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Street Art or Graffiti an Eye-sore?
By: Catherine Date: August 12, 2011, 6:29 am
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I took a lot of graffiti pictures… there is an old building in
Fremantle that the council won’t let this lady develop (that is
the rumour) so it has lots of broken windows and graffiti all
over it… I was down there in Freo during the day and later at
night trying to capture an atmosphere…
I like street art. I can’t stand tagging though but I love a
bit of graffiti around… urban decay doesn’t seem real without a
bit around the town..
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Between Fort Knox Storage and the graffitied Wool Stores are the
renovated Cold Stores. A Government housing project costing 15
million. This faces the wharf. They’re about 6-7 yrs old. Its
strange how they don’t get any graffiti though.
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Re: Street Art or Graffiti an Eye-sore?
By: Catherine Date: August 12, 2011, 6:30 am
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when communities in suburbs where I live paint bus stops, no one
damages them by writing over them...
so that is actually an interesting idea, isn't it?... this has
got to be over 10 yrs old... and nothing has been painted
over...
and the walls behind haven't been touched either.
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I got some good street today when I went out and stopped by the
local shops and library... we've got a fair bit of good street
art. Before the taggers were messing up the place and they still
are on plain walls until someone catches them... so the
community artists paint murals on large walls and I tell you
what, it absolutely kills dead any taggers... they just don't
paint over it and so far so good... I'm not saying that one day
some little 13 yr old twerp won't come along and do something
hideous but some of this work has been up for years...
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They're planning on graffiting over the graffiti... they're
planning to spend thousands..
:lol: interesting... read the short story..
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This mans images of the South Fremantle power station are unreal
- (stunning)
HTML http://www.oceansandearth.com/index.php?showimage=218
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Half a dozen images of the bleakness brightened by the graffiti
on the internal walls.
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They’re going to turn this relic building into apartments…
But in the light of victims of tsunamis, this wouldn’t be a good
place to develop I believe… only a real idiot would build on the
beach these days… wouldn’t you think?
I would buy this place if I could and just allow it to remain a
relic…
And today… I took some beauties..
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Re: Street Art or Graffiti an Eye-sore?
By: flabby-o Date: August 14, 2011, 2:57 pm
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I've always had great admiration for good graff. I used to bomb
a bit when I was younger, but then I got guilt tripped for
wrecking the ozone layer and put the can away for good.
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Re: Street Art or Graffiti an Eye-sore?
By: Catherine Date: August 14, 2011, 3:42 pm
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check this out Flabio...
Ok, I have put together an Album in Photobucket of 60 photos
featuring the abandoned power station and its urban art and
graffiti and surrounding landsape for interested viewers. I have
many more pictures and the more choices you have, the harder it
is to pick so these are not necessarily the best but they are a
wide variation of good art verses mindless, ugly tagging.
HTML http://s138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/caskur_2006/Sth%20Fremantle%20Power%20Station%20Ruins/
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Re: Street Art or Graffiti an Eye-sore?
By: Dovey Date: August 14, 2011, 5:02 pm
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Oh those are so cool!
The next time im in MI(Michigan) I'll have to get down to Ann
Arbor.
There is this entire gothic stlye ally way covered, i mean
COVERED in graffiti. Not gang related...its all art.
Ann Arbor is where the Art festival is held, so many people are
in "the spirit" and that ally is just awesome to see. I even
added to it a few times back in HS :)
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Re: Street Art or Graffiti an Eye-sore?
By: Catherine Date: August 14, 2011, 5:43 pm
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I would love to see some...
if there is any where you've living now... I would like to see
some...
I was put onto a site last night by a guy I meet down at the Sth
Fremantle Power station... the site is called 12 Oz Prophet...
I went there and saw stuff from my city...
stuff I have never seen before.
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Re: Street Art or Graffiti an Eye-sore?
By: flabby-o Date: August 15, 2011, 1:12 pm
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I live close to Edmonton, a city of nearly a million people.
