I think that allowing graffiti on certain buildings is a great idea. However when someone does a huge mural or gets protective over their work it could cause more tension. So maybe if they set it up where you are expected to basically collaborate on a huge ever changing piece of art instead of just a wall to put your individual art on.
That would never work. Graffiti has rules, if you’re not gonna make something better then don’t go over what’s already on the wall, if you do - you’re a «toy». It goes something like this: Tag-Throwup-Peice-Mural I don’t exactly remember if there is something between there because I haven’t done graffiti in 5 years, but you get the point. Having a couple of really talented artists bunched up with a load of kids that don’t know what they are doing is not going to make a good mural, and murals are planned out and a lot of work is put into them by proffessionals. You’re living in fairytale land if you think this could be pulled off.
Yeah where I live in the US there’s a few places where the business owner allows anyone to spray paint a wall outside. For a while some guy kept ruining the paintings by covering them with solid black or wieners.
No because graffiti almost always looks like shit and it’s illegal. I’ve been to Brazil, where graffiti is everywhere and Jesus Christ is it ugly. Graffiti always ruins beautiful streets in cities. The only places where I don’t mind graffiti are favelas, they actually look pretty good, and the housing there is illegal anyways
@@Chadius_Thundercock This isn't a topic of whether it looks good or not, graffiti is a matter of expression. It's illegal in most places because the spray is difficult to get off. I think there should be areas in which graffiti is legalized so people can express themselves in a way that isn't breaking any laws
@@caitlinlach9615 not really. I can't go and paint on someone's property just because I want to "express myself". Do it at home or something, it isn't that big of a deal.
@@angelnunnart I think you misunderstood what I said... That's the exact reason I think it should be legal in some places. so you /aren't/ breaking the law and you /aren't/ painting on someone else's property. If there are areas designated for graffiti, no one is breaking any laws, and no one's property is to be damaged. Some people just don't have the ability to paint at home. I'd assume you would mean that you'd just do it in the backyard, but what if you don't have a backyard? Or the neighbors don't like the smell? There's just a lot of problems that could occur from spray painting at home, and you also said 'or something'. Areas where graffiti is legal would be that 'something' because it's not on someone's property. In my comment I was not saying that you should be able to tag or spray paint everywhere and get away with it because of 'expression', I was instead just telling someone how the looks of art doesn't matter given what they mean, regardless of where it is. At home, or wherever you can paint without consequences. Please, do not do graffiti where it is not okay.
Other city’s HAVE “tried this method”. Melbourne Australia has several of these legal spray painting locations and I’m sure there are many other cities that do too.
Here buisnesses just pay the graffiti artists to paint the sides of their buildings every so often. Was a shame when the realtors painted over the beautiful mural that looked like a famous Roman painting in a museum.
@@kaihocompany but Ghent is not the only European city that legalized some areas for graffitis. Even in Sardinia there are some areas, almost in every city, that legalized graffitis and now we have amazing murales, also our graffiti problem has diminished so much (again just some tags like in Ghent), some artists are loved so much that small shops now pay for commissions and we have beautiful art to look at!
I’m my town we have “bubblegum alley” to stop people from sticking gum in walls and tables, it doesn’t work as well as this but it definitely stops it a bit Edit: ok to clear things up, I don’t want to give my location away cause I don’t feel comfortable doing that, but I do not live in Seattle
Puerto Rico has a whole area with old buildings that painters use for that. My Tio is one of the most famous artist to use that wall. His name is known all throughout the area
This type of thing happened in our local pub basically everyone was literally throwing bottles everywhere, so they made a wall that was specifically there to be thrown bottles at, and surprisingly it worked.
I’m the US you will definately find the occasional “art town” which has lots of graffiti downtown but it’s not really an issue here. Especially not on historic buildings.
@@jadenoliveras717 That's a question of definition. For your average european old means around 600 years. But it get's interesting if it's more like 1500+
@@danielbernet4005 true, the buildings aren’t as old and historic, but America is a “young” country and the younger building dates are more prominent to the history
There are two type of graffiti, bombing which is "getting up" by doing it illegally and having dope handstyles, throwies(hollows included), occasionally straight letters and blockbusters, and very rare pieces and wildstyles, and the second one graffiti art, the pieces and wildstyles they do are super dope, you can occasionally see them do dope handstyles and REALLY rare throwups since we the artists do mainly pieces. Also street art and graffiti are different, if it doesn't have letters in it, it's not graffiti
Graffiti is the plural form of the Italian word ‘graffito’, meaning little scratch. It goes back to ancient times, when vandals would carve words or drawings into walls or onto furniture. It was only after the advent of the spray can that graffiti took of a broader meaning, referring to any kind of vandalism by scribing or coloring a mark upon a structure. Those shitheads that scratch words onto gas station pump with their keys are keeping an ancient tradition of lowlives scratching their mark onto a public structure. It’s the original graffiti.
