Posts by Hillary

  • OnPoint: Children come first, except…,

    Permalink, I'm talking about tagging in the sense of the 'youth branding' thing for example, along the rail corridor. Is that what you mean by graffiti art? There seems to be less of other types of graffiti art around these days.

    Sometimes where the artist has managed to tag is part of its appeal - how did they get away with that? Or, the colourful signatures, that have been so carefully crafted. The thought of this other world happening while most of us are at home asleep is very energising.

    And its an example of youth doing what they have always done: upset 'grown-ups'. And boy doesn't it!!

    wellington • Since Mar 2008 • 3 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Children come first, except…,

    I LOVE tagging. I LOVE to see the artwork of a group in our society who tend to be forgotten and invisible except perhaps in the Courts.

    But I love it for its artisitic merit too. Sure some of it is crap, but there's alot of other images out there that are worse crap. For example, billboards advertising alco-pops to get young people wasted.

    What a boring bloody city we would live in if there was no tagging. And, they do it for FREE.

    Come on everyone stop being so SQUARE.

    wellington • Since Mar 2008 • 3 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Children come first, except…,

    I LOVE tagging. I LOVE to see the artwork of a group in our society who tend to be forgotten and invisible except perhaps in the Courts.

    But I love it for its artisitic merit too. Sure some of it is crap, but there's alot of other images out there that are worse crap. For example, billboards advertising alco-pops to get young people wasted.

    What a boring bloody city we would live in if there was no tagging. And, they do it for FREE.

    Come on everyone stop being so SQUARE.

    wellington • Since Mar 2008 • 3 posts Report