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Cool stuff, thanks dobbs,
posted by doctor_negative at 8:39 PM on April 22, 2006
posted by doctor_negative at 8:39 PM on April 22, 2006
Wow, these are really astonishing. Imagine the dedication and perseverance it takes to complete drawings like these. Thanks for the link, dobbs.
posted by soiled cowboy at 8:49 PM on April 22, 2006
posted by soiled cowboy at 8:49 PM on April 22, 2006
These remind me of an art show on public TV that used to draw little futuristic cities in sorta this style... I can't remember his name...
posted by bigmusic at 10:44 PM on April 22, 2006
posted by bigmusic at 10:44 PM on April 22, 2006
These remind me of an art show on public TV that used to draw little futuristic cities in sorta this style... I can't remember his name...
I may have seen the same show. Did the guy have a mustache?
posted by delmoi at 11:50 PM on April 22, 2006
I may have seen the same show. Did the guy have a mustache?
posted by delmoi at 11:50 PM on April 22, 2006
Wow, this really rings my bell.
The yellow pages of the city where I grew up one year had a doodle mural of the city done, with fanciful twists (monkeys escaping from the zoo, that sort of thing) that I would just stare at...
posted by fleacircus at 12:10 AM on April 23, 2006
The yellow pages of the city where I grew up one year had a doodle mural of the city done, with fanciful twists (monkeys escaping from the zoo, that sort of thing) that I would just stare at...
posted by fleacircus at 12:10 AM on April 23, 2006
I may have seen the same show. Did the guy have a mustache?
I think so! I seem to recall an orange jumpsuit too!
posted by keswick at 12:43 AM on April 23, 2006
I think so! I seem to recall an orange jumpsuit too!
posted by keswick at 12:43 AM on April 23, 2006
Neato art. Can someone explain why it is being called Graffiti?
posted by sidereal at 3:23 AM on April 23, 2006
posted by sidereal at 3:23 AM on April 23, 2006
Nice! Thanks, dobbs.
posted by safetyfork at 5:27 AM on April 23, 2006
posted by safetyfork at 5:27 AM on April 23, 2006
Can someone explain why it is being called Graffiti?
Whew. I thought I was the only one wondering.
posted by quite unimportant at 8:01 AM on April 23, 2006
Whew. I thought I was the only one wondering.
posted by quite unimportant at 8:01 AM on April 23, 2006
I love it! But that back wall looks so empty next to the finished one.
I look forward to the day I have a house. I'd love to draw on the walls.
posted by Marit at 8:04 AM on April 23, 2006
I look forward to the day I have a house. I'd love to draw on the walls.
posted by Marit at 8:04 AM on April 23, 2006
Can someone explain why it is being called Graffiti?
The first link has a Japanese text and this translation: "If the graffiti art exists there, the Japanese original one should be exist. Moreover it cannot be hit off the artists in the other countries." Then, Takahashi who is not an artist of graffiti suggests a Japanese graffiti from the view point of if it exists as an art creator.
posted by dmo at 8:18 AM on April 23, 2006
The first link has a Japanese text and this translation: "If the graffiti art exists there, the Japanese original one should be exist. Moreover it cannot be hit off the artists in the other countries." Then, Takahashi who is not an artist of graffiti suggests a Japanese graffiti from the view point of if it exists as an art creator.
posted by dmo at 8:18 AM on April 23, 2006
Can someone explain why it is being called Graffiti?
It depends on how you define graffiti. Technically, graffiti is the plural of the Italian word graffito, which is used to describe any wall writing in a quasi-public space. This includes ancient Roman graffiti, latrinalia (i.e. bathroom wall writing), protest graffiti, and aerosol writing. Aerosol writers sometimes define the term to describe only writing that is done in unlawful public spaces with spray paint or marker, which is meant to exclude graffiti "art" done for commercial purposes. Academically speaking, this stuff is graffiti. Academically speaking, it's also graffiti art. But not in way that someone who grew up piecing trains would understand it.
posted by mrmojoflying at 8:22 AM on April 23, 2006
It depends on how you define graffiti. Technically, graffiti is the plural of the Italian word graffito, which is used to describe any wall writing in a quasi-public space. This includes ancient Roman graffiti, latrinalia (i.e. bathroom wall writing), protest graffiti, and aerosol writing. Aerosol writers sometimes define the term to describe only writing that is done in unlawful public spaces with spray paint or marker, which is meant to exclude graffiti "art" done for commercial purposes. Academically speaking, this stuff is graffiti. Academically speaking, it's also graffiti art. But not in way that someone who grew up piecing trains would understand it.
posted by mrmojoflying at 8:22 AM on April 23, 2006
Thanks for the explanations. I did RTFA(s), including dmo's quoted bit, and left not really understanding more, possibly because I am not very bright. I think of it as a mural, and I'm slightly hypersensitive to the co-opting of pop or fad terms for no reason other than to get attention, i.e., marketing. Extreme Gatorade comes to mind. Graffiti and artcrime are kinda on-the-radar these days.
Again, thanks for the non-snarky explanations. In the end, they can call it whatever they want. Lovely to look at, good post.
posted by sidereal at 10:15 AM on April 23, 2006
Again, thanks for the non-snarky explanations. In the end, they can call it whatever they want. Lovely to look at, good post.
posted by sidereal at 10:15 AM on April 23, 2006
Secret City 4EVA!!!
posted by sonofsamiam at 10:31 AM on April 23, 2006
posted by sonofsamiam at 10:31 AM on April 23, 2006
keswick: this has literally made me LOL more than once today...
posted by Ian A.T. at 11:18 PM on April 23, 2006
posted by Ian A.T. at 11:18 PM on April 23, 2006
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