Sunday, April 11, 2010

I just have to rant about Graffiti....

Graffiti in Los Angeles.
[Credit: Marianna Day Massey—Zuma/Corbis]A form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Although the common image of graffiti is a stylistic symbol or phrase spray-painted on a wall by a member of a street gang, some graffiti is not gang-related. Graffiti can be understood as antisocial behaviour performed in order to gain attention or as a form of thrillseeking, but it also can be understood as an expressive art form.




GRAFFITI
Derived from the Italian word graffio (“scratch”), graffiti (“incised inscriptions,” plural but often used as singular) has a long history. For example, markings ... (100 of 564 words)
Britannica Online

I just ...hate, hate, hate, loathe entirely....
(what movie is that line from and who said it?)
Graffiti


I'm not talking about the murals, and the, if you will, constructive graffiti. 
Aesthetic graffiti, but the black, ugly scrawl that I saw on my drive home tonight.
Someone decided to do what most animals do to claim their territory. 
They...excuse my grotesque slang, pissed on the wall with their ink. 
It's so completely vulgar and repulsive to me that I had to use an equally revolting word to describe it. 


I have always thought that the people who do that, must not have much better things to do, or they are jealous of the neighborhood and deface it because of their envy. 


I mean, I know it's, like I said, a marking of their territory much the same as animals mark theirs. 
Wow! How classy is that?
But it really isn't their territory.
Half the time they don't even live where they mark a wall.


Public caning is what is done in Singapore for those who lack self-control with their ink on other people's property.


*The Grinch, Jim Carrey

2 comments:

  1. hating graffiti. That's awesome. i hate the stuff, too. What is your city doing about it?

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  2. It just keeps on painting over it and keeping up with it.
    It's called "job security" right?

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