Comments on: Another fake graffiti ad campaign

by: Vigrx Plus

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:30:58 +0000

I would like to say you all some this. This type of blogs is very informative but some guys miss use it just like thay divert the topic and I don’t like this .

by: mole

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:04:26 +0000

hey “tony” at the top of the comments. i think that you shud be more open to street art. everyone has been to an art museum and thought that the entrance fee was too high. most art in galleries is elitist with an entrance fee to get in. graff artists display their art on the best walls in town for free. would you have seen Monet doing a painting on someones garage or a great wall for free? i think not. anyway most kids hu do graff have to pay for the paint on their own accord to get up.

by: enrique vamp

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:26:39 +0000

I think the standard history of the street art movement leaves out a lot of things i think are important.

by: sophie

Mon, 01 May 2006 16:08:13 +0000

im a teenager and know people that graffit, graffiti is an art form and could be used to make more teenagers interested in politics and advertising. howvere, if there were places that were left for relevant graffit, then there would an awful lot less on people’s walls.

by: eliot

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:50:36 +0000

In our zine we encourage people to think about their locations and avoid residencies and small businesses. That said, if it costs you $6,000 to clean up a stencil, you should be mad at your maintenance company, not the kid who did the stencil! A quart of white paint and a brush should run you less than $10 at the local hardware store.

Don’t know if you’re a working musician or not, but in New York during the Giuliani years and to a slightly lesser extent in the Bloomberg years we’ve gone through a series of crackdowns on “illegal” clubs and parties and draconian enforcement of forgotten cabaret laws. Quality of life crimes are notoriously selective in their application. Careful where you draw the line on what’s legitimate and what’s not. When you start keeping pace they start changing up the tempo…

by: KMR

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:05:41 +0000

I love art and music. I particularly like political art and music (I am a musician myself). Some street artists have talent and do good work, but to me it is beside the point. So here’s a unpopular position for this web site: When you don’t own the “canvas” it is vandalism (and before anyone calls me a Republican — I despise Bush and this war). I don’t care if it’s good art or bad, for a corporation or for yourself. Where I live in DC “Borf” has defaced historical buildings and small businesses. Screw Borf the suburban, rich, wannabe anarchist. I hope they make him pay the cost of cleaning up what he did. One local small business owner is an immigrant who is just scraping by. Cleaning up Borf’s work cost him $6000! Again…screw Borf. And everyone else like him. Wanna help the world? Find a way to help people and stop kidding yourself that you are making a difference. You’re not.

by: sum1

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:04:47 +0000

eliot, i perfectly agree with your article above, with one exception. the whole discussion is tiresome, any publicity is good publicity, and selling your soul for a few bucks is just what it is. everybody has to go by this or another way, but if what you love is sold it’s like turning your girlfriend or daughter into a prostitute. i was appalled at woosters “tolerance”. i was already apalled when they feautured the absolut vodka ads without any kind of critisism before that.

nevertheless, in one very central aspect you err. ads do always have a message! they work only and predominantly because of the underlying message. they sell a lifestyle, a way of life, the massega is always “you are cool, smart, avantgarde rebellious” or whatever. so you buy the message, you buy being cool, smart, avantgarde or rebellious.

in this sense this campaign does fit perfectly.

by: rations

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:53:21 +0000

thanks eliot, sound good and yeah, id like to see more real online discussions about the issues. if everyone is going to put up pictures it seems like we can have real discussions too. and sorry if i seem critica k.see and of course guys like borf, banksy, jones are all worth their weight in gold and worth checking out–maybe im just juvenille and don’t like when someone tells me i “should” anything…but its your site so if i dont like it i can go somewhere else. but truth is, i like your site a lot, and as a former grassroots activist its great to see the two being merged. but if your goal is to get more people active on the boards maybe once a week you could put a question/topic up for discussion. something that people have differing opnions on.

by: k.see

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:14:16 +0000

i hadn’t seen any of this last weeks reactions to the PSP til tonight,
guess i got some reading and gleaning to do, or not.
im more interested in taaking graf somewhere else…

by: k.see

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:09:33 +0000

“Sony’s mistake is a) they don’t have any moral code”
from
http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/12/wooster-fact-checkin.html

i just wanna mention, Sony is a corporation.
In capitalism, people put aside their morals and ethics,
that make making money a hell of a lot easier.
bottom line, profit.
kinda one-dinemsional, but so is cornering the market on
video game products