Sunday 9 September, 2007
Graffitti artist in prison
Noam Shoan has been thrown into PRISON for 3 months for doing grafitti. It's a fucking outrage.
He didn't do the art I've photographed below (well, not that I know - maybe he did). It's from the laneways around my house and I took the photos this morning as I was walking around enjoying the sunny morning and empty streets. I share them with you to express my general enthusiasm for the form: in solidarity.
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Views from the Floor
disagreer says:
No it's not ridiculous, an graphic designer he may now be, but his sentence is for causing over $50k in damage to public assets just through tagging - this is not art in my view.
http://www.raduza.com/files/stan.jpg
Compare that with the pictures linked here, if he was jailed for doing something like the above then yeah, fucking outrageous. But for creating such ugly defamation over such a long period of time... I have no sympathy.
Joe Public says:
It's not for me to judge what is or isn't art. However, I don't presume to rub my preferences in others' faces. I expect similar courtesy from those who believe spray, scratch, texta and doof are legimitate. I don't expect I should hold my breath.
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