This old Dabs piece on Smith St is starting to look rather scruffy, and it would be great to see it refreshed. Dabs does some extremely colourful work that people enjoy. Being tagged between the eyes doesn’t help. Did someone mention something about graffiti ethics?
28 February 2009 at 5:43 pm
I see tagging as very different from graffiti – far more ego-driven and largely lacking in respect for those outside their rather insular tribe
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28 February 2009 at 10:51 pm
Tagging is over-grown 4 yr olds bragging how they’ve mastered shaping and joining their letters; no style, no flair, nothing original, no talent.
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2 March 2009 at 12:52 pm
This has become such a big topic, with very strong opinions against tagging. It seems the only people who like tags are those that make them!
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1 March 2009 at 11:55 am
Ethics and tagging? Tagging is about as ethical and selfish as arson, it should maybe be reclassified as a mental condition, one that’s linked to having an IQ of about 50, rubbish parenting and the artistic ability of a drugged chimpanzee with a crayon.
They’re a constantly annoying blight on our urban landscape and need to be shot/tazered/pepper sprayed on sight :-)
I urge my fellow art/architecture loving citizens to call the cops immediately if you do come across these little shits in action. They normally lurk under the cover of darkness, wear particularly stupid hats, enjoy social chroming, have angry, ugly suppurating skin problems, a barely functional grasp of the English language and normally do their dirty work in pairs so they can run off in opposite directions if the cops or angry building owners appear.
Geez, I’m starting to sound like an angry Brian!
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4 July 2009 at 6:20 pm
You should really meet some ‘taggers’ Davy, I think you will be surprised by what you learn. People of all ages and of different socioeconomic backgrounds are involved. Your wildly over the top and incorrect assertions are funny though.
Having said that, you should say some of that stuff to ‘taggers’ when you catch them and with any luck they will knock ya block off.
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4 July 2009 at 6:51 pm
If we catch someone vandalising our property that is exactly what we may do.
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4 July 2009 at 6:30 pm
By the way, I am also a lover of good architecture and work in the art’s industry
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11 September 2009 at 4:52 pm
Tres watch your back!!! I know you are one of those incessant scum bags who like to tag private property. How would you like it if we all started tagging your artwork (pieces). Your time will come, you have no respect and you don’t deserve any in return. Watch out!!!!!
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11 September 2009 at 6:40 pm
I have to agree. Demonstrating a partial achievement of literacy by learning to spell your own name and then writing it everywhere is perhaps indicative of OCD but not art. No offence to genuine OCD sufferers.
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16 September 2009 at 8:15 pm
Brian I have to agree. Perhaps if Tres was a home owner he would realise how soul destroying it is to have someone vandalise your property. Something you spend you hard earned on paying off and maintaining. Graffiti has existed prominently in Australia form the early 80′s though back in the day people had respect and it was always taboo to tag private property.
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14 January 2012 at 5:02 pm
paint the wall grey and the mind will follow…
its funny how you brainwashed old people dont complain about advertising…
tagging is a big scape goat, the real social problems are far easier to ignore and leave undealt with, while instead you focus on trying to control self expression…
graffiti is a symptom of a lack of social equality and freedom, it is not a problem, it is part of the solution…
I hope you fence gets tagged by toys again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again…..
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14 January 2012 at 7:02 pm
That’s a lot of self-delusional stupidity in one comment. I complain about advertising all the time, so you fail on that point. Tagging may be an expression of a few morons who feel socially isolated, but it is no solution to anything.
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