to ignore" - ie pretty much anything from global poverty to Aids. But not, presumably, the fat-arsed, berk-pleasing rubbishness of Banksy. We're all keeping schtum about that one.

 

[DaveShack]

I very much approve of the art style, approved by owners and the community.

We have a flower shop here that allowed some topical wall art on the building. Unfortunately for the owner, the city called it a "sign" that violated the signage ordinance, and tried to charge him a hefty fine.

The non-art tagger kind is just scribbling on walls the same as a toddler might do. I'd approve of punishing taggers like the small children they are.