Thorns Have Roses
Bluelight Crew
No disagreement here. Fortunately there are many legal places for graffiti and other street art in many cities.
Yeah, those spaces are rather interesting, as a suburban person these things are foreign to me (and the only major city I've lived in didn't have such things to my knowledge). The closest we have is like, out of the way areas with a lot of concrete, usually involved in storm-water drainage or something, where young folk go crazy and no one cares (because no one goes out there except them).
In urban areas though, and illegally, it's one of the things that makes LA such an ugly city (as opposed to San Diego or something). Even if there are some really talented dudes making some of it.
SONN said:Theres just something awesome about being able to put your symbol in a public space especially when it has conceptual ideas about unaddressed issues in our society, IMO.
Maybe that's the motive behind some people doing things, but that shit doesn't make people address anything or think about those ideas seriously. They'll just be preaching to the choir, everyone else will think they're just a bunch of self-important, immature, jerk-bags.
There are more productive ways of channeling alienation and disaffection with the status quo, that are more respectful to your fellow citizens.