It's tough, gritty, and the murder capital of Canada. Not only
do we have all other cities in Canada per capita, we also have
the highest body count. The other city in Alberta is Calagary
and they only have three murders so far. We've got them beat by
over ten times!!! Which is kinda crazy because cities like
Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver dwarf Edmonton in population
comparison.
But to get to the point...
It's hard to tell how bad ass Edmonton is just to look at it. We
have anti graffitii laws where property owners face stiff fines
if they don't clean up the graffitii from their buildings.
Hence, graffitii in Edmonton is next to non existent. Once
again, if I wanted to get good pics of awesome graffitii I'd
have to go all the way to Vancouver.
In short, Edmonton sucks...
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Re: Street Art or Graffiti an Eye-sore?
By: Catherine Date: August 15, 2011, 4:41 pm
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I am in two minds about graffiti …. I like “street art” but
really hate taggers tagging… its very ugly stuff...
I like what our community does and encourages community art
projects… they’re fun, they’re legal but only the most talented
get the grants leaving the untalented no where to express
themselves…
Way back my nephews cousin who is no blood relation to me got
caught …. He was only about 13 at the time (about 26 now) so he
had to have someone come around once a week and show them
artwork graffiti style in a scrape book he made…it was a good
idea because it was an outlet for him… now when they‘re young,
they can be caught early and redirected into doing something
positive on a computer or use visual diaries to express a
composition. …. Now having said that.. I took plenty of shots of
mindless tagging over good urban art in that building I have
been busy photographing, The South Fremantle Power station,
(abandoned building)…
I even used one of the pictures to draw over a piece of work… I
thought about joining the graffiti site but I would only just
argue with the cretins that post on it… I am against work done
on peoples properties without permission… I think permission
should sort but I guess a lot of the fun for some is in the
fact, they want to vandalize not just make a mark on the art
scene. And the reason I say this is because of a comment I saw
yesterday on the graffiti forum where one poster said, I am a
vandal first and graffiti artist second… that was at 12 oz
Prophet Perth site… a young kid put me onto the site on the
weekend.
HTML http://www.12ozprophet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97950&page=57
There is some mind blowing work there but a lot of real crap
too.
When someone makes an illustration on a wall, they’re the author
of the property… right? Drawing over a great work would make the
illustrator, feel bad…. No one likes to paint over good art but
there would be a low percentage that wouldn’t care and enjoy
ruining someone’s great work out of spite and or jealousy.
I graffiti’d over this guys graffiti… I think it would be a
blast if he saw it and was pissed I’d wrecked his work…lol
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But the idea of actually using a picture you have taken and then
used a program to draw over it like ms paint or something would
work for young kids needing an outlet to express themselves… but
there is nothing better than having the freedom to work on a
large area and then stand back and watch it’s progress… I work
large canvases successfully so I know the feeling… working small
has it limitations but more work actually can go into smaller
spaces than over a large area.
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Re: Street Art or Graffiti an Eye-sore?
By: flabby-o Date: August 17, 2011, 11:44 pm
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I'd have never thought you'd be quite so passionate about
graffitti. That's fairly nifty.
Yeah, when I was somewhat into graff, my stuff was a more
cryptic type stuff. In the early 90's my graff even made it on
a MuchMusic video that an Edmonton rap band made. There's a pool
hall on the edge of downtown that me and my fella's used to
frequent, and behind the pool hall used to stand a concrete
skeleton of an unfished office building left derelict because of
the 80's recession. We used to drink and party quite often and
one day I put my tag on one pillar and a menacing skull on
another. Anyways, in the video there's this rapper guy playing
chess against the devil. The rapper guy was sitting right under
my tag and the devil was sitting under the skull. so when I saw
that on TV for the first time I thought that was pretty cool.
I've searched and searched for that video online but never ever
found it. It was called With a Raised Fist or something like
that...
But yeah, that's about as much fame as I managed gained with my
little graffitti hobby...
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Re: Street Art or Graffiti an Eye-sore?
By: Catherine Date: August 18, 2011, 6:24 am
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this?
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXaD74gfcW8
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