Graffiti

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I was driving through a suburb this morning
and (although I don't like graffiti) someone had
sprayed "Smile - you're Alive!"
on a big wall

Intelligent graffiti is great. I first got into doing it when I noticed that there wasn't any where I live now and there was where I used to live. After I started more started popping up.

I like graffiti as long as it's tasteful.

i love graffiti. it brightens up the walls which otherwise would have been drab and boring and lets face it- we all need something to read in a public toilet. of course i prefer artful murals to hasty scrawls but even they are not so bad because they are like marks that leave a trace of the person that makes them behind for us to find. they are territorial markings. when i come home from overseas it is not the gum trees, carolling currawongs, smells or city lights that tell me i am home, it is the tags on the walls.( vice and KGB are the most prolific in my area) hidous but still... in australia i think the newtown area has the best graffiti. it has its own wikipedia page.

Most graffiti I've seen is just unintelligible gang stuff or penises, there is little redeeming qualities about that. The interesting ones are few and far in between.

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As long as it isn't on my building, I enjoy graffiti. It's good to be reminded someone is alive out there and interested in communicating noncommercially.

Personally, I think graffiti shows a completely lack of respect for things that don't belong to you.

I hate graffiti. It looks trashy.

I like it all, even the illegible penises.
I used to live in Montreal and that's a city with tonnes of quality graffiti.

Most advertising I see out in the street is an annoying, noisy corporate graffiti and it deserves to be torn down on grounds of taste alone - never mind defaced with another form of graffiti.

Meanwhile - I saw some really nicely painted graffiti (at the base of a derelict viaduct and almost hidden by bushes, for those of a delicate sensibility) and it said "ART". It seemed to say something quite profound, and really made me stop and think.
But then, on the other side of the viaduct pier, I saw some examples of the more talentless tagging type - and realised that the one I liked actually said "AFC" - the initials of a football club.
That made me think too, but for entirely different reasons.

Most of the walls of concrete on each side of a certain stretch of railway track I used for commuting to/from London were covered in graffiti - some of it just messy tagging, but much of it was very cleverly done and a joy to see.
I see no harm in that, even though it's done on someone else's property - and apparently the owners agreed because it was never cleaned off.