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In reply to the discussion: It took vandals one day to deface SF's new $3.5 million parks [View all]Marr
(20,317 posts)I'm not particularly interested in what the art world has to say. Besides, Shepard Fairey and Banksy are-- or were-- both commercial designers who could actually do more than smear their name on someone's house.
I'm not particularly tweaked about this skate park, just to be clear. I understand graffiti and street art are part of the that scene, and I was even in it when I was in art school.
I *do* have a problem with graffiti-- tagging and just smearing your name on other peoples' houses and buildings who don't want it there. It makes a neighborhood look like shit. Sure, it'd be more hep to just say, 'hey people are marking their neighborhood, making it theirs, blah blah blah', but you know what? It's just a shitty thing to do. The people that get this crap on their buildings and houses don't like it and for the most part, don't have the money to deal with it.