[identity profile] cleanup-davissq.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] davis_square
Davis Square is a great place to live.
Lately though it seems to have gotten a little shabby with an increase in littering and graffiti.
 
I'd love to meet up with a few people on a weekend morning (or covertly late at night!) and repaint graffiti on trashcans and doorways, pick up litter, plant flower seeds...whatever it takes to bring a nicer, cleaner environment to where we live.
The city doesn't seem to have the will so let's take the initiative.
 

Date: 2006-02-01 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hauntmeister.livejournal.com
graffiti is, in fact, public art,

No, it's teenage hoodlums trying to "claim" space as their own, with no more intellect than dogs who piss on things.

Hmmm, that's a little harsh, don't you think?

Date: 2006-02-02 12:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] turil.livejournal.com
Do you think I'm a teenage hoodlum? (I'm 36, a professional artist, and a teacher, for the record.) I've made public art many times before - it was not technically graffiti but I'm sure that some of it was just as illegal as spraypaint.

You may believe what you wish about my goals, but I can clearly say that I wasn't trying to piss on anything. I was trying to express myself creatively, and I was hoping to entertain and educate people who happened to be passing by an otherwise dull and lifeless concrete landscape. In the same vain, I also enjoy when others do the same kind of public art. Good graffiti included.
From: [identity profile] hauntmeister.livejournal.com
I'm sure that some of it was just as illegal as spraypaint.
So you and George W. Bush get to decide which laws apply to you, and which ones you can cheerfully ignore, eh?

Whenever somebody "makes public art" on the sign by the community garden on the bike path, I get somebody down there with the paint remover to get it off immediately. The garden is a community project, and the gardeners don't appreciate anybody "expressing themselves creatively" on the sign that the city gave us.

In the same vain,
I'm sure you mean to write "vein". But "vain" (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=vain) also seems appropriate.

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