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Show me your (legal?) graffiti
RockabillyLove:
It's not really the hippies spraying the "Stop World Trade" etc. It's the wanna be anarcho-punks that feel the need to express their views via something no one cares about. I dunno, I like in Detroit and we have a lot of "stop Whitey" tags. Anyway...
Stenciled
Runs_With_Scissors:
I hate when the gangs decide to do it all over peoples fences. Then there is the massive crackdown on graffiti and the real artists have to pay for the stupidity of others. Though we don't have any real stuff here, except for a couple tags here and there. Maybe a stencil. But still our newspaper feels the need to print an article about Anchorage's graffiti problem. They never really specify that it's GANG graffiti, random words scrawled across walls in neighborhoods etc. Then there are the kids that decide it would be funny to put 'FUCK' up on the side of someone's house or garage.
It bugs me a little.
ampersandwitch:
Wait, I am confused right now. So certain people are not allowed to post graffiti if it is not "artsy" enough? Freedom of speech only really applies if it is not "gang language?" To most people graffiti is a blight no matter what - it doesn't matter if it's a cute little whimsical penguin on a brick wall or just a random words. In fact, the motive really doesn't matter to most people - art is such a subjective concept anyway. Like maybe the "fuck" is some sort of avant garde art that you simply aren't getting. Maybe the "hammertime" on the stop sign that has been heralded as "sick" (in the good way!) is actually a defacement of federal property.
By the way, some asshole went crazy with his poorly made "hammertime" stencil in my old town. I am bored of "hammertime" on stop signs by now.
Hula hoops on the pedestrian crossing sign people are still hilarious, however.
Runs_With_Scissors:
I can see where you are coming from, but I still believe there is a difference between the artists who plan out pieces and such, and the gang members who feel they need to 'mark their territory' (which usually ends up with another gang writing over the other gangs sign etc. etc.).
And if you like the pedestrian walker people, take a look at these guys: http://www.thundercut.com/main/index.php?category=outside
Bishop138:
Ok, this is just begging for me to introduce you lot to the concept that is Hobbit Motherfuckers.
Particularly around where we live there are a whole bunch of teenagers that think they're radcore by tagging up peoples property and such, and just generally doing a messy and most of the time (unless you know what the "gangs" are) unreadable.
Enter Hobbit Motherfuckers.
A couple of mates, which then evolved into a fair amount of people, say seven or eight, were involved, but mainly it's been from a couple of people, I had my small turn in it, but I just didn't have the time or supplies, well they had this idea, it was taken from a Turbonegro song, and the names for each person involved were generally somewhat linked to Turbonegro songs as well. Anyway!
Hobbit Motherfuckers isn't the name of any group or gang, it was what it was all behind, it's hard to explain, but what it is right, is that it's calling whoever reads it a Hobbit Motherfucker, unless you can see sence in what the messages are. There were various messages, all generally centered around pointing out the decline of the youth status, such messages as "My generation sucks." "Tagging is idiotic, no one thinks you're cool." Random things like that, that's just basic, there would be various things like the writing of damn essays. It went on and it was all completely cynical. You must understand it's VERY hard to explain the concept properly without showing proper examples. But other things that were a part of this were during bulk rubbish collection (don't know who else has this, it's when you put out things too big for general rubbish collection, and they get taken away) well they ended up getting a couple of couches, an old worn out TV, some random other things, put it in the middle of an oval at the park and then wrote a sign saying "Free range old folks home." There are some random funny things that were associated with it. But there were rules as well. NEVER tag people's property, only public, and if it was in an area frequented by children then the words would be censored. Just general stuff like that.
Ah, that's the best you're going to get out of me at a quater to midnight.
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