Graffiti? How do you see it? - Page 6

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.