Comments on: Graffiti: Art, Vandalism or Information?

By: James

James — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:55:08 +0000

Just thought I’d toss in this link about moss graffiti:
http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2007/04/operation-moss-graffiti/

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:49:29 +0000

That reminds me of this reading-related graffiti story: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/12/sidewalk-stencil-cho.html – I would love to do this somewhere.

By: Lauren F.

Lauren F. — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:39:35 +0000

On my way to work on the commuter train, there is some graffiti on a wall by one of the stations; much to my surprise, at some point last year I think, someone added “read more books!” and a few “read”s to the usual graffiti coverage. I’m hoping the graffiti police don’t scrub those out. : ) And I wonder, does a graffiti artist promoting reading count as a double rebel?

By: lesbrarian

lesbrarian — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:33:26 +0000

Graffiti and handwritten book annotations can be charming, but not always. In college I purchased a used copy of the Riverside Shakespeare. The person before me had a loopy, bubbly script, and she left all these horribly obvious comments, misspelled, all throughout the book, i.e., “Hamlette is depressed.” I am not making this up. She really wrote that. It’s a shame, I’d have liked to have held on to my Riverside.