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      CommentAuthoriangil
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
     (1558.1)
    Graffiti always brings a little joy into my life whenever I walk around, go to class, etc. I get to know my neighborhood's tags and murals like they are old friends...it's always sad to see them go, but new beautiful art always springs up to fill the space they left.

    Currently: Mitte, Berlin:


    Previously: Montclair, NJ:


    Post where you are + some of your favorite local graffiti!

    Or scream and rant about how graffiti is a blight upon society.
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    We don't get much other than scrawled writing here.

    Including the legendary 'LINCS POLISE IS A CUNT' near the old police station. Made all the more amusing because I saw it just as two policemen were about to paint over it.

    Touchy sods. :D
    • CommentAuthorFlxzr
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
     (1558.3)
    This sprung up recently in my neighbourhood. It's not the most exciting graffiti I've ever seen, but it's rather shockingly thought out for round here as, like alwayscrashing, we just seem to get scrawled writing...

    28022008022
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    This has been appearing in my neighborhood for months. Anthony Abbate is a shitstain of a cop who beat up a female bartender. On tape.



    I love that someone printed these up.
    • CommentAuthorpi8you
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008 edited
     (1558.5)
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    The face shows up in various parts of Minneapolis, but this is by far my favorite, editing a person-spray that indicates the walking lane of a path in Loring Park.

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    Base of the Lake Street bridge, for the red text.

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    Found on the side of my old apartment building recently, and yeah, the management probably deserves it.

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    From an art center on Lyndale Ave in Uptown Minneapolis, they periodically refresh their wall with a new mural, but this one was particularly graffiti-inspired.

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    Quite possibly my favorite ever, this is scrawled on one of the doors at the First Baptist Church in downtown Minneapolis.

    At my new apartment, barely on the St Paul side of the river, someone's on the loose leaving his tag, "Yoda", on everything, which gets more amusing when compared to the "Batman" taggings around the Downtown/Uptown area of my old apartment in Minneapolis. Unfortunately I don't have good pictures of either. There's a ton of other bits of graffiti I've seen around the Cities that I've never gotten around to taking pictures of, but really ought to.
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    Across the alleyway from 111 Minna St in San Francisco - I walk by this every day on the way to work....
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    Hello Kitty Stormtrooper!
    Hello Kitty Stormtrooper

    I already posted a picture of the Venture Bros. Mural in the outside images thread...
    This is inside a large old building that's being restored on my community college campus.
    R1_3
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    I found this at the local mall.

    Graffitti

    Yes, it is human feces. No, it is not mine.

    I found this at the local movie theater.

    Thompson graffitti

    Not human feces.
    • CommentAuthorJayzor
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
     (1558.9)
    I no longer live there, but a little while back in Cleveland someone went on a tear tagging things with anarchy hearts. I thought they were cool. Here are three:

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    pi8you:

    Have you seen alot of that pentacle tag around? My old neighborhood in Chicago was filled with them for one summer then they vanished. Thought it was a gang thing, but they were usually accompanied with "Fuck yoU!" or "666", which had me thinking annoying hot topic goth.
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      CommentAuthorLokiZero
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
     (1558.11)
    Here's a few:





    • CommentAuthorpi8you
    • CommentTimeMar 25th 2008
     (1558.12)
    @orwellseyes - can't say that I have, I figure this one was a pissed off tenant/ex-tenant.
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      CommentAuthoriangil
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     (1558.13)
    @pi8you: Love the face on the street-figure. One of the most wonderful and effective uses of graffiti is "culture jamming": very location-specific art that makes people notice things that maybe they've always taken for granted or cast mundane sights in a new light. Here's another from here in Berlin:

    PULL THE PLUG

    ...and this isn't local, but your image also reminded me of this:
    LOVE in Utrecht
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    There's not much graffiti around here that I have seen, but I saw two in St. Ives, the small town where I work.

    I don't know if that was the effect wanted, but these swans look like they're closing in on their prey
    menacing swans

    Someone has an issue with the building?
    problemsolution
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      CommentAuthorBen
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008 edited
     (1558.15)
    @Jayzor
    Hahahaha, love the anarcho-heart. I thought it was a west-coast thing for some reason. My favourite shirt has a yarn anarchy heart on it.

    yo
    A friend sent this to me from France. Most likely my favourite tag ever.

    frenchie
    This one's in downtown Vancouver, just up the alley from one of the most famous murals in town. I'll upload a shot of that one when I finally get a picture that does it justice. Think two story Neon Genesis Evangelion robots. Hawesome. I thought the cook was hilarious because it looks almost exactly like an old boss I had who happened to run a restaraunt right across from this tag.

    EDIT: @Synthsapien: Those look very Banksy-esque. Neato.
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      CommentAuthorAlastair
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     (1558.16)
    where i used to live in edinburgh there was a council sposored graffitti wall that got changed once every 2-3 months. 'll take a pic next time i'm down there although last time i was there a car had crashed through some of it and the lot behind it had been sold
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      CommentAuthorPyD
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     (1558.17)
    Alastair - is that up by Edinburgh Uni on all the hoardings?

    If so don't think its sponsored any more as I saw the 5-0 hassling some artists about 6 weeks ago.

    Always try to get some shots of the changing art up there though.
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      CommentAuthorSpider
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     (1558.18)
    A couple


    Butterflies
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    1. That pentacle tag? It's a band logo... specifically for the Finnish soft-metal boyband HiM.

    2. I Live in Bristol - thus we have a lot of Banksy around! Another common one round here is the URL for Prison Planet - a cheap way to pimp a conspiracy website, I guess.
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      CommentAuthoriangil
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     (1558.20)
    @Spider: Gorgeous! Great finds, where are they?

    @Cat: Lucky you, for the Banksy! When I was in NYC I would see a lot of 911TRUTH tags and stickers, which was always funny.

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