In the city where I live in Britain, we have this wall where people go and paint whatever they want. It's great for both worlds, cool photos and keeps artists happy.
I think up in Cheltenham there was a event hosted where graffiti was allowed and now there’s some real cool art everywhere. But I only think that’s true, I didn’t do research
Though graffiti is still huge in Spain, while I was in Vigo with family the city has these massive murals going up the buildings and walls. It really adds to the beauty and a lot of them are sea inspired given Vigos a coastal city.
@@1fault I studied urban geography for 5 years. No, it's not gentrification lol. Rotterdam definitely has gentrification troubles, but graffiti has nothing to do with it
Its not only in the hague every city in the Netherlands has a legal wall exept for Gouda but the thing is that legal Graffiti is boring the whole goal of the game is to paint as much illegal and aspecily deadly spots legale walls are Just for prectecing
It's an interesting psyhological effect when you deny someone of doing something you can bet on it that they will try to do it even more then before but when you let them do it it becomes controlled.
@@Cyanide_and_Loneliness it didn't. It got worse & crazy thing is the us gov approved an increase in methonal an alcohol based substance in liquor. Trying to discourage drinking but it hurt people.
It also just gives the population some freedom to express themselves. Many aspiring artists that have been drawing for years wish to create something bigger but how/where can you practice? The graffiti street is there for that reason as well, to give everyone interested in the art a place to experiment and learn.
The only problem with that is once someone makes new art it’s 100% of the time going to make someone else angry because the new art has covered their art
Legalize it to keep em under control. Here's question. Could you name any other "crime" that can be controlled by "legalizing" it? Many crimes are just behaviors deemed destructive to society by a few people making all the decisions. Not talking about clear true acts of crime ofc lmao
Actually in Atlanta Ga they have this tunnel that’s covered in graffiti it’s honestly so cool they even used it in the falcon and the winter solider they still have graffiti everywhere but lots of it is actually good or it’s a commissioned mural
The only problem I have with graffiti is when people vandalize ancient historical places, like there's a beutiful churvh/tomb in turkey, that's like...super old, but people have painted all over it, and not in a good way, I love art , but don't cover up something someone else has probably spent a long time on and has a lot history other than that I think grafiti is pretty cool!:)
Yeah I see adding to things like factories as adding to the historical “we were here” of it, but I see old architecture as covering up someone else’s art.
In centralia, PA, there is a place called graffiti road. It is super cool and over a mile long. Too bad they closed it off due to the underground fire.
There is always going to be revels who graffiti outside the legal areas but when I lived near St. Louis I used to visit the graffiti wall that they had for legal graffiti and it was awesome meeting some of the artists and gave a better feel of community
I have a place like this in my home town of Gainesville, Fl. Its on a street i cant remember but its not enforced so you can paint over it as much as you want and its constantly changing. Theres always one spot that never gets touched tho and thats the mural for the people who were killed by Danny Rollings, "The Gainesville Ripper", in the 90s.
@Szyman.pk3run ive never publicly defaced my community. True. What kind of pariah loser narcissistic person needs theirvnamecapray painted on someone else's building
In Belfast there is this super short underground tunnel that goes under the street and it'd full of graffiti. If I ever become a graffiti artist I want to make Concrete Genie art. Its an underrated game about going around an abandoned town and bringing it to life with your magic paintbrush. You also paint these creatures called Genies that help you on your journey. Nobody has done it, and I want to be the first
I remember learning about Portugal and their legalisation of all drugs. Even class A drugs. After they did it, drug related deaths decreased rapidly and in 2011, only 10 people died from overdoses of drugs in Portugal. It’s amazing how giving some freedom to people can actually reduce crime. Of course with careful consideration.
There's beautiful murals all over the city where people have given permission to talented artists to add their art. This street however is for people starting out or that want to practice.
I’ve been saying this for a while now. Give people an outlet to create. Also, legalizing it makes people who do it for the thrill of it knowing it’s illegal not get that satisfaction. We need more places like this.
