by jadewik » January 10th, 2007, 3:48 pm
Not all graffiti is vandalism. I've seen kids graffiti their homework binders and notebooks. I've seen graffiti murals on walls downtown. I've seen graffiti artists paint awesome pictures on Fremont Street in Las Vegas, NV. It's the style that's cool.... destroying someone else's property by "tagging" is not-so-cool.
"Graffiti" has a negative association because it's most often found in places it shouldn't be, where it defaces someone else's property without their permission. That's the "vandalism" aspect that most people associate graffiti with.
Drawing "graffiti" is peachy, it's where you put it that makes it vandalism.