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I think this might be the same person who did this last time, it's very close to where I saw the last one. Which the city dealt with in a matter of days from when I saw it, so maybe this particular canvas of street art will also get cleaned/painted over.

(I'm not against street art - I'm rather fond of some of the prettier examples of it as an art form, and tagging is an interesting form of self expression - I just said that in that I'm curious how long it will take the city to do something about this tag, since the previous one I found on City property also caused it and nearby graffiti to be quickly cleaned when previously ignored, and graffiti on a trash receptacle is the ultimate "not worth cleaning".)


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[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Taggers are dickheads who treat the world like they’re dogs marking their territory.

A nice object doesn't attract tags.

That is straight up bullshit

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  • [–] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    ”like theyre dogs marking their territory” wait until you open your first book of theory and learn that capitalist leaders do this and would even send YOU to die over it. get over yourself

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I have seen the discourse of taggers in my city many many times over the multiple decades. This is a place renowned for its laneway graffiti if that gives a clue.

    It is literally the culture to just tag your name in places to show you were there and take pride in that fact. It is not about being against the system other than some vague notion of being against the system.

    And they absolutely hate muralists.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    It is literally the culture to just tag your name in places to show you were there and take pride in that fact.

    Dope, that's cool enough for me. If rich bozos can throw their polluting corpses at the feet of everest, or the wreckage of the titanic, and expect to be applauded why can't some person tag the Bolte

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    ”multiple decades” so basically youre an old person trying to destroy the fun of younger people

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh that must be it. Can’t draw from a reserve of knowledge and experience. I’ll just go about my business and enjoy scratchies on public train windows because someone had a good time doing it

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  • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Have you met a single tagger? Have you talked with them about why they do it?

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    Imagine boiling down an entire subculture with deep history to "they're bored kids." Just so ignorant

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

    It's a subculture that presents itself as just ugly writing on infrastructure. There is no world where it's anything other than that. And it's anti-social.

    "Subcultures" are not inherently virtuous. There are Nazi subcultures too.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    There is nothing virtuous about bourgeois infrastructure. Let it be tagged.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Is all infrastructure "bourgeois infrastructure"? Parks are "bourgeoisie"? Spray painting stuff with black lines isn't revolutionary.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    The state is a white supremacist bourgeois state and decides which areas get parks and which parks get funding, as well as which areas get improved or well-maintained infrastructure. So yes, it is all bourgeois infrastructure because it is a bourgeois state. One prime example of this is the public pool. During the Jim Crow era, public pools were very common in the country. However, once states were forced to desegregate, many towns and cities opted to close their public pools instead of desegregating them. Redlining also had a massive impact on park access.

    Parks created through the labor of the local community without the permission of the state and maintained by the community are as close as you can get to proletarian parks. Gorilla gardening is a form of proletarian public works that can transform a vacant lot into a usable public space.

    It's not that difficult to understand when some communities get the nicer parks or parks at all and others don't. That's the state in action. Would proletarian water systems become as neglected as Flint, Michigan? Unlikely. The under-maintained water system is a reflection of the bourgeois state. Infrastructure in America was historically delivered to white communities first and maintained at a higher level than non-white communities.

    I mean, for fuck's sake, Fed Hampton had to deal with this exact shit about putting up their own fucking stop signs because the state wouldn't!

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    And it's anti-social.

    Is it? From the perspective of the graffiti community it's pro-social in a space where the architecture and environment they're reclaiming is anti-social.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    If you polled the population of a city what percentage would say tagging is a net positive?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Depends, are we asking Bristol, Liverpool, London and Manchester or are we asking Birmingham? In the first 2 it's going to be majority positive with Bristol being overwhelmingly 95%+ positive because of the Stokes Croft graffiti culture basically being proud city heritage to the point that half the city is caked in it from the floor all the way up to the sky on half the buildings in the city. In London? I think majority positive but maybe close to like 50%. In Birmingham? Negative because it's full of dipshits.

    You're asking someone in the UK here though and you have to consider how much Banksy has had an impact on cultural perception of graffiti in this country. Incidentally, Banksy cut his teeth in Stokes Croft which is filled with some of his most famous work, he also was considered a menace at one point, until he infamy turned into outright fame as a national hero due to the left picking his work up positively and helping him along due to the political leaning of it.

    When a city lets go, this is what happens: https://www.luckysophie.com/2024/03/ou-voir-du-street-art-a-bristol.html

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Graffiti and tagging really aren't the same thing. Maybe some of the same people do actual art and just tagging but in Seattle we have almost no actual "graffiti". It's almost entirely just...

    just dogs pissing on stuff.

    and I guess this one has a couple actual colors compared to most which is just black or white paint in random scribbles. Sometimes they do it on the sidewalk and it just looks like someone spilled a paint can. There's also this weird brown solid foam stuff that looks like actual shit. Not sure what it is although I think that's some kind of drug addict thing.

    At least when construction workers mark things with paint sometimes you can decipher what they were/are trying to fix or install and it tells a little story.

    Sometimes it's nice to actually look at a thing that's just a solid color and admire the infrastructure itself and what makes a city function.

    The tagging on this metal box is far less interesting than the fact that it says its flammable, some kind of gas infrastructure. There was some old-timey looking gas pump next to it (which to people's credit seemed to be un-tagged).

    Whatever it's not a big deal.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Lol are you my racist uncle, Jesus Christ...

