Graffiti- Walls of Shame

[Camper6]

What is it with these aerosol paint cans that is so appealling and destructive.

I rode my bike behind a building and the walls about half a block long are covered with graffiti and not all nice.

But there is a small town just south of us in the U.S. that is a tourist town in the summer and they double their population.

You cannot find one spot of graffiti anywhere, not even in the washrooms. The reason? The kids parents get charged with any defacing the kids do. However. The kids seemed to have picked up on keeping the place neat and clean because they get summer jobs there.

 

[JaniceM]

What is it with these aerosol paint cans that is so appealling and destructive.

I rode my bike behind a building and the walls about half a block long are covered with graffiti and not all nice.

But there is a small town just south of us in the U.S. that is a tourist town in the summer and they double their population.

You cannot find one spot of graffiti anywhere, not even in the washrooms. The reason? The kids parents get charged with any defacing the kids do. However. The kids seemed to have picked up on keeping the place neat and clean because they get summer jobs there.

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Sometimes graffiti is art- here are two I photographed years ago, one in California and the other in Texas

 

[helenbacque]

What is graffiti to some is art to others. But I'm from a different era; one where no one messes with someone else's property.

 

[Don M.]

Have you watched a passing freight train in the past few years? I don't think there is a railroad car in the entire nation that isn't smeared with this nonsense.

 

[Camper6]

Have you watched a passing freight train in the past few years? I don't think there is a railroad car in the entire nation that isn't smeared with this nonsense.

And even buses. Sheer vandalism. It's ugly and it's horrible.

 

[Marie5656]

I rather enjoy talking a look at the graffiti on train cars when I am stopped at a crossing. Kind of wonder where the cars were tagged, and if there are artists who see their stuff later on trains going by.

 

[Camper6]

Graffiti comes with a cost of removing graffiti because far from art most of it is offensive and obscene.

I'm all for art. But do it on your own premises.

 

[drifter]

Art being something in the eye of the beholder, I've seen some graffiti I've marveled at. Some artist quite good but not recognized, paint wherever they can. I recognize property rights but some artists, young artists, have no property, to them the world may be a canvas. I like the idea of hiring kids to clean it up. It is a problem in some locals. But there are worse things I suppose.

 

[jujube]

There's always the question of whether graffiti is art or vandalism? Well, it's easy to tell the difference:

Did you have permission to paint the graffiti? Yes? Then it's art. No? Then it's vandalism.

That's pretty simple, isn't it?

 

[Warrigal]

Sometimes graffiti is art

it certainly is and can attract tourists to a city.
The trick is to encourage the artists and not the vandals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_art_in_Melbourne

 

[Camper6]

Yes there are walls that are donated and the art is nice. But that's not what I am concerned about.

Inevitably you will see the "F" word even on ancient monuments.