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Sunday, November 05, 2006

Reverse Graffiti

Reverse Graffiti (Google it, I don't have a link) which has just hit the news, is the process of creating Graffiti by using nothing but soap, water, and some elbow grease. Yes, that's right, it's a wall piece done by using cleaning products. The catch is though is that you need to live someplace with enough grime and dirt to make it work, like a long traffic tunnel or something. Just anyplace around town where dirt and grim collects.

What's interseting about Reverse Graffiti though is that it's pretty much legal. It still is vandalism since you are going out and putting something on a wall without consent of the owner, but how do you punish someone for (and here is the big thing) cleaning up after trash made by other people? You're preforming a community service, and at the same time putting up a Graffiti tag. Just think for a minute, what is a cop supposed to do when he finds someone writing Graffiti by cleaning the surface of a wall? You can't arrest someone for cleaning something now can you?

I'm just going to find this funny if it catches on and all of a sudden one of the biggest groups going out and helping the world, is a bunch of Reverse Graffiti writers going out cleaning stuff up. Some people get the notion that all Graffiti aritists and writers are just a bunch of hoodlums, and this just goes to show that not all of us are.

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