Comments on: Officially mediocre, unofficially awesome

By: Ricasso

Ricasso — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:25:49 +0000

Vandalism(not a new style of art)can be when some idiot tags over some graffiti art’Jus’markin’my terrortory bro’.The graffiti artists are brilliant I especially enjoy the vibrancy of their colours( happy place).And though art is subjective tagging is not art and in saying that I just shot my self in the foot.Its all art.I am looking forward to mentoring some of these younger wayward artists in the very near future it will be interesting to see what makes them tick tick tick…really though there is some amazing talent,amongst some of these little shits they just need a bit of positive encouragement.Art Rules Ok! Giving your friends your own paintings can be a bit like tagging if they like you and hate your art.

By: James McGoram

James McGoram — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:13:15 +0000

How do you get a council to pick a ‘respectable’ street artist to produce ‘legitimate’ street art without it becoming entirely compromised? Yeah – a tricky problem – perhaps one that can’t be resolved. It’s the inherent nature of the art form to live on the fringe. Perhaps a better long-term view is to find ways to get along better with each other: building owners adopting sensible policies, architectural designers coming up with sensible designs (i.e. if you don’t want graffiti on your building, don’t build 3 metre high smooth white walls next to a train line,) and vandals understanding better the kinds of things that will piss people off.

By: Ricasso

Ricasso — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:03:40 +0000

Graffiti by consensus not vandalism,I think there is a clear difference.

By: Elise Sterback

Elise Sterback — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:53:06 +0000

Nice thoughts about our streetscape and city identity. Despite your point about the dynamism of the transient, I’d still like to see Auckland reserve some more areas for graffiti artists to show their stuff, a la Melbourne policy.
We have some truely talented street artists in this city and they get too much grief and not enough recognition. Although there is the conundrum of negating the subversive nature of graffiti by legitimising it in the public sphere, tricky..

By: Ricasso

Ricasso — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:19:45 +0000

sorry about that came a bit unstuck sniff’n'cheap glue

By: Ellatron

Ellatron — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:08:33 +0000

Nope, you lost me

By: Ricasso

Ricasso — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:45:58 +0000

‘Art imitates life’.'Bro’I'm livin hard in the ghetto,jus’like on the tee v,Im real tho’ i’m a gangsta wanabee,this ust’be a fine hood till I marked my terror tory Its just like on the tv jjjsjgg moomb moomb It’s just like on the tee v.

By: Ellatron

Ellatron — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:00:21 +0000

Hear fuckin’ Hear!!!

I do however believe there is a difference between the annoying scribble on Mr & Mrs Lovely-Peoples’ newly painted fence and the awesome stuff that’s down by Morningside / Kingsland station… maybe the little black-capped kids’ skills and or testicles will develop, and he will eventually be creating the Kingsland, Morningside, Bungalow Bill kind of stuff, instead of just pissing people off.

By: Ricasso

Ricasso — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:07:47 +0000

The fence iI was thinking of was more the 1.800 high cheap sub-div type fence plenty of them in West Auckland they offer a metaphoric blank canvas.I do like the white picket fence the black spray stands out better and as the late great Colin of Twitterangi said’Its all black on white white on black’

By: James McGoram

James McGoram — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:09:25 +0000

Don’t knock the white picket fence – I actually have one (and yes, it sometimes gets tagged ;)

By: Ricasso

Ricasso — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:15:36 +0000

Tip top article as much as i hate tagging in general you described some art .I hate the big corporate’s tagging (that big ugly yellow M eg) as much as the shit sprayed on mr and mrs really nice people’s of workinghardsvilles new 6×1 wooden palin fence by some disrespectful little prick with a black cap at 10 to 2.Maybe we all need our own tag or logo. It’s all art I suppose.