Graffiti/ Vandals and Art

What are your thoughts on graffiti

Vandalism, art?

Or do you hate to see the "gang" scrawlings (which 90percent of the time isnt gang at all)

Cleaning it?

Should your city fine house owners and store owners for not removing the "graffiti" from their property.

Im definitally here to answer questions of any sort its my life.

I have been writing graffiti for a few years now, Not gunna lie yeh im good. Graffiti in a way has actually stopped me from doing FAR worse things. its almost an outlit, SOmething to vent to and be creative. Illegal graffiti IS graffiti. Ive been arrested for my art, paid 1000s in fines and have done countless community service hours and now having a hefty record. Graffiti has already taken a large portion of my life and has taught me skills needed in life. people find it hard to beleive. ALL my friends are vandals and its how ive met someve the most important people in my life.

Graffiti isn't dead.

Love graffiti. some of it takes real; talent.

Vandalism is a serious crime

Depends how fast you can run, All of this propoganda about police catching everyone is BS. The only way you can get caught for graffiti is either you get raided(like me) or caught IN THE ACT. Know your laws and your good, illegal searches also can lead to busts its happend to a few of my friends.

IN all reallity its hard to get caught, buddy of mine JUST got caught hes been writing for like 5years?.

My crews been around since 00'. point proven.

Only illegal if you get caught, such a childish thing to say but its true.

Haha.

EDIT:
i wanna go paint sooo bad..

Banksys definitally a good artists, Can you post img's on here? if you can ive got alot of amazing stuff from local kids and even my crew.

I don't give a crap if you think it's a form of art, you are ruining the side of somebody's house, somebody's shop, anything in public eye and that's just unfair. I can't say that i'm overly pissed off if i see some tiny drawing that's fairly okay on the bottom of a side of a shop where you don't notice it, but other than that, if it's huge and on the side of a wall that's owned by the council or community, you have no right to be polluting something they own just because you feel creative with a spraycan. You have pencils and paper at home and i'm glad you've been fined to be honest. It makes every town in england look like a dump, not that they aren't anyway, but there are some really gorgeous parts of london which have been ruined due to graffiti.
how would you like it if you owned a store or any old building and someone came along and put their mark on it in bright colours? I'd be sick.

It may be art, it may be talent, but it's going to get removed.

The art side of graffiti isn't the problem, as stated above it's usually done on someone else's property which turns all of that effort and talent into nothing more than serfist rebellion.

Graffiti is a Roman word. Whether you've created a masterpiece picture or in bold capitals painted on a bridge that M. Khan is bent in blue paint makes no difference. Graffiti is graffiti.

Learn the history and direct your talent to something worthwhile. Perhaps if you did that you'd be making a living of your skill and not paying for it constantly.

I've seen a lot of really beautiful graffiti... and it seems clear that the good stuff takes real talent to create. I'd kind of want to draw a line, though... if you're vandalizing someone's house, or shop, or a school or something, then that's something that I wouldn't necessarily support. But I've seen a lot of graffiti in old alleyways, blank concrete walls, tunnels, etc. Sometimes I think it really enhances what it's painted on. Nice splash of color and style in a world of gray lifelessness.

Is there anything that makes it necessary for you to do graffiti illegally? Does that define it? I've seen a couple of artists who have taken those "vandal" skills and transferred them into the fine-arts world, with great results.

If it's done on crappy walls and reall run down parts of town, then I'm all for it. In Edinburgh we have a fair amount of graffiti and I love it....though of course I'd hate to see it on some of the more beautiful historic building............and of course my flat....

But lets be honest, 70% of stone buildings could do with some colour to them...you know, a bit of life and passion and even, dare I say it....a point of view.

So few walls and parking lots and blocks of flats have points of view on them....

Viva Graffiti!!

Some of the graffiti is utterly breathtaking! it must have taken hours and hours of work! But if it is not your property, do not put your 'art' on it.. that is what i believe, there are many other useful ways to do this, get out a piece of paper and draw, get wood and spray paint and go at it, find old houses that are getting torn down, use chalk! But it is not right to ruin somebody's property, no matter how amazing it is.

Of course I'd hate to see it on some of the more beautiful historic building............and of course my flat....

^Agreed. Some graffiti is beautiful, though. I cannot recall the specific artist, but he is well known for his amazing work on streets almost everywhere!

I just don't like seeing 'dani 4 sam 4 evaa' & 'jack woz ere 2007' on walls and bashed up telephone boxes - you know what I mean? Just makes the world look untidy, and I hate it.

Writers have morals here, We dont hit houses,trees,churches or anything utterly retarded. government and taxpayer property is ALL freegame. abandond wearhouses are a playground for us, Hate it or love it graffiti is gunna stay where it is. People have made MILLIONS of of their art.

There are always going to be those stupid kids writing on peoples cars and sheeeit those are the ones that get graffiti frowned on and those with no talent. If you had a choice of seeing masterpieces of art or a blank wall on your way to work..What would you pick?

Also theres differnt forms of graff

Tagging
bombing
pieceing
murals

Any graffiti on any local or community owned building is always extremely disrespectful in my opinion. If you do it somewhere you're ALLOWED to do it - then fine, but that rarely happens, because nearly every building is owned by someone. I don't mind seeing the occasional clever drawing, that actually looks good, but these letters made of some abnormal teenage language insulting their friends mother, the whole way across any wall that's near the train track disgsuts me and ruins the whole trip. I would rather see blank walls on the whole, much more attractive. I'm not so fond of all these bright colours where plain brick looks fine, but I don't mind it occasionally brightening up the place.

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