6 'Designers' in jail
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It's just a bunch of kids wanting to be rad or something in the wee hours of the night, with a backpack full of spray cans. Like felizfeliz said, it doesn't go beyond "someone's nick name or notepad doodle". It's all style and nothing and "urban -something". Could be "country -something" but it happens to be "urban -something" because someone kindly said that on television. But in fact it's just one of those things that kids do and that developed into an urban-trend or something. Not that there are not nice intricate pieces of visual work out there, but in general it speaks more of the degeneration of the middle-class into commercialism and how it absorbs aesthetic principles through mass advertising and visual branding than of it's coming to awareness to Art (... I know, I know...) or any other philosophical principle - because there's no philosophy in it.
In short, most is vandalism, ill-education and nothing - but there are also some refined pieces of visual work, which, meaning nothing, have a formal value of itself for creating an atmosphere (which was dubbed urban art - which is as great a concept as having penguin slide contests - those have a blank atmosphere too.)
I really see nothing in graffiti.