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Local street artist is at it again.
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Lol are you my racist uncle, Jesus Christ...
Excuse me for not wanting dickheads like Pam the Bird to be traipsing around my city.
Lmao this is what you're mad about???
Oh you mean this guy?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-27/pam-the-bird-graffiti-artist-bail/104988564
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-24/alleged-pam-the-bird-creator-facing-additional-charges/105568602
https://7news.com.au/news/car-rammed-through-melbourne-nandos-in-seemingly-targeted-attack-on-cashless-chain-c-17144909.amp
https://youtu.be/g-Lt6hXTWMs
Love to see that we’re now supporting assaults on workers, stabbings and stealing personal property to go on libertarianesque screeds because of “art”
dudes rocking is apparently illegal in australia
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what? are you alleging that this crime was done by the bird dude? what?
kind of rude but my experience with security guards who run up to try to intervene with things is fuck those guys, so
you're just imagining things to get angry about now
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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
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
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
Witness statements, cctv footage, recording himself tagging and assaulting someone.
“Police must be lying”
Cooked
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
So you only give a shit about state sanctioned street art. Got it. Weird take on the bear site, I gotta say.
There is an absolute world of difference between murals, political speech scrawl, large form pieces and tags.
In the sense that some are sanctioned by the state and 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 speach 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. In the same way that weed legalization is a form of primitive accumulation, state sanctioned street art is similar. Artists with no connection or background in street art are commissioned by the state to produce art for the state in a manor not unlike patronage.
The state gets to control the work of the artist while the artist is able to contribute to sustaining themselves off the pay provided by the state. Except, just like with leagle weed production the vast majority of the contracts and licenses that are handed out by the state are out of reach 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 encloser and gentrification. It's whole aim is to improve the aesthetic of a given area by appropriation of the street art style and history to push out street artists for the benefit of petite bourgeois elements of the areas population.
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
Might want to look up a bit further
I like the art and I can't decipher what you're trying to say here beyond that it's definitely snide