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um, well jay leno too, rachel maddow, jon stewart, sarah palin, and all the other douchebag newsdorks. actually, cancel that first paragraph. these media doushebag artists are the more immanent threat.
Most taggers put their tags on top of someone else's art - mural or building - because they think they're entitled to 15 hours of fame like most reality TV stars.
Sadly, some rags even laud them as "artists" - but we all know who those people are ...
@5, agreed. I suppose if Seattle suffered a terrible enough natural disaster coupled with political ineptitude and malice, Banksy might stop by. Hardly seems worth it, though...
The appeal (to some) is that It sticks a thumb in the eye of "the man" and his property. Not surprisingly, most who support graffiti are property-deficient.
what is that, 12 feet high? taller? 20 feet?
this is also about visibility. how many people will see that?
kill yr televison
hit it right on the head.
and for the rest, get over it, graffiti isn't going away anytime soon.
Yeah. That.
@ 14:
That, too!
Kill your television, ditch the car?
And of course, again, there's Banksy, whose work raises property values. Obviously, he's a rare exception, but I do find it amusing.
I'm sad I don't have a picture of the brilliance.
stencil said: "Fight for Beauty"
and below, in paint pen:
"& the Beast"
internet FTW
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aimeedars/2…
/sarcasm
Uptight Seattlelites. You're city's awesome, it's just too bad that lame asses like you ruin it.
I'm glad it worked in Eureka, and I'm pretty sure Seattle has something similar in SODO. After designating a wall to graffiti, incidents of graffiti in the immediate vicinity skyrocketed.
basically, I'm saying, someone did tag my fence recently & I will still <3 black people, even if one of them happens to punch me someday. Actions of one does not equal actions of all.
and therefore completely pointless in addition to being ugly, trite, and derivative.
Ditto for any unwanted paint on private property.
Graffiti art on public property makes me happy, though. I love the clever little cartoons, the stencils, the big commissioned walls...it's part of the fun of living in a city.
There is some really nice artwork in the busway there, and it's my understanding that it began without official sanction, just some folks taking it upon themselves to art up the place.
Conversely, Georgetown has been hit this week with a rash of ugly, stupid, destructive not-even-tagging. Kids will be kids. shrug
Banksy, however. Now, there is a true artiste. I actually have plans to get a Banksy tattoo.
Charles, if your rosy Marxist glasses allow you to look at this and see something along the lines of "Cool, urban warrior! Stick it to the man, yeah!", then you're just being dumb. As 16 said, there's a whole lot more people gonna be 'stuck' through this intensely juvenile action.
Banksy, though. How gauche.
K.ill Y.our T.elevision