incedably inventive graffiti

Bit of a tenuous link here but here we go,
Here in sunny Maidenhead we have an estate named THE BOMBER estate, Halifax road, Lancaster road etc(you get the drift!), people are now asking for the name to be changed because a bunch of kids calling themselves The Bomber Boys are spraying all over town.
This is an option that the town council are currently thinking about.
There is a debate on Maidenhead Advertiser Forum at the moment.
Dont let these vandals get away with it.
Dean
www.onebigworld.fotopic.net

Though I generally abhor grafitti and the idiots who create it, I have to admit that there is the occassional piece that is classic. One that Billy Connolly pointed out as being so clever he used to visit it on every trip back to Wellington, NZ till it was recently demolished with the wall it was painted on, which read,

“You can always tell and Australian. But you can’t tell him much!”

The irresponsible scamps should be locked up, that is after they’ve been made to clean up their handiwork

Do these “artists” actually buy the paint they use?

My only regrets with those who spray graffitis is that the spraycans don’t explode in front of their faces, nicely coloring their faces for… say 2 weeks ?

well i have always considered art as an objective product filtered by subjective mind, born in individual mind out of influence of collective surrounding. Its a way to stimulate objectivines out of subjective creation, thus needing this objective point of wiev to be evaluted and critised

Very well said, Golly:D

Spraying paint all over someone else’s property without their permission is criminal damage – “subjective creation” be damned! 😀

well i have always considered art as an objective product filtered by subjective mind, born in individual mind out of influence of collective surrounding. Its a way to stimulate objectivines out of subjective creation, thus needing this objective point of wiev to be evaluted and critised

Gollevainen.

By its very nature, art cannot be anything but subjective, thereby defeating the gist of your last comment.

regards,

kev35

well then i would propaply show them some rebelion of my own style… :diablo:

but we cannot condemn art by our subjective feelings.

Thougth I have never painted any, i strongly support everybodys rigth to resist and rebel

Would you still hold that view if someone exercised their “right to resist and rebel” all over YOUR wall? 🙂

A new sort of grafitti appreard in my street. A nitwit laid down on the street (on a freshly painted pedestrian crossing), traced the body contours, and then painted that outline with aerosols, as if a person got killed there.
Too bad no car passed there…

I have seen some acceptable grafitti,made on purposedly placed surfaces, along a factory’s 500 metre long brick wall, which was actually improving the place and avoided senseless “tagging” of gang names, but apart of that, this should be severely punished.

I suppose their authors need this to mark their territory, a bit the way dogs do it.

And for the record, I had to earse one made on my house on Saturday. The tag is gone, BUT instead I now have a huge pink square. SO, I’ll have to repaint the wall.

when art beguns to follow lame laws and rule set by corrupted and banale middle class, it loses its all purpose as a true mouth horn of the surrounding enverioments psyke. graffitis are social phenemmenon rising from varios clashes of societyes horizontal levels, and by being truely honest and naive, whitout too much of dogmas or rules, its one of the most important artform in modern world.

Thougth I have never painted any, i strongly support everybodys rigth to resist and rebel :diablo: :diablo:

Makes me wonder, why not put that talent to some good use? :rolleyes:

fair comment on the graffiti and of course you are right, but some of his oil painting work and drawings are quite inspired…

Vandalism by some inane ar*ehole who has a minor talent for art but a huge one for publicity. He should be charged for its removal and jailed for putting it there in the first place.

Holty, why does it not surprise me that you find his work ‘to(o) clever’? It’s absolute crap and I agree with Grey Area. It’s the support of the mindless minority that make graffiti artists feel they are something special when all they are is criminals.

Regards,

kev35

It’s not art, it’s vandalism.

IMHO, of course.

I went to london yesterday for the first time for ages, and just about every surface seemed to have been scribbled-on by some aerosol toting moron.. no I’m not keen either.. 😀 :rolleyes:

Neil

It’s not art, it’s vandalism.

IMHO, of course.