Friday, August 29, 2003
Just got sent this article ("Graffiti Backdrop at Dean Rally Irks a Republican") by a friend. This Oddo guy is an idiot. I'm not even that big a fan of graffiti art myself but respect it as one of the pillars of hip hop culture. It's sad that so many years later after this artform already made the jump to the gallery scene, there are still people like Oddo who don't realize this is something positive and see graffiti for the unique modern artform it is and instead still view it solely as something "blighting the urban landscape."
This was a comissioned piece of art used in conjunction with a campaign event for a politician who, for better or worse, is connecting with much of a very disaffected electorate and getting them excited about the political process again and bringing more progressive liberal points of view to the current mainstream political dialog. Councilman Oddo, Mayor Bloomberg and others who think like them need to whip out their credit cards and order Style Wars, WildStyle, Subway Art and Dondi White Style Master General: The Life of Graffiti Artist Dondi White before they speak on this issue again.
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This was a comissioned piece of art used in conjunction with a campaign event for a politician who, for better or worse, is connecting with much of a very disaffected electorate and getting them excited about the political process again and bringing more progressive liberal points of view to the current mainstream political dialog. Councilman Oddo, Mayor Bloomberg and others who think like them need to whip out their credit cards and order Style Wars, WildStyle, Subway Art and Dondi White Style Master General: The Life of Graffiti Artist Dondi White before they speak on this issue again.
