graffiti

[blackrain]

My partner walked down the road to our nearest Aldi to fetch some shopping. As he was leaving he noticed some graffiti on the shop's delivery entrance. It read 'God does not exist, extraterrestrials are using humans as food source, unfortunately you are part of the food chain.!!!' That was two days ago it has now been wiped away which is surprising as normal graffiti (including Arabic) is left for months. Anybody got any thoughts on this??

 

[paralleloscope]

I wonder how 'ordinary' people around Aldi would respond to such a line, funny but understandable how such a notice would get erased faster than the usual 'stickpoking of the koncensusbubble' sayings. What one-liners would be powerful to get people thinking?, 'Life is religion' is the most powerful i can think of but if one was to put mention of the comsological order in which we play, how simple has it been said or could be.

I play Teamfortress2 (less and less) which let's you spray a custom designed image on the walls of the virtual world, so far i have been using the Dostovievsky- 'Everybody talks about changing the world..Noone thinks of changing them selves'

 

[Cyre2067]

Wow, that's awesome Blackrain. I can't believe someone spray painted that.

 

[Gawan]

My partner walked down the road to our nearest Aldi to fetch some shopping. As he was leaving he noticed some graffiti on the shop's delivery entrance. It read 'God does not exist, extraterrestrials are using humans as food source, unfortunately you are part of the food chain.!!!' That was two days ago it has now been wiped away which is surprising as normal graffiti (including Arabic) is left for months. Anybody got any thoughts on this??

Great find.

I think Aldi (when you mean the supermarket brand originated from Germany), is very busy about things like that: to remove anything what doesn't belong in their picture.
It happened in a town where also was one graffiti on a Aldi-market, not something mindful like that, but has been gone also in a very short time.

 

[Willow]

did he catch a foto? i would like to see that piece.

 

[987baz]

Dostovievsky- 'Everybody talks about changing the world..Noone thinks of changing them selves'

wow, i love this quote, thanks for sharing :) I will go and google Dostovievsky now as this is the first I have heard of him

 

[myth]

Don't know if this is considered off topic but ,What is the consensus about Graffiti?
Is it vandalism? Art?
Expression? Self-image?

 

[mkrnhr]

consensus?

 

[Lilou]

In this particular case, it seemed to be a billboard. I've never given much thought to graffiti, although I have seen some beautiful murals done by graffiti artists. It's one of those things that looks cool, as long as they haven't spray painted the side of my building! So, there in lies the twist.

I have heard of people giving graffiti artists permission to paint - which would be the STO thing to do -ask before defacing someone elses property. In our small town, for years & years, there was a sign someone posted at the entrance to a shopping center. It read "Sovereignty Forever, NWO Never!!!" I bet that sign stayed there for 15 years. I was sorry when new construction took it down. But my point is, they put up a billboard without destroying someone elses property.

Even though that sign is gone....I hope the spirit of its message is still alive. And thanks for the post, Blackrain, it gives me hope!

 

[Gawan]

Don't know if this is considered off topic but ,What is the consensus about Graffiti?
Is it vandalism? Art?
Expression? Self-image?

IMO it depends on the situation on who has done it and what is done. On illegal graffiti I would say, that it is mainly about a self-image and messages for the graffiti-scene itself, cause not everybody can read it and all these letters often have no specific meaning, only for the sprayer and scene itself.

 

[Tigersoap]

I don't think there is any consensus at all.
It's still considered illegal to use a wall even if you're doing a great street art collage on it for example.

Do I love such kind of expression, I sure do but it's not something that can be labelled easily as it takes so many forms and shapes.
From the improvised tagger to the painter who does this on a factory wall instead of a canvas it's always a question of context imho.

For example I'd check this website for a large panel of different graffiti and street art related works

_http://www.woostercollective.com/