graffiti+busters

=I consider graffiti as both art and vandalism, whether its an ugly tag on the side of a train or an incredible art piece with bright colors and amazing details. It matters where about the piece is, if there was a tag on a train, i would consider that vandalism though. If i saw a tag anywhere, where they didn't get permission to do it, i think it would be vandalism. If i a nice colorful piece of graffiti i would automatically think its art, wherever it is. Every individual have their own opinions and values, a graffiti piece might be horrible in one persons eyes and spectacular in an others. =  =graffiti, stencil and tag pieces = =Graffiti is an extremely capturing and widely disputed phenomenon these days. People mostly do not have a solid opinion over the issue. Some argue it is simple vandalism, performed by ignorant individuals and wish the graffiti artists to be punished for their activities. There are still others, who consider graffiti a modern art form, vibrant, influential, pure talent and that the people, decorating the nearing walls, fences, trains/stations, and public toilets are true artists. Much like traditional art, we have the people who hate it and think it is a mess, and we have the people who appreciate it, in graffiti's case, its much like the same. = = = =Graffiti though very controversial, is recognized in many different forms, but different forms of graffiti have many different opinions of the art form, from pieces that is mostly believed as more of an art as it portrays more expression and artistic skill, as well as stencils, but the form of which is tagging is mostly looked upon by the society as a violation to a public location as it is a lazy imprint on a property of an individuals 'name'. Pieces are large and colourful work created by aerosol spray paints, usually including either a complex mix of letters or a cartoon-style picture. This type of graffiti often takes an extended period of time and much thought and planning has gone into the design. Stencils is a a piece of a material created and cut to apply a pattern, design, or words on a surface, this takes up a lot of thought and planing and shows artistic skill. Tags or Scrawling is a form to mark territory, create notoriety or show off their defiance of the law and society. People use this form of graffiti as a mode of marking their presence, and is done impulsively. = =MY OWN DESIGN = =For my design i chose the words 'bin it to win it' to spray on my bin. I also chose to do a little man kicking some rubbish. I used the colours dark purple, light green and silver because i think they worked really well together. = =I made my stencil by printing out a picture of the little man kicking rubbish, and how big i wanted it. i then added it onto photoshop and made it 2 solid colours black and white.After that i photo copied it onto acitate paper so i could cut it out to spray on my bin. i cut it using a special knife on a mat, and had to do it really carefully. I did the same thing for my bin it to win it heading. After doing that i sprayed it on my bn and the end result looked really good. = = = = self evaluation = = I worked with Ally for my graffiti task, i did all of the spraying and most of the cutting, but ally did some of the cutting aswell. We colaberated with Tom and Jaryds bin, but i think it would have looked better if we used our own bin as they started spraying random colours on it, and it didn't look good at all. = = 1. I am happy with the outcome, but i think i could have sprayed neater so it doesn't drip. = = 2. I think our stencil was reall good and different, although it was very detailed and thin. = = 3. I could have improved on doing things faster and more efficient. = = = = = learnig attributes: teamwork = = i enjoyed work in a group in Graffiti Busters, but sometimes it was difficult. It was a struggle agree with what stencil to do, but eventually we all agreed on doing the slogan 'bin it to win it' and we all really liked this idea. we worked really well together and this showed throughout our the end result of bin. = = design,creativity & technology = = In this module we were required to create an anti-littering stencil to spray onto the bins around the school, i developed design, creativity and technology skills as i had to design a creative stencil and used a photo editing program to produce the stencil. We came up wit the idea to do the little man kicking, with a quirky message saying bin it to win it as it hopefully encourages students to put their rubbish in the bin. = =

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