The real issue, he said, is that adopting a policy of cracking down without offering alternatives to young people wanting to express their creativity "creates a clash that leads to bad graffiti," he said.
It is also deep hypocritical when an artist such as Sickboy explains the crossover between "bad" graffiti and "good" street art, citing the Spanish artist La Mano as a major influence.
It was like bad graffiti.
She said more tourists were attracted to the area, fewer bikes were being stolen and there had been less vandalism and "bad graffiti".
Scott's series, "Bad Graffiti" documents just that, though "bad" is a subjective term.
An Uber covered in really bad graffiti picks me up to go to a pop-up party... inside a mall.
I was telling her, I think it dawned on me that I should compile these photographs of bad graffiti.
Mistakeman: Everything what is going on my nerves: bad music, bad movies, bad sex, bad friends, bad food, bad parties, bad stock car races, bad graffiti, bad ambient, bad metal, bad magazines, bad fashion, bad labels, bad holidays, bad lies, bad love, bad snow, bad forests, bad 80s ties, bad girls, bad punks, bad boys, bad dogs, bad mistakers, bad bads.
His new book, also titled Bad Graffiti, recently came out on Black Dog Publishing, and the collection of images as a whole paints a picture of the true essence of graffiti not some master craftsman creating a massive mural, but a dude with a spray can who just wants his voice to be heard by writing his thoughts on a wall.
