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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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[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 19 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net -2 points 21 hours ago

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

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 18 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 0 points 13 hours ago
[-] john_brown@hexbear.net 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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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[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 0 points 12 hours ago

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.

[-] john_brown@hexbear.net 8 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 1 points 11 hours ago

Witness statements, cctv footage, recording himself tagging and assaulting someone.

“Police must be lying”

Cooked

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[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 13 points 17 hours ago

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

[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 0 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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.

[-] john_brown@hexbear.net 14 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 0 points 12 hours ago

Might want to look up a bit further

[-] john_brown@hexbear.net 5 points 12 hours ago

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

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