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- hijinks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+66of course its the wall art you can only see with a black light is the art i'm worried about
- mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+55Covert vandalism at its finest!
Now if I could only learn to draw... - vudicarus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+49yawn. yet another whiny comment by diafel. boohoo.
- trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+50Just start making lines and call it Modern art.
- jcapogna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38You know what, I like the article. I dugg it.
- Calypsoaf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29Who really cares how they got here, as long as they are interesting and waste another 5 minutes of my companies precious time? ;)
- Foenetik, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29Yeah I'll definintely be leaving a mark at the next hotel I stay at
- Anpheus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24Some are photoshopped, it would seem.
How do I know? Compare:
http://www.secretwalltattoos.com/gallery/pics/LVNV2_2.jpg
http://www.secretwalltattoos.com/gallery/pics/LVNV2_1.jpg
Legs stick out from bottom of frame even if you adjust for the slight distortion between the two pictures.
http://www.secretwalltattoos.com/gallery/pics/CHIL4_1.jpg
http://www.secretwalltattoos.com/gallery/pics/CHIL4_2.jpg
The eye sticks out from the bottom of the frame. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20I especially liked the dead body under the bed, that was pretty creative.
- yeahbuddy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23^ Sorry, I don't see the parallel between hotel vandalism and legendary artists?
- grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Got to admit I like some of the guerrilla art more than the generic hotel 'art!
- Madh2orat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Heck, whoever drew that face over the toilet is sure to scare the crap outta anyone who sees it.
(bad pun intended) - torabora, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15some of this art work is really good!
- grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Depends on who your asking...
- Fracture98, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18Mmm. Spoken by people that have never owned anything of value. Tell me where your new car is and I'll scratch some art into the hood. See what you say then.
Damaging other people's property without their permission is vandalism and only vandalism. - grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Got to admit I like some of the guerrilla art more than the generic hotel 'art'!
- grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14[digg down my previous reply (it was suppose to be it's own separate comment)]
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Here's the thing about aaaz. I don't know who he is... I don't really care.
What I do know is that he obviously has a lot of spare time on his hands to be posting soooooooooooooooo many postings to digg. The decent ones actually make the front page. Most of them don't.
This is a GREAT digg if you ask me! - yeahbuddy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Aren't most paintings in hotels screwed into the wall?
Sounds like quite a chore... - lethalpotato, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12this is art. unsolicited, yes, but it is still art.
- Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17You are not, and never will be, intelligent.
- skatejunk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15I say ditch the paintings that are covering up the real artwork.
- rhettnyedotorg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8another little-known fact, these only appear in rooms that reek of marijuana smoke.
- darkdaedra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Perhaps they weren't photoshopped and instead were painted/drawn only after the first picture had been taken.
Your visual analysis is not sufficient to prove shenanigans. - omgitscolin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Coolest thing about it is, it's kind of a "no harm done" way to leave your mark. The only time hotel management would see it is if they were redecorating, in which case they'd most likely repaint/repaper the wall or put up a new painting, so finding something like that is pretty harmless. Very cool!
- triforcer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7now i have to remember to bring my art supplies when i go on vocation.
- macro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6maybe someones intention to start a wave of vandalism by submitting a fake photoshopped story. kind of a social experiment
- omgitscolin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I don't think the thought processes behind this are really consistent with that of someone on drugs. Whoever did this went about it in such a way as to make it unnoticable afterward, which as others have commented no doubt took some amount of effort and great care, not to mention time. They were methodical, careful, precise, and able to sustain some amount of effort and attention for an extended period of time, probably several hours. I'd say that rules out pretty much any drug I've heard of.
Interesting, though, how upon seeing something new, different, and creative, you immediately wondered if the creator was on drugs... - dbuttry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What a guy needs to do is register a gmail account and tell others to email to it if they find the secret drawing. That would make it more of a game rather than just leaving your mark and walking away.
- wheaty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't think they're photoshopped. On those particular pieces, it looks like the artwork was done on the back of the frame or on some type of back-mount. If that's the case there's probably a way to fold those hanging parts back up behind the picture. The legs in the first example could clearly get folded up.
- cardinale, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is inspired!
- DubbedOver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I can't even remember my dress shoes when i travel, now I have to remember something that I haven't used in 8 years.
- Foenetik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow ElGuano, that statement does make you sound old. You seem hardened by the system..and life. Were you in the military? Sure it's vandalism...and only a handfull of people will ever see it. Hell, even the maids won't go far enough to unearth these images.. The way I see it is that it's a fairly harmless crime. The owners of these establishments are not losing money because of this. Period. If they were then I would have to look at this in a completely different light. In any case I love real graffiti that replaces barren and mundane landscapes with something beautiful. This might not necessarily be that...but it's a start.
as far as skating on public property goes...that's a whole 'nother ball of wax - triforcer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4or they would just cover it with the painting...
- SgtBeavis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Stuff like this is why I'm addicted to Digg.
Thanks Kevin ;-) - blingfinger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I guess you've never seen any of Banksy's work. I especially like the work he did on Israel's "Separation Wall."
- billymachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I always leave a mark on the wall by licking it! Oh... wait...
- jonshipman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3ah *****, I wish I had maid service :(
- NoSuchAgency, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think the last time I checked, hotel paintings were bolted to the wall. This isn't a bad idea but I think I'd prefer it wasn't so much like "drawing on the walls and creating a lot of scrubbing work for some unfortunate housekeeper".
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5@Fracture98:
sounds like it's a matter of perspective. someone scratches something into my car and it's vandalism. someone scratches something into your car and it's art.
and if we've learned anything over the last few millenia, it's that art is subjective if nothing else. - tonicboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@grooviekenn
What the hell are you talking about dude? The comment (which I agree with) was about the difficulty of painting behind the hotel art, since most hotel art is screwed to the wall to prevent theft. It makes you wonder how much of this is actual hotel guerilla art, as opposed to an elaborate sham to make everyone think there's lots of guerilla art out there. - billymachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So you prefer the pastel squigglies, then. That's fine, everyone has different tastes.
- DubbedOver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why?
- ShagNASTY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So I guess QOTSA did do all of this and that's why this doesn't surprise me. Check out the link below for the wiki mention of secret wall tattoos and Josh Homme's take on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_wall_tattoo - 4ndr3wk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://digg.com/users/diafel/commented
WTF?? is there anything else say except yawn another gamed story which they most probably arent.
GO AWAY AND STFU!! - Aeiri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'd like to see someone draw the seal of protection (or whatever) from Sleepy Hollow under a hotel bed :)
- aashishsahrawat, on 08/22/2008, -0/+1More tattoos with categories based are available at
http://www.atledo.com - nakke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have an odd feeling it's not one guy who has done everything. :)
The pieces themselves are awesome! - Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny, every since I was a kid, whenever I have to move, I will go and find a spot just inside a closet or behind a door frame and leave my name and the date I lived there, sometimes I will leave a little phrase or quote.
I also do this at rest areas when travelling.
Never thought to do it at hotels. - kida001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It looks like the guy who took those pictures is the one who drew all those. They seem to have the same artisitc style in them...just my opinion.
- signal15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Always check the last few pages of the bible in your room. Sometimes people "add chapters" to it. Some of them are pretty funny. Those bibles usually have 10-15 blank pages at the end of them. I've stayed in some hotels that have cut out all of the blank pages to prevent people from making of the gospel of Joe Traveler.
I used to take the art off the walls and draw or write on the back of the piece of art, never thought about writing directly on the wall. Some of this art is pretty cool. -
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