Graffiti? How do you see it? - Page 5

On December 24 2008 11:02 XDawn wrote:


and lots of money LOL

On December 24 2008 18:55 Bockit wrote:
I did a 3 minute film montage on graffiti in Sydney with a friend for one of my electives. I've always appreciated awesome graffiti and this just reinforced it for me. I have a bunch of pictures on my other comp I can probably upload some later (None of this is my work, just stuff I took). You'll find some suburbs will embrace graffiti, like, it seemed as if they were aiming in this one place to have every street lined with graffiti and they were systematically working through all possible walls.

If I was to draw a stereotype, it's the suburbs where musos, uni students just getting by and generally artsy/alternate people live where graffiti seems to be the most prevalent/accepted (at least in Sydney).

I make the distinction between graffiti art and tagging. Tagging I have an issue with because I don't see it as artful really.. it's just spraying a signature on something and it usually looks like crap (Maybe you guys have a different definition to me). I can accept the idea that all the artists start as taggers, but I wonder if it's not possible to train up on legal walls, if your'e willing to have your stuff covered over pretty quickly I don't get why this wouldn't work. Unless you don't have many legal places to do it, I know Sydney has a fair few.

I also think graffiti-ing highway signs, as in the ones which tell people what lanes they need to be in to go to their destination has a degree of malevolence that's not really necessary. There are hundreds of other places you could be doing it.

On December 24 2008 18:55 Bockit wrote:
I did a 3 minute film montage on graffiti in Sydney with a friend for one of my electives. I've always appreciated awesome graffiti and this just reinforced it for me. I have a bunch of pictures on my other comp I can probably upload some later (None of this is my work, just stuff I took). You'll find some suburbs will embrace graffiti, like, it seemed as if they were aiming in this one place to have every street lined with graffiti and they were systematically working through all possible walls.

If I was to draw a stereotype, it's the suburbs where musos, uni students just getting by and generally artsy/alternate people live where graffiti seems to be the most prevalent/accepted (at least in Sydney).

I make the distinction between graffiti art and tagging. Tagging I have an issue with because I don't see it as artful really.. it's just spraying a signature on something and it usually looks like crap (Maybe you guys have a different definition to me). I can accept the idea that all the artists start as taggers, but I wonder if it's not possible to train up on legal walls, if your'e willing to have your stuff covered over pretty quickly I don't get why this wouldn't work. Unless you don't have many legal places to do it, I know Sydney has a fair few.

I also think graffiti-ing highway signs, as in the ones which tell people what lanes they need to be in to go to their destination has a degree of malevolence that's not really necessary. There are hundreds of other places you could be doing it.

On December 25 2008 01:41 ShoCkeyy wrote:


The highway sign thing is just a way to get your name out in the graffiti scene. When people hear about you doing that, it's just like a way that you earn respect because you really risked a lot just to do it.

On December 25 2008 01:55 inReacH wrote:


Do it on a fucking police stations door or something, a highway sign means you are literally fucking over potentially thousands of people.

Your the one who doesn't understand, not the other way around.

Highway sign is one of the worst places I can think of doing it, it's worse than someones car.

On December 19 2008 13:11 ilistis wrote:


Exactly. I don't know why adults associate graffiti with hoodlums. Hoodlums don't even get close to doing anything creative except their gang name...lame.

On December 25 2008 01:41 ShoCkeyy wrote:

The highway sign thing is just a way to get your name out in the graffiti scene. When people hear about you doing that, it's just like a way that you earn respect because you really risked a lot just to do it.

On December 26 2008 00:33 .MistiK wrote:


you should all just play MMORPGs. you become the highest level player with the best equipment to get your name out on the rankings. when people hear about you doing that, it's just like a way that you earn respect because you really wasted a lot of time just to get there.

On December 23 2008 17:42 CharlieMurphy wrote:

you think people can just come out and throw down some crazy shit like that? They have to learn somehow/somewhere. You can't say you like 'good' graffiti and then say you hate 'tagger' graffiti. Everyone of those pieces' artists started as a tagger. Its either you like it or you don't. You gotta take the good with the bad or nothing at all.

On December 26 2008 14:21 ShoCkeyy wrote:


Lol but in mmorpgs you dont leave a mark in society like you do with graffiti, that and you actually make a living off graffiti.

On December 26 2008 14:49 LosingID8 wrote:

i find this a very very weak argument. they could have practiced on the side of their house over and over if they wanted to get "better".

btw i know you were referring to tagger vs amazing stuff, but i mean just in general, when people say "you have to start small and tag everywhere etc etc" that's just a really lame and weak excuse.

On December 24 2008 14:27 ShoCkeyy wrote:


AND I was trying to show you guys the way we see it, but everyone is pretty stubborn.

On December 26 2008 16:05 ShoCkeyy wrote:


ACtually the side of your house isn't the same at all. Especially in big cities, like in miami. No one owns a house here anymore, so they can't really do it.

OH and another time I was in walgreens, I was like 8yrs old at the time pokemon came out. They had like 13packs there and I grabbed them all and went and opened them while I was walking and stuffed them into my pocket then i dropped all the packets and started walking out...

people go and beat on homeless all the time lol...we usually buy sokkum boppers or w/e they're called and beat them with that :O and late at night we use eggs. but i havent done this since i got caught by police....but we did it to bums we knew so we never really got into much trouble ;o also like i understand doing what i do it doesnt really hurt them O-o...they usually eat the eggs we throw...but still beating them with rocks and bats and shit