Bag'o'cans
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I'm getting pretty tired of bansky to be honest, some of it's good but....... mmm. I've seen alot better, seems to just have made a name for himself.
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Bag'o'cans said:I'm getting pretty tired of bansky to be honest, some of it's good but....... mmm. I've seen alot better, seems to just have made a name for himself.
Al Katraz said:That was freaking me out too. ICN and UEK. Maybe they're the same person. I don't care that it's there - it's a lot better than a load of ads for Guinness or Vodafone - but I'd like to know what they stand for. Anybody?
All part of the reason i'm bored of him. When the 45 year old bints in the office send emails of his stuff, then he's boooooring.MONDOBRUTALE said:what's up with kids buying / printing out banksy stencils and spraying them up around town? ohhh rioter throwing some flowers gotccchya
Antrophe said:stuff.
ever consider that people don't like it because it just looks shit?paul- said:I really dont understand how people get so worked up about seeing seeing tags around town.
Personally i feel all street art,wether its a banksy stencil or someone initials done with a shitty marker,helps brake the monotony of endless brick walls and billboards.
For me its more the act itself of illegally painting your name thats appealing,wether or not your work has an aesthetic value is secondry...(imho,i know people will disagree and i can understand why)
..by the way,UEK stands for underground elements krew(theres a few other meanings aswell),I used to be in them a few years back.
Burgerbarbaby said:visual piss
Yeah,I suppose...in that persons opinion.pete said:ever consider that people don't like it because it just looks shit?
sorry, but that's bollocks. 95% of dublin "graffiti" is worth as much respect as any amount of "deco loves sharon" scrawls. it's just mindless vandalism.paul- said:Yeah,I suppose...in that persons opinion.
Which is no more valid than the person who did its opinion.
I can respect both.
Ahhh!You sound like your parents should.pete said:sorry, but that's bollocks. 95% of dublin "graffiti" is worth as much respect as any amount of "deco loves sharon" scrawls. it's just mindless vandalism.
paul- said:Ahhh!You sound like your parents should.
no, i sound like your parents should.paul- said:Ahhh!You sound like your parents should.
1.OK...em,your first point about secret codes and references is lost on me.Burgerbarbaby said:Paul, Antrophe,
(random reconstructions of a post I lost a few minutes ago, hope it makes sense)
I sympathise with the argument about the sub-culture being impenetrable to the non-participant, having grown up listening to punk and metal.
I also find it interesting that a tag consisting of sometimes as few as seven or eight swipes of a spray can contain codes and references. Can you enlighten me further by giving an example of how this might work? If that doesn't involve breaking any group trust. I mean I can see the hand of at least two different people working on the ICN stuff but if there are references being made, then I'm missing them.
Is that true about coverage being one of the most important things? If so it's inadvertantly quite the fuck-you to the sizeable amount of people in the city who don't understand the game being played and don't understand or sympathise with tagging.
Yes, a crappy wall on an abandoned rail siding is brightened up by a really good tag, but when an old building made of Portland stone is permanently damaged by a quick tag because the stone has to be ground down to remove the paint, that is pretty crap.
Also, I don't think that tags break the monotony of the city, if anything they further
the city...no matter what part of the inner city you're in, you see the same two names over and over and over...
Are you saying that it's the kid who shouts loudest and for longest who will make the best tagger? Is that IT?
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