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  • [–] -3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Excuse me for not wanting dickheads like Pam the Bird to be traipsing around my city.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Lmao this is what you're mad about???

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Earlier this week, Mr Gibson-Burrell's grandmother Joan Bell told the court that she would offer him a place to stay in Geelong and could supervise a nightly curfew. "It's my house, my rules," she told the court. "I don't believe everything in the media about some of this behaviour. "It's not the grandson I know, so that's a bit foreign to me."

    The court was told two businesses were considering offering Mr Gibson-Burrell work, and another friend was willing to put up a $30,000 surety to secure his release.

    Jack Gibson-Burrell, 21, arrived at court on Thursday wearing a Spider-Man mask, then later exited wearing a full-body costume, flanked by his defence lawyer Micky Milardovic.

    He crouched down and posed for cameras, before running down the street, appearing to attempt to scale CBD buildings.

    Additionally, according to court documents, he has been charged with assault, behaving in a riotous manner at the Emporium shopping centre, trespass, damaging train carriages and abseiling a building more than 30 metres in height.

    dudes rocking is apparently illegal in australia

    Mr Gibson-Burrell has also been charged with damaging a "building of cultural significance with a vintage Uncle Tobys advertisement on it", with the alleged damage to the tune of $99,110.

    AUR NAUR, OUR ADVERTISEMENTS porky-scared

    https://7news.com.au/news/car-rammed-through-melbourne-nandos-in-seemingly-targeted-attack-on-cashless-chain-c-17144909.amp

    what? are you alleging that this crime was done by the bird dude? what?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Lt6hXTWMs

    kind of rude but my experience with security guards who run up to try to intervene with things is fuck those guys, so

    stabbings and stealing personal property

    you're just imagining things to get angry about now

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    kind of rude but my experience with security guards who run up to try to intervene with things is fuck those guys, so

    Severe enough to be hospitalised, and your response is “kind of rude”. And your personal experience leads you to basically state that he had it coming to him.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/27/pam-the-bird-graffiti-bail-jack-gibson-burrell-melbourne-ntwnfb

    Police also allege he was involved in ram-raiding a stolen car through a Nando's restaurant in Footscray last year.

    The car was spray painted with the words "We don't accept cash here" and "Nando dogs", the court heard.

    Police also laid an additional charge of intentionally causing injury after Gibson-Burrell allegedly stabbed a man in January, the court heard.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-31/pam-the-bird-graffiti-court-case/104883382

    “Imagining things”

    Let’s also add from the Guardian article

    Footage also played to the court showed a man with a resemblance to Mr Gibson-Burrell punching a worker at Melbourne's Emporium shopping centre in 2023.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    And we all know the police are never wrong, so taking everything they allege at face value is totally normal and cool

    how are you on this website, shouldn't you be on facebook getting mad about genders or something

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  • [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    looked it up, pam the bird is pretty cool I hope the guy gets off and visits my city, I'd love to come across a pam the bird

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    So you only give a shit about state sanctioned street art. Got it. Weird take on the bear site, I gotta say.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    There is an absolute world of difference between murals, political speech scrawl, large form pieces and tags.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    In the sense that some are sanctioned by the state whereas some are not, absolutely. State-sanctioned murals are a response to unsanctioned street art. It allows the state to curate its message while engendering the appearance of progressivism and continuing to erase the art and speech of people who operate outside the state's jurisdiction and message.

    Tagging is the first step in the process of becoming a street artist when working outside the law, similar to how dealing weed can be the stepping stone to growing it. I don't make this comparison between street art and illegal weed lightly either. In the same way that weed legalization is a form of primitive accumulation, state-sanctioned street art aims to disenfranchise those who built the culture. It does this to create wealth among those who did not build the culture by denying those culturally foundational people the ability to participate in the act legally.

    Artists with no connection or background in street art are commissioned by the state to produce art for the state in a manner similar to patronage. The state gets to control the work of the artist while the artist can contribute to sustaining themselves off the pay provided by the state. Except, just like with legal weed production, the vast majority of the contracts and licenses that are handed out by the state are unreachable or denied to members of the community that created the market to begin with. Many times people caught doing street art have additional charges tacked on that increase the severity of the sentence, and the adoption of legal street art (again, much like legal weed) did not come with it, pardons, or any other meaningful commuting of sentences.

    This is a form of enclosure and gentrification. Its whole aim is to "improve" the aesthetic of a given area by appropriating the street art style and history while pushing out actual street artists. This naturally benefits petite bourgeois elements of the area's population by, again, appealing to liberal progressives, who view murals and street art as the same thing when they are fundamentally not. They view it as the state "accepting" street art and legitimizing it. Not as what it really is, an enclosure of the formally "public" spaces once claimed and owned by the organically forming illegal street art scene within a city or town.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Humans are artistic people. Especially when it comes to community and show casing it. Through out history people have done everything they can to do art wherever they have been. Including what is now called tagging and graffiti.

    Its funny cause we don't consider it graffiti when its a archeological find from century ago. Some of the things that helped paint a picture of every day life. Did you know there is a viking runestone in Oklahoma? Sure sucks that ancient viking left that and dirty up the place huh?

    And you'll say "but this is different" how? Do you think random viking guy knew his random ass stuff would be consider a archeological gold mine? We never know what will be important like that in the future. Its literally all the same stuff the only difference is the when and how.

    Tagging is not something that is going to go away. moralizing it and policing it is not going to work. So its time to re examine it and figure when is it actually a problem and how to channel it in the correct ways.

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