The street gets painted white once a year anyway. There's no turf when stuff's legal, that's why criminality goes down once you legalise drugs as well.
where i live, theres this really famous thing called "batmans alley" where people are allowed to paint and grafitti freely we still have a HUGE problem with grafiti, maybe because it doesnt go anywhere if someone does? its just bad law enforcement
They made this Method in our town but instead of it being graffiti it was one big chalk alley for people to draw on. Now people can’t do much graffiti in that historic alley way that had super old and even dead graffiti artist in it. It’s sad to see it.
I think the fact that you vandalize the property of another person, and try to get away with it by calling it “art”-which it’s HARDLY art. It’s disgustingly ugly scribbles-is so scummy of these people. If you want to paint on a building it should be with approval of owner.
I’ve literally had this idea since I was 9. I saw graffiti every where and asked my dad “why don’t they build a wall and tell people they can paint on that, like how I can only paint on paper?” He agreed with me that it was a good idea (Obviously we aren’t the law so nothing happened) turns out we were right 🤔 It’s amazing how children have better ideas than adults sometimes.
No man every city has legal walls but Graffiti writhers dont like it its part of the game to Paint ass much illegal as posible we Paint graffiti not street art
@@Seyone030 Yes, the adrenaline rush of braking the law for a split second temporary gives people the boost of serotonin that their mind/body lacks, and once it’s gone they need another hit, (tag) like how drugs work. It’s artificial temporarily happiness, often partnered with bad family issues and a thirst for attention. That is part of the goal with the walls, to give them the creative outlet and attention they need. But no, not all cities have that.
I was in Barcelona right before the pandemic shutdown. Across the street from my hotel was a construction site taking up one square block surrounded by a security wall. It had the most awesome graffiti painting I ever saw. Each one had a whole panel to itself. Some beautiful, some political, all styles just a hell of a lot of talented artists. A block off the diagonal near the beach.
My HS principal caught a well-known senior and tagger in one of the bathrooms. Instead of calling the cops, where he would’ve been screwed because of his well-known tag in Miami, the principal made him do a mural on the outside wall where the basketball courts were. I’ll never forget coming back my senior year and seeing “Knowledge is Power” with the Thinker sculpture done up across a huge ass wall. That well-known tagger - he runs his own legal firm back home. Sometimes it pays to give someone a second chance.
My high school created small areas around the campus called Freedom Walls and it helped prevent vandalism in our school and this was the biggest school by popular in our province.
this is so cool! in the uk we have a website where it tells you what walls/buildings are legal to spray on - but typically some people still illegally spray, there’s one place near where i live where there’s a police station completely covered in graffiti - and it looks abandoned, but it’s not, the police just don’t bother enforcing the law there - it’s a shame, and this right here is something every country should do because that walkway is awesome!
We need that in Louisiana (in the USA)bc I see graffiti all over the place, trains, bridges, buildings, and even more. All though it is nice art work but it is not the best they to do on stuff like that but if I would see this it would be so cool!
As someone who's from Belgium (and lives close to Ghent) graffiti is still a problem in other parts of the city, just less. But it's really fun to walk in the little alleyway.
This is what my town has! We have 4-5 buildings that are legally allowed to be painted in/on. People paint beautiful things and we even have a wall where everytime you visit, you glue a penny to the wall!
To even further improve it , they can design a tile by tile system where a person can register and paint whatever they want on a specific tile , that way even tourists can leave a mark on a wall of tiles .
This is what they have here in London UK, it doesn’t really work for taggers in big cities but you do get some beautiful art and great legal practice space for those who take it seriously.
They should have power lines, so people can throw their shoes around the line. This way they don't do it around town. They could have their own special place where they can throw a pair of shoes to the power line
In Saarbrücken, Germany there's also a, how we call it, "legal wall" where you can graffiti as much as you want, but we still have a massive problem with it.
We actually did this in Canada with drugs- a lot of people were excited that it was legalized but then they just kind of stopped 🤣 not really so that way they could do it in an alleyway but we legalized it then bam people stop doing it as much
That walk actually looks pretty cool
Yea it’s super cool to walk through!
@@ColbyEubanks some pretty insane artists out there that painted on those walls 😳
@your friendly neigbourhood toaster Nice! You think your gonna go check it out?
