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The Last Graffiti Artist

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  • zslaughter, on 05/12/2008, -27/+18Well I guess someone thought he deserved it.
    • gyrfalcon, on 05/12/2008, -32/+16Graffiti is not art, it's defacement and a crime... generally done by gangs.
      • Mononuclear, on 05/12/2008, -7/+22What if it's done legally and on display at an art gallery? Graffiti isn't always illegal and is art whether it is illegal or not. Who are you to decide what is art and what's not?
        • gyrfalcon, on 05/13/2008, -6/+2It's not graffiti if it's done legally dumb ass... Graffiti is defacement of others property.
        • Akaji, on 05/13/2008, -1/+4@gyrfalcon
          Get a dictionary, 'dumb ass'. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=graffiti
        • charlie55, on 05/13/2008, -3/+2he is exactly as qualified as you. if that dude doesnt think it is art, then it isnt. art is subjective.
        • LeeSoong, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1A neighbor's kid went down the street spay painting all the parked cars, causing several tens of thousands of dollars in damages to dozens of cars, all in a matter of a few minutes...

          Is that art ? Or Justifiable Homicide?
      • Serok, on 05/12/2008, -2/+24Most graffiti is NOT done by gangs. I have known many graffiti artists and not one of them were affiliated with a gang. Gang graffiti gives graffiti artists a bad name.
        • jbenson2, on 05/12/2008, -6/+7Most graffiti IS done by gangs. I have known many graffiti artists and all of them were affiliated with a gang. Gang graffiti and graffiti artists give art a bad name.
          • Phyltre, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Most artists ARE gangs. I have known many artists and all of them were affiliated with gangs. Art gives gangs, artist gangs, art, graffiti art, graffiti gangs, and gang-art graffiti a bad name.
          • VinceNoir, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1I doubt the veracity of your claims Mr. Benson. You're too much of a white boy to have known gang members. You're apparently solid middle class with no background in poverty. You know all the hidden middle class rules as evidenced by your posting history. You, however have never been involved in generational poverty. Therefore your claim is worthless. It's mere posturing to try and bolster your sad and pathetic ideals.
          • Dystisis, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0Most gangs ARE art. I have known many gangs and all of them have been affiliated with art. Gangs give art, paintings, sculpture modeling, musicians and drawing a bad name.
          • LeeSoong, on 05/15/2008, -0/+1Most guys named Art join gangs. I have known many people named Art and they all are affiliated with one gang or another. Gangs love Arts, Arts love gangs.
            Art gangs give guys named Author a bad name.
      • DarrylWatts, on 05/13/2008, -1/+2your ignorance precedes you.....everything is art. Although, I don't like gang 'tags'...
      • poopmaster, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3how's texas?
  • jaychuck, on 05/12/2008, -45/+7How did someone get in front of him and stab him as he was tagging the wall? That's what I call a "reach around."
  • HazardRush, on 05/12/2008, -22/+9Harold's Red Spraypaint
  • capnhapnscratch, on 05/12/2008, -19/+13Wow, the majority of this guy's stuff is really cool. I like the picture of the man with his head inside a concrete wall. Really creative!
  • adnerb06, on 05/12/2008, -10/+60mirror - http://www.microsano.com/c/!Xfu
  • wynja, on 05/12/2008, -15/+13Sweet street art.
  • Nhmarine, on 05/12/2008, -16/+8Dead guys as art... didn't the cigarette protestors do that already? I like that there is the message "peace, love" next to a guy who has a knife in his back.... Is the dead guy a puppet or a dead guy?
    • DarrylWatts, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1its not really a dead guy....its stuffed....to make a statement.
  • Lubinski, on 05/12/2008, -14/+4It is dowwwnn... Mirrors?
    • Lubinski, on 05/12/2008, -2/+2bury me because it was down at the moment I clicked on it, *****.
  • fr3ddie, on 05/12/2008, -19/+9hurry up and revive him so we can send him to jail.
  • RogerStrong, on 05/12/2008, -30/+8If he had permission to paint there, this is bad. If he didn't, well, one tagger down and lots to go.
    • DarrylWatts, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3art is awesome!
      • RogerStrong, on 05/13/2008, -3/+2Sure, but only the owner of the building has the right to paint or decorate the building as he prefers.

        99% of graffiti is crap. (Before you complain, I'm a big fan of science fiction, and 99% of that's crap too.) Talentless submorons with spray cans around here cover everything with it, including people's vehicles, without asking.

