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Old 07-22-2011, 10:12 AM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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I've heard of an artist that goes by the name of "Troll." Google him. Might be what you're looking for--might not.
I'll have to remember that one
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Old 07-22-2011, 10:33 AM
 
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I'll have to remember that one
Glad someone got it!

(Also glad that we can make each other laugh even if we have disagreements--that's one of the things I like most about Texas and Texans, as well as San Antonio itself.)
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Old 07-22-2011, 11:58 AM
 
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I assume that they were trying to draw out the "liberals" and make some weird point. Didn't work. They should be a bit subtler.
I disagree 100% with jumping the gun and assuming politics is behind this post.
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Old 07-22-2011, 12:12 PM
 
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I generally associate art as being something in a museum or gallery.
Then you need to get out a lot more. Art takes on my shapes, forms, illusions, manifestations and depictions. While I am not a fan of "grafitti art," it's pretty clear to see that it is an art form, albeit, a form that not too many are fond of.
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Old 07-22-2011, 12:14 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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There is a building on Zarzamora around Commerce that the side of the building was frequently getting tagged. The owner of the building caught the taggers and asked them to paint something reflecting the culture of the west side; since then no taggers have messed with the "painting" of that wall. Perhaps taggers don't mess with other taggers work???
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Old 07-22-2011, 12:32 PM
 
Location: The "original 36" of SA
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There is a building on Zarzamora around Commerce that the side of the building was frequently getting tagged. The owner of the building caught the taggers and asked them to paint something reflecting the culture of the west side; since then no taggers have messed with the "painting" of that wall. Perhaps taggers don't mess with other taggers work???
It seems that "traditional" murals are, for the most part, respected and left alone. Taggers used to also leave "graffiti murals" alone, but recently that has not necessarily been the case. In fact, my neighborhood's SAPD SAFFE officer no longer recommends that graffiti murals be painted.

I'm not arguing the artistic merits of graffiti (though I believe there is a difference between it and tagging), just that taggers no longer seem to respect it as they once did.
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Old 07-22-2011, 12:48 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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I understand that taggers have given graffitti a bad name. I see it throughout the city - in the neighborhoods, office space areas, parks, etc. However, taking spray paint to a building is not always a bad thing.

The attached link is to a blog for Girl Scouts. It is news coverage of what spray paint can do in good hands. This is what I hope the OP was talking of wanting to do, or something very similar.

http://blog.girlscouts.org/2011/07/tagging-beautiful-piece-of-girl-scout.html
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Old 07-22-2011, 01:40 PM
 
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I disagree 100% with jumping the gun and assuming politics is behind this post.
Well, read his only other post and then send him a message. I'll be glad to be proven wrong!

(The other thread was locked, I believe--and he never replied to any of it. It is entitled Where to I find low income blacks in San Antonio in order to market home ownership?)


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Old 07-22-2011, 04:37 PM
 
Location: NW San Antonio
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Then you need to get out a lot more. Art takes on my shapes, forms, illusions, manifestations and depictions. While I am not a fan of "grafitti art," it's pretty clear to see that it is an art form, albeit, a form that not too many are fond of.

Get out more!? I am out enough so don't worry about it. Shoot, people have put toilets in galleries and called it art. I get it. However, crappy tagging all over everything and everywhere is not art. There is a distinction. Art is appreciated. Stupid gang tagging is not appreciated. If it were up to me the penalty would be the removal of a finger each time you are caught tagging. Or, the caning is good also as I mentioned earlier.
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Well, read his only other post and then send him a message. I'll be glad to be proven wrong!

(The other thread was locked, I believe--and he never replied to any of it. It is entitled Where to I find low income blacks in San Antonio in order to market home ownership?)


There was a reply from the OP in that thread. It was deleted. That's all you need to know.
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