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Graffiti as seen by the public
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Urban dwellers are familiar with street graffiti, paintings by youngsters with free time. Then there's the professional graffiti artists, like Banksy, who do it for aesthetic appeal to the public.
Is the graffiti splashed around urban areas always a nuisance and how do we rate professional work, done with patience and detail, meant for public appeal.
Is the graffiti splashed around urban areas always a nuisance and how do we rate professional work, done with patience and detail, meant for public appeal.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4
there was a notice on the side of a building that said "bill posters will be prosecuted"
and underneath, someone had written "bill posters is innocent!!"
oldie but goodie
Saying that, I can see the artistic merit in some work, Banksy is a talented fellow. But he's 1 man in a sea of mindless taggers who daub their signatures on anything that stands still for longer than 8 minutes.
Proper graffiti artists dont paint on peoples houses/property.
In Northern Ireland, paramilitary graffiti murals are common on the side of houses. And one of the London parks I visited has a house, over the fence, which has a giant butterfly painting on the side, visible to park goers
If someone came and tagged the side/front of your house then you probably wouldn't be happy.
Likewise if someone came and painted a load of yellow smiley faces on the side of mine I'd be quite pissed off.
And it's irrelevant what people paint on, just because the wall belongs to a shop and not a house doesn't make it less of a criminal damage. "Arty" grafitti attracts the worse kind.
Yeah, you see quite a lot of houses with murals around north london - does make the city seem a lot less miserable.
Like the way Liverpool has covered the Salford Shutters on the borded up streets with murals during the year they are the city of culture
I'd probably like it, but with a store in the front and the other walls not being flat, it would be difficult.
Actually I expected the worse, but Liverpool city centre was so charming and people so friendly. At first sight way more appealing there than coming out of a random London tube station.
i would love to have some good graffiti on the side of my house.:hyper:
it would be sweet it amkes places look so much more alive and vibrant. it shows the town has talent. why should art be kept inside in galleries where next to no one sees it. paint the town!!! good graffiti cheers everyone up. there is a huge difference between vandalism and graffiti. pointless names or four letter words written on bus shelters isnt graffiti its vandalism. graffiti is an art and imo is one op the best things that can happen to a town.
sorry on another note did anyone hear about that banksy painting that was on thje side of someones house. and they got it scrubbed off only to fnd out that it almost DOUBLED the value of there house. dumb fucks lmao.
People who like art?
Mostly I like graffiti but it depends what it is.
When surveyed our local residents' top 3 concerns are;
1.Gangs of youths drinking in the street
2.Dog fouling
3.Grafitti/criminal damage.
This is despite the fact that those 3 are extremely minor, because they affect the quality of life of our residents, they are the things we have to tackle.
this pisses me off. the words youth and gangs. what about drunks who role out of the pub at midnight i have never had trouble from other kids causing noise or disturbances but coutless times i have had drunks shouting and fighting out side my house in early hours of the morning. people see a few kids standing on the street and imediatly want them banged up. how many times have you seen a couple of pensioners talking on a street corner on there way to get the paper or something. they are harmless completely and so are most kids on the street. because im a certain age people think im a thug and im fucking sick of it. i have had the police called on me for walkind down a pavement. seriously i was just walking down the road with one other person talking quietly at only about 8 and this guy calls the police. when are the police going to tackle actual issues like domestic violence or pedophilia.
sorry going off topic
Where to begin.....
Firstly, we do deal with drunks who crawl out of the pub and cause problems, but on my patch it happens on far fewer occasions than we find groups of kids who are hanging around, drinking and causing problems. I'm not saying all groups of kids cause problems, and on my patch I'm often informing members of public that the group of lads sat on the bench really aren't as menacing as they look. I don't go around moving youths on because I feel like it.
Secondly, deal with domestic violence and paedophilia? They're not exactly top of anyone's list when you ask them what problems they're having in their area. How many times have you seen a paedophile following kids down the street? How many complaints do you think we get, on average per year about women being beaten up on the street by their husbands? I'll give you a clue, it begins with Z.
We deal with the latter, but the fact that they happen behind closed doors, makes it a lot harder to deal with it than you think.