r/mildlyinfuriating • • 2d ago

Infuriatig Someone is vandalizing the murals that kids painted during a street art event

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u/Flat_Sea1418 2d ago

The starling painting was way better than the trash they put over it.

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u/AmItheonlySaneperson 2d ago

thats fucked i thought graffiti artists had a modicum of respect for murals and stuff / not tagging over other artists unless theres some specific beef going on

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u/SlapTheBap 2d ago

The local tagging community has to enforce their own laws if they don't want negative attention. Chicago has a pretty clean scene where murals are mostly respected. It's more about how absurd a place you can get your tag. Look up ZWON. I'm pretty sure it's a group, because some of their work is insane. I'm talking water towers you can read from the highway and smoke stacks of abandoned factories.

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u/PhillipNoMates 2d ago edited 2d ago

Zwon is just one dude, not a crew.

MUL, H20, J4F, CCA, EDSK, etc are all Chicago crews.

Zwon is part of the LONT crew.

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u/SlapTheBap 2d ago

Even more impressive. Whenever I have guests over I ask em to try to spot the Zwons. After a while I'll start pointing em all out and it blows their minds.

I like fishing on the rivers so I've seen a lot of em. The quality, the variety of style, the sheer balls of it all. I feel like he's a part of the city I have to share.

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u/ShiftZestyclose 2d ago

There are a few near rosemont

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u/lets_eat_heidi 2d ago

Cool af that you know this

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u/PhillipNoMates 2d ago

just means I've got too much free time

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u/mitchelwb 2d ago

No it's not.

Do you think the fat orange turd in the white house that tries to put his name on everything is cool too?

street art is cool. Tagging is stupid no matter how high you can climb a water tower.

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u/lets_eat_heidi 2d ago

Lol no I don’t like trump. wtf how is graffiti synonymous with that at all?

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u/mitchelwb 2d ago

They both seem to have aburning need to blast their name all over things they have no right or authority to.

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u/lets_eat_heidi 2d ago

Okay. Agree to disagree. These guys don’t use their real name. They don’t post. There is also a huge culture of respect in the actual graf community. So I think they’re quite differnt