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cijithegeek:

kyssthis16:

yeezysdisciple:

youngbertreynolds:

thempress:

Maybe put it on a canvas instead of someone’s property, and we can all be happy.

who paying for these canvases or the art programs so these kids can have that? Why should it matter if these run down buildings that never get fixed up anyway get graffiti’d? 

Therein lies the issue. Art programs, both visual and performance based, are the first programs to be cut. Canvas ain’t cheap. Neither are the supplies. Much of the graffiti that takes place IS on buildings that are run down. The gov’t didn’t place any value on these properties and yet get pissy with dudes “vandalizing” their shit. You can’t have it both ways, ya dig. 

My father was a garment contractor in LA. In the late 80s, he owned the building where he had his factory. He thought it would be a cool idea to commission local graffiti artists, usually young Black and Latino men looking to stay out of trouble, to paint murals on his buildings. After all, he runs a garment design/manufacturing company, and creative signage is great advertising.

One day, he showed up to the building and the city just painted over the murals without permission or notice.

First, the city told him he couldn’t have graffiti art on HIS building because it brought down property value. After he complained, then they said: ok you can do this, but you need a permit. After he got the permit, then the city said: ok, but you can only use these artists.  Of course, these artists were all White graphic design students from USC, and of course they charged 3x more.

There is a prejudice against this type of art, and it’s racial.  Banksy vandalizes folks buildings all the time, and folks treat him like the Messiah. He ain’t doing nothing new that Black and Brown folks haven’t done for decades.

Just a drive-by comment to say that I love graffiti, and what your dad did was really awesome. If it’s YOUR damn building, you should be allowed to let people draw on it. :P

I’ve totally been in there! :D

It’s in Roswell. And it isn’t even the best alien bric-a-brac store in town.

friendlyatheist:

travors:

Cyanide and Happiness

Good bye Christopher Hitchens. You are missed.

So much this. :(

inlovewithgeosciences:

Bixbyte, (Mn³⁺,Fe³⁺)₂O₃

Locality: Utah, USA

whizbangpow:

Freas

Oh look! An awesome creepy thing.

scienceisbeauty:

Icosahedron which has 20 triangles, 12 vertices and 30 edges. The triangle subdivision of the icosahedron increases the number of triangles by a factor of 4. At each subdivision, the vertices are projected onto the sphere. At the subsequent level of refinement, we have (42, 80), (162, 320), (642, 1280), (2562, 5120), (10242, 20480), (40962, 81920) faces and vertices.

Credit: Moo K. Chung and Seong Ho Seo

Source: Heat Kernel Smoothing via Laplace-Beltrami Eigenfunctions, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin–Madison

physicsphysics:

haha, took me a second to get this.

Very clever.

Bonesaws! <3