Gothamist: Video of the Day: Tagging the System

Anonymous

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:33:34 -0500

Advertising is just a legal form of graffiti.

Miquel

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:08:10 -0500

"Yep- this aint art. IT SUCKS as art." Maybe you need to broaden your horizons. See the magnificence in a stroke that is not painted painstakingly until perfect in a well-lit studio environment surrounded by pretentious, scholarly artists, but one-time-only, in passing, at 4AM, by a high school dropout, wherever s/he treads. Tell me that's not romantic. Tell me that's not beautiful. Tell me it's not art. But if not art, how about Archaeology? Look at where it pops up (restrooms, construction baricades, paths to and from school, work) look at where it clusters (gentrifying neighborhoods, trendy shopping districts, 11 Spring) take meaning from it's form, medium (symbols, letters, stickers, classic images often redesigned, spraypaint, marker, pen). Modern Heiroglyphics. Communication. Exprssion. See, me, I think corporate logos and shiny new buildings are the real graffiti. In the future, take more than 5 seconds to really look at it, before scurrying into that hole like the little yuppie rat that you are...spin that wheel!

Max

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:14:16 -0500

Prison for graffiti is ridiculous when you get probation for violent crimes. Remember this is just property. It can be repainted or cleaned.

like

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:25:34 -0500

I like most graffiti. However, the acid etching and the like it ugly, not artistic and ridiculously idiotic. I wish they would just ban that.

Toby

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:05:40 -0500

They featured this video on WABC's Eyewitness News tonight. Hopefully the NYPD has seen it and will use it for busting these morons.

tag this

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:16:03 -0500

I think this is the one mentioned in the story... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fepq3mMK-w&NR

Bob A Booey

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:21:04 -0500

There should be a zero tolerance anti-graffiti law. You get caught doing it on public or someone else’s property, you go to jail. Escalating prison terms for subsequent arrests. Ramp up undercover police enforcement and solve the problem. Simple as that. I wonder if enthusiastically Gothamist supports hackers who love to vandalize websites as much as they champion the Graffiti “artist” losers. Hmm…

Graffitti blows

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:35:30 -0500

Yep- this aint art. IT SUCKS as art. I mean, yeah it would be great to see zero graffitti painted anywhere, but at least if we saw some amazing murals or works of art, one could make a case for it as art- a la Banksy, although it would still be wrong (buy a canvas!!). But 90% of it is just ugly.

Bill

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:45:37 -0500

Personally you can rant all you want; argue that Bush is the devil and that he smells of sulphur, but I can't stand graffti. First of all, most of it is crap. Then there's the whole problem of trying to understand what the moron was trying to write. Finally, it ain't your fucking property!! I don't want to see that crap. If I did, I would go to the delinquent graffiti museum.