And almost every time you take it it will be different
@Jolape he looks more like ellen than ellen
I think that allowing graffiti on certain buildings is a great idea. However when someone does a huge mural or gets protective over their work it could cause more tension. So maybe if they set it up where you are expected to basically collaborate on a huge ever changing piece of art instead of just a wall to put your individual art on.
?? how would they do that tf lmao
That would never work. Graffiti has rules, if you’re not gonna make something better then don’t go over what’s already on the wall, if you do - you’re a «toy».
It goes something like this:
Tag-Throwup-Peice-Mural
I don’t exactly remember if there is something between there because I haven’t done graffiti in 5 years, but you get the point.
Having a couple of really talented artists bunched up with a load of kids that don’t know what they are doing is not going to make a good mural, and murals are planned out and a lot of work is put into them by proffessionals. You’re living in fairytale land if you think this could be pulled off.
@@donb2527 pretty much. Anyone that has ever played with graf knows that what ever piece you thow up, even permission pieces, are not permanent
Yeah where I live in the US there’s a few places where the business owner allows anyone to spray paint a wall outside. For a while some guy kept ruining the paintings by covering them with solid black or wieners.
@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 nothing wrong with finding you’re niche
I have literally always thought that there should be places where you can do graffiti and I had no idea about this place that's so cool
It’s extremely common in big cities and doesn’t really work sadly
No because graffiti almost always looks like shit and it’s illegal. I’ve been to Brazil, where graffiti is everywhere and Jesus Christ is it ugly. Graffiti always ruins beautiful streets in cities. The only places where I don’t mind graffiti are favelas, they actually look pretty good, and the housing there is illegal anyways
@@Chadius_Thundercock This isn't a topic of whether it looks good or not, graffiti is a matter of expression. It's illegal in most places because the spray is difficult to get off. I think there should be areas in which graffiti is legalized so people can express themselves in a way that isn't breaking any laws
@@caitlinlach9615 not really. I can't go and paint on someone's property just because I want to "express myself". Do it at home or something, it isn't that big of a deal.
@@angelnunnart I think you misunderstood what I said... That's the exact reason I think it should be legal in some places. so you /aren't/ breaking the law and you /aren't/ painting on someone else's property. If there are areas designated for graffiti, no one is breaking any laws, and no one's property is to be damaged. Some people just don't have the ability to paint at home. I'd assume you would mean that you'd just do it in the backyard, but what if you don't have a backyard? Or the neighbors don't like the smell? There's just a lot of problems that could occur from spray painting at home, and you also said 'or something'. Areas where graffiti is legal would be that 'something' because it's not on someone's property. In my comment I was not saying that you should be able to tag or spray paint everywhere and get away with it because of 'expression', I was instead just telling someone how the looks of art doesn't matter given what they mean, regardless of where it is. At home, or wherever you can paint without consequences. Please, do not do graffiti where it is not okay.
Me: *walking down Graffiti Street*
Also me: "Why do I hear Jet Set Radio music?"
Understand understand
Understand understand
The concept
The concept of love
UNDERSTAND UNDERS- ahhh someone already did that joke
You better start running😂
Omg! My dad got me into that game
He looks like a male Ellen
That’s Ellen!
Thought the same damn thing
Lol
@@kryme. me too lol
i was looking for this, I thought he looked familiar
Other city’s HAVE “tried this method”. Melbourne Australia has several of these legal spray painting locations and I’m sure there are many other cities that do too.
If you go back to the video he's talking about European cities. He didn't claim this was the first or only place in the world that applies this idea.
Here buisnesses just pay the graffiti artists to paint the sides of their buildings every so often. Was a shame when the realtors painted over the beautiful mural that looked like a famous Roman painting in a museum.
@@kaihocompany but Ghent is not the only European city that legalized some areas for graffitis. Even in Sardinia there are some areas, almost in every city, that legalized graffitis and now we have amazing murales, also our graffiti problem has diminished so much (again just some tags like in Ghent), some artists are loved so much that small shops now pay for commissions and we have beautiful art to look at!
Yeah and theres still shit tonnes of graffiti
True, but this only really works in the actual city of Melbourne, in the outskirts and in the suburbs around it there arent as many areas like that.
What the hell does Ellen DeGeneres know about graffiti?
That's exactly what I thought! Lmfao!! 😂😂
“Ew Ellen”
I sense projection and vulnerability
Huh?
