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Games rot your brains

February 16, 2006 23:29 (Sydney Australia), updated about 10 hours later

“...a fictional tale set in a futuristic city where freedom of expression has been suppressed by a corrupt government and how one young man is able to change his world by picking up a pen instead of a gun.”

oh the irony.

and whilst we’re on the topic, flickr has some great shots which definitely blur the line between graffiti and art.

update: I just remembered John Allsop wrote a great article harnessing creative anarchy – an abject lesson about the effect of Waverley Council’s decision to control the art on the Bondi promenade wall.

An interesting insight into Waverley’s council’s opinion is to look at their meeting minutes that mention graffiti.

The Waverley Council Director’s solution to graffiti on the promenade?

The Director also said that graffiti has become a problem, and that the most practical solution is to paint murals on the skate park facility so as to help limit the amount of obscene graffiti that is now occurring there.

Replacing the murals with a blank wall, right next to a skate park on the beach, in a place where graffiti has been an accepted form of artistic expression for years? Good luck with that…

Comments

Maxine

Very sad, and as you said, especially in the context of GTA being approved. I mean sure, car theft, pimping and graffiti are all against the law, but if you can’t work out which “one of these things is not like the others” then…..

Ren

There’s tagging, or dog-like territorial marking, and then there’s creative expression.

It’s sad that they’re lumped in the same category.

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