http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/2005/12/23/arresting-graffiti/ redraw democracy Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:33:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/2005/12/23/arresting-graffiti/#comment-1755 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:04:50 +0000 http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/2005/12/23/arresting-graffiti/#comment-1755 an art student, by court order, not allowed to carry art supplies to and from class--sounds straight of a vonnegut story. following up with you elliot on that earlier post, while some might have felt let down by what vpnnegut said in that speech, i think he was challenging people to find another route to bring humanity back together. i think in that link i sent you guys, he says music/ear candy can do it. myself, eyecandy like TVboy's can do it as well. an art student, by court order, not allowed to carry art supplies to and from class–sounds straight of a vonnegut story. following up with you elliot on that earlier post, while some might have felt let down by what vpnnegut said in that speech, i think he was challenging people to find another route to bring humanity back together. i think in that link i sent you guys, he says music/ear candy can do it. myself, eyecandy like TVboy’s can do it as well.

]]> http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/2005/12/23/arresting-graffiti/#comment-1751 Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:33:12 +0000 http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/2005/12/23/arresting-graffiti/#comment-1751 “it can also be a child’s plea for help or a way of processing the struggles of life.” I couldn't agree more with the second half of this comment. And it just stresses what Josh Macphee has expressed in his last lecture and slide show he gave in NYC, that graffiti is a democratic form of communication. It is when these insitutions are successfull at repressing, even, the urge to communicate in public. It is clear that if Police Chief Kunkle, the property "owners", and advertisers have their way, there will be very little dialogue in public. Write on. “it can also be a child’s plea for help or a way of processing the struggles of life.”
I couldn’t agree more with the second half of this comment.
And it just stresses what Josh Macphee has expressed in his last lecture and slide show he gave in NYC, that graffiti is a democratic form of communication. It is when these insitutions are successfull at repressing, even, the urge to communicate in public. It is clear that if Police Chief Kunkle, the property “owners”, and advertisers have their way, there will be very little dialogue in public.
Write on.

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