The "broken windows syndrome" is here since the 80's, hell, even earlier maybe. I first heard it in Style Wars (1982 graffiti documentary, i recommend it) when the mayor of NY was talking. I did read it, well..ok, i didn't, i quicky browsed through it, found nothing new and closed it.
How is a painted place a destroyed place? Your argument, sir, is completely invalid. Maybe i havent learned the value, but i know how much wall paint or paint thinner and some gloves and shit costs and how much can it clean. You could clean the whole ****ing Australia with only one million...maybe 2. It isn't much for a country like Australia.
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BR, it's odd, that your site has a "tag style" logo =D I suggest you to change it, it doesn't look good, no offense.
It may not be positive, it actually isn't very positive, but...you havent wrote man, you don't know how it feels, that's what i'm trying to say..none of you will EVER get it, no matter how close they've been involved.
Hi, i'm here in person, Laurx just quoted what i said.
No offense, but...
But yeah, you can't make people love it, i understand how you feel, but the way you feel...it's stupid. It's not always political, not revolutionary, it's not always art *points a finger at toys who think they're artists*. BUT, some writers are political. Do you think world is always in a need for revolution? No. Then why should we have revolutionary writers? Art? How is graffiti NOT art? When a man considered "artist" would do a mural or would do a full page piece with letters in it, you would call it art because it's done by a man that's a artist in your eyes, but when a man that calls himself a writer not artist and is underrated would do the same and mayb even better you would say that it's not art...