Monday, October 18, 2010
Graffiti in San Bernardino
I usually see graffiti on free way overpasses, trains, residential walls, liquor stores, and billboards in San Bernardino. Freeway overpasses intrigue me the most because I often see the tagging and wonder how the taggers get themselves on the side of the bridge. I haven't seen Spider-man around lately, so it's like do they repel themselves down or are they just hanging on to ledges. It's pretty awesome when you think about it. Some of the other places are less dangerous, unless you're afraid of heights and scared to climb a billboard ladder. I know some taggers who graff in train yards and hit other places like liquor stores at night. Where else have you seen tagging/graffiti?
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I've seen graffiti on light poles and on the sidewalks. There was a time where some graffiti artists would leave their mark on someone's concrete wall. I doubt the owners of the wall appreciated the addition though.
ReplyDeleteI wonder about those freeway billboards too, when do they have time to climb up and do that? I mean there is constant traffic on the freeways at all times of the day and night right?
The greatest graffiti I ever saw was when I went to New York, and on the way to and from Spanish Harlem, Queens, there was this section of abandoned buildings completely covered in it and it looked amazing. I don't care for graffiti at all, but even I had to take a picture of this fascinating site. It looked like the graffiti I've seen in some art surveys books (where it's portrayed as strictly art). Honestly though, I don't agree with graffiti. The only time it should be done is as art, or MAYBE an abandoned building, and with permission from the county. Graffiti is vandalism in most cases. It ruins people's property, especially in public places that are trying to run a business - even people's homes. Seeing it all over our cities makes them look run-down and abandoned and as if the city leaders don't care. It's a lot of work to take off and upsets people, so why do people do it?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-billboards-improved-by-graffiti
ReplyDeleteI saw this and immediately thought about how it could add some sort of a twist to your topic/issue.
Can graffiti in a way improve billboards? I think the obvious response is, "NO!"
But, I was completely thrown off by a majority of these pictures. This sheds some new light on graffiti, or at least to me it does.