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02:33 / 15.03.02

The funniest graffiti I saw was written in black marker on the bathroom mirror of one of the local bars..." And you wonder why you're going home alone???"

11:20 / 15.03.02

In my local, someone's written
'clean the fucking bogs, Brian'
Many's the time I've stood pondering that one.

Funnily enough, someone wrote 'why do this every day' on a wall I occasionally go past. Thing is, I don't go past it every day and when I do, I'm normally going to a pub.

Depends on the journey, I guess.

And once more, in case anyone missed it, the most heartwarming bit of graffiti I've seen recently was the word 'Barbelith' in big letters on a raliway bridge on the Birmingham/Redditch line. Ahhh.

The Planet of Sound

11:47 / 15.03.02

quote:

Btw the stencil stuff in London might be done by Banksy

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Am now a fan of Banksy ('Chequebook Vandalism'); his stuff is everywhere, and yes, very funny; he's done a Grenadier guardsman having a piss down by the Tate (past Vinopolis) which is most amusing, and other stuff nearby. Is he affiliated with Cargo (the club) as he seems to have done lots of stuff near them?

12:54 / 15.03.02

Mr Y youve just solved a nagging voice in my already crowded head, i could have sworn i saw the same thing but i didnt see it for long enough to actally confirm.

Own up, who was it? (if your a lurker youll find the brummie lithers quite freindly)

untill they eat you

joking

(not really)

incendentlly i love banksys stuff but the stencilling thing is a typical french form of grafitti

(contaraversail statment of the day)
Tagging is the calligraphy of the 21st century.

discuss (no more than 3 squillion words)

Fengs for the Memory

13:01 / 15.03.02

On the side of a house in Leeds - Get lost satan.

13:06 / 15.03.02

on the back of someone's back fence, in a lane i had to walk through every time i had to go and buy the paper for my grandpa:

NOB SUCKS DOGS BALLS.

from the age of ten. I ask you.

well, he would, wouldn't he? he's a nob.

m.

13:09 / 15.03.02

That was from my Dad, it actually said 'Get lost Santa.' Cheap bastard.

Puck - my apologies - I thought the bridge job might be one of yours after a few too many turbo-shandies. It is in your neck of the woods too... So who was it?

Come on, we won't grass - is there another Brumbelither out there?

<creepy whisper>
One of us, one of us, one of us......

Tagging is the new calligraphy? Hmmm.

Tagging leads to broken fingers if I catch people at it on my frigging wall. As I explained to the last person I caught at it, I don't mind something representative and things that actually 'say something' to me, but someone squiggling a name in incomprehensible letters gets on my wick.

Funnily enough, he decided to leave it at a nice drawing.

[ 15-03-2002: Message edited by: mr y ]

13:21 / 15.03.02

as the famous qoute nearly goes
"i wish i had painted that"
"you will, you will"

Mr Y, you have a wall!? is it big? can i paint it?

Did you see the cryptic rely to "why do this every day" someone else painted underneath it "i dont plan to choose your future", at the risk of looking a fool, what in monkeys name does that mean

everyone plaese keep this thread going im doing an essay on grafitti for college and if this thread reaches 3000 words ill just hand it in mubling somthing about deconstructing the conventions of "essay"

[ 15-03-2002: Message edited by: Puck ]

09:55 / 16.03.02

I live in a place called Tallaght. (pronounced "Tah-Lah")

On the motorway into Tallaght, there is a sign that says, appropriately enough, Tallaght

Underneath which, someone has painted is gay

Tallaght is gay

It makes me laugh everytime I see it. It's so...unimaginative and juvinile yet still manages to be funny.

In Dublin city there is graffiti that reads Burn, Babylon, Burn, which I find a little unsettling...

10:47 / 17.03.02

I have always enjoyed "ELVIS LIVES.... IN MY PANTS," available for viewing at the Deadwood in Iowa City, IA.

And of course being the lowbrow type I love finding things like "Amber is a fuckin' slut" or "John Spencer has a small ass dick" and the like.

It's a whole little microcosm, going on in bathrooms everywhere...

18:16 / 17.03.02

(threadrot)i went to school with a John Spencer, it was the name that we gave to the police whenever we were caught for anything(threadrot)

18:22 / 17.03.02

near finsbury park, someone has painted the classic "KEN DODD'S DAD'S DOG'S DEAD"

these days, I try to find classic graffiti - you know, "NO BLOOD FOR OIL" or even better, something about the poll tax

18:27 / 17.03.02

ive often ruminated on this piece of graffiti by where i used to catch the bus for school, it must have been painted with superpermipaint cos its been there for 17 years that i know of, The real bitch is that it doesnt actually mean anything

S W A F T
J O L L Y
R O G E R

exactally like that letter under letter.

18:41 / 17.03.02

I just remembered another one. If you're walking down Tottenham Court Road from Goodge Street, towards TCR station, you can see it on your right.

It was obviously supposed to be some sort of "community mural", it covers the whole side of a block, but it's all about how crap it is to live there, and how landlords are bastards. Everybody looks miserable, and there are all these pictures of vampires in suits with briefcases.

I'll try and get a picture of it next weekend, it's a classic.

21:05 / 18.03.02

And outside my house [never live near a school] we now have a beautifully vandalised bus stop.

The sign reads:

Temporary Bus Stop
and underneath someone has written
For Trans, Lez and Gays

I don't understand. A gay bus stop?

