I did take the picture of the sticker on the right. Guess I wanted to remember the website, which turned out to have such a boring front page I didn't poke any further. Here's a tip - if your website is about visual art, put a few samples of it on the main page.There's this public map in Ballard just o'er the bridge and down a few blocks. I totally want to go paste a sticker to it, covering up "Ballard Port and Township" with "Your Village" and a penny-farthing bicycle.
But who am I kidding? I take property law pretty seriously. I'm no anarchist, and certainly not a graffiti-artist. I've never even carved my initials in a tree or grade-school desk. I'm just a boring wishy-washy liberal crybaby.
I do like visually pleasing graffiti. Probably from those years spent near Graffiti Bridge in Eden Prairie. Here, however, there's a bunch of taggers who just stupidly draw their initials all over everything. They piss me off. I saw this beautiful mural last week, painted on the side of a store. Some idiot had come along and painted his tag over repeatedly - it detracted from the art and obscured details, so clearly it wasn't the signature of the mural-painter.
I don't like big condo developments who bulldoze down cool old buildings to make tightly-stacked identical shoebox housing. Thankfully I live in a city where people sometimes fight that. And I suppose, if I had to choose between idiot kid taggers and big nasty condo companies, I'd go with the kids - I just wish they'd be more artistic.
Oh, yeah, and I wish they'd leave the traffic signs alone. On the one hand, it's funny when they add a "C" to the "Stop For Me, It's The Law" sign and draw a pincher on the pedestrian's hand. But more often than not, they just scribble initials in such a way that it renders the sign (and the initials) unreadable. It's sad and lame.
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