Just. Just Dont Spray Paint Residential Buildings. Thats Not Cool. - Tumblr Posts

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2 years ago

I started to notice more graffiti above street level, on other train bridges, on rooftops, on high walls and car flyovers. How had those writers gotten there? Soon, wherever I went, I saw less the cold iron-and-brick brutality and more the masked persons climbing nimbly down the crosshatchings of the pilings, sprinting across the gravel, spray-painting the walls; less the steel girders and I-beams, and more the running and jumping and climbing and the thrill of hanging above the bustling road. A well-placed piece of graffiti, I realized, meant that someone had actually been there and written it—which suddenly meant that London, which is covered in graffiti, was way more open than all the CCTV and fences and walls suggested. Here’s how to look at London. Here’s how to live in London. Here I am, the writer says, in this place I can’t be.

Clement Gelly, “Graffiti, Through Grief and Discovery”, pub. Hazlitt [transcript in ALT]

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reblog haven for real though graffiti culture and graffiti in general is so fucking interesting like we actually researched this stuff for fun and there so much to it and we start to notice little signs and graffiti tags and learn what specific artists' territory claim is and its awesome just. just dont spray paint residential buildings. thats not cool. also office buildings are mostly off limits too unless its like abandoned or smth but that shady bricky wall alley way in the depths of the city? hell yeah go make it pretty The boring construction fence? yeah bro traffic signs? ehhhh- depends on what it is and where you paint but the back of it is pretty much free game theres so much cool and interesting terminology to learn that being said dont get caught spray painting or you could get fined label maker and sticker graffiti is probably legal though cause its just a stciker so go wild Sapnap.exe Chara.exe Ran.exe Evan.exe

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