Puck, I'm afraid my wall isn't very big [for some reason I'm ashamed to say it, in case admitting my wall is small impacts on my masculinity] and you normally can't see it coz the car's parked in front of it.
Unfortunately, this doesn't stop the schoolkids from scribbling on it - as they do on everything in sight. Nothing interesting, just 'Jennie is a slag' type stuff.

I have to walk my dog quite quickly in the morning, in case the kids scribble on her.

'i dont plan to choose your future'
Hmmmmmm
or possibly -
'I don't choose to plan your future'
Deep.

As in deep shite.

I dunno if you've seen it, but they did have some good graffiti art at the Brum Museum and Art Gallery a while back - some of it was the stuff by the guy who recently did the limited edition Sprite cans/bottles over, so it's a bit commercial but...

15:55 / 19.03.02

"Jenny rave on the Pigs"
Not deep, not profound, just never forgot it. Would make a cool name for a band though.

Reason.

22:55 / 19.03.02

mr Y- that stuff was a guy called Temper most of it was boring childish shite that any halfway compitant tool using simaian should have done before they were old enough to shit on there hands and rub on a canvass, the only reason they bothered exibatibing his stuff is so they can play the "right on" card and attract the citys yoof to the place

if you really want to see some airosol art try the canals at selly oak

anyone else a compiant tagger or graffiti artist? i really need to interveiw some people for an essay any help would be appricated

22:59 / 19.03.02

sorry just realised how arsey that last post sounded, dont mean to be, its just that anytime i had to explain my influnces to my tutors at college i had to site that fuking exabition cos it was there only frame of refrance and the only way they would even acknowlege that the stuff i was into called be called "art".

06:49 / 20.03.02

Ah, yes, Temper.

I did wander around suggesting his name should actually be Temper Tantrum.

I'm afraid as far as graffiti goes, that was pretty much all I could think of to help out. I know a few mural artists though, with enough dodgy background to suggest that they don't limit themselves to their paid work, so I shall do some trawling...

02:37 / 05.06.02

*bump*

This is the funniest grafitti i've seen all year:

Aren't kids cute when they're evil?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

07:21 / 05.06.02

ROTFLMAO! Whose are the crib-lizards, MW? They're wonderful.

08:45 / 05.06.02

The local 24 cafe in my college hometown has SMASH ZIONISM on the towel dispenser in the men's restroom. My male friends resist the urge to put HULK in front of it every time they go in there.

Alas, the women's restroom has only UNDERPANTS, written in 4 inch high red letters on the back of the door. We lack creativity, I suppose.

08:55 / 05.06.02

Mordant: I don't know who the kids are. I just found the picture on another message board. On second thought, maybe they're Alice Cooper's kids...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:16 / 05.06.02

I remember going to Newbury for a weekend to take some supplies up to the guys who were doing the camps against the bypass- in Newbury train station was a wall that had, bang slap in the middle, "Tracy Walker Is A Slag". Very faded. Around which, the entire wall was covered with "Tracy Walker is your mum", "Tracy Walker is a giant robot", and my personal favourite (no time to list them ALL here), "Tracy Walker is a CIA agent".

Went again a couple of weeks later. The wall was freshly scrubbed, apart from, in biro, "Tracy Walker is a slag". And underneath...

"Oh fuck. Here we go again." That last one is my favourite. Ever. (Apart from the JC's "My raison d'etre is to suck cock". Which rules.)

13:25 / 05.06.02

Under a bridge in Montreal :

Just Watch TV and Worry

ONLY NICE THINGS

13:26 / 05.06.02

Lovely grafitto in the toilets of Office in (where else) Brighton, where a stall has been decorated with "Women like it up the arse". To which somebody has, in the interests of correctness and clarity, added in red "so do men!"

Bless!

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

13:37 / 05.06.02

in a bar in upstate ny i read, will sitting in the filthy restroom

"My mother made me a homosexual"
and under neath in another color:
"if i send her the wool will she make me one too?"

13:38 / 05.06.02

Seen on the wall of a house near my home (in France) : "pour cause d'indifférence générale, demain est annulé"
Wich can be translated as : "because of general lack of concern, tomorrow is cancelled"

I like this one a lot.

14:02 / 05.06.02

Can I mention the "AURAL GUERRILLA" I saw scrawled on a wall on Mayday? I loved that one..

The Natural Way

14:23 / 05.06.02

Then of course there's the "GO ON! PHONE IN SICK!" Graff littered around Brighton.

God, this is the best thread. Keep 'em coming......

14:33 / 05.06.02

My male friends resist the urge to put HULK in front of it every time they go in there.

do it.

do it.

14:46 / 05.06.02

When I was at school, the whole of shrewsbury had 'FOAD WALSH' written absolutley everywhere. It was written by a girl called Janet who had been two timed by her boyfriend Paul Walsh - FOAD meaning 'Fuck off and die'.

The killer was, our headmaster was asking if we knew a'Foad Walsh' and to ask him to stop writing his name everywhere. Old FOADy even got in the local rag, when a local vicar complained that a Foad Walsh had spray painted his name across his church.

Later on there were 'FOAD WALSH LIVES!' slogans everywhere. Class.

18:34 / 05.06.02

New one in Dublin, following the anti-capitalism marches:
ME NO LIKE THE CAPITALISMS

19:23 / 05.06.02

A former roommate was quite fond of spray painting the cheery expression: "GIVE US YOUR CHILDREN! WHAT WE CAN'T FUCK, WE'LL EAT!"

or maybe that last part was the other way around.... ah, you get the picture....

Less searchable M0rd4nt

19:26 / 05.06.02

Fra Dolcino: I beg of you- please tell me that was true and not made up.

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