Graffiti should be legalized...here's why

[ingenium]

Me: *walking down Graffiti Street*

Also me: "Why do I hear Jet Set Radio music?"

[QuirkeyJr]

Other city’s HAVE “tried this method”. Melbourne Australia has several of these legal spray painting locations and I’m sure there are many other cities that do too.

[caitlinlach]

I have literally always thought that there should be places where you can do graffiti and I had no idea about this place that's so cool

[wolfyy]

Honestly I love this. It gives people a way to express their feelings through graffiti Without vandalizing a building

[EchanteDante]

I think that allowing graffiti on certain buildings is a great idea. However when someone does a huge mural or gets protective over their work it could cause more tension. So maybe if they set it up where you are expected to basically collaborate on a huge ever changing piece of art instead of just a wall to put your individual art on.

[_nameless_]

I’m my town we have “bubblegum alley” to stop people from sticking gum in walls and tables, it doesn’t work as well as this but it definitely stops it a bit

Edit: ok to clear things up, I don’t want to give my location away cause I don’t feel comfortable doing that, but I do not live in Seattle

[charles]

This type of thing happened in our local pub basically everyone was literally throwing bottles everywhere, so they made a wall that was specifically there to be thrown bottles at, and surprisingly it worked.

[gilagal]

Makes me proud to be a Belgian XD It's nice appreciating the little things about my second country.

[VolkswagenJetta]

Puerto Rico has a whole area with old buildings that painters use for that. My Tio is one of the most famous artist to use that wall. His name is known all throughout the area

[Steve-mgtc]

I’m the US you will definately find the occasional “art town” which has lots of graffiti downtown but it’s not really an issue here. Especially not on historic buildings.

[shin]

In Brazil we have “Beco do Batman” (Batman's alley), that’s basically the same thing. It got this name bc of a Batman Graffiti

[Not_Aaron_]

At one point they painted the whole street walls white to give room again for new art, the whole street was photographed before it.

[justinchimento]

There is always going to be revels who graffiti outside the legal areas but when I lived near St. Louis I used to visit the graffiti wall that they had for legal graffiti and it was awesome meeting some of the artists and gave a better feel of community

[sarasegador]

In the city where I live in Britain, we have this wall where people go and paint whatever they want. It's great for both worlds, cool photos and keeps artists happy.

[nissey]

They have something like this in The Hague, The Netherlands! Pretty smart idea ngl

[nickventruella]

What the hell does Ellen DeGeneres know about graffiti?

[ignorasmus]

If I had my own home, I would invite graffiti artists to take over the exterior.
Only request would be to keep the art "family friendly".

[acjxck]

We do the same here in Baltimore DIDNT fix shit

[thecollectorsinged]

There are two type of graffiti, bombing which is "getting up" by doing it illegally and having dope handstyles, throwies(hollows included), occasionally straight letters and blockbusters, and very rare pieces and wildstyles, and the second one graffiti art, the pieces and wildstyles they do are super dope, you can occasionally see them do dope handstyles and REALLY rare throwups since we the artists do mainly pieces.
Also street art and graffiti are different, if it doesn't have letters in it, it's not graffiti

[Pookadook_]

Actually in Atlanta Ga they have this tunnel that’s covered in graffiti it’s honestly so cool they even used it in the falcon and the winter solider they still have graffiti everywhere but lots of it is actually good or it’s a commissioned mural