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Idiot The Wise’s anti-buffing
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 @ 2:41 pmMy man in the MidEast IdiotTheWise has taken up a particularly charming bit of anti-anti-graffiti lately as part of his very diverse set of street artistry.
Every person in any city around the world touched by street art has also been touched by the ugly grey-square-leaving smear/buff “clean up” jobs the city spends our money on afterwards. Not only is this unappealing aesthetically, but (as demonstrated here last summer) it’s totally futile, and is really just about creating an image of control over the populace.
ITW, writing around Tel-Aviv under the name Inspire, has started framing up these sorts of urban scars, decorating them with the simplest power of street art (to beautify the dull and mundane) as well as having the potential to directly engage passersby by tempting them to create themselves, perhaps one of the strongest things about street art.
Now if only the city crews would start covering up graffiti with that instant-blackboard chalkable paint…
January 29th, 2008 at 3:20 am
we have a HUGE supply of that chalkboard paint in our apartment…
February 1st, 2008 at 1:01 pm
This was very common to see while in Paris, France. People would write over giant ads with anti-consumer writing and the French Metro workers would just put a blot of white paint over it and eventually reposter the ad.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Check out what posterboy did in kensington, taggers will come around and vandalize einstein’s chalkboard in 48hours. out for fame!