graffiti is all about love for the art, no money involved (apart from banksy) and the artists risk their own freedom to do it, plus you dont have to pay money to go see an awsome piece,

dont know many ‘traditional’ artists, i like escher and whoever did the artwork for the machina album by smashing pumpkins, vassilly something

do you think whether someone has done acid or not comes across in their art?? never expirienced one so couldnt tell.. some artists do seem to have different visions and insight in their work.

haaha i did, probably shudda made that a bit clearer

I sort of agree – Clearly there is some very good talent amonst some of the graf artists, and I have respect for pieces done well, but I think we all (including non participants) pay for it when all the toys and taggers pollute areas with shite

In many cases they are passing on the costs of their learning process to the rest of society (in clean up costs).

If people stuck to genuinely ugly abandoned walls or made better use of existing features (like what Banksy does) that would be fine but again I think theres a lack of self control – taggers often vandalise normal peoples business premises and even private property and give everyone a bad name.

:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:really glad someone else was thinkin that too!