Oxford Circus station bombed on Christmas day (graffiti)

[agricola]

Of course do both. I spend a lot more time and energy going on about improving the quality and accessibility of public transport than I do going on about graffiti. I'm not even all that interested in "getting tough" on perpetrators - I think the existing policy of removing it ASAP is the most pragmatic solution. Mainly I just object to the nonsense that's talked about graffiti specifically applied to public transport vehicles and infrastructure being somehow a positive thing. Half of it is just put out there as a wind-up of course.

By the way one thing that has not been brought up in this thread, and something that glamourising the risk and danger ignores, is the effect that it has on people trying to do their job doing stuff like driving trains. Many of whom will have had near misses and a few who have to live with the consequences of being in charge of a vehicle that's killed someone.

Indeed, - or multiple someones, as happened in that tragedy near Loughborough Junction a few years ago. That wasn't just the driver either, or even just the families involved - a lot of people went to that scene and had to deal with it.

 

[Clair De Lune]

That's a real fucking mess. There's nothing at all "artistic" there
[the two Berlin ones are a bit better, from that point of view, but still are a blot on the landscape]
It'll cost a pretty penny (ie a lot of £££) to properly clean up.
& the station will need to be shut for safety reasons since the graffiti is over the far side of the tracks.

I'm sure TfL has plenty of money to spare, if not, maybe they'll sack a few drivers to pay for the clean up.

Graffiti really is the most pathetic pile of shit.

Fuck the horrible cunts that do it, I’d make them drink the contents of their fucking spraycans.

I’d love to follow these cunts home and spray paint their rooms, TV’s, clothes and possessions to see how the fuck they like it when it’s done to them.

*edited to add you can find him and his astounding work under #Odeith

 

[StoneRoad]

That's quite an artistic mural, I like it

 

[Clair De Lune]

"The Portuguese artist started creating realistic art in the '90s when it was first gaining prominence in the country. He started with simple sketches on street walls and train tracks but then advanced into large-scale 3D drawings."

 

[Gromit]

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*edited to add you can find him and his astounding work under #Odeith

Because he is good I bet he seeks permission first safe in the knowledge he is often granted it.

Therefore that is not graffiti and has nothing to do with this conversation. Go start a mural thread.

I’ll continue to moan about cunts doing ugly shit on property that doesn’t belong to them with complete disregard to the owners and others that use those spaces.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Because he is good I bet he seeks permission first safe in the knowledge he is often granted it.

Therefore that is not graffiti and has nothing to do with this conversation. Go start a mural thread.

I’ll continue to moan about cunts doing ugly shit on property that doesn’t belong to them with complete disregard to the owners and others that use those spaces.

Can gromits look up?

 

[Gromit]

I’d call graffiti artistic masturbation but it’s rarely that good.

 

[Clair De Lune]

He started grafitti on street walls and train tracks.

Interesting that when people like the graffiti it becomes a mural

 

[ddraig]

Because he is good I bet he seeks permission first safe in the knowledge he is often granted it.

Therefore that is not graffiti and has nothing to do with this conversation. Go start a mural thread.

I’ll continue to moan about cunts doing ugly shit on property that doesn’t belong to them with complete disregard to the owners and others that use those spaces.

shut up
it's still graffiti

 

[Clair De Lune]

Cognitive dissonance init. I hate grafitti ...I wish violence on these vandals...ooh nice mural

 

[maomao]

I don't like that hyper real style. I'd much rather see some decent hip-hop style writing or cartoon type drawings. It doesn't make me want to beat him up or drench his bedroom in paint though. Not sure what's wrong with me.

 

[maomao]

It would look much better with a couple of scrawled anarchy symbols and a big 'covid lies' in the middle of it all.

 

[platinumsage]

It would look much better with a couple of scrawled anarchy symbols and a big 'covid lies' in the middle of it all.

Or a Swastkia perhaps, it’s all art isn’t it?

 

[ska invita]

Really recommend this interview to get into the shoes.

Tldw , better he got into graff than the other crime that was on offer
still served three stretches for graff though


ffwd to 36.50 for a dip in if you're not up for watching the whole thing

 

[teuchter]

All the standard arguments being hammered out in the comments section of this article:

Barefoot Architects tucks weathering steel house and courtyard behind old brick wall

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www.dezeen.com

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

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Firm, but fair.