A colorful future

Gregg Valley has a lot of purses. Not, perhaps, more than a wife of five years would have.

[Brian Northway]

Gregg, you should paint the Arsenal underpass - it gets plenty of traffic and could certainly use some bright colors (not to mention grafitti deterent)!

[its amazing]

when its an older person painting its art but when its a younger crowd painting its grafitti. art is art appreciate it for what it is.

[Brian Northway]

its amazing wrote:

when its an older person painting its art but when its a younger crowd painting its grafitti. art is art appreciate it for what it is.

Actually, I'm a huge fan of tagging, when it's done well, but we don't seem to attract the type of talent that you see in SF or Oakland, so we may have to invite someone (or some people) to come do it up right, be they tag artists or mural artists.

[CRRAAAZY]

its amazing wrote:

when its an older person painting its art but when its a younger crowd painting its grafitti. art is art appreciate it for what it is.

I have seen tags that resemble art, but not in Vallejo. Maybe there is some around but I haven't seen it. The crap around vallejo looks like a 3 year old did it. Just got a visual - remeber colors, when Pac Man spray painted that gang bangers face for tagging? Is that wrong? I guess it depends if it is your house or business they are tagging.

[Married in the Bay]

its amazing wrote:

when its an older person painting its art but when its a younger crowd painting its grafitti. art is art appreciate it for what it is.

The city of Quebec in Canada encourages the young citizens to paint the Freeway support structures. They have to present a design plan for the art work but there were tags and mural work done by the crowd that would have been considered "Graffiti taggers" in other areas.

The only limits were no obscenity or racially demeaning language allowed.

It is amazing up there.

[chrissy]

CRRAAAZY wrote:

<quoted text>I have seen tags that resemble art, but not in Vallejo. Maybe there is some around but I haven't seen it. The crap around vallejo looks like a 3 year old did it. Just got a visual - remeber colors, when Pac Man spray painted that gang bangers face for tagging? Is that wrong? I guess it depends if it is your house or business they are tagging.

CHECK OUT THE LAKE HERMAN PRESENTATION FOLLOW THE TRAIL TO THE LEFT YOU WILL SEE A BREAK...I THINK ITS VERY ARTY THERE ....SOME EXCEPTIONS BUT MUCH ENGERY AND THOUGHT ARE IN SEVERAL PIECES.....AFTERWARDS IF YOU ARE FEELING BOLD CLIMB THE HILL AND HEAD FOR THE SS....SHHHHHHHHH :)

[chrissy]

Married in the Bay wrote:

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The city of Quebec in Canada encourages the young citizens to paint the Freeway support structures. They have to present a design plan for the art work but there were tags and mural work done by the crowd that would have been considered "Graffiti taggers" in other areas.
The only limits were no obscenity or racially demeaning language allowed.
It is amazing up there.

WOW THE CITY SUPPORTS THE YOUTH....ALLOWS THEM EXPRESSION AND A PLACE IN SOCIETY......REMIND ME HOW IS CRIME IN CANADA??? ;)

[Married in the Bay]

chrissy wrote:

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WOW THE CITY SUPPORTS THE YOUTH....ALLOWS THEM EXPRESSION AND A PLACE IN SOCIETY......REMIND ME HOW IS CRIME IN CANADA??? ;)

Chrissy, there has been a lot of crime in Montreal and Quebec. It is not much different than the US. And there have been a lot of gang activity up there as well (I guess you can even use slang in French).

But the city officials wanted to cover up the gang graffiti and allowed taggers and other artists to submit plans/drawings to do so. And then allowed them to place their art on the buttresses. And when I went through I did not see any graffiti sprayed over the tops of these pieces. There was graffiti elsewhere, but not to the same degree as here.

[CHRISSY]

Married in the Bay wrote:

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Chrissy, there has been a lot of crime in Montreal and Quebec. It is not much different than the US. And there have been a lot of gang activity up there as well (I guess you can even use slang in French).
But the city officials wanted to cover up the gang graffiti and allowed taggers and other artists to submit plans/drawings to do so. And then allowed them to place their art on the buttresses. And when I went through I did not see any graffiti sprayed over the tops of these pieces. There was graffiti elsewhere, but not to the same degree as here.

I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY THAT THE RATE OF VIOLENT CRIMES IN CANADA ARE NOWHERE NEAR THE US LEVEL, ESPECIALLY THOSE INVOLVING HAND GUNS.....AND I UNDERSTAND THE ARTISTS RESPECT FOR ART...EVEN TAGGERS HAVE THINGS THEY RESPECT.....HAVE A NICE DAY MARRIED....I CANT WAIT TO VOTE :)