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Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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so what do people think about it? im not talkin stupid shite scribbled on a bus stop by 11 year olds but nice bright colourful stuff

some people seem dead against it.. me? i love it.. really think its brings a bit of character to a city filled with ugly uniform buildings !

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Love it.

    My cities full of Banksy stuff and its great :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    banksys stuff is amazing! wish we'd a banksy over here!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yeah I do like it.
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    If it's done on a blank wall, :thumb:
    If it's done to cover something that the painter doesn't agree with, :no:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote: »
    If it's done to cover something that the painter doesn't agree with, :no:

    such as?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i dont agree with the approch some take to show it off, but do i like it, hell yeah
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The proper stuff I like.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I agree, I like it on a blank wall but not somewhere which is inappropiate e.g wall on someones flat, childrens playpark etc. Some people just get carried away but generally talking the big spray painted stuff is a form of art imo!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    z- wrote: »
    banksys stuff is amazing! wish we'd a banksy over here!

    No, but you get the mural paintings in Belfast, which are actually quite artistic and good to look at. You can get tours to see alot of them I think, because they're entrenched in the history of the city. I like the more recent non-paramilitary ones commemorating George Best etc.
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    z- wrote: »
    such as?
    Like when they draw over a poster or another graffiti, either because they don't like it or because they don't care. Blank walls do exist, use them!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote: »
    Like when they draw over a poster or another graffiti, either because they don't like it or because they don't care. Blank walls do exist, use them!

    only so many blank walls exsist in safe places to paint :P

    and you'll find that most writers will respect a fresh piece, but to throw something up on a wall and expect it to last indefinitely is stupid!
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    z- wrote: »
    only so many blank walls exsist in safe places to paint :P

    and you'll find that most writers will respect a fresh piece, but to throw something up on a wall and expect it to last indefinitely is stupid!
    I don't. And it's not only the blank walls issue either. Simply, they should avoid covering something else (not talking about graffitis now), especially if it's something new. If I'd spent my day putting up posters on a wall (because it was my job or because they were about something I felt strongly about) I'd be vomiting lava if the next day it was all covered in graffiti.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    yea, the taggers and bombers are just giving sprayers a bad name.
    a real piece is art,... we have a legal wall near my place. There is so awesome work on it.

    I love it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Quite a lot of my friends do graff and I heart it
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    StrubbleS wrote: »
    yea, the taggers and bombers are just giving sprayers a bad name.
    a real piece is art,... we have a legal wall near my place. There is so awesome work on it.

    I love it.


    bombs n tags can still be nice :yes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I love it when you see good stuff, in singapore i think they paid a group of graffiti artists to spray the entire museum building and it looks amaaazing. I wish i took pics
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think the vast majority is tagging shite and probably 1% of the people who vandelise property are actually artists.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bristol (and especially down by my end of town) is full of great graf; I think it's wonderful. It adds character and life to what would otherwise be a pretty ugly area and some of it is really topical and expresses community feeling.

    As for covering up posters etc., I disagree with most of it but I think a lot of subverts are awesome - i love seeing them on billboards

    http://web.onetel.net.uk/~jeffbr/subverts.htm
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There is some really impressive around.

    Did anyone see that faking it, where they had some accountant or something who had to become a graffiti artist? It was pretty good.
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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,286 Skive's The Limit
    I used to do some taggin. It's where the name Skive came from. Grew out that shit though and wasn't good enough to do it for art.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I love it, theres quite a few talented people round these parts so theres quite a bit of decent stuff to look at :thumb:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Love it...think the good stuff is real art!! :yes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i think that some of it looks dead good but then theres other mindless stuff that people do that looks a bit crap
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The proper stuff is good.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Aye I think it's class.

    Some of the murals in Belfast are amazing to look at, even though they do glorify death and shit like that.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yeah I think it's great. There's some really political and good stuff on what's left of the Berlin wall.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Barcelona has some good graff

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    As ever, I make a difference between graffiti and tagging.

    As far as I'm concerned the former can have artistic merit, redeeming features and it is not always an eyesore.

    There is only one answer to the problem of tagging however:




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    * ;) at seeker *
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I like Futura 2000, one of my fave artists. All the down with taggers stuff does my head in though.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    In fact, the Spanish are quite good at graff. Here's some from Granada

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