Graffiti

[oxford_fan]

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.

[Reg Smeeton]

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

[sonic youth]

they still do.

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

[Bennett]

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)

[Cookie]

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.

[Piemonte]

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

[Simon Pieman]

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

[McLovin]

Very good, SiPie

[Piemonte]

Swoosh!

Thats the sound of sipies comments going straight over my head

[Simon Pieman]

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.

[Piemonte]

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.......

[Simon Pieman]

Hee hee  

[Doore]

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

[Ben Wah Balls]

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

[barry]

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.