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TMK Stuff => Game Blog => Topic started by: Super-Jesse on May 08, 2008, 02:56:56 PM
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What a shame. Look at that wall; it was a boring slice of vertical concrete boxcar until one brave gamer gave it life. Then, someone came and tagged. When will people learn the fine line between art and vandalism?
In all seriousness, I can't tell if the Mario art was meant to incorporate the ghetto-tag, but it still looks cool!
Link: kotaku.com (http://kotaku.com/388605/mysterious-tag-virtuoso-creates-mario-homage)
Thanks Louis!
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Well, it is on a wall, so you do have to represent and put some graffiti on it too! I think it looks good. And It's not going over anything either.
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That looks awesome.
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In all seriousness, I can't tell if the Mario art was meant to incorporate the ghetto-tag, but it still looks cool!
It is. Look more closely at them.
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It is. Look more closely at them.
*bangs head against monitor* Oh yeah I see it now.
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If I was a graffiti artist, I would definitely do art like this.
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It's cool-looking. More gamers [with art talent] need to graffiti.
Kidding.
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Kidding? Imagine what that wall/boxcar looked like before, or what it would've looked like with boring old gang-related graffiti on it. Like a big heap of trash. Now people who pass by can look at it and smile. It's Mario!
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He was probably kidding about the idea of promoting vandalism, since it's a crime. Though seeing this, I don't think it should be a crime, unless it's some stupid gang related tagging.
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He was probably kidding about the idea of promoting vandalism, since it's a crime. Though seeing this, I don't think it should be a crime, unless it's some stupid gang related tagging.
Graffiti are vandalism, but not those like this! These are pieces of art!
...Then it gives a lot of colors to that place! =)
*We had also some trains fulled with graffiti, but this was an idea of our region, because it gave much more color to thos old and grey trains. I hope they will draw something like this in the future! XD
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He was probably kidding about the idea of promoting vandalism, since it's a crime. Though seeing this, I don't think it should be a crime, unless it's some stupid gang related tagging.
Exactly. Although if they have permission to "spruce up" ugly old walls and such, go for it!
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Graffiti are vandalism, but not those like this! These are pieces of art!
...Then it gives a lot of colors to that place! =)
*We had also some trains fulled with graffiti, but this was an idea of our region, because it gave much more color to thos old and grey trains. I hope they will draw something like this in the future! XD
Unfortunately though, the law doesn't see it as art. :(
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The world is too rigid like this. It's a mural, in a league completely different from marking gang territory. The artist(s) probably didn't have specific permission to paint it, but if whoever owns that boxcar has no problem with it, then there's no problem. Painting something this large for anyone who looks to see is no more a crime than street performances. Besides, it's not like it's on a department store's wall or something. It's on what was once an eyesore, probably already tagged at least once.
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Not that I disagree, but paint, unlike street performers, is permanent.
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Though, to be honest, if someone spraypainted that onto the side of my house, I'd thank them, it'd be awesome.
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I think people should be a bit more pacifistic when it comes to Graffiti; it's like a splash of color and surreality in an otherwise reality-bound world. But if you don't want it all over your house, that's fine. I wouldn't object to Graffiti on my house as long as our landlord approved it and as long as it was creative. The only graffiti I don't like are excessive tags and swear words (kids see that stuff, you know!)
That picture is a great example why I don't like to see excessive tags. That was a great piece of Mario until some jerks went over it. For those who care, I used graffiti terminology there, but it would be interesting to have a piece of Mario. Y'know, to find out what Mario tastes like.
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Looking at it, especially since the main parts of the picture aren't covered, I'd say that the tags over it are actually part of the design.
Also, is that Jill Valentine over on the right?
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All I've got in my town is Mexican gang grafitti, your usual elaborately-lettered made-up words on the sides of trains, a profanity/crude doodle or two, and that one weird kind of grafitti that's like in a gray, thin, unintelligible scrawl (anyone else know what I'm talking about here?).
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The graffiti at my high school consists of "SUR" and "NORTE" (South and North, what creative gangs we have), usually written in Sharpie on locker room doors (what scenic territory to mark). Disembodied male genitalia is also a common subject. Very rarely is anything spray painted on school walls, and when it is it's just as plain as the Sharpie. No fancy design or color.
I'll add a big S in front of "Norte" if no one gangly is around. I've never had the chance to edit a "Sur," but if I do I may add "fboard" or "gery" to the end. And once I saw everyone's favorite word written on a wall in the wood shop last year, but the fool forgot the C. I turned the K into an R, and wrote a finisher to the message underneath. It then read:
FUR
Cats have it.
Am I just as bad as the original vandals? Or am I making light out of filth? You decide.
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Funny is better than marked territory.
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You should start a FURRY gang.
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I'll leave that to DeviantART people. :3 ^^
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It's better than what was there before.
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The graffiti at my high school consists of "SUR" and "NORTE" (South and North, what creative gangs we have), usually written in Sharpie on locker room doors (what scenic territory to mark). Disembodied male genitalia is also a common subject. Very rarely is anything spray painted on school walls, and when it is it's just as plain as the Sharpie. No fancy design or color.
Same here! (but I've just got SUR--or SUR 13, actually) You live on the West Coast?
Since no one who works at my school seems to have any inclination to clean up grafitti, I've taken to carrying around a large Pink Pearl with me to do away with it myself. There was a particularly sizable depiction of an... ahem, oral act in one locker room stall (which someone kept gradually adding to. I was always conflicted between disgust and genuine curiousity to see what new feature would be scrawled upon it) and SUR 13 grafitti in the other. It took me a few days, but they're gone and haven't come back. Also, "ho" was written in large, underlined font--plain as day--by the art room. It's not 100% gone, but I did my best. It just... feels good to help out like that. Kinda reminds me of Super Mario Sunshine, really...
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In that a dark version of yourself wrote all the graffiti?
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No, in that all the inhabitants of his school have palm trees growing out of their heads and give away vital life-sustaining artifacts to anyone who wins their squid races.
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This year's ASB officers (left to right: secretary, president, treasurer, vice president):
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The secretary's outfit looks a little revealing for an office setting. You can almost see her midriff!
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Bwuhbuwhbluhblubhbwuh!
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Hey, I think I just realized where Ziggy comes from!
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Bwuhbuwhbluhblubhbwuh!
Pruapppappaprua pappaprua, blulahblulablouh, blouh! pruappappapruappaappa....=(
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Muhguhmuh muhhhh-huhguhmuh!
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People drawing on walls = graffiti
People drawing Mario on walls = art
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Note that by this argument and the logic of sets, drawing Mario on walls is still graffiti.
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Note that by this argument and the logic of sets, drawing Mario on walls is still graffiti.
And so is art.
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What is art but framed grafitti?
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Usually something someone made to do more than try to get attention. Until the 20th century, anyway.
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Drawing on walls = Art
Drawing willies on walls = Maybe art
Peeing on palls walls in front of everyone = Performance art
Yes, these are fairly common occurances where I come from.
Regarding disembodied male-specific anatomy (penises!!1), at least I have the sense to add some rocket flames coming out the back of them, or, if I'm in for an extended duration, an entire rest of a person. It's the least I can do.
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People pee on walls in public where you live?
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No, they pee on "palls."
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Here, they pee on Pauls.
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What the heck is a "pall"?
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An important part of our inprastructure.
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"Batman's in the kitchen, Robin's in the hall..."
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it says in the title"Graffiti ruins Mario art" but I think it is great!