Ellen don’t have any handstyle
In Brazil we have “Beco do Batman” (Batman's alley), that’s basically the same thing. It got this name bc of a Batman Graffiti
I’m my town we have “bubblegum alley” to stop people from sticking gum in walls and tables, it doesn’t work as well as this but it definitely stops it a bit
Edit: ok to clear things up, I don’t want to give my location away cause I don’t feel comfortable doing that, but I do not live in Seattle
A place in Vancouver has a sculpture of a head that everyone puts their gum on. I assume that's the point of it but...
The method of Singapore works better
Yeah let me just walk across town to put my bubblegum in the one alley it’s allowed. How the fuck that supposed to work?
Santa Maria?
@@Lurch685 really close, I don’t like giving my location away to random people but I do live close to there
Puerto Rico has a whole area with old buildings that painters use for that. My Tio is one of the most famous artist to use that wall. His name is known all throughout the area
Tell us who your uncle is tho. 🤨😤
@@prinzessinderverurteilung5553 Isa Santiago. I don’t remember his street name tho ;-;
@@2007VolkswagenJetta Okok thx
Hmm dont recognize it. Do you at least know the pueblo in which its located? Sounds interesting and i would like to see it for myself
@@karevandres9811 city side of San Juan. I don’t live there anymore so I don’t know the street. Let me look for it on google earth
Honestly I love this. It gives people a way to express their feelings through graffiti Without vandalizing a building
This type of thing happened in our local pub basically everyone was literally throwing bottles everywhere, so they made a wall that was specifically there to be thrown bottles at, and surprisingly it worked.
I’m the US you will definately find the occasional “art town” which has lots of graffiti downtown but it’s not really an issue here. Especially not on historic buildings.
Well maybe because there aren't really historical buildings in the US.
@@danielbernet4005 the north east is pretty old
@@jadenoliveras717 That's a question of definition. For your average european old means around 600 years. But it get's interesting if it's more like 1500+
@@danielbernet4005 true, the buildings aren’t as old and historic, but America is a “young” country and the younger building dates are more prominent to the history
@@risaa_ yeah but what there trying to say Is basically no ones going to graffiti all over the grand lodge in philly or somethin like that
If I had my own home, I would invite graffiti artists to take over the exterior.
Only request would be to keep the art "family friendly".
Genius
I am pretty sure you wont do that
@TotallyPro It's not like I can paint over the graffiti, if I buy or build a house I won't sell it so the value doesn't matter.
@@avengedlol6698 you know there is something called MOVING OUT
@TotallyPro and he needs the money back so he could buy another one
Saw this guy in the thumbnail and legit thought it’s Ellen 😂
THANK YOU ! I knew I couldn't be the only one
Same here😭😭
The thumbnail doesnt show his face bro
@@TravTrevTV I think he changed it recently. It used to be his face.
Makes me proud to be a Belgian XD It's nice appreciating the little things about my second country.
Same !
There are two type of graffiti, bombing which is "getting up" by doing it illegally and having dope handstyles, throwies(hollows included), occasionally straight letters and blockbusters, and very rare pieces and wildstyles, and the second one graffiti art, the pieces and wildstyles they do are super dope, you can occasionally see them do dope handstyles and REALLY rare throwups since we the artists do mainly pieces.
Also street art and graffiti are different, if it doesn't have letters in it, it's not graffiti
Illegal graffiti is the main graffiti then comes legal graffiti art/street art usually murals etc
Graffiti is the plural form of the Italian word ‘graffito’, meaning little scratch.
It goes back to ancient times, when vandals would carve words or drawings into walls or onto furniture. It was only after the advent of the spray can that graffiti took of a broader meaning, referring to any kind of vandalism by scribing or coloring a mark upon a structure.
Those shitheads that scratch words onto gas station pump with their keys are keeping an ancient tradition of lowlives scratching their mark onto a public structure. It’s the original graffiti.
I have no idea what you just said
what
In the city where I live in Britain, we have this wall where people go and paint whatever they want. It's great for both worlds, cool photos and keeps artists happy.
I got the graffiti tunnel
In London
I think up in Cheltenham there was a event hosted where graffiti was allowed and now there’s some real cool art everywhere. But I only think that’s true, I didn’t do research
Glasgow roo
Artists shouldn’t need to be “kept happy” they should pay for their own houses and paint inside them instead of ruining our cities. It’s selfish.
In San Francisco they have “Turd street” where you’re allowed to drop a deuce where ever you want.
And that is just disgusting.
