Who really gives a crap about speaking to them, if they deface property we should deface their faces.
They're all dirty chavs and should be hung.
I bet your one of those weirdo people who like graffiti and think its art when actually its crap.
Grafitti on private properties
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Who really gives a crap about speaking to them, if they deface property we should deface their faces.
They're all dirty chavs and should be hung.
I bet your one of those weirdo people who like graffiti and think its art when actually its crap.
Well like everything else it's subjective.
To be honest, the writeup at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti is pretty good. A lot of people I 'know' think that anything outside fo the hiphop scene isn't graffiti and that anyone outside of it can't be a graffiti artist.
I'd say that anything thrown 'where it shouldn't be' is graffiti and that a graffiti artist is someone who does such acts.
You're welcome to try, ducky. Want me to email my address?
You couldn't be further from the truth. I'm simply someone who spends the occasional night with cans in his hands.
Edit: anyone who makes idiotic blanket statements such as Ken is only showing the restrictions of their own intellect.
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I'd never incriminate myself on a public forum. I'm smarter than that
I've got stuff in Edinburgh, Berwick, Bath, Tyne and Wear, Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Most big places in Yorkshire, Bristol, London, Brighton...
Some in the States and Australia too.
I personally think that tagging is pointless outside of the traditional 'territorial demarcation' realm.
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You might have to wait a very long time.
I hope you're not insinuating that dear Kenneth is all mouth and no trousers...
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So are you saying that because society doesnt except graffitti as an art form these 'yobs' as you put it are out of order?
Hmm ok, take the paint of em lads, lets get them back robbing cars and mugging old women
Jesus this is the 21st century people!
More the fact hes a long way from where you are, even smacking you wouldnt be worth taking a flight to do it
Pieces...Anything from three foot square up to the size of an artic trailer.
As for inspiration; I like to create.
If I'm feeling naughty, I'll spend a night jacking billboards. If I'm feeling profound, I'll create a philosophical piece. If I'm feeling 'arty', I'll do some wildstyle. If I'm feeling agit-*, I'll do something political.
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And robbi, you think that if you owned your own house (you might, I dunno) and it got 'tagged' by a load of 'lads' in Liverpool, it would be an honour to have art on your house? It would be ok, because they're only expressing themselves by defacing your property?
Your property= private property which therefore renders graffiti vandalism.
Not sure about public property, but graffiting on Nelson's Column or something like that would be unthinkable.
Penski, that's interesting. I'm wondering if that means that you're writing things in 'philosophical moods' slogans or something? Not sure how it would work otherwise. Would like to know what it actually entails to do it your way.
Your property= private property which therefore renders graffiti vandalism.
Not sure about public property, but graffiting on Nelson's Column or something like that would be unthinkable.
Penski, that's interesting. I'm wondering if that means that you're writing things in 'philosophical moods' slogans or something? Not sure how it would work otherwise. Would like to know what it actually entails to do it your way.
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More the fact hes a long way from where you are, even smacking you wouldnt be worth taking a flight to do it
My point is that every single person on these forums for as long as I can remember who has decried graffiti and tarred graffiti artists as 'scum', 'chavs' (which is the de-facto catch-all term on these forums for 'someone I don't like the look of' and you can probably count the correct usage of the term on these forums using the fingers of one hand
), 'yobs' and so on has neither met a graffiti artist, talked with one at length, seen anything being done or anything approaching that.Bunch of keyboard warriors spitting vitriol at something they know nothing about.
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I tend to agree with Penski, sometimes its annoying when people who are ill-informed shoot their mouths off to
1. amuse themselves
2. get a reaction
and so forth.
He makes a valid point, but in the eyes of the law it's hard to get away from the presentation they are given in society, especially in cities. And what with the 'gang culture' and 'teen violence' that we have at the moment, it does make it easier to muddle terms of many things in our society.
Best to be willing to hear people out first and then make your view, enlightened or not.
1. amuse themselves
2. get a reaction
and so forth.
He makes a valid point, but in the eyes of the law it's hard to get away from the presentation they are given in society, especially in cities. And what with the 'gang culture' and 'teen violence' that we have at the moment, it does make it easier to muddle terms of many things in our society.
Best to be willing to hear people out first and then make your view, enlightened or not.
Far from it. I firmly believe that in the right context, graffiti on such a prominent public monument is not only valid but downright essential.
Usually something to just make you think a bit more than 'Kev woz ere!'...I've done pieces based around George Berkeley's work on Immaterialism, Kant's schema and so forth. Not necissarily text work but often including it.
In terms of political stuff, there's an abattoir near Nottingham that has 'Kill, eat, exploit the weak' outside it in 4' high lettering on an oldschool cloud background.
Not saying it was anything to do with me, mind...Bloody hippies.
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As noted previously, I'm not putting pics of anything I've done on here. Hell, I could be talking complete crap and making all this up!
[/covering own back]'Political' work is usually billboard jacking or 'direct action' stuff. I was a lot more politically active when I was younger and held more vehemence for that which I held as 'true' than I do nowadays; I've chilled a lot, become a bit more apathetic and focus more on 'pretty colours and shapes' and 'stuff to make you think'.
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