Parkdale graffiti

[Lone Primate]

 

[Urban Shocker]

My guess: a year's art school training before dropping out, and not much luck with job interviews.

 

[Conrad Black]

I like the first one with the pumpkins.

 

[jaborandi]

Thanks, I love urban graffiti, especially when I am moved to think wtf.

 

[Hydrogen]

Spray paint should not be sold to children, no matter how old they are.

 

[Lone Primate]

Spray paint should not be sold to children, no matter how old they are.

My buddy in Parkdale was of the opinion that these particular instances were commissioned by the businesses backing on the alleyway. What I object to is the gratuitous tagging that takes place, especially when it deliberately defaces something like this. A bit like pissing your name on someone else's watercolour painting.

 

[flar]

I would say the pumpkins for sure, and perhaps some of the others, were commissioned. I hate tagging too, and it's very disrespectful to paint the front of a business or home. But graffiti filled alleyways are awesome.

 

[Ronald]

Awesome pics. I can appreciate the graffiti on the last pics (though it's certainly not the most imaginitive, creative stuff).
Graffiti can enhance streetsscapes, but there is a line to draw between artwork and plain tagging.

 

[junctionist]

It's terrible that taggers are starting to deface decent graffiti works these days.

 

[calimehtar]

The skulls are adorning a building that is apparently the workshop for a company called Playdead Cult that makes T-Shirts and stuff. You can see their stuff for sale here and there.

http://www.playdeadcult.com/

Also, there's at least one person who's making 'grafitti' out of copper and fixing them permanently onto various objects such as walls and lamp posts. I love this kind of stuff especially since it's done in a way that enhances public spaces that have otherwise been nearly abandoned. Here's an example - looks taller than it is, I think it's about 2 feet.

 

[junctionist]

That's interesting, but I can't see those copper works staying in place, because it's like a gift to scrappers and copper thieves. I'd like to see some reverse graffiti.

 

[paraone]

My guess: a year's art school training before dropping out, and not much luck with job interviews.

Actually the dinosaur pieces were done by "Art Child" who I have known and painted with many times before. He is an amazing anamator and I believe he is still working for Nilvana. He is a graduate of Sheridan College, one of the best animation schools in the world.

 

[Hydrogen]

And yet he still must crayon on other people's walls.

 

[Lone Primate]

And yet he still must crayon on other people's walls.

Isn't that essentially what we're all doing here, in a more ephemeral medium?

 

[paraone]

And yet he still must crayon on other people's walls.

First he probably had permission to paint there. Two, why must you poo-poo other people's artist expression?