Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

New graffiti

Seeing some new graffiti around St. John's. Tag looks like "crisis". Something of the graffs brings to mind the subtle politics of the Listen Bird.




Thursday, January 19, 2012

Protest Arts -- Graffiti

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Love it or hate it, graffiti has been around for thousands of years. They say anyone can read the writing on the walls. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. These aphorisms, along with stencils, paint, and a message are all that it takes for a graffiti artist to be born.

The video below, an extract from Style Wars, offers a glimpse into the evolution of contemporary graffiti and street art. The title of the film oddly proclaims that it is "a hip hop documentary", even though the majority of the film is discussion with the graffiti artists and break dancers in Brooklyn. Truly, the documentary does take hip hop as a culture, more so than just a genre of music.



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