What's your favorite graffitti ever?

Rolan Headon · Post by **Rolan Headon** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:27 am

That pesky, sneaky but in your face art form/defacement (found inside the worker's tunnels on the Great Pyramids - "The Pharaoh sucks!") --is it ever amusing?

My all time favorite (in a men's room stall in the SF main bus terminal 20 or thirty years ago):

Proletariat Unite!
Workers Unit!
Dyslexics Untie!

mojo · Post by **mojo** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:47 pm

Written in a restroom on the UCBerkely campus - "There is no gravity, the earth sucks".

motskyroonmatick · Post by **motskyroonmatick** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:51 pm

Somewhere around Mohave where the airplanes are parked there was a train locomotive on a siding that was nearly covered in one work. It was a solid piece of art.

Post by **mdmf007** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:05 pm

As we were ripping the aircraft carrier USS Bennington apart and written all over one of the bunks underneath -

"I love the fucking Navy - and the Navy loves fucking me"

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:33 pm

Native American Graffitti from Baja estimated age 5,000 years old made by Mormon Jews that traveled to America. They were marked as Cain's offspring!

They did great Graffitti!

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:34 pm

This is "American Man" from Utah Date: 1285 Approx. Worn on the Lapels of native american and Barrack Obama before the Iraq war!

skeetsh00ter · Post by **skeetsh00ter** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:51 pm

Apollonaris Zeus wrote:

Native American Graffitti from Baja estimated age 5,000 years old made by Mormon Jews that traveled to America. They were marked as Cain's offspring!

They did great Graffitti!

I was in baja in December. We saw some native american grafiti, but none that cool.

Barbie · Post by **Barbie** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:47 pm

I went into a bar I use to work at several years ago... and written on the newly remodeled bathroom wall was my real name spelled correctly... Very STRANGE...

Barbie · Post by **Barbie** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:51 pm

Oh and on the wall of the WORLD FAMOUS SUGAR BAR in downtown Waialua Hawaii....

The past is history-the future is a mystery-all we have is this moment- and thats why they call it THE PRESENT...

oFZo · Post by **oFZo** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:50 am

Most work by DAIM from Germany.
Anything by DELTA from Amsterdam.
Most work by my Rietveld Academy attending friend who writes CAS.
The scandinavian FUPS crew (for locations, not style).
I'm just a toy but got a lot of appreciation from the scene for the traffic signs I altered.

Rolan Headon · Post by **Rolan Headon** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:58 am

Ooh just remebered once seeing while hitchhiking , flying down the highway somewhere in New Mexico, a one second glimpse of, painted on the side of a concrete ditch , a 20 ft high praying mantis, all bright colors, pimped out wearing shades and i think a beret. Middle of nowhere.

Imagine if Leonardo Da Vinci had been a graffitti artist -- would he have gotten any respect?

Rolan Headon · Post by **Rolan Headon** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:43 am

oFZo, thanks, very cool slide shows, will have to explore more...(!)

oFZo · Post by **oFZo** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:49 am

Rolan Headon wrote:oFZo, thanks, very cool slide shows, will have to explore more...(!)

I assume you googled the names as I didn't provide a link.... ?
(oh and my pleasure)

nogganoodle · Post by **nogganoodle** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:03 am

On the back of an extremely dirty truck,

"I wish my wife was as dirty as this van"

mereth · Post by **mereth** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:30 pm

Found these on photobucket.

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:20 pm

Apollonaris Zeus wrote:

This is "American Man" from Utah Date: 1285 Approx. Worn on the Lapels of native american and Barrack Obama before the Iraq war!

I am calling bullshit on this one. Where did the Native Americans get blue paint? Blue paint, even in Europe, was a luxury item that most artists could not afford (before we could synthesize dyes they had to use crushed Lapis Luzili which was considered a precious mineral). I can't say that I've ever seen other Native American pictographs that use blue pigment. Where did that blue pigment come from?

Post by **mdmf007** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:22 pm

seen on a t-shirt on a big breasted woman -

"I can make Milk!
Whats your superpower?"

Post by **Eric** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:04 pm

BitterDan wrote:I am calling bullshit on this one. Where did the Native Americans get blue paint? Blue paint, even in Europe, was a luxury item that most artists could not afford (before we could synthesize dyes they had to use crushed Lapis Luzili which was considered a precious mineral). I can't say that I've ever seen other Native American pictographs that use blue pigment. Where did that blue pigment come from?

Ever seen a Mayan codex or mural? How about Aztec murals?
Blue paint. Pre-contact. A combination of indigo in small quantities & a type of clay. Extremely stable, and pretty common, at least in Mesoamerica.

I'm not saying anything about the legitimacy of the image you questioned, just pointing out that there was blue paint in the Americas before Europeans got here.

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:06 pm

I stand corrected.

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:33 pm

OBEY THE RULES

ibdave · Post by **ibdave** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:48 pm

seen in a truck stop a long time ago...:
" Here is sit, on the Pooper, giving birth to a Oregon State Trooper"...

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:49 pm

gyre wrote:OBEY THE RULES

Ok rules nazi.

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:49 pm

Confucius once say,
Man who stand on toilet is
High on pot

gyre · Post by **gyre** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:15 pm

BitterDan wrote:
gyre wrote:OBEY THE RULES
Ok rules nazi.

Note that I was quoting Canadian grafitti.

Coffee houses used to have all kinds of literate grafitti.
Some was sublime.

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:27 am

Some was sublime.

Oh sweet i love that band.

Rolan Headon · Post by **Rolan Headon** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:03 am

OBEY THE RULES

What a great grafitti...Wondered about it for a moment, then dug it.
So far the wife loves "Good morning, Lemmings" the best.

(Remember the "groutfitti" written small between bathroom tiles?)

Written by a friend in the dust on our filthy truck "FIVE MINUTE KARMA WASH" below which someone had written "REAL TRUCKS ARE DIRTY".

The same friend, who uses our dusty farm truck as a canvas and notepad, once wrote on the tailgate,
WARNING:
DRIVER DOES NOT RECEIVE PHYSIC TURN SIGNALs

(Sublime..what an amazing band!)

Rolan Headon · Post by **Rolan Headon** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:44 pm

uh, Driver does not receive psychic turn signals

robbidobbs · Post by **robbidobbs** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:57 pm

"BRIMSTONE" old-school-graffiti painted in silvers and blues across the backside of the 10:00 potty-bank in 2006. It dropped me to my knees.

This year: a drawing of a toilet with instructions on hovering vs sitting on the seat. "Not hard". This nearly made the beer go through my nose.

The JotS guys are always impressed by our graffiti. It's some of the most intelligent stuff they ever get to read. They're very amused, and not a bit upset about it being there.

Barbie · Post by **Barbie** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:05 am

[quote="BitterDan"][quote]Some was sublime.[/quote]

Oh sweet i love that band.

[/quote]

I know the band....

I watched as the artist that draws their CD covers played with a tattoo gun and did graffitti on the bass player Eric...

Nice Tattoos...

nogganoodle · Post by **nogganoodle** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:06 am

What's your favorite graffitti ever?

What's your favorite graffitti ever?

Canadian Grafitti

Re: Canadian Grafitti

Re: Canadian Grafitti