What the hell, i never knew CA had a shit street
@@kureijidiamond6965 not officially, lol
@@DAMusic-qu2ec lol
Though graffiti is still huge in Spain, while I was in Vigo with family the city has these massive murals going up the buildings and walls. It really adds to the beauty and a lot of them are sea inspired given Vigos a coastal city.
They have something like this in The Hague, The Netherlands! Pretty smart idea ngl
Its not its gross gentrification
@@1fault what does graffiti have to do with gentrification?
@@1fault mate do you even know what gentrification even means
@@1fault I studied urban geography for 5 years. No, it's not gentrification lol. Rotterdam definitely has gentrification troubles, but graffiti has nothing to do with it
Its not only in the hague every city in the Netherlands has a legal wall exept for Gouda but the thing is that legal Graffiti is boring the whole goal of the game is to paint as much illegal and aspecily deadly spots legale walls are Just for prectecing
It's an interesting psyhological effect when you deny someone of doing something you can bet on it that they will try to do it even more then before but when you let them do it it becomes controlled.
Like prohibition in America
@@callofterraria the government must've been on crack or something If they thought that was going to work
@@Cyanide_and_Loneliness it didn't. It got worse & crazy thing is the us gov approved an increase in methonal an alcohol based substance in liquor. Trying to discourage drinking but it hurt people.
It also just gives the population some freedom to express themselves. Many aspiring artists that have been drawing for years wish to create something bigger but how/where can you practice?
The graffiti street is there for that reason as well, to give everyone interested in the art a place to experiment and learn.
If you don't want people to litter just give them a trash can. Same thing
The only problem with that is once someone makes new art it’s 100% of the time going to make someone else angry because the new art has covered their art
Is it just me or he looks like a Walmart version of elen 😂😂
Its not just you.
“We stopped crime by legalizing it!”
Legalize it to keep em under control. Here's question. Could you name any other "crime" that can be controlled by "legalizing" it? Many crimes are just behaviors deemed destructive to society by a few people making all the decisions. Not talking about clear true acts of crime ofc lmao
@@lmquan082 Marijuana
@@lmquan082 Lol no. Pretty much everyone is against graffiti.
@@SaintSC05 that's bc you're laaaame
@@yaeithergottheizmoryadont295 no, its because it costs milions of euros in damage. Those same milions could be used for much beter things.
Actually in Atlanta Ga they have this tunnel that’s covered in graffiti it’s honestly so cool they even used it in the falcon and the winter solider they still have graffiti everywhere but lots of it is actually good or it’s a commissioned mural
At one point they painted the whole street walls white to give room again for new art, the whole street was photographed before it.
The only problem I have with graffiti is when people vandalize ancient historical places, like there's a beutiful churvh/tomb in turkey, that's like...super old, but people have painted all over it, and not in a good way, I love art , but don't cover up something someone else has probably spent a long time on and has a lot history other than that I think grafiti is pretty cool!:)
It doesn't help that this "art" usually just looks ugly. Doing it to important like that only magnifies that.
Yeah I see adding to things like factories as adding to the historical “we were here” of it, but I see old architecture as covering up someone else’s art.
Is it just me or does he look like a male version of Ellen?
Exactly what I thought
i legit said that 2 weeks ago, good try m8
@@cheeseball5354 Imagine claiming common opinions as your own original thought. Lol
@@cheeseball5354 basically everyone who saw this video thought this, you're not original.
@@cheeseball5354 lmao are you re-checking this vid's comments?
I’ve been there, it’s absolutely breathtaking
This idea?
Lol...It’s nothing compared to European architecture. Putting that garbage on historic buildings and streets is defacing it.
They need a whole neighborhood for this in Philadelphia. It’s everywhere you go!
Is my town, we have “ freak alley “ of which you can do graffiti there!
Beautiful man, touring beautiful city, with a beautiful outlook and beautiful narration.
❤️❤️
In centralia, PA, there is a place called graffiti road. It is super cool and over a mile long. Too bad they closed it off due to the underground fire.
Imagine your graffiti art covered by another graffiti art
There is always going to be revels who graffiti outside the legal areas but when I lived near St. Louis I used to visit the graffiti wall that they had for legal graffiti and it was awesome meeting some of the artists and gave a better feel of community
They die this in my Town too there is a place called “Weberei” where you can do graffiti legal. The rest of the city is clean.
I have a place like this in my home town of Gainesville, Fl. Its on a street i cant remember but its not enforced so you can paint over it as much as you want and its constantly changing. Theres always one spot that never gets touched tho and thats the mural for the people who were killed by Danny Rollings, "The Gainesville Ripper", in the 90s.
