A video created by the Graffiti Research Lab, hits on an issue that has always irked me. If you paint a train with graffiti and get caught you can kiss much of your life goodbye. You will likely be jailed, fined and otherwise punished by the government. Yet, if you pay a large sum, your graffiti is allowed. That is, graffiti in the form of advertising.
As the video shows, the Graffiti Research Lab, with their ever-brilliant ingenuity, took cut outs and pasted them over advertisements found on television monitors at subway stops in NYC. Two of the signs read, “NYC’s true graffiti problem” and “Advertising = graffiti.”
Why is it that Americans tolerate advertising in their faces all day, but are vehemently opposed to graffiti art? I’ll choose art over marketing any day.
