City Walks – Sanctioned Graffiti

2/9/23 farscythe 12

a little while ago @bluedogcollar was wondering how these intricate bits of graffiti came to be…well…over here at least the answer is facebook

well…more specifically a facebook group organized getting a bunch of artists together and the county gave them permission,access to a bunch of equipment and a previously fairly depressing block of houses to use as a canvas….then they got some live music organized in town and called it a street art festival

guess ill start with the tunnel under the block of houses

and the other side

found some flowers on slightly higher ground

figure it’d be rude to not include the signature

not entirely sure what i’m looking at here…but its a lot nicer than the boring grey ish it was before

cute or terrifying?

the potatoheads seem to think its terrifying

and this last one oppo has named…giant ninja romance novel

i know they had 7 artists….and ive only found 4 so far…this annoys me but i guess ill find them….eventually

i am also unsure how this was funded as i doubt the artists did this for funsies…my guess is it was at least partially crowd funded by the facebook group….but in this town it wouldnt surprise me if the county picked up the whole bill…we do fancy ourselves quite the artsy town

anyways linky link to the facebook group if anyone wants it

https://www.facebook.com/WritersBlockLeeuwarden/

have a good weekend everyone 🙂

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      • They’ve been doing murals a LOT around my part of Minneapolis lately, in order to “fight off” the idiot/asshole taggers.

        This is the homepage;

        https://www.lynlakestreetart.com/2023-street-art-series

        They’ve been doing it since 2018, but it REALLY seems to have ramped up a TON, since all the destruction that happened in the city, back after George Floyd was murdered.

        There’s been pretty exponential growth in the choice by building owners to have deliberate murals created, rather than having to *constantly* repaint, because of asshole taggers & gangs trying to have “Turf Wars” by sprawling their stupid handles *everywhere*

        The asshole taggers are thought of as the assholes they are, by a few folks, when they’re defacing the normally painted buildings.

        But they get a reputation for being complete JERKS & “The Lowest of Lowlifes!” when they scrawl their crappy (unpatriotic, typically!) tags over ACTUAL *Paid for* art!😉😈😈😈

        So most apartment buildings & businesses around here, are now leaning HARD into the “Lets hire *ACTUAL* artists, to create Murals for us!!!” and then also paying those artists to come out & do touch-ups, on the rare occasion, where the asshats deface their artwork😁💖

  4. paint all the things awesome

    make the world a more beautiful…sensory overload like place

    fuck it throw in some neon….the kind that falls off the walls if a mime or clown walks under it

    i wont complain if it squishes a politician or two either

     

    but if we do get a bouncy colourful neon mad world

    i request sensory quiet booths…..like the phone booths of old…. but phoneless…and quiet….preferably blinded

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