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Re: Time for the MTA to cash in on the graffiti in the system... |
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Posted by Christopher Rivera on Sat Jan 5 17:47:22 2008, in response to Re: Time for the MTA to cash in on the graffiti in the system..., posted by R Pansepcc on Sat Jan 5 16:24:23 2008. It doesn't encourage cause it takes what's been there for years lining the tunnels and making a profit instead of it letting it infest our system as it does. Ignoring the issue hasn't done anything, how about being proactive and making a buck off it, perhaps the money from the selling of the products can be used for graffiti removal or for programs to keep kids off the streets or art programs for the city. I'm not saying let these artists do graffiti on subway cars and let everyone see it then sell it, I'm saying taking the years of graffiti in the system and making a profit out of it. You're thinking I want trains tagged or that some how this would encourage it, what encourages people is what we got now, where you can go anywhere in the system do graffiti and for the most part get away with it, and if you do get caught its a slap on the wrist and a small fine. A combination of ideas to make life better and give OPTIONS to these people to show, you know if you got this level talent of art, there's a world of opportunity out there, and maybe the MTA can be the system in the world to set up a system to help some of these people (and some of these graffiti artists can draw and do amazing art period) and put them where their talents can be used for better purposes / economic reasons.Besides with the Zero Tolerance policy any subway cars that get graffiti are removed from service immediatly to be cleaned... so that logic that all of a sudden trains will run with graffiti everywhere in the system is a false fear that needs to be relaxed. This city is not going to plunge back into darkness because all of a sudden graffiti art is now being used on items etc, that's a fear based on sterotypical fears of a time that no longer exists. It was a different time and a different people, that no longer exist. |
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