April 15th, 2010
Photo du jour : Un petit rappel
By Émile Thomas // 4 Comments
Hopefully, this little reminder will keep the vandals at bay.
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A new job, a new commute.
So long Parc bus, so long stroll through the Mile-End.
Hello Plateau Mont-Royal, hello loads and loads of graffiti.
And not the mural kind of stuff.
But the tacky kind of stuff.
Listen birds and cobra cocks and squiggly lines.
Some say graffiti is the result of government oppression towards art. Some are idiots.
This is Québec - the 2006-7 fiscal year had arts funding hovering around $335 per person.
Vandals, go get you some of that arts money and paint on a canvas, not on my walls.
Graffiti, I sure do not love you.
Sur le site du Quartier 54 à la Petite-Patrie, métro Rosemont
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Yes, I hate tags. They really contribute to blight.
But we do need more murals and public art - some lovely murals would be an antidote to the greyness a Spacing contributor describes in his father's view of Mile End (this still applies to much of the Plateau, despite gentrification).
Émile, I'd love to see a photo-essay on the evolution of Quartier 54. That can play an important part in the redevelopment of southwestern Petite-Patrie and the northerwestern edge of the Plateau and adjacent Mile-End. I have friends who will be members of the housing coops there. There will be a community centre with a library and a swimming pool.
Lately they seem to have invested in some particularly nasty fluorescent paint. Such as "Elle" and "Pen<315".... they really can't restrain themselves. I imagine they are about 13 years old and think this is the best way to rebel and express themselves. I just wish they would keep it to the alleyways and stay away from brick!
I think the ideal graffiti mural would be in the style of epic battle paintings, with the mural artists vs the lowly taggers.
I totally feel you on this one. Living in the Jeanne Mance district means that I am bombarded by graffiti tags on a regular basis. Although most of it is unreadable scrawl, I am able to decipher some of the crap that gets painted on private and public property alike. So, in that vein:
Jones, your shit isn't tight, quit tagging every inanimate object in sight.
There's nothing worse than pointless graffiti! I'm all for the good stuff,some murals are amazing.
There's a graffiti artist (name unknown) who has a mural in Saint Henri right across from the IGA on 289 Rue Maria. It is one of those pieces that catches your eye and when you step back and have a look....it draws you in even more.
I say we round up all the pointless tacky taggers and SPRAY 'em down!
Comment by Lindsay D.
April 15, 2010 | 5:44 am