rail graffiti

[alocispepraluger102]

rail graffiti is one of the few things in our life unregulated without corporate fingerprints and tentacles. i love it.

[BillF]

Its style seems to be international. Mansfield is a long way from London, but it looks the same to my eyes:

[JohnS]

Thanks aloc. I'm a bit of a US railfan. I always enjoy your railroad pix so keep them coming.

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Edited December 6, 2011 by JohnS

[Larry Kart]

Echoing BillF (perhaps), if it's so damn unregulated, why does so much of it look the same?

[cih]

only in the same way that so much jazz sounds the same

[clifford_thornton]

Thanks aloc. I'm a bit of a US railfan. I always enjoy your railroad pix so keep them coming.

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Same here - glad there are others of us here.

[alocispepraluger102]

Echoing BillF (perhaps), if it's so damn unregulated, why does so much of it look the same?

now that's a puzzlement.

freight cars from many regions are seen by folks who look at trains.

how real graffiti spans oceans.......i'm sure there have been, or may still be, graffiti coltranes and ellingtons.

it is certainly a deeply felt, highly developed talent.

it may well be from frustrated would be commercial artists.

[cih]

Think of the medium - spray paint on a train, in a limited time before you're caught - fluid graphic strokes, bright colours. And the original purpose being to leave your tag - get your name out there. So it looks the same within the things that define it - like all Brazilian woodcuts look the same, or all film noir... but now its only a part of 'street art' which involves stencils, pasted papers etc. But I love the names too. And of course there are pioneers and imitators.

[Jazzmoose]

I have to admit, it sure makes getting caught at a train crossing a lot more interesting!