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.

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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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I like the art and I can't decipher what you're trying to say here beyond that it's definitely snide

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.