The City of Houston made a web-site to combat graffiti.
One of their recommendations is to create a mural over the graffiti. I like the idea, but isn’t that about the same as allowing legalized graffiti ART? Anyway, like I said, I like the idea.
This is from the FAQ’s page:
- There are four types of graffiti – tagging, satanic/hate, gang, and generic (non-threatening messages like “Bobby loves Suzy” or “Class of 2000″). Houston mainly deals with gang and tagging graffiti. Tagging graffiti is more ornate while gang graffiti uses symbols.
Where does Graffiti ART reside? In the generic with “Bobby loves Suzy”?
The website says, “Graffiti is ugly“. Bland statements like that show either bias or ignorance.
I’ll let you judge for yourself.
http://www.houstontx.gov/graffiti/
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1 response so far ↓
1 RoiS NGK // Aug 18, 2011 at 3:45 am
aye look, art was never a crime, and it shouldnt be a privlage. art is free and thts why we do it.art keeps our minds in line, the lines that we create. we are the comunity not you cops. thers more of us than u. we make up the city we give it all it has and we want that to continue. fuck those who repress freedom, not constitutional freedom, but true freedom; the freedom in the sense that you can do as u please kas ther isnt any rules only common sense. i write on public property kas im part of the public and i hate the color grey.graffiti is beautiful with out it this city would be like just the rest, BORRING! fuck your buff paint its grey white n beige who appreciates solid coverd anything? tell me, point em out so i can tell em their either blind or retarded. and that they shouldnt decide what i or the rest of this city is allowed to look at. every artist has something different to bring to the table and by lockin up artist u cripple this city of its future. repress your selves of freedom not me asshole!
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