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Reverse Graffiti
glawrie writes "UK Graffiti artist 'Moose' thought he had come up with a perfect socially friendly approach to his art - to trade paints for cleaning fluid. An article in the UK's Independent Newspaper describes how he has created graffiti by taking '... any dirty inner-city wall or pavement, place a template over it, and scrub the concrete clean, revealing an image as sharp as any spray paint which fades with time.' Moose was commissioned by a subsidiary of drinks manufacturer Diageo to create some 'clean' graffiti in Leeds to promote their vodka brand Smirnoff to local students. However, this work was subsequently condemned by Gerry Harper, a Leeds councillor, as 'sheer vandalism'. With wonderful irony, the council demanded that the artist 'clean-up' the graffiti that appeared in one of the city's gloomiest underpasses. Maybe all those senseless vandals out there will now think twice in future before scrawling 'Clean Me' on the back of vehicles overdue for a wash... But perhaps the state is now going too far - surely it is only a matter of time before rainfall is similarly targetted by the good guys."
J^raxis sucks balls all day long. If he could, he'd suck them in his sleep.
helo wat is ur asl ?
YOU CANNOT STOP ME
first post?
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MsWillow, I wanna fuck the ass off of you! If you feel the same way, please post your contact information. Thanks!
well your opinion sucks
Man, I totally agree... Perhaps it's just the Brit jargon, but I just barely can understand what they're talking about in the article (and I don't think this is actually because of jargon!).
If this is what I think it says, then it's sort of clever, but hard to believe that anybody thinks you can "scrub out" a sharp, big image of the Smirnoff logo and not think that they will run afoul of the need for advertising permits.
I didn't know they had niggers in Australia too.
Hey! Maybe you should set up a Gay Nigger Association of Australia.
Yes, but they're not allowed to marry. Each other.
i hope i can metamoderate this.
..."what does it look like"
this has to be first thing everyone thought "reverse graffiti"
everyone apparently except the moron who moderated parent.
know what you mean. those foriegners always seem to bastardize the english language
Right you are, yankee, right you are.
Tell you what. I'll swap you twenty of those damned 'foreigners' for a ship load of tobacco?
Of course, some of them are even too fucking lazy to learn how to punctuate and capitalize properly as well. Those fuckers are too dim even to put to work in the fields.
If you have any of those, I'd suggest that you sell them on for something more suited to their talents and abilities. For example, I had one recently who made his owner very good money when he signed him up for the catcher's role in a gay bukkakke movie.
Oh, wait a minute? You haven't just been granted your freedom, by any chance, have you?
I have a question:
Is this a joke? Breakdancing? We traumatized kids with mockery and laughter back when it was, I guess, cool.
Anyway, I'm a little unfamiliar with the differences between an MC and a DJ. I'm sure your website devotes some bogus FAQ on the subject, but I'd rather waste my time making fun of this whole thing than to click on your link. In fact, I don't really even want an answer, I just want to mock you. From what I've reasoned and gathered in life, an MC is some sad, emotionally disturbed, racist, mental cripple with tourettes, who is incapable of saying more than three consecutive, nonexistent words without saying his own name or the name of his lame-ass 'crew'. His job, from what I understand, is to broadcast other people's music. A DJ, though far more lame, also has the job of broadcasting other people's music. Since he doesn't say his own name over and over during other people's music he is limited to a technical position, making, at best, minimum wage. He's the guy at the radio station that does all the work. More likely, he is that fat loser who was barely equipped to perform life's only functions - pressing play on a CD player, untangling rope light, and taping orange extension cords to the floor so no one trips - who used to work your junior high dances.
Whatever, just slap me if I ever decide to move to Brisbane. Of all the things my potential tax dollars could be going to (senior transportation officer's embezzlement fund, the paying off of union officials, black-hooded IT profezzionalz) breakdancing and tagging hardly seem worthwhile. And get this: in my city, we actually reserve some money to catch you degenerate vandals, rather than promoting your utterly selfish hobbies. Even dogs have more sense here.
I'm a fundamentalist Christian. I don't recall thinking that I want death to anyone who disagrees with me, nor to dismantle all muslim countries. I'm pretty sure slavery isn't on the list of things I'm keen on either. So, unless you're going to claim that you know me better than myself (I wouldn't recommend it), looks like you're pretty much talking out your ass.
Freedom is the freedom to say that 2 + 2 = 4