It seems ridiculous to have fraudsters and liars preaching to us via 20 foot high lettering and billboards the size of football pitches. Whether banks with dubious pasts or pornographic websites who are attempting to normalize perversion through their clever and creative wording (lying), we are, if we live in a city, being constantly raped by advertisers and their shit mendacious messages.
Recently, just along the expressway, two huge electronic advertising podiums were installed to target the car-drivers. Right beneath one of them is an underpass which sees a lot of graffiti (most of it narcissistic and without any clear message). It was here that I put up my first stencil, a simple image of Vinz (from the film La Haine) pointing his fingers (gun style) at the mirror with a single word beneath: Capitalism.
Out of all the graffiti there, only this one was removed by the council-sanctioned idiot who is charged with graffiti-removal. The others were left intact because they displayed a happy friendly image of the world, colourful, smiley, artistic....
I was irritated by this. Here, we have state-sanctioned billboards promoting tosh (and renewing the capitalist quagmire) in 20 foot lettering, and here's poor little revolutionary me writing a tiny stencil in letters half an inch high. I suppose I should be proud, that these tiny letters have managed to irk someone so much that they have erased it from existence. It reveals a lot about the conventional mindset of state-sanctioned people....
At any rate, I went back the next week and did eight stencils where the single one had been...
Idiots get to learn the hard way.
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