Whoever made the Biggie Smalls graffiti is a chad 💪💪💪
Legal walls are so dope, especially some of the people you end up meeting there. Closest one to me is a bridge about 2 hours away. Far, but worth it.
YOOOO WUS GOOD ELLEN THEGENEROUS
"Art"
Well it is a type of art whether it be a name tag or a portrait piece
You never try this art so stfu
@Szyman.pk3run ive never publicly defaced my community. True. What kind of pariah loser narcissistic person needs theirvnamecapray painted on someone else's building
Am I the only one that finds the art really cool??-
Why isn’t this everywhere it’s completely genius
That's so pretty! Some graffiti is lively I live this gallery kind of approach on it
If its legalised its not really "cool" to tag places, it's the petty crime of graffiting that makes it "cool" to do.
They do a similar thing in Vancouver Canada and it leads to amazing art and a very clean city.
They also have that in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Every year, there's an event where artists can create new art on the walls and it looks awesome :O
They used to have this in Austin, it was called castle hill
Rip graffiti rock
I've always thought this. Graffiti is legit art.
It is but people ruin building that are historic
@@Emilythematerialgurl yes that's true too. That's why there should be a place that's legit.👍
@@janethayes5941 like this i feel in us should be like it
In Belfast there is this super short underground tunnel that goes under the street and it'd full of graffiti. If I ever become a graffiti artist I want to make Concrete Genie art. Its an underrated game about going around an abandoned town and bringing it to life with your magic paintbrush. You also paint these creatures called Genies that help you on your journey. Nobody has done it, and I want to be the first
I remember learning about Portugal and their legalisation of all drugs. Even class A drugs. After they did it, drug related deaths decreased rapidly and in 2011, only 10 people died from overdoses of drugs in Portugal. It’s amazing how giving some freedom to people can actually reduce crime. Of course with careful consideration.
It's basically just the broken windows theory put into practice.
Uh no it shouldn’t just be allowed it should be given permission by building owners
There's beautiful murals all over the city where people have given permission to talented artists to add their art.
This street however is for people starting out or that want to practice.
The graffiti is actually why Berlin is one of my fav cities
I’ve been saying this for a while now. Give people an outlet to create. Also, legalizing it makes people who do it for the thrill of it knowing it’s illegal not get that satisfaction. We need more places like this.
Not gonna lie that’s pretty smart!!
It’s all fun and games until people start drawing over other drawings. Gang fights will become a new pastime.
The street gets painted white once a year anyway.
There's no turf when stuff's legal, that's why criminality goes down once you legalise drugs as well.
Bro legit you can go to the most isolated and abandoned place in the world and you will still find them
I always thought it was sad that these talented people had to express themselves in illegal ways, I wish other places had a place like this
where i live, theres this really famous thing called "batmans alley" where people are allowed to paint and grafitti freely
we still have a HUGE problem with grafiti, maybe because it doesnt go anywhere if someone does? its just bad law enforcement
then it's no longer graffiti. and there are EXTENSIVE maintenance costs still to keep graffiti off those monuments.
Man, the rest of Europe really needs this
They made this
Method in our town but instead of it being graffiti it was one big chalk alley for people to draw on. Now people can’t do much graffiti in that historic alley way that had super old and even dead graffiti artist in it. It’s sad to see it.
I think the fact that you vandalize the property of another person, and try to get away with it by calling it “art”-which it’s HARDLY art. It’s disgustingly ugly scribbles-is so scummy of these people. If you want to paint on a building it should be with approval of owner.
True and it can't be stuff like God Bless Incest Baby! (Which is something someone graffitied on a bridge near my house)
Thats the real graffiti doing illegal stuff
My sister like drawing on walls that when guest come to our house they'll be greeted with a middle finger and eyes in the side wall of our door step
I live in Belgium and it's nice to know there is atleast one video about the country.
That's why I love my country🇧🇪
That alley also looks really cool, there is a bridge in my town that is like that but it isn’t legal, people just don’t graffiti anywhere else
I’ve literally had this idea since I was 9. I saw graffiti every where and asked my dad “why don’t they build a wall and tell people they can paint on that, like how I can only paint on paper?” He agreed with me that it was a good idea (Obviously we aren’t the law so nothing happened) turns out we were right 🤔 It’s amazing how children have better ideas than adults sometimes.