        If the guy in the picture had permission, fine. If not, and he wants to use the "art" defence, then we can laud what happenned to him as a fine piece of performance art. Encore!
        • casek, on 05/13/2008, -1/+2it's a damn art installation. you're an idiot.
          • RogerStrong, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1So it's not supposed to provoke discussion about graffiti, about what the scene portrays.?
      • justdanne, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0Acually this was done on a legal wall. I know this because i live in Malmo, were this painting is from. It seems this was pretty newly done so i will check out this irl tomorrow. I have seen a lot of stuff from the actuall painters and they are really taleneted how can you say they are not?.
  • vptel, on 05/12/2008, -16/+7OMG Banksy!! WHY!!!!
    • FrizzleyFry, on 05/12/2008, -3/+312 comments before a Banksy reference, thought it would have been sooner than that.
    • isiz, on 05/12/2008, -4/+3Not every piece of graff is a Banksy

      the more you know...
    • Light11, on 05/12/2008, -2/+2wheres that sarcasm check mark for comments? some people just dont get it.
      • bicyclethief, on 05/12/2008, -2/+1It's that red square to the right.
  • lolben, on 05/12/2008, -17/+6he actually started on the right,
    the left stuff he did in the process of dying

    skills man
  • bassman626, on 05/12/2008, -14/+2ouch
  • BlackJackJester, on 05/12/2008, -16/+3I'm not dead yet!
  • senselessending, on 05/12/2008, -20/+5don't know if he bit it off of banksy, but banksy had this published a while back in wall and peice...

    http://www.andipamodern.com/IMAGE/3910.jpg

    still, awesome work... no shame in being inspired by other artists, but give credit where credit is due. :)
  • Remmiz, on 05/12/2008, -14/+116Here may be found the last words, of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant, and pure of spirit, may find the Holy Grail, in the Castle of... aaaaaagggh.
  • EwMo, on 05/12/2008, -12/+4Speaking of dead...

    Anyone have a mirror?
  • blinkatron, on 05/12/2008, -14/+2that looks like me after friday night at the pub
  • AceKicker, on 05/12/2008, -13/+2Server down at 160 Diggs. Sweet!
  • crywolf, on 05/12/2008, -15/+7*prepares for Banksy references when he has no part in this whatsoever and the fact that there are thousands of artists that are as or are more ingenious than him *

    Yeah i know the procedure, digg me down :(
  • cryonix, on 05/12/2008, -12/+5anyone able to read what he was trying to write at the end... i see letters but cant make out any words.
  • RcHer, on 05/12/2008, -24/+9What the eff, 174 and down. Come on seriously.
    Ah nevermind, never saw the mirror.
    DIG ME DOWN YES I SPELLED DIGG WRONG ON PURPOSE!.
    New Edit: Found new mirror!!! http://universoulproductions.wordpress.com/2008/05 ...
    • XHashmeerX, on 05/12/2008, -4/+3Sorry. Your tricks will not work this time.
      • RcHer, on 05/12/2008, -3/+2I wanted people to digg me down so they wouldn't see my ***** comment.
    • hiro, on 05/12/2008, -3/+1You're being dugg down not because you didn't notice the mirror, but because we're sick of ***** thinking that the number of diggs is somehow related to the number of views. I looked at it, thought it was ***** and hit bury!
  • bokep, on 05/12/2008, -13/+5Brilliant
  • zephyr42, on 05/12/2008, -14/+7These comments suck.
  • kencurran, on 05/12/2008, -14/+1Now that's a way to make a statement. I mean.. look at his left foot!
  • novemberdream07, on 05/12/2008, -11/+3what is this server made out of toothpicks hope and a prayer?
  • rossiprojects, on 05/12/2008, -16/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb6u4AkLlM8
  • djdementia, on 05/12/2008, -24/+10graffiti = modern version of pissing on a tree to mark your territory, go go Neanderthals!
    I'd buy whoever stabbed this f.tard a drink!
    • isiz, on 05/12/2008, -1/+6Wrong.
    • Jeffler, on 05/12/2008, -3/+2I'd agree if you weren't a moron. Some graffiti like useless tagging is stupid, but lots can be street art which is very much appreciated.
    • urgeigh, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3I think it's beautiful. Not all graffiti is done illegally. Especially the good stuff. Yes, let's kill people because you don't like their Art. Fascist. Not to mention this was obviously intentional and no one actually got stabbed.
    • isiz, on 05/12/2008, -0/+4Graffiti would be practically non-existant without tagging.
    • DarrylWatts, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3gang tags can be compared to pissing on a tree....gangs are inferior....but master-pieces like this are brilliant pieces of art.
      Eliminate your ignorance and educate yourself on art....then maybe you will be able to correctly label things...
  • senselessending, on 05/12/2008, -10/+2n/m...
  • russTtraumbowen, on 05/12/2008, -16/+3pretty sick...def inspired by banksy (but who isn't)? perhaps more accurate would be to give the nod to the guy who inspired banksy: Blek le Rat.

