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some photos from a recent event in the US:

http://www.prhymemates.com/community/viewtopic.php?id=381

http://www.12ozprophet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=109619

don't know anything about the stuff myself, but its one of the "4 elements" of hip-hop (the others are breaking (dancing), mc'ing and dj'ing), of which i'm a big fan.

what are other people's opinion on graff?

i can't stand the silly tagging ("BAZ" writen exactly the same way 500 times across a city), but i think the stuff in the links above is amazing. the more of it the better, livens up what would otherwise be a boring bit of concrete.

I liked it when the signboards on the A420 eastbound....had O*frod crossed out and Scumsville inserted.

they still do.

it also has swindon crossed out and replaced by scum on the a420 as you head into swindon too.

i like the pretty colours


but really i have no problem with either tagging or larger more arty scale graffiti. two of my favourite artists at the moment have their roots in graffiti.

http://www.haring.com/index.html

http://www.kinseyvisual.com/

tagging although i don't mind it i find a bit retarded when it's someone just writing something as you would anyways, but when it becomes stylized i think it becomes a different matter


has anyone been to the clifton area of bristol recently? banksy has done an awesome piece in a really hard inaccessable area

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/images/2006/06/23/203_300_banksy_203x300.jpg

(it's a shite pic of it, but you get an idea of the scale, and if you know bristol at all you'll know that's a bridge looking onto the side of a building)

I can't stand tagging, fuckin black marker pens on every bench, signpost, post box looks shit.

Like OF I like the decent stuff. There's a recent addition of some graffiti down Kemble Drive near the steam museum celebrating 200 years of brunel and I quite like the stuff under the railway near the oasis.

shoot them all. Its pointless vandalism from kids who "tink dey is gansta"

I'll think you'll find it's because everyone is singing to each other in French

Very good, SiPie :D

Swoosh!

Thats the sound of sipies comments going straight over my head

It's a song by Maximo Park. You're like the dumb blonde that kills the joke by having to have the punch line explained. Or Sade.

 :?  :?  Whats worse is I have & like the Maximo Park album and still didint get it

I'll get me coat....... :cry:

Hee hee  :D

What worse is that people own Maximo Park albums and recognise Maximo Park songs.

I like the Banksy style stuff, stencils tend to look the most impressive, it's best when done with a sense of humour. I liked the graffiti he did on the west bank security barrier.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/palestine/images/wall/pal05.jpg

http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/palestine/images/wall/pal02.jpg

az well az bein a lirical messanger and a ninja i iz also a master of da graffti.i iz dun sum well fly stuff u iz might av seen sum of my work in da subway near b and q.i iz dun ' if u iz want gay sex den phone doore' and 'ralphy is a bummer'.I iz not able to afford spray cans so i iz use some felt tip pens dat i iz nick from  sum muslins at skool.lata i iz goin to burgerking to rite garrys sista iz a slag on da toilet wall.she iz well piss me off, she iz say da other nite dat if i take round a romantic film and sum nice food she iz maybe let me give her a rub out.i iz take round a  bag of dinobites an a copy of anal destination.i iz cant beleeve it she iz throw me out, she is keep da dinobites tho.i woz starvin hungry wen i got home me mum hadn't been to iceland an der woz no food in da house.

Have the letters off the I and Z keys rubbed off yet barry?

It appears that it has become known that homosexual intercourse with me is bookable by phone.  I would like to make a statement denying this illegal advertisement, and will be contacting my legal representatives to discuss further legal proceedings against the publisher of this libellous and potentially damaging allegation.
I have nothing more to say on the matter.

Does that mean I can book by wriitten application? :D  :wink:

I've gone twenty first century.  It's text and e-mail only.

me yardie ganstas gonna ruck ur dad bazza bredrin

Also on the motorway towards Reading, Take a break....'have a kit kat' inserted.  :soapy tit wank:

Where is this Kit Kat to be inserted?  Soth potentially both painful and dangerous.