Monday, September 21, 2009
Hooliganism and graffiti tagging
http://annkschin.blogspot.com/2008/11/guy-fawkes-day.html
http://annkschin.blogspot.com/2008/12/tagging-tragic-story.html
http://annkschin.blogspot.com/2009/06/plunket-society.html
Before I started blogging, I was dabbling into writing. Graffiti tagging was one of my passionate topic. In Sarawak in Borneo, life was very controlled, and tagging was non existence. When I went to New York in the mid 70s, I was quite fearful. Later, I was shocked to see tagging, "Muldon is a pig" on the bridges. Muldoon was the prime minister in New Zealand then.
Guy Fawks day, fireworks and hooligalism led to the burning of the Plunket rooms in Sandringham. I went to take photos of the rebuilding and was going to write a piece of successful story of how friends of Plunket worked hard to raise money to rebuild this building. Before I was ready to write, the next week, the hooligans were at it again, they vandalised the building and damaged thousands worth of work and material.
What senseless and mindless idiots.
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I am not a fan of tagging - someone else's property being defaced is wrong, it does not belong to the 'artist' (and I use that term very loosely...)
True art comes from within, not destruction...
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