Graffiti "surge" threatens to drown out paid advertisements

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Neighborhood leaders and law enforcement officials also blamed what they describe as a glamorization of graffiti, reflected by a new graffiti exhibit that opened at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood last weekend, even after an earlier furor over a full-fledged graffiti exhibit at the downtown Museum of Contemporary Art.

"It's because of the pop culture," said Ramona Findley, a Los Angeles police detective who heads the department's graffiti task force. "It's very interesting; with your violent crime going down, it seems like your mischievous crime is going up. The art world has accepted it. People make money from graffiti T-shirts. I was in Wal-Mart on Easter, and I saw graffiti Easter eggs."

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/us/19graffiti.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig

By the combined powers of Wal-Mart and art museums, a graffiti conspiracy descends on the nation.


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I'M DRUNK WITH POWER!

[PopeTom]

Dear Ramona Findley,

I would much rather have mischievous crime than violent crime.

Thxs,

PopeTom

[BabylonHoruv]

I'd much rather have graffiti than paid advertisements.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Pope Tom and Babylon both riding their motorcycles, here.

[BabylonHoruv]

I grew up in the Seattle area.  The graffiti was always something i enjoyed greatly.  Seattle always had some true artists and poets putting up graffiti.  There were taggers as well, some of whom just scrawled, but some were truly beautifying Seattle streets.  When I moved to small town Ohio the lack of graffiti was something that made me sad, it helped to make me feel as if the town I had moved to lacked culture (I was raised on a tiny, rural island, and we graffitied, water towers and the town dump mostly) Lately there have been intriguing phrases popping up on walls.  It's not visually beautiful the way some grafitti is, but it is definitely the work of a poet.  I am heartened for Crow Town.

[Cramulus]

I'd much rather have graffiti than paid advertisements.

fuck yeah! public space is for THE PUBLIC. that means you and me. I'm glad people are taking the initiative to reclaim those spaces.

[Bruno]

We don't really have any good graffiti around here. Somebody crossed out all the Cs on an ice machine at one of the convenience stores. I can only assume that there is some gang here in town that hates the letter C.

[Placid Dingo]

I believe in some areas that's a bloods v crips thing. Or at any rate, crossing out the letter of the other gang is typical.

[Cramulus]

roving anti-consonant gangs are getting to be kind of a problem in ew York.

[Bruno]

I suspect the Spell Binder may be involved.

Where the hell is Letter Man when you need him?

[Suu]

Graffiti in Providence is sub-par without Shepard Fairey spagging up the joint these days.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Corporate America just needs to pay off the graffiti artists to include subtle advertising in their work.  Two birds, one stone.  Aside from that fact that it would be a hell of a lot more entertaining than a fucking billboard.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Corporate America just needs to pay off the graffiti artists to include subtle advertising in their work.  Two birds, one stone.  Aside from that fact that it would be a hell of a lot more entertaining than a fucking billboard.

And then the city would know who to fine, generating public revenue from "illegal advertising". Everybody wins!

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Corporate America just needs to pay off the graffiti artists to include subtle advertising in their work.  Two birds, one stone.  Aside from that fact that it would be a hell of a lot more entertaining than a fucking billboard.

And then the city would know who to fine, generating public revenue from "illegal advertising". Everybody wins!

Or, if they corporations paid for the advertising space, they might be offered a minimal tax break for beautifying the city?

[Cramulus]

Ugh... googled "graffiti advertisement" to see if such things exist. Of course they do!






















a response to the Sony PSP ad: 



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that's raw public expression right there!