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Bridge Pylons
Originally uploaded by battyden

Painted L H Ford Bridge pylons. Kids caught defacing with graffiti are given a community service order and handed over to a local Wirradgeri artist. He makes sure that if they are going to paint on walls then they are going to do it properly.




There are a bunch of notes on the Flickr photo that explains what the symbols are.


The Talbragar River flows into the Macquarrie. This shows the rivers, waterholes, and huts around the waterholes. Note the artists' signatures along the bottom.



Echidnas!


I've just had a film developed, so expect photos of The Dish, garden flowers and other stuff.

Comments

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

The US has been slow to adopt such programs but I understand some of the larger cities like Los Angeles, Dallas, and Miami have instituted similar projects. I have a fantastic photo of armadillo artwork in Deep Ellum which was done by former graffiti artists.

In the next town over, they have specific walls dedicated to that where the kids can write or spray any design or message they like as long as it isn't obscene. That town has surprisingly few taggers.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

We had a wall like that at my junior high in the seventies, with markers provided for the graffiti. Obscene graffiti still showed up here and there, but folks really focused on the wall that was provided, and sometimes students would just stand and stare at it, reading others' stuff.

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, London intends to wipe out all the work of Banksy.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

And so they should! You can't just have Art laying around the place. That's not what Art is!

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

That is a really awesome program, and nifty art. Thanks for sharing!

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

A punishment to fit the crime, indeed:).
Aboriginal artwork is neat! Those echidnae are great!
Do the handprints are around them have any special signifigance o are they just decorative?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Hand prints are the artists signatures.

Nifty!

[tendyl.livejournal.com]

I just love that idea! I'll see if we can't import it!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

What a good idea!

I don't actually mind the art in well done graffiti, but I prefer that folks ask permission (or are requested) to do graffiti, and so much of it is just gang tagging here. In the eighties, there was some beautiful art-graffiti, some with permission, some without, but it's become just scribbling anymore.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Somebody tagged one of the pylons last week and the kids who painted it - the biggest taggers in town before they were caught - had a huge sook about kids defacing their hard work.

Now they know how others feel.

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

That is very cool.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

That is very cool! I particularly like the picture of the echidnas with all the ants, and the 3D effect on the middle picture.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I like the 3D effect too. Technically it's not traditional, but the bloke in charge told me "There's Traditional, and there's Stuck In The Past."

[tarlia.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant. That's making sense out of senselessness.

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

that is bloody excellent! :-)

[starspiritgate.livejournal.com]

Well damn. I'd purposely get caught defacing walls just to get into a program like that.

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Amazing work, just amazing.

I love folk art of all sorts ... whether canadian aboriginal, or australian, interesting that I see some very distinct similarities to some of the stylization....

I'm sure some anthropologist somewhere has written a paper on that. Me I just think it's very cool and a reminder once again that whole continents and oceans apart though cultures might be. We're all just people.