Inside Outside

[ColdBlooded]

You can watch it here since it is not yet available on Netflix:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/bg-4021750/inside_outside_part_1/


I thought this was good. Some better films with better budgets and better directors on Graffiti that i've seen. But this touched on some nice international artists and some different mediums that I hadn't seen done much before in other docs. I give it 3.75 out of 5

Some quotes from the movie:

Graffiti isn't really a problem of the graffiti artist. I think it's a problem with society. It's like they don't know what the fuck to do with artisits in this society. Obviously these artists aren't criminals. These are really talented people. God's giving them this talent and their idiot society doesn't know what to do with it.
"oh look a rose is growing."
"pave over it."



"But is it art? I don't know, that's a matter of opinion. Does it have to be? Does it need to be? "

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

SO why dont they just spray paint a canvas instead of someone's fuckin garage? Thats my problem with some graf artists.

 

[ColdBlooded]

I think it depends on who’s doing the graf. I think most who consider themselves artists or who are out to get up and build a name follow the unwritten rules of not doing houses, schools, churches, etc. And I think most who do shit like write on houses are gangbangers looking to mark their territory. But obviously that’s a generalization.

I’m more into anti-advertising, trains, and industrial or abandoned buildings as a place for graf.


Saying why don’t they paint on canvas – have you bough canvas? That shit isn’t cheap.
Also why restrict the medium – doesn’t that immediately degrade the finished product? What about context? What about the female in the move who does stencils and wheatpaste? Why does she get respect from little old white ladies on the street when she’s doing something just as illegal as the brazilian cats with a spray can? Why is her’s art and worthy of being purchased by MoMA? If she just put that stuff on canvas do you think she’d be having her art purchased by MoMA? (disclaimer I’m not being confrontational or disrespectful with my questions I’m just asking and they are open to anyone to answer nor do I think they have right or wrong answers).