btw I’ve seen the graf in question and it looks even better in the context of the mournful face painted next to it. I think Rod would be stoked.

truly wonderful graffitti art happens when commercial sensitivities are subsumed to community as a whole, as a living breathing expression of a locality.

some of the best art I’ve seen in Wellington has been multi-screen spray art by the likes of Mephisto Jones, and the numerous anti-capitalist taggers in our city, speaking about war and corporate greed.

the Dowse Art gallery had it in one during the New Cool exhibition; Misery, from Auckland, as well as Illicit and Dawn Raid, have all grown from the graf-art foundation into thriving businesses catering to grassroots ideals.

Buy Local - support your local artists - and check out Thistle Hall in Welly on Dec 9 for fresh local art, looking for a christmas wrapping.

You stated that: “In order to combat this vandalism, one needs to understand what motivates the people who disfigure our cities by graffiting over any surface that takes their fancy.”

I feel/think that way about advertising billboards, but possibly more strongly than you do abour graffiti, because they disfigure our cities and countryside in a much more intrusive fashion.

I’d be interested in your opinion/feelings about billboards.

eredwen

So, what does motivate the people who “disfigure our cities by graffiting over any surface which takes their fancy”? Because by treating them all as one and the same, and smugly categorising all grafitti as non-art, you clearly have no clue at all.

I didn’t miss the point, I made another one. I understood your point, I just thought it was bullshit. Evidence of another closed minded socially conservative liberal from ACT with a deep-set desire to control society in your own conventional image - a little bored (hmm, wonder why that would be?) and deciding to troll.

Anyway, why do you need to understand these tossers? I thought all you needed was zero tolerance and a guarantee that ACT would be the toughest on crime. Perhaps there is some vague hope for you if you do believe that it is more complicated than your leaders will ever admit.

you give new depths and meanings to the term mountains out of mole hills…

would you were that/so engaged over the real environmental issues facing us…eh..?

graffitti/scmaffiti….

phil(whoar.co.nz)

1. If people want to mourn Rod - then it should be done by any means that is appropriate which does not include vandalising property (something Rod could not have approved of).
2. By posting graffiti this blog would encourage more graffiti (vandalism) of a similar vein. (again something Rod would not approve of).

The comment by Ari and Pip misses the point - so here it is a s clearly as I can make it - There are appropriate forums for grief but this is not one - and in any instance and perhaps most importantly - Rod Donald would not encourage vandalism of this nature (expecially since these vandals seek and strive for publicity for their “art�.)

In order to combat this vandalism, one needs to understand what motivates the people who disfigure our cities by graffiting over any surface that takes their fancy. Obvoiusly those who runthis blog do not care about the vandalism that these tossers do to our cities and properties.

don’t you just love the way he paused after his platitude..took a deep breath in..and then launched into his ventette….:)..you can see it on the screen…

phil(whoar.co.nz)

Hmm… replace graffiti with commenting on blogs with nothing positive to say… ah, no, that wouldn’t be very welcoming, would it…

I would also agree that Rod would not have approved, because it uses paint from a spray can and so this a non-renewable resource and a waste of the energy required to make the can and put the paint in. I bet the paint is not biodegradable either. Greens should be doing their graffiti using non-toxic water-soluble paints using a paintbrush and carrying the paint around in an old jam jar.