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Rise of the kaddle

21st September 2004, lunch time | Comments (24)

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  1. Darryl Millar:

    Any individual who claims to understand graffiti is either insane or a liar.

    Posted 4 minutes after the fact
  2. Rob Mientjes:

    Beauty. And Darryl's right. Don't question art, it expresses itself once, and everyone has to understand it on his own.

    But really, wonderful picture.

    Posted 27 minutes after the fact
  3. Michael:

    You have such interesting graffiti where you live. The best Minnesota can do is a stop sign that says Bush underneath. *sigh*

    Nonetheless, a good photo. I really enjoy your graffiti pics.

    Posted 28 minutes after the fact
    Inspired: ↓ Seth Thomas Rasmussen
  4. Scott:

    I have seen that picture somewhere before!

    Oh, I know, it's an icon for one of the message boards I visit.

    Posted 1 hour, 4 minutes after the fact
    Inspired: ↓ John Hull
  5. John Hull:

    perhaps you remember the image from the childrens book "Where the Wild Things Are"

    ahhh this takes me back!

    thanks for the post!

    Posted 1 hour, 31 minutes after the fact
    Inspired by: ↑ Scott
    Inspired: ↓ Darryl Millar, ↓ Conor Hastings
  6. Darryl Millar:

    Yes! I knew I recognized that guy... Hah, that takes me back too.

    Posted 1 hour, 37 minutes after the fact
    Inspired by: ↑ John Hull
  7. Benjamin:

    No. Way. Where the Wild Things Are was my favourite book of all time.

    Posted 2 hours, 14 minutes after the fact
  8. Eduardo:

    What's "kaddle"? (I'm not from Argentina)

    Posted 2 hours, 28 minutes after the fact
    Inspired: ↓ Richard@Home
  9. Eduardo:

    Edit: (I AM from Argentina)

    Posted 2 hours, 29 minutes after the fact
  10. Seth Thomas Rasmussen:

    Michael,
    Where in Minnesota are you from? I can't speak for much of the state as a whole, but Minneapolis in particular has some excellent graffiti artists wandering about. There is a place called Intermedia Arts in uptown Minneapolis that has several faces of its building allocated specifically for graffiti. All you have to do is ask them. It's perpetually blanketed with fine graffiti art, not to mention the commission pieces on the front face of the building.

    I would agree that there is still entirely too much worthless scrawling if scribbly names and ignorant messages as if the city were one giant bathroom stall, but still... give it, and the state on its behalf, some credit. I'll do a graffiti series on my photoblog as soon as I'm done with the classic cars one I just started. Check it out: http://remembermeme.net/. It'll probably be a couple weeks before I get through all of these car shots though. :D

    Posted 4 hours, 13 minutes after the fact
    Inspired by: ↑ Michael
  11. Cf:

    "Darryl Millar:

    Any individual who claims to understand graffiti is either insane or a liar."

    is this to say the artist himself has no clue, is insane or a liar? Or graffiti artists do not have a "valid" means of expressing themselves in a comprehensible manner?

    anyway back on topic nice adaptation dunstan....

    Posted 5 hours, 23 minutes after the fact
    Inspired: ↓ Darryl Millar
  12. Max:

    Yeah, that book is the greatest. Not that I'm biased or anything ...

    Posted 5 hours, 33 minutes after the fact
  13. Darryl Millar:

    No, I'm sure it makes perfect sense to the artist, just not to anyone else on the planet.

    I should add, though, that I personally don't consider graffiti to be any art that I'd care to see, but that's just me.

    Posted 5 hours, 44 minutes after the fact
    Inspired by: ↑ Cf
  14. Mike J:

    Michael,

    I'd also like to echo the sentiments of Seth. I've lived in Minneapolis and Saint Paul for the last 5 years and I can honestly say that the Twin Cities has some amazing graffiti. I know several artists in the area and they are VERY serious about what they do. You need to look harder.

    Oh and Seth. Please illuminate me on your definition of art.

    Posted 5 hours, 46 minutes after the fact
  15. Mike J:

    Heh. The second Seth was meant to read "Darryl".

    Posted 5 hours, 48 minutes after the fact
    Inspired: ↓ Darryl Millar
  16. Conor Hastings:

    Yes I loved that book but the name was escaping me.

    Posted 5 hours, 49 minutes after the fact
    Inspired by: ↑ John Hull
  17. Darryl Millar:

    Oh no, I'm not trying to offend anyone or anything here. What I meant to say was that I don't like graffiti. I don't want to get into an argument over what art is. Art is individual.

    Posted 6 hours, 18 minutes after the fact
    Inspired by: ↑ Mike J
  18. Mike J:

    Ok. Sorry I took that personally, a lot of my good friends are graffiti writers. Carry on :)

    Posted 7 hours, 28 minutes after the fact
  19. Sarah:

    I spent a day last week painting out grafitti, and it makes you think... if it's art, then why don't they do it on their own walls?

    Posted 8 hours, 8 minutes after the fact
    Inspired: ↓ Phil Baines
  20. Richard@Home:

    Your roving reporter in the field reports that "Kaddle" isn't a thing - its a person - or a surname to be more precise.

    Maybe the artist is called Max Kaddle?

    Posted 10 hours, 31 minutes after the fact
    Inspired by: ↑ Eduardo
  21. Phil Baines:

    "why don't they do it on their own walls?"

    Why, because a lot of the time the placement of the graffiti is paramount to the artistic meaning. For example;

    In a city where I used to live, there was a big bus depot. This bus depot lay in between a super larger Tesco's food store, and the Quadrant shopping centre. So, for this reason, some bright spark used a wall in the bus depot to write out two arrows, pointing in opposite directions.

    He labeled one "Retail Therapy", and the other "Third World Famine". I thought it was quite a good point. And the placement of the art (it was done in a very artistic matter - not just scribbles on the wall) was very important for obvious reasons.

    Posted 12 hours, 21 minutes after the fact
    Inspired by: ↑ Sarah
  22. Bob:

    "Art is individual."

    I'm gonna have to disagree on most interpretations of that sentence. If you mean "one person may interpret art differently than the rest of the world," then, I'm with you. But if you mean that anything is art and maybe I just don't think so because I don't get it, I disagree.
    I think too many times, something is passed off as "art" that shouldn't be.

    "How do we know it's art?"
    "The artist says it's art."
    "And what qualifies him to make that qualification?"
    "He's an artist."
    "How do we know he's an artist?"
    "He makes art."

    Also, Rob, to view art and not to question it would be to do an injustice to the artist. Imagine noticing that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows and not wondering why.

    Anyways, </rant>
    Great photos, I love your work Dunstan. Keep it up. :)

    Posted 16 hours, 25 minutes after the fact
    Inspired: ↓ Alan
  23. Alan:

    I like the American Heritage Dictionary's definition of art (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=art&r=67) - "Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature."

    I think that's the art we're talking about here. There is also a definition of art that pertains to doing something of high quality. That's where scientists (and, ahem, programmers) sometimes get off saying what they do is art.

    Posted 19 hours, 18 minutes after the fact
    Inspired by: ↑ Bob
  24. Doug:

    “And now, let the wild rumpus start!”

    Posted 1 day, 17 hours after the fact

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