Opinion on graffiti?

[Senmetsu]

How do you feel about graffiti?

I'm not just talkin' bout names being written here and here, but having people do giant works of art etc...

Yes it's illegal so none of us do this ever, but your opinion on this?

Discuss? :)

[RE-Uploader8]

graffiti is kick ass and i always like to see what poeple can do with brick as a canvas.

[RichardGrey]

No opinion. Next question please.

[Cyberdevil]

At 2/9/13 03:56 AM, Senmetsu wrote: How do you feel about graffiti?

I like it. As long as the people who do it stick to industrial areas and concrete walls and stuff, it's all good, there's a lot of fantastic motives out there and I like the fact that it's all non-profit. Those who make great graffiti are true artists. Then there are assholes who tag trees and signs and shit, which is just stupid. And tags = not graffiti.

[psycho-squirrel]

I don't like graffiti if they don't have pride in it and just half ass it.

[Cootie]

I don't mind it as long as they have skill. It makes it more fun to watch trains go by whenever they have some nice artwork to look at.

[SteelChair]

It's pretty cool as long as they don't do that stupid gangster shit

[TheColourAwesome]

I don't like the "If it looks good" argument. It's too hypocritical. People act like the law is their own moral code too often. I think if people do it, sure. I don't care. Obviously I think a skilled artists piece is nicer to look at.

[ClockworkSpace]

Yeah I think it's cool, but I'm not a fan of all the wildstyle shit. If something is interesting or unique, or Bansky, it's good to me.

[HighWay]

throwing up gang signs is cool. rep the streets.

[Cyberdevil]

At 2/9/13 07:42 AM, SteelChair wrote: It's pretty cool as long as they don't do that stupid gangster shit

And what is that stupid gangster shit?

[Ghombeat]

Well, Graffiti is a form of art too.

[JBK]

It makes the world a little more colourful.

[Stark-Heather]

Controlled it is OK. I love it

But, I mean, painting somebody's business wall does not look right, specially those tasteless tags. That shit does not come off easily.

[Stark-Heather]

I forgot... our government sometimes allows good graffiti artist to decorate the city walls, but you need a permit and to compete to be able to do it

[Stark-Heather]

That one kicks ass!!

At 2/9/13 10:43 AM, Ma1achi wrote: It's gives a unique look because they are limited to spray paints bottles. Also, just because it looks 'gangster' doesn't mean its necessarily gang related, its just a certain style.

[PsychoZoid]

Graffiti is illegal, but it has turned into a form of art on it's own, so I don't think the people worry about that much.

[372]

Graffiti is a crime! Art is HORRIBLE. They should all be thrown in jail! FOREVER!

[Cherry]

Where I live, I only ever see those BIG MAN WUZ ERE 09 scribbles in permanent marker, and if I go closer to the centre of Manchester, all the big impressive graffiti is in those alleyways and streets you don't really want to go in,

[i-am-ghey]

they should make it legal in some places.

graffiti partly reflects the culture. it allows people to expressive their feelings, just like popular music. (i enjoy looking at those drawings too). i don't see what harm graffiti would do if it is restricted to certain areas.

[Daikenkini]

Besides me not having anything against Graffiti, the stuff I'm seeing every other day is ... baaah :(

Though, I encounter Graffiti mostly in poorer districts.

At 2/9/13 12:05 PM, 372 wrote: Graffiti is a crime! Art is HORRIBLE. They should all be thrown in jail! FOREVER!

LOL.

[hecticjon]

At 2/9/13 07:42 AM, SteelChair wrote: It's pretty cool as long as they don't do that stupid gangster shit

pretty much this

[TheColourAwesome]

At 2/9/13 12:23 PM, shitposter wrote:

At 2/9/13 07:42 AM, SteelChair wrote: It's pretty cool as long as they don't do that stupid gangster shit

pretty much this

pretty much not this. You don't pick and choose what graffiti you see or whatever art you see. Expression will sometimes be interpreted as gangsta.

[Dragen]

If you think tagging is so cool, you can tag yourself in the ass!
If you think tagging is so fucking cool, you can tag yourself in the ass!
But don't come and tag on my window because that window I'm going to look outside of and it's not so fucking easy to look outside of a window full of graffiti, am I right?
So if you come back to tag on my window then I'll tag in your asshole!
Graffiti is the very lamest thing I know of!
If you're a tagger you are really, really stupid!
First of all, it's ugly, and it's expensive to remove and there's almost nobody who thinks it's cool at all.
Tagging is not cool, it is much cooler to get involved in politics!
Tagging isn't cool, it's much cooler to collect butterflies in a small purse!
Tagging isn't cool, it's much cooler to sleep so long in the morning that you come too late for school!
Tagging isn't cool, it's much cooler to be rude towards parents and the disabled!
Tagging isn't cool, it's much cooler to smoke when you're in fourth grade!
Tagging isn't cool, it's much cooler to rape and kill prostitutes!
Tagging isn't cool, it's much cooler to jump out of a plane without a parachute!
Tagging isn't cool, it's much cooler to do bungee jumping with steel wires, instead of elastic cords, so both the feet get ripped off!
When you have to inject a heroin syringe into the eye because you have no veins left in the body, then you're cool, but when you tag, then you're not fucking cool at all. I even think my mother is cooler than those who tag.
(Lyrics from norwegian song)

[Cyberdevil]

At 2/9/13 12:59 PM, Dragen wrote: If you think tagging is so cool, you can tag yourself in the ass!
(Lyrics from norwegian song)

Greatest track ever. :D

At 2/9/13 10:43 AM, Ma1achi wrote: It's gives a unique look because they are limited to spray paints bottles. Also, just because it looks 'gangster' doesn't mean its necessarily gang related, its just a certain style.

That picture makes me think of NG somehow. Like the portal page gathering. :P

[Elitistinen]

90% of graffiti is work of vandals. Ugly shits just to deface materials for fun.

[Xenomit]

I don't mind graffiti in places that it doesn't really matter, like on industrial train cars

I do mind, however, when it's somewhere like a public park or pretty much anywhere residential

It drastically brings property value down

[ziraffe]

i like the look of it

[All-American-Badass]

I see too much of it. damn teenagers. some of it is well made though.

[Saen]

A childish eyesore.