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They're very cool until it's your apartment or commercial building, and you have to clean it up - because let's face it, for every clever graffiti, there are fi
by germinator 2y ago
They're very cool until it's your apartment or commercial building, and you have to clean it up - because let's face it, for every clever graffiti, there are fifty that are just tags, swear words, or worse.
And your framing is odd - can you only dislike one of these things? Graffiti or ads? There are successful movements to rid cities and scenic areas of ads, or to tone them down.
- 2024throwaway 2y ago[flagged]
- ponector 2y agoGraffiti makes world more beautiful the same way as ads do. It is a vandalism and you shouldn't normalize it.
- 2024throwaway 2y agohttps://w0.peakpx.com/wallpaper/697/794/HD-wallpaper-graffiti-wall-grafitti-colorful-colors-beautiful-wall-duck-tags-spray-mirror-night-letter.jpg https://w0.peakpx.com/wallpaper/697/794/HD-wallpaper-graffit... You don't get to tell me what I find beautiful.
- raverbashing 2y ago[flagged]
- 2024throwaway 2y ago[flagged]
- raverbashing 2y agoYes because they don't have to be empattic right? And society has to accept any bs they come up with
- 2024throwaway 2y agoYou know what? You’re right. I guess people should be permanently maimed or disfigured for creating art in a location you disprove of. Keep it up.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> You don't get to tell me what I find beautiful Right. That’s the point. In public spaces, the public has chosen what it believes to be beautiful. Illegal graffiti is one person forcing their aesthetics on everyone. Plenty of cities have surfaces that are open to being grafitti’d. In those cases, the artists bothered to think about others before taking unilateral action.
- vasco 2y agoHave you chosen what you think is beautiful for your city? Most city decorations are decided by direct action from the council without consultation from the public. Sometimes involving as little as one or two people. For private property I agree with you, the owners have it how they want to have it.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Have you chosen what you think is beautiful? Most city decorations are decided by direct action from the council without consultation from the public. When it’s mattered, I’ve showed up. Or signed petitions saying something is ugly and would benefit from being replaced by just about anything else. Plenty of communities embrace their mural and graffiti culture. Plenty don’t. Imagine if someone who doesn’t like murals went around whitewashing painted walls.
- 2024throwaway 2y agoMy city pays graffiti artists to do their thing, but go off.
- wiseowise 2y agoWhile I find this specific beautiful, retouched and over-saturated picture beautiful. I'm pretty sure it would look much better without the graffiti, trash and huge puddle in front of it.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoGraffiti is about 20 to 30 times better than ads brother.
- vasco 2y agoI've normalized it all my life and will keep doing it, art should be around us and bring interestingness to public spaces. People like you would rather walk around in the equivalent of a hospital 24/7 and you currently have the law on your side but it doesn't mean you're right.
- Symbiote 2y agoThe door of my apartment building is graffitied every couple of months, and without any respect whatsoever your community's "art" can piss off.
- vasco 2y agoI hope this made you feel better. Good luck finding a new place to live or growing out of being upset from paint or it seems like you're going to be mad every couple of months until the rest of your days.
- 2024throwaway 2y ago[flagged]
- wahnfrieden 2y agoin toronto it's embraced to the extent that in areas where it's common, there's funding by businesses and even residences or local gov commission it or permit it and nice work by local artists is less likely to get tagged or covered. there's at least some upside to cooperating when there's a culture to it (to some extent)
- aeyes 2y agoI solved this problem by contracting an artist to put a painting on the wall of my house. Sprayers are artists, they won't paint over it.
- GrayShade 2y agoI've seen a lot of tags put on top of pretty nice-looking murals, many sprayers won't care.
- petre 2y agoTags always looks better on an empty wall.
- taskforcegemini 2y agobut not better than the empty wall
- petre 2y agoOf course. As opposed to over other grafittis I mean.
- Doctor_Fegg 2y agoIf only. The murals under canal bridges in Worcester (UK) have been defaced beyond recognition with tags.
- wiseowise 2y agoFifty? More like fifty thousands.