Fern
March 6th, 2007, 02:23 AM
Apenas alguns exemplos que demonstram o quanto um artista urbano pode ajudar a melhores areas degradadas ao inves de as piorar. Mas e' preciso ter talento e vontade...
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Para quem quiser saber a razao destes trabalhos aqui fica a noticia:
Brighton Graffiti Gets a Paint Job
By Cathryn Setz (BBC South)
Over the past few months a group of local graffiti artists have been working with the council to try and uplift the image of their work in the public eye. The results? Fantastic.
People don't generally like graffiti. It's thought of as ugly, anti-social - yet another "menace to society" which here in Britain we could frankly do without.
Yet for a group of young artists in the Brighton area, graffiti is actually a highly skilled endeavour with the potential to enrich, not destroy the urban landscape.
Just a spec of the Graf Jam at New England Street
People like Snug (the guy behind THAT hairdresser's in the Laines) and Paul Barlow bend over backwards to try and elevate the image of graffiti for the community with things like graf jams and collaborations. I spoke with prominent graf writer Alex Young about it.
"The cogs have definitely been turning in the past few months," he told me, with reference to the recent colour explosion on Kensington Street. "We don't want to muddy the water of public opinion, we want to uplift it - to expose people to the art end of things," he continued.
Sarah Leach at Cityclean, the branch of the council responsible for controlling illegal graffiti helped set up the project at Kensington Street. "We are monitoring the area to see how successful it has been in regards to preventing illegal graffiti," she told me.
"If the council and the artists can sort out their differences and get more jams and legal spots on the go, bring it on. At least it's nice to look at."
I asked Alex Young about how graf writers such as himself try to get on with the council, and vice verce, when it comes to graffiti. "Of course they don't like it," he told me. "They want to try and re-name it 'aerosol art' - but they can't really. It's graffiti. That's just what it is."
If the council and the artists can sort out their differences and get more jams and legal spots on the go, bring it on. It might be slightly against the point - graffiti is by definition illegal - but it's more inspiring than a building site. At the very least, it's something nice to look at as you walk to work.
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/7964/p2050036copyit1.jpg
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9242/p2050037copycs5.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6691/p2050038copyvh4.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6994/p2050039copyob6.jpg
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/8574/p2050042copyyg0.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1528/p2050043copyul7.jpg
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/7805/p2050044copylr7.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4701/p2050045copyxj0.jpg
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6681/p2050040copykg3.jpg
Para quem quiser saber a razao destes trabalhos aqui fica a noticia:
Brighton Graffiti Gets a Paint Job
By Cathryn Setz (BBC South)
Over the past few months a group of local graffiti artists have been working with the council to try and uplift the image of their work in the public eye. The results? Fantastic.
People don't generally like graffiti. It's thought of as ugly, anti-social - yet another "menace to society" which here in Britain we could frankly do without.
Yet for a group of young artists in the Brighton area, graffiti is actually a highly skilled endeavour with the potential to enrich, not destroy the urban landscape.
Just a spec of the Graf Jam at New England Street
People like Snug (the guy behind THAT hairdresser's in the Laines) and Paul Barlow bend over backwards to try and elevate the image of graffiti for the community with things like graf jams and collaborations. I spoke with prominent graf writer Alex Young about it.
"The cogs have definitely been turning in the past few months," he told me, with reference to the recent colour explosion on Kensington Street. "We don't want to muddy the water of public opinion, we want to uplift it - to expose people to the art end of things," he continued.
Sarah Leach at Cityclean, the branch of the council responsible for controlling illegal graffiti helped set up the project at Kensington Street. "We are monitoring the area to see how successful it has been in regards to preventing illegal graffiti," she told me.
"If the council and the artists can sort out their differences and get more jams and legal spots on the go, bring it on. At least it's nice to look at."
I asked Alex Young about how graf writers such as himself try to get on with the council, and vice verce, when it comes to graffiti. "Of course they don't like it," he told me. "They want to try and re-name it 'aerosol art' - but they can't really. It's graffiti. That's just what it is."
If the council and the artists can sort out their differences and get more jams and legal spots on the go, bring it on. It might be slightly against the point - graffiti is by definition illegal - but it's more inspiring than a building site. At the very least, it's something nice to look at as you walk to work.