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Bristol is a curious place, street paintings by Banksy and work like these actually draw people to these business. Pretty sure that these business will be happ
by rishabhsagar 10y ago
Bristol is a curious place, street paintings by Banksy and work like these actually draw people to these business. Pretty sure that these business will be happy with the outcome.
- 2muchcoffeeman 10y agoI've never really minded graffiti if it was good. I don't think many people in urban areas would really mind either. It's the tagging that's a real eye sore. The same thing over and over again with no artistic merit.
- buovjaga 10y agoOne person's eye sore is other person's calligraphy.
- qubex 10y agoHaving been born in Bristol and frequenting the place quite often, I can confirm this.
- chrisseaton 10y agoI was also born and educated in Bristol, and not everyone there's an anarchist in favour of people being able to paint or sticker or everything they want. And people saying they're ok with graffiti and vandalism are really saying that they're ok with other people's property to be graffitied and vandalised, not their own.
- grkvlt 10y agoI think 'pg agrees with you [0] on graffiti, at least of the 'tagging' kind: > Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world. 0. http://paulgraham.com/trolls.html#f2n http://paulgraham.com/trolls.html#f2n
- icebraining 10y agoYou're seeing this in black and white, which may be the way you think it should be seen, but you should realize it's not the way most people here do. We don't think it's ok for people to "paint or sticker or everything they want", we think this is particular type of alteration is ok.
- quirkafleeg 10y agoNobody said vandalism is okay, nobody said graffiti is okay but only if done to other people's property, and this guy is not painting or stickering everything he wants, he's (non-destructively and for free) fixing bad signage.
- aaron695 10y ago> And people saying they're ok with graffiti and vandalism are really saying that they're ok with other people's property to be graffitied and vandalised, not their own. At an extreme if Banskey wanted to graffity something of mine I'd be incredibly happy so this is just plain incorrect. Probably not big on people tagging my stuff, but this is not what you are implying. Visual pollution is a thing, as you seem to agree since to you graffiti is vandalism (compared to invasion of property rights for instance), but by this standard why does a business owner get to then visually pollute outside of their property?
- qubex 10y agoThat's an absolute straw man argument and you're trying to put words in my mouth.