Well, the failures of your generation makes it nearly impossible to buy a house nowadays unless you have filthy rich parents. I could work my bollocks of for 20 years and still not have the £300k needed for a bang average shed in this country.
Probably right that we won't find common ground here but do accept your perspective.
I'd be very happy and proud if someone felt "my property" inspired them to write or paint something.
Laughing is good. If people can have a laugh at my "expense" (£0), its all good.
There is only one proven way to beat graffiti: to gentrify the area or city. Remove all creative, playful people and replace them with boring, rich people.
Quick removal and zero tolerance doesn't work. Stockholm had the harshest anti-graffiti policy of any city in Europe: every single little...
Tidy...
The main beauty with graffiti isn't the art itself (which is in many cases quite poor), but the amazing concept of people noticing and interacting with the surroundings.
Kids today dream of Hollywood, they watch their screens and go into fantasy worlds. That some still do the opposite...
Graffiti is nice. It has always been obvious that the "I'm going to be very upset about you painting on this grey concrete wall because I want it to be clean and beautiful" really are just complaining for the sake of complaining or because they are living incredibly stale and dull lives...
I dig it. I often prefer tags over just some gray concrete wall. I also get insanely happy knowing there are some kids around who are not completely psychosodomized by their phones and computers.