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Message started by freediver on Apr 19th, 2007 at 9:34am

Title: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graffiti
Post by freediver on Apr 19th, 2007 at 9:34am
http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking-news/act-graffiti-row-headed-for-the-courts/2007/04/18/1176696901401.html

ACT opposition politician Steve Pratt has told staff in a government department to "get their stat decs ready" in a row over Mr Pratt scrubbing off a commissioned mural in his war on graffiti.

On Saturday Mr Pratt scrubbed off the mural near a cemetery in the southern suburb of Woden, thinking it was graffiti.

Worsening the problem for Mr Pratt, a community arts spokesman said on Wednesday Mr Pratt had been warned the mural was not to be removed.

But Mr Pratt denied ever speaking to anyone from the ACT Community Art program.

"It's absolute bullshit, you can quote me on that."

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by AusNat on Jun 10th, 2007 at 11:18pm
Must have been a crappy ''mural'' then.

Bloody graffitti bastards. ive smashed a few in my time!

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by freediver on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:12pm
You've beaten people up for painting murals?

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by AusNat on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:14pm
No, graffiti mongrels.

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by freediver on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:26pm
13 year old graffiti mongrels?

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by AusNat on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:29pm

freediver wrote on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:26pm:
13 year old graffiti mongrels?


They were actually 17 and 18 year olds. little wiggers.
They kept spraying my back fence, i kept cleaning it, they kept doing it so i got sick of it and ambushed them one night.

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by freediver on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:30pm
Well, give us all the details. You should report them also. Graffiti costs the public a fortune, as you probably know by now.

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by DonaldTrump on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:32pm

Ausnat wrote on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:29pm:

freediver wrote on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:26pm:
13 year old graffiti mongrels?


They were actually 17 and 18 year olds. little wiggers.
They kept spraying my back fence, i kept cleaning it, they kept doing it so i got sick of it and ambushed them one night.


Nice.  [smiley=thumbup.gif]


Believe it or not... Freediver... it's quite difficult bashing up a group of 10 13-year olds. Like a spider trying to take on an army of ants.

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by AusNat on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:37pm

freediver wrote on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:30pm:
Well, give us all the details. You should report them also. Graffiti costs the public a fortune, as you probably know by now.


I DID! not just me but all my neighbours copped the vandalism. we all made reports, REPEATEDLY.
Bloody cops did nothing.  So for a whole week i hid in my neighbours bushes (with permission) and waited for them to do it again. surely, they eventually did. So i charged out of the bushes, decked the bigger one in the face- knocking him out and tackled the smaller one. I acted in an insane manner to scare them and it worked... the younger one pissed himself! ;D
They've never returned.

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by freediver on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:37pm
Are you speaking from experience DT?

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by oceansblue on Jun 12th, 2007 at 7:54pm

freediver wrote on Jun 12th, 2007 at 6:26pm:
13 year old graffiti mongrels?



Thats funny freediver..

Anyway if graffitti is  a problem in any area..it is usaully because the youth of that area are not taken are not kept otherwise occupied. As for 'beating' them up..well lets say..its  a waste of time..Im sure Ausnat made sure they were all over the age of 18.

We have much bigger problems in our world to worry about than grafitti.

Soem graffitti is amazingly beautiful and considered valueable works of art in some countries. Lets veiw it as a plus.



A lot of talent in our community. They just want pple to see what they can do.







Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by AusNat on Jun 12th, 2007 at 8:05pm
That was horrible. THAT IS NOT ART.

This is art.
art.jpg (9 KB | 78 )

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by AusNat on Jun 12th, 2007 at 8:10pm
This is ART.
watercolor-1912.jpg (28 KB | 91 )

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by oceansblue on Jun 12th, 2007 at 8:16pm
well.

Ausnat ..art encompasses many different forms and stlyles. old and new. Graffitti done as an artform is one of the newer styles.

Indigenous art is beautiful..Picasso..Davinci etc..Rembrandt Van Gogh etc.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I never said above was beautiful was merely an example of constructrive graffitti that some pple do find beauitiful.

the text from above post was missing past time I looked..mine, I mean.

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by AusNat on Jun 12th, 2007 at 8:23pm
Well, when it comes to art im very fussy. i dont care for ''graffitti''- how can it be genuine art? ive never seen it in art museums and, ive never seen a rembrandt on a colourbond fence.
I dont care for abstract either.
I like classical art.
Its just my opinion- graffitti is vandalism.
Rembrandt1659.jpg (49 KB | 91 )

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by cautious connie on Jun 26th, 2007 at 2:27pm

Ausnat wrote on Jun 12th, 2007 at 8:23pm:
Well, when it comes to art im very fussy. i dont care for ''graffitti''- how can it be genuine art? ive never seen it in art museums and, ive never seen a rembrandt on a colourbond fence.
I dont care for abstract either.
I like classical art.
Its just my opinion- graffitti is vandalism.


So.. if you did see a Rembrandt on a colourbond fence what would you do?

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by AusNat 14/88 on Jun 26th, 2007 at 2:53pm

Quote:
So.. if you did see a Rembrandt on a colourbond fence what would you do?


I would take a photograph.before it gets grafittied.

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by freediver on Jun 26th, 2007 at 2:58pm
So just about everybody distuinguishes between poor and good quality 'graffiti' and doesn't mind the good stuff?

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by AusNat 14/88 on Jun 26th, 2007 at 3:05pm
Do you know what grafitti is Freediver?

Please give me detailed explanation of the term.

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by freediver on Jun 26th, 2007 at 3:07pm
No. I will just point out that according to what you posted above, it depends on the 'taste' of the viewer.

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by AusNat 14/88 on Jun 26th, 2007 at 3:19pm
Whatever genius ::)

Title: Re: Steve Pratt destroys artwork, thinking it graf
Post by oceansblue on Jun 26th, 2007 at 5:21pm

freediver wrote on Jun 26th, 2007 at 3:07pm:
No. I will just point out that according to what you posted above, it depends on the 'taste' of the viewer.



I would agree with that..some pretty unorthodox stuff passes as art..some hate it ..some love it..eye of the beholder.

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