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People who do graffiti in the woods

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Flying~Squirrel
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so today i go for a stroll at my nearest hiking trail: Cotton Hallow, Glastonbury, CT. everything is green and lovely after a few days of rain, and the Trout Brook was flowing high and fast. everything was perfect and i was really enjoying the walk since i had been away from home for 2 months and i missed Cotton Hallow dearly. but after walking around a sharp bend in the trail, i spotted a bunch of graffiti and tags high up on a popular cliff-jumping spot. i found it so awful and so frustrating that this beautiful place ive been visiting since i could walk now has a hideous, permanent, stain. it makes me wonder who has the nerve to deface part of something so majestic. one of my favorite things about Cotton Hallow is that besides the trail itself, the landscape appears very untouched by humans; it seems truly wild. of course, humans destroy nature all the time; strip malls, suburbs, and highways do a lot more damage to a forest than one kid with a can of spray paint, but the graffiti is like wounding and animal but not killing it. its cruel, has no benefit, and ruins a lot more than what was directly affected. now i need to go out of my way to buy a paint remover and spend my day tomorrow scrubbing at it instead of doing things i wanted to do. its just annoying, pointless, and rude, and i hope the members of NS have a little more sense of conservation than whoever chooses to do graffiti on a hiking trail.
May 23 2012 7:36PM
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Bodhisattva_
Posts: 5749 - Karma: 2,009
Yeah likei am just starting and I've been tagging old cardboard and pieces of carpet in my garage. I may not even ever do anything where people can see it unless I progress enough to where people wil see it and respect it a little bit.
May 23 2012 11:47PM
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Flying~Squirrel
Posts: 6494 - Karma: 192
better to be a 75 year old man who respects the world he occupies than a 15 year old pot head who glorifies vandalism
May 23 2012 11:54PM
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Horsefacekillah
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did you know that 90 percent of graffiti is gang related?
May 24 2012 12:45AM
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I.B
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Street art is not graffiti.

shitty ass tags are.

May 24 2012 12:49AM
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B-runge
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gangs must do a shitload of graffiti in their territories then (i wouldnt know) because 90% of the graff you see around that are just random names or even look slightly cool are pretty much guaranteed to not be gang graffiti. Gang graffiti is scrawlings on the wall just to mark drug turf and things of that nature. The white squares who make up these statistics probably consider graff crews to be gangs even though they are usually non-violent and not trying to make a profit off of crime
May 24 2012 12:57AM
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Flacko
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bansky is a bunch of shit, hardly any of his stuff is origional
reasons why bansky can go fuck himself, all he did was take blek le rats work from 20 years ago and change it a little
1 here is just a few examples of how he coped blek le rat
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and the rat
[IMG]creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2008/04/rat-1981-1.jpg[/IMG]

and 2 he went over oldest and most famouse peice in london, starting a war between the two, possibly leading to the death of robbo, and then bansky went over robbos mural
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May 24 2012 1:10AM
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B-runge
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fuck that
May 24 2012 1:13AM
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Spic-N-SpaN
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if he would have just did it over junk no one would have cared. and to me honest I didn't really see the similarities between the first two, besides both heads being square, but even then, ones a box and ones a tv..
May 24 2012 1:16AM
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Peter.
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at a cliff jumping spot in ithaca, there are tags everywhere. it never really bothered me
May 24 2012 1:28AM
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miroz
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STOP THE THREAD:

Wait a second, who the fuck are you and why are you hiking in my town?

fyibrb it was me grafitiing on the treez it was soooOoO0oo badazz.
May 24 2012 1:29AM
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ShredMasterPlus
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Honestly I think its pretty stupid and lame. Don't see how it keeps kids out of gangs at all. Kids who join gangs are either forced eg. born in the hood and if they don't there just gunna get the shit kicked out of them all the time. Or little faggots who think its cool. Sorry but running around with a can of spray paint isn't going to stop that.


Secondly Nothing pisses me off more then litter/graffiti/anything man made in nature. Nothing worse then being all one with nature and all of a sudden there's a bunch of beer cans, or some garbage. Pack it in Pack it out simple as that.
May 24 2012 1:32AM
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Troy.
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Blah blah blah everyone shut the fuck up.

If its in a city, I don't give a fuck, destroy the fucking concrete jungle with whatever type of toxin you want to use, be it gasoline or aerosol paint.

As soon as you take it to natural turf, you deserve a fucking pick axe to the head.
May 24 2012 1:52AM
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lorax
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you are my single least favorite member of this site. Have a great day!
May 24 2012 2:07AM
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aussieskier
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theres two in my neighbourhood that come to mind, i like them

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the QBC is queenscliff board riders club it comes and goes, its kinda just a stamp of who surfs there board rider clubs are a big deal here. the heart has been around for a while, its something that is kinda out of the ordinary i guess and full of community. the local council tried to remove it and so many people complained.

here what the place actually looks like
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May 24 2012 3:34AM
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alex=
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Are you fucking retarded?

The government came out around 2008 and said about 10% of graffiti in our cities today is gang related.

Learn to use the google machine ass hole
May 24 2012 8:05AM
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doitbig
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very admirable that you are cleaning it up.  keep the tagging in the city kids.

