Comments on: When paint is outlawed http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/06/09/when_paint_is_outlawed/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:00:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Manish http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/06/09/when_paint_is_outlawed/comment-page-1/#comment-89000 Manish Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:29:20 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/06/09/when_paint_is_outlawed/#comment-89000 Does this law include a "straw purchase" provision for those under 18 and older than 21? Does this law include a “straw purchase” provision for those under 18 and older than 21?

]]> By: Standard Mischief http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/06/09/when_paint_is_outlawed/comment-page-1/#comment-88838 Standard Mischief Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:51:39 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/06/09/when_paint_is_outlawed/#comment-88838 Art and vandalism are not mutuality exclusive. I do wonder about professional groups like Tat's Cru, They paint murals for business but I wonder if there's an element of "protection insurance" included. And then there's the <a href="”http://www.flickr.com/photos/lpq/67343805/”" rel="nofollow">fony paystation</a> thingy. (<a href="”http://standardmischief.com/2005/12/03/why-sony-sux-fony-teh-sucks-sony-graffiti/”" rel="nofollow">my blog entry</a>) Art and vandalism are not mutuality exclusive.

I do wonder about professional groups like Tat’s Cru, They paint murals for business but I wonder if there’s an element of “protection insurance” included.

And then there’s the fony paystation thingy. (my blog entry)

]]> By: Brutal Hugger http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/06/09/when_paint_is_outlawed/comment-page-1/#comment-88828 Brutal Hugger Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:33:27 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/06/09/when_paint_is_outlawed/#comment-88828 I have a friend who is a bomber from way back. He's done some incredible work, some of it legal, some of it not, but all of it amazing. There's an overpass on the NYState Thruway that he rocked so hard nobody has touched it for over a decade. He did a cube truck that turned heads wherever it went. Another friend of mine is an working artist and only turns to rattle cans every few years. He does ethereal murals that make you want to turn all the city's walls over to him. Some graffiti is vandalism and some of it is art motivated by a philosophy. Sometimes it's both at the same time. Juvenile tagging doesn't do much for me, but large format paintings in the bomber style can be art. If you want to see something really cool (and legal) in this vein, check out David Ellis and the Barnstormers. Their motion painting, <a href="Truck" rel="nofollow">http://www.freshwatercatfish.org/work/?show=motionpainting&work=truck</a>, is online. They also did an antiwar piece called Letter to the President that was just amazing and got lots of praise at art shows all over the country. I have a friend who is a bomber from way back. He’s done some incredible work, some of it legal, some of it not, but all of it amazing. There’s an overpass on the NYState Thruway that he rocked so hard nobody has touched it for over a decade. He did a cube truck that turned heads wherever it went.

Another friend of mine is an working artist and only turns to rattle cans every few years. He does ethereal murals that make you want to turn all the city’s walls over to him.

Some graffiti is vandalism and some of it is art motivated by a philosophy. Sometimes it’s both at the same time. Juvenile tagging doesn’t do much for me, but large format paintings in the bomber style can be art.

If you want to see something really cool (and legal) in this vein, check out David Ellis and the Barnstormers. Their motion painting, http://www.freshwatercatfish.org/work/?show=motionpainting&work=truck, is online. They also did an antiwar piece called Letter to the President that was just amazing and got lots of praise at art shows all over the country.

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