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    http://eattheblinds.blogspot.com/
  • RcHer, on 05/12/2008, -10/+4Mirror: http://universoulproductions.wordpress.com/2008/05 ...
  • Kingster, on 05/12/2008, -12/+7Mirror: http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lastgraff ...
    • utahnkid, on 05/12/2008, -1/+1This was dugg down because..? It's a working link, what else were you looking for?
  • dcd722, on 05/12/2008, -11/+5Working Mirror
    http://bayimg.com/PAjbpaABK
  • mehan, on 05/12/2008, -18/+7the last graffiti "artist"?

    ..we can only hope.
    • k1down, on 05/12/2008, -2/+2wtf is that supposed to mean?
    • DarrylWatts, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2why dont you just come out and say it.....you hate gang tags...but love art like this....you know you want to =)
  • mikeazorin, on 05/12/2008, -10/+3Keep drinking your lattes and wearing your expensive jeans, real graffiti writers have so much more culture than silly street art.
    • fluxion, on 05/12/2008, -2/+2because only elitists and hipsters dont see the value in tagging up the side of someone's business
  • Melun91, on 05/12/2008, -13/+4Would be amazing if the person was part of the graffiti.
  • DiscoLando, on 05/12/2008, -13/+3The Last Graffiti artist 503'ed? How fitting.
  • ehudokai, on 05/12/2008, -9/+89Is everyone missing the obvious. This is a complete art piece. There is no dead guy in the picture. If he was dead there would be a whole lot more blood, and notice the lack of any showing skin. probably a dummy dressed up, but well done.
    • punkcat, on 05/12/2008, -3/+6yeah "probably." or is there a chance you are saying he kept spray painting after being stabbed?
      • romistrub, on 05/12/2008, -1/+2Well... to be fair, judging by the quality of the piece, spray painting would have probably been his life. I can totally see an artist wanting to "sign" his last piece as he died (the squiggles look like a botched signature).

        That being said, it's obvious that the person/dummy is part of the piece. Just look at the other pieces on the site.
      • ehudokai, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1I think the continued painting as he's "dying" is a part of the artistry...
    • Gauthic, on 07/09/2008, -3/+2Not to mention an 'artist' would have more than a red can of spray paint near his "pallet " (especially considering the colors of his 'last work').
  • insanebrain, on 05/12/2008, -12/+81Did Digg switch the bury/digg buttons again ?
    • bobcrotch, on 05/12/2008, -1/+9I'll take the pen is mightier for 200 Alex.
      • michaelb323, on 05/12/2008, -0/+9Alex - When digging people down most people feel what?
      • Tyrghast, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2What michaelb323 meant to say was "Most people feel this emotion when digging."
  • MasterGrief, on 05/12/2008, -16/+49Man, it's like a graveyard in here.
  • chaeridley, on 05/12/2008, -15/+8Not probably. It is a dummy dressed up.
  • falafelkiosken, on 05/12/2008, -11/+5woho, Malmö, I live just a couple of miles from there
  • Logrusmage, on 05/12/2008, -13/+8Everyone here who thinks that is an actual person is ***** retarded.
    • PojkePojke, on 05/12/2008, -3/+2Or, it is an actual person with a fake knife stuck in his back done simply for the photo (which is more likely the case as it wasn't an art installation - I would have seen it and it would have been in the papers).
  • drkmccrthy, on 05/12/2008, -10/+4I don't get it.
  • frostbyt, on 05/12/2008, -9/+2Why is he sleeping on the sidewalk?
  • elhaf, on 05/12/2008, -9/+2Uh, properly translated it would say, "His last graffito", assuming it was gramatically correct in the first place, which it isn't.
  • Ricemanstm, on 05/12/2008, -12/+4I'd love to do the same thing to taggers...except with a shot gun. A little Jackson Pollock...
  • PojkePojke, on 05/12/2008, -18/+13Hahaha... I was looking at it and recognized something familiar (don't recall the installation) and realized it's the graffiti area just down the street from me. Great place Sweden - Swedes are interesting creatures. Not only would I NOT expect to be stabbed here in Malmo, but they mostly only spray graffiti on that one building and hardly anywhere else. When summer arrives, that building changes skins almost weekly.
    • RadiatedAnt, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1burried because the internet hates everyone
  • wYpe, on 05/12/2008, -19/+14I'm surprised by all the comments saying graffiti is a crime no matter what. There are legal walls everywhere, and most businesses if asked nicely and if you show them what you are planning to do on the wall they will give you permission to do it. There is a bike store near my house and on the back stretching probably 20 meters there is a graffiti piece that covers the entire backside of the store. It is related to bikes, looks amazing, and keeps other graffiti artists from throwing a tag up on that wall. Tags on doors, windows, and bus stops are places that would be illegal to write on. Other places may not be.
    • nick510, on 05/12/2008, -2/+5wouldn't it then be a mural?
      • dawnraid101, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1no dip *****, its a legal wall, which has peoples "peices" and "toys" on it. Geez learn the lingo.
  • o0adam0o, on 05/12/2008, -15/+10*goes down the burried slide*

    Weeeeeee!
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