Yeah, when you’re real young you can get creative ideas like this
My City has a couple of these walls it doesn't stop anything
No man every city has legal walls but Graffiti writhers dont like it its part of the game to Paint ass much illegal as posible we Paint graffiti not street art
@@Seyone030 Yes, the adrenaline rush of braking the law for a split second temporary gives people the boost of serotonin that their mind/body lacks, and once it’s gone they need another hit, (tag) like how drugs work. It’s artificial temporarily happiness, often partnered with bad family issues and a thirst for attention. That is part of the goal with the walls, to give them the creative outlet and attention they need. But no, not all cities have that.
Tbh, why does people want to do grafiti?
For me it basically useless.
I was in Barcelona right before the pandemic shutdown. Across the street from my hotel was a construction site taking up one square block surrounded by a security wall. It had the most awesome graffiti painting I ever saw. Each one had a whole panel to itself. Some beautiful, some political, all styles just a hell of a lot of talented artists. A block off the diagonal near the beach.
My HS principal caught a well-known senior and tagger in one of the bathrooms.
Instead of calling the cops, where he would’ve been screwed because of his well-known tag in Miami, the principal made him do a mural on the outside wall where the basketball courts were.
I’ll never forget coming back my senior year and seeing “Knowledge is Power” with the Thinker sculpture done up across a huge ass wall.
That well-known tagger - he runs his own legal firm back home. Sometimes it pays to give someone a second chance.
Ah yes, "The Purge" style of crime prevention, always a classic.
Ahh, a “The Purge” type approach. Makes sense.
My high school created small areas around the campus called Freedom Walls and it helped prevent vandalism in our school and this was the biggest school by popular in our province.
Bristol in England has embraced graffiti. Everywhere you can see beautiful murals and amazing pieces of art, making the city very colourful
They did this in Athens I went there, it did not work whatsoever there’s graffiti everywhere and we saw a riot at a college when we were there
Goddamn you one of the most underrated channels don’t worry you’ll blow up just like Ross Creations
this is so cool! in the uk we have a website where it tells you what walls/buildings are legal to spray on - but typically some people still illegally spray, there’s one place near where i live where there’s a police station completely covered in graffiti - and it looks abandoned, but it’s not, the police just don’t bother enforcing the law there - it’s a shame, and this right here is something every country should do because that walkway is awesome!
We need that in Louisiana (in the USA)bc I see graffiti all over the place, trains, bridges, buildings, and even more. All though it is nice art work but it is not the best they to do on stuff like that but if I would see this it would be so cool!
It could literally be a tourist attraction. It’s a great idea as far as I can tell
As someone who's from Belgium (and lives close to Ghent) graffiti is still a problem in other parts of the city, just less. But it's really fun to walk in the little alleyway.
Here in Vienna, Austria we also legalized it in one place, Donaukanal. The whole canal is filled on both sides with Graffiti.
This is what my town has! We have 4-5 buildings that are legally allowed to be painted in/on. People paint beautiful things and we even have a wall where everytime you visit, you glue a penny to the wall!
To even further improve it , they can design a tile by tile system where a person can register and paint whatever they want on a specific tile , that way even tourists can leave a mark on a wall of tiles .
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This is what they have here in London UK, it doesn’t really work for taggers in big cities but you do get some beautiful art and great legal practice space for those who take it seriously.
Rain, sleet or snow I’m out to rock when missions call, laugh at graffiti blasters, PISS on Permission walls!
Graffiti artists should have one small street so they stop ruining beautiful buildings
Bulgaria has this method too, they encourage artists to do it aswell
They should have power lines, so people can throw their shoes around the line. This way they don't do it around town. They could have their own special place where they can throw a pair of shoes to the power line
Council areas in the uk should hold a local vote to see if they should legalise it in the town or the part of London they’re in charge of
Thanks for the info Ellen..
In Saarbrücken, Germany there's also a, how we call it, "legal wall" where you can graffiti as much as you want, but we still have a massive problem with it.
This is actually a brilliant idea if you just allow people a free place to work their art can be positive instead of negative
We do the same here in Baltimore DIDNT fix shit
That notorious BIG mural looks sick
same with parents not allowing to for example
eat candy. once the kid can buy candy themselves they'll eat as much as they can
We actually did this in Canada with drugs- a lot of people were excited that it was legalized but then they just kind of stopped 🤣 not really so that way they could do it in an alleyway but we legalized it then bam people stop doing it as much