Graffiti for or against

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  • jimed14
    jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    If you want to watcha good grffiti /street art doc, watch Bomb It!
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    edited June 2011
    threefish10 wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    This documentary is awesome.
    About the life of notorious Melbourne graffiti artist Jisoe.
    The dude is unemployed, hooked on weed, and cannot stop bombing trains.
    In part 3 you can see my local train station :lol:

    Part 1 of 7...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvkX-2lZnuA


    Have you seen exit through the gift shop? It's pretty good. Lot of good shit from Banksy and Shepard Fairey

    Nah, never heard of it. Will see if it is on Youtube tomorrow morning.
    Did you watch Jisoe?
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    This is awesome old school, Melbourne 1983 - 1993
    Doco is called Kings Way, features Peril & Paris, 2 big figures in establishing the Aussie Hip Hop scene back in the day.

    Part 1...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pshflYLe8Oo


    Unrelated to Kings Way but old school news footage featuring Peril, Paris...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0vq8SWX ... re=related
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  • Corduroyboy
    Corduroyboy Posts: 1,256
    FOR!! When I was in highschool and college I worked with a guy who wrote the word "ZONE" on just about everything he could find. But he didn't just write it, it turned this 4 letter word into prolific artwork. I got more and more interested in the whole "ZONE" thing and sought out more and more on graffiti. I'd go out late at night with this guy with a backpack full of spray cans and found the rush involved with painting the side of a train or building and then seeing this masterpiece of art the next day as you are driving around town. Illegal, yes, but he and we kept it to abandoned buildings and old depalidated trains. I soon found myself writing papers on graffiti in college for my art and journalism courses and actually made quite a stir with it all at my college. There's so much to graffiti, the culture, the artform, the socio-economic aspects of it. It's incredible. And it can be destructive and ugly. But there is so much to it.

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    http://www.stylewars.com/
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Style Wars, awesome documentary. 8-)
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  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,966
    “[Graffiti] gives the look of disorder, as if nobody is in control. Graffiti is the first sign that a neighborhood is falling apart.”

    As Mayor Giuliani said, "Graffiti is the sign of urban decay."

    Read this article on graffiti:
    http://www.cooperator.com/articles/1201 ... Page1.html

    Personally I hate graffiti. Some people call it art, and yes, some of it is, but what percentage? 3-5% maybe?

    The only piece of graffiti I have ever liked is up in the projects on the Upper East Side in Manhattan which is the large graffiti with the "crack kills" drawing. Other than that most of it is just vandalism.

    Just because you are artistically talented doesn't make you better than the guy who scribbles something with a black magic marker. They are both defacing public property.

    But....if it is a legal graffiti area I have no problem with it, usually then it has to be approved and this is where you will find good graffiti art. But if you approve of letting people graffiti anywhere then I guess it wouldn't upset you if someone came with a spray bottle and drew something on the side of your house.
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    The infamous 70K crew...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KbecWf-oDM

    These dudes went on a rampage from about 2001 - 2005.
    Stan & Bones, Renks can be seen all around Melbourne.

    One of them got arrested, the rest fled overseas to avoid arrest.
    Surprisingly one got no jail, had to pay $30k and do community service.
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  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    are they related to two live crew
    81 is now off the air

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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,889
    i see both sides of the argument and I cant decide if I am for or against to be honest.
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    The 81 wrote:
    are they related to two live crew

    :D
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    MayDay10 wrote:
    i see both sides of the argument and I cant decide if I am for or against to be honest.

    I can see both sides of the argument.
    But it makes the train ride less boring.
    Some graffiti is rubbish, done so poorly, the masterpieces are brilliant.
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    My friends dad is one of the pioneers of grafitti. He now sells his work at exhibits and his work is amazing. So yeah I'm going to have to go with "for" grafitti.

    Oh and his tag name is coco 144
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