Graffiti around your town

[love*today]

I love seeing graffiti, especially ones with a message.

Are people in your town speaking out? would love to see pics 🙂

[freshwater-2]

Way back when....someone wrote on the railway wall at Kings Cross (in Sydney)...my mother made me a gay.

Someone wrote underneath.....if I bought the wool would she make me one too.

[freakiness]

I'd like to see more of this style

http://weburbanist.com/2008/12/14/3d-graffiti-street-art/

[icyfroth]

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@chuk_77 wrote:

Round the corner from my house, took 3 days to do

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what does that say?

[Anonymous]

I dont have any graffiti pics to post from around town, just saying hi LT!

[daydream**believer]

IMO if the person has permission to paint it, then its not graffiti.

Otherwise, its vandalism. I dont care how "pretty" it is. If they dont have permission to do it, they are breaking the law and should be charged

[lurker17260]

Kind of aligned to she eles story, there is a large rock by the side of the highway near Braidwood in NSW that is regularly painted with messages. Usually they are just of the Happy Birthday type but I did once see a Marry Me? plee. It's quite cute.

[freshwater-2]

I'd like to see more of this style

Me too Freaki.  I find 99% of graffiti ugly.

IMO your examples are street art.

I am a great admirer of Banksy, the world famouts street artist.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

I like some graffiti, some of the perpetrators are very talented.

I get annoyed when they paint rail wagons though. Particulary when they spray over the Wagon Id number that I need to document, or they spray over the reflective safety strips. The black wagons are hard enough to see of a night.

[ca04]

 if the person has permission to paint it, then its not graffiti.

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Graffito is singular.

Graffiti  is plural.

The meaning is "scribble on the wall"

Includes "an inscription or drawing scribbed on a wall"

From Collins and backed up by my wog mates. 🙂

So in any case it is still Graffito/Graffiti.

[icyfroth]

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@ca04 wrote:

 if the person has permission to paint it, then its not graffiti.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Graffito is singular.

Graffiti  is plural.

The meaning is "scribble on the wall"

Includes "an inscription or drawing scribbed on a wall"

From Collins and backed up by my wog mates. 🙂

So in any case it is still Graffito/Graffiti.

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To put an even finer point on it...if it's painting as in art, it's not graffiti is it? Going by your own post, art, as in painting pictures, is not scribbling on walls, is it? Like tagging with a spray can for eg.

And if pictures are painted on walls and footpaths by permission of the owners or councils, it's rightly called "street art", is it not?