suggests folks aren’t watching their children

what… What an interesting assumption to make! The towns I’ve lived with strong street art scenes have been the most interconnected, generationally. The places I’ve lived with the least street art have been strictly suburban in nature and have had higher rates of violent crime. The only thing a place without tags tells you is there’s a lot of police, and probably a lot of white people.

Especially something that shows so little understanding for how street artists develop. Yeah, I don’t think this comm should regularly see low effort early efforts, but if we act judgemental about the stuff people do when they’re starting out, we’re gate keeping people from making tags, improving their scouting, working faster, coming up with new ideas, and eventually doing something truly groundbreaking.

Cornbread, Daze, Dondi, Tracy 168, Lady Pink, and SAMO all started out with tagging, and some of their most famous works remained tags. If we diminish the value of tagging as part of the street art community, we’re just… Killing the street art community.

ooooh cannot possibly disagree with you more here. what it signifies is communities with low police presence, usually impoverished or majority minority.

tagging is how people learn the community. also a quality tag takes time to develop. it’s like how figure painters have to practice sketching. you don’t get great works of art without artists graduating from tagging.

“okay. all i hear is words. i know the WAVs work and i like how they sound. can you please just make the WAVs work?”

and is their product portfolio better? no. azure, like many cloud platforms is stagnating, windows is worse, github is worse, copilot sucks. they’re just torturing the planet because they profit from suffering

yeah. deep down i know this is all the motivation thee is. they hate us, and so they’ll hate anything we coalition with. the system has tortured them, and instead of looking to make the system stop, they look for someone to torture. torture is so normal in their life that they can’t imagine a world that works any different. it makes me feel sad

man, why? why are people so spiteful? why do acts such as these speak to them and motivate them?

That’s like… The entire point

Poetry!

Still. I think it’s a step in the right direction. Maybe it would really incentivize people if there was a small deposit

We need a career switchers program for violent weirdos

They’re Extraction economy profiteers. They wanted power in the first place because green energy cuts into their profits