May 24 2012 10:57AM
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Dunnah
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This.
May 24 2012 11:52AM
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low_fidelity
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May 24 2012 12:00PM
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Deluge
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agree with this completely. I have a spot locally like the OP's and would hate to see anything happen to it like this
May 24 2012 2:13PM
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Bodhisattva_
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Lol maybe cave paintings are ancient graffiti of random bullshit and now all our views of ancient history from murals and the like are based off of ancient punks with a bowl of paint.
May 24 2012 4:23PM
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sherwood4099
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Everything in a "fucking concrete jungle" is owned by someone. It's their fucking property I hope anyone who puts pray paint on someone's shit without premission should be arrested and fucked over
May 24 2012 4:46PM
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Flacko
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heres blek's stuf
[IMG]creativereview.co.uk/images/uploads/2008/04/rat-1981-1.jpg[/IMG]
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[IMG]fecalface.com/artists/blek_le_rat/4_2003-No-War-Berlin.jpg[/IMG]
and banskys
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May 24 2012 7:32PM
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Mr.Sloth
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HEY YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP

Sorry.

May 24 2012 8:56PM
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PJS.
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You can't have one without the other. Why should people not be able to do something just because you don't think it's art?
May 24 2012 9:01PM
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iSmokeweed
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yeah but berlin grafitti is art, where as this shit is gay.
May 24 2012 9:29PM
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B-runge
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its funny that you can get mad at the graffiti on the pillar instead of getting mad at the fact that there is a huge fucking cement pillar in the middle of a swamp/clearing. Tagging rocks is lame, but im down with stuff like this
May 24 2012 9:30PM
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alex=
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QUOTING FOR EMPHASISISISISISISISISISISSSS
May 24 2012 9:30PM
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UFOsarereal
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that's pretty rad looking
May 24 2012 9:38PM
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manutdsaol
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I don't know if your trolling but I can tell you that is simply not true, my city (Chicago) has some amazing street art.A lot of street art/ murals are legal when the property owner lets them paint. All the spray paint within city limits is locked up in a case inside the store,and they won't sell any to under 18's.
May 24 2012 9:48PM
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Willgum
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Well you can use that argument to justify alot of things. Like is keying your name in someones car art?
May 24 2012 9:50PM
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Willgum
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Btw im only talking about pointless tagging, especially when done on private buildings. Street art on the other hand, as already mentioned in the thread, is sweet
May 24 2012 9:52PM
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KravtZ
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this landscape is already ruined because they put a giant fucking bridge in the middle of it. Granted the graffitti doesnt add anything to it but its already ruined. And some dudes turf is right there he tagged pretty badass spot to claim haha
May 24 2012 9:53PM
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Poikenz
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It's funny because technically anything can be art, as long as society goes along with it. A pretty damn good example is Fountain by Duchamp, you are going to tell me that because a guy flipped a urinal upside down and signed R.Mutt on it that it is art? I mean it is accepted as such but personally I don't really see anything artistic, yet it is in a museum while people who have been working on handstyles, tweaking and perfecting for years aren't recognized as artists. Even if they have certain artistic skills when it comes to said tags.

But back on topic, I have to admit that I personally don't like things in nature, unless they fit, like on some concrete wall in the middle of no where along a walking path, or large train bridges that are in wooded areas.
May 24 2012 9:56PM
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the.cheat
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+k for making me lol and perfect username.
May 24 2012 10:16PM
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PJS.
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Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. Either way that's private property and in my eyes, over the line. My point is that just because "insert hardass here" doesn't like something someone spraypainted in an alley or on a wall, doesn't mean it should be illegal. What should be illegal is pointless defacement.
May 24 2012 10:24PM
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sherwood4099
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People should not be aloud to do it on other peoples stuff. This problem has nothing to do with tolerance or interpretation of art. It's about destroying thing you don't own and cause financial damage to normal business and property owners as well as public property paid for by everyone's taxes. It's totally inappropriate and people deserve to get fucked if they do it in an unsanctioned manner. It's such a diversion to pretend people's problems stem from not considering graffiti "art"
May 24 2012 10:43PM
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PJS.
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and here we come to the wall that no one in the history of this argument has ever been able to scale.
May 24 2012 11:22PM
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TheClap.
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i do it on the woods
May 24 2012 11:25PM
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salomonskiier12
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Whatever you do...don't do it in the park.
May 24 2012 11:30PM
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Furrer92
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Just because they both use stencil graffiti it doesn't mean he's ripping him off, tons of people do it because its faster
May 24 2012 11:32PM
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Spic-N-SpaN
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Because it looks fucking shitty and I don't like it, thats why.
May 24 2012 11:49PM
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Nurgle
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So you find graffiti in nature to be offensive or etc, so explain to me how you feel about cities, and rain forests being cut down for meat production?
May 25 2012 2:15AM
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Dylan_
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i was hiking in the Adirondack park yesterday when some punks threw glass bottles smashing them off rocks and me and my friend yelling " run nig@#r run" i decided to check the sign in thing at the trail head, turns out to be someone i knew of and called him out on facebook. We ignored it at the time but also saw their car and let air out of the 2 back tires. fuck scumbags.
May 25 2012 2:29AM
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LIL-WAT
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Yep, espicaily shit in vivid, makes me rage.
May 25 2012 4:31AM
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yojimbo
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you people who are arguing about banksy just stealing le rat's style are silly. All art is stolen, someone always did it first that's where other artists get their inspiration from, nothing at all is original and if you think it is your a bloody dick-head.
May 25 2012 7:36PM
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