Can someone explain to me why public/private property gets covered with graffiti? Riding to work, I see signs, fences, retaining walls, homes and businesses with spray-painted sheeite on them. A few people were cleaning or repainting over the damage every week only to have the same moron paint the shit on again. To me, that is a total lack of respect. A girl I know had her business vandalized and she compared it to an assault. She was so sick of it that she dreaded arriving to work in the morning and see what else had been done. I don’t understand it. What kind of fucking idiots go around town with a spraycan and do this?
This article appears in Nov 20-26, 2008.
The same kind of dolts who do that in every city.
Those so-called retards who tag everything with their black spray paint are useless little shits with nothing better to do. They know that there are no consequences if they get caught. Earlier today, when I was on the bus, I saw one of those electrical boxes done over with nice artwork ruined by some brain-dead with a black spray paint can. Maybe this little creep should cover his or her own ugly face with the black paint. Who knows, but it might be an improvement.
That is a shame these tagging little pricks have no limits. This in reference to those nicely painted electrical boxes, peoples houses and cars, their property in general. Some people are not happy until everyone is sad. I say we start a youth euthanasia program and then move on to other useless fuckers of society. Too many bleeding hearted liberals around for that kind of forward thinking progress.
I agree that there’s a lot of shit graffiti in this city, but there’s also a lot of good artwork that under the technical definition would be considered graffiti. I’ve got to wonder how many of you have seen the areas with good graffiti, mainly because it is out of the way, and there’s good reason for this. If it were in plain sight it would be dismissed as filth the same way the bad stuff is. Keep in mind that Michelangelo didn’t have permission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine chapel, and Kip, consider this, the world record for the longest piece of graffiti is held by Chairman Mao, you really want to fuck with someone like that?
There is no such thing as good grafitti.
I agree, TA. There is some amazing artwork masquerading as graffiti. But I wonder if these graffiti artists would even be interested in a more mainstream venue. Part of the artistic statement is the reclaiming of a bit of space that would otherwise be as barren and ugly as the rest of the urban jungle. But this phenomenon of “tagging” is really pathetic. It’s not art. I wouldn’t even call it vandalism. It’s nothing more than litter. No artistic merit. No statement. No value. I think for the taggers, it’s a desperate grasp at a little piece of immortality. They’ll feel like they’ll never accomplish or create anything that people will remember as important or valuable. The best they can do is scrawl a semi-legible nickname on a lamp post. That’s what they hope to be remembered by. They are more to be pitied than scorned.
Funny, comments aren’t displaying in order.T.A., it’s not my responsibility to find sources for your claim. Prove it yourself, I’ll stick with the several sources that back me up until you do.
Rofl, Michelangelo was commissioned by the Pope to paint the Sistine Chapel. Pretty sure he didn’t sneak in in the wee hours and do it.I miss the graffiti(the good stuff, FUCK taggers) downtown. They should have taken that pit on Barrington and turned it into an outdoor graffiti gallery instead of a damn parking lot.
Keith, I disagree.Miranda, I agree.SwampDonkey, do some research in materials that weren’t printed by the catholic church fifty years after the painting of the Sistine Chapel.
For the record, it’s the “tagging” that pisses me off. I saw the tennis court wall at the Commons and I don’t mind that (as long as the use of the wall was authorized): someone took time and put some effort to create something. Tagging is just something that little morons do to deface property: I saw a bitch today on the Coberg Coffee that illustrates this.