Street Art not funded by local residents is Vandalism [SPLIT]

[mikemizanin729]

The police recently had to deal with this "artwork" here.

 

[gsdx]

If someone decided to put grafitti on the local bus stop windows they are vandalizing.

*sigh*

 

[rareboy]

*sigh*

Quoted for truth.

 

[mikemizanin729]

Interesting piece I found here.

]Some authorities are cracking down hard on graffiti vandals. A teenage girl with no criminal history was sentenced to 3 months jail for writing her nickname on the wall of a cafe in Sydney, Australia.

Cheyane Back wept as she was sentenced to 3 months fulltime custody for scrawling on the public wall at Sydney's Hyde Park Cafe. Shaken by the threat of being behind bars, she vowed never to paint her graffiti signature or anything else on public property again.

“I'll never do anything like it again,” she told the media. “I would clean it off, I'll apologise, I'll do anything. I was shocked and scared.

“Jail is a big step. I've been sitting in that place (the cells) too long and it's absolutely horrible, it's disgusting. It definitely taught me a lesson.”

And she got what she deserved.

 

[gsdx]

The police recently had to deal with this "artwork" here.

That is not 'artwork', nor is it 'graffiti'. It is vandalism. Please learn the difference.

 

[mikemizanin729]

That is not 'artwork', nor is it 'graffiti'. It is vandalism. Please learn the difference.

The culprits believe it is artwork. I should've done the rolleys smiley at the end.

Of course it's vandalism.

 

[gsdx]

Of course it's vandalism.

What, in your mind, is the difference between 'graffiti' and 'vandalism'?

 

[ravenstar]

Vandalism and public art are two very different things. Most of the pictures above are vandalism, they're not commissioned artwork.

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The police recently had to deal with this "artwork" here.

That's a political message used as vandalism. Not art.

 

[Taz]

They know the difference. This whole thread is just whinging and baiting.

 

[ravenstar]

I figured they did, and it was, but I couldn't resist pointing it out.

 

[mikemizanin729]

What, in your mind, is the difference between 'graffiti' and 'vandalism'?

Thet are different but I don't like them. I think they both look horible.

 

[gsdx]

^ And it's interesting how he pulled the Jihad into this one, too.

 

[mikemizanin729]

They know the difference. This whole thread is just whinging and baiting.

Then perhaps you would like to post about the subject yourself instead of whinging about what YOU think is bait or find a thread that interests you instead of moaning about nothing and not leaving any views on the subject.

 

[mikemizanin729]

Vandalism and public art are two very different things. Most of the pictures above are vandalism, they're not commissioned artwork.

I don't think anyone should draw, spray paint or do anything to public walls, bus stops or the rest of our community without asking permission first and if they are denied permission then they shouldn't do it.

I remember when a group of hoodlums drew a cock and balls up the bust stop windows and spray painted a pair of tits on a neighbor's garage door.

 

[Taz]

I already posted my sentiments in regards to the thread.

 

[SaskGuy]

Some of the shit that passes as art just baffles me. My city is full of ugly as fuck "abstract sculptures" that basically look like rusty hunks of scrap metal that fell off the back of my employer's truck.

It's usually ghettos that have murals painted on buildings; it's the city and residents trying to beautify the slum. You won't see that sort of thing in a safer, more well off area (unless it's a very cultural, artistic community). Intentional graffiti looks terrible too; even if it's well made, it still makes the whole place look like the 'hood.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...It's usually ghettos that have murals painted on buildings....
You won't see that sort of thing in a safer, more well off area ...

indeed!

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ The proponent of this vandalism got sliced in two in his own pursuit of "art".

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/i-saw-him--in-half-graffiti-artists-shocking-death-20130123-2d6s0.html

 

[mikemizanin729]

So who cleaned up the mess...???

 

[mikemizanin729]

I'm 63 years old. Graffiti has been around for longer than I have been alive. Nobody has ever asked permission that I know of.

You've been posting 'graffiti'.

This is 'vandalism':

Is that guy in the pic the one who did this or is this his wall?