Do you like seeing graffiti on train cars?

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Some of the various train cars that I've seen over the years has had a lot of different things graffitied onto them, like there was one of Space Ghost on one that I saw a few months ago, which was pretty cool. There's always a lot of graffiti on train cars that I'm not sure what it's suppose to mean, if anything.

 

[JamieM90]

Yeah, I love it. Makes them look much more interesting. Not just crappy little black marker tags, but those big, full colour pieces are awesome

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I don't, purely because trains are public assets where I am from and I don't like having my tax money going towards removing the graffiti when it could (and should) have gone towards improving the service.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

I like trains

 

[Boo Man]

i appreciate graffiti if its done well and not stupid little scribbles
coz thats straight up mindless vandalism.

there is a great Aussie documentary on YT about graffiti called Jisoe
its about this bum kid who paints trains, its actually worth watching for the lols

 

[Gorse]

I like seeing graffiti just in general. I think it livens up the otherwise drab, utilitarian surroundings of our world with beautiful colour and design, and I appreciate the reckless spirit and good-natured rebellion that goes into it. In fact, some of my favourite art movements have come out of graffiti culture. Give the kids their spray cans, I say!

 

[Envy_VV]

If it looks good, then yeah, I can appreciate good art, even if graffiti is not my favorite form of it. I suppose the real problem comes to when it's just a pure mess of scribbles or is simply offensive. Also, I'm sure many people prefer their trains clean, i can relate with that as well.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

It makes me hope they will suddently stop then a hode of garish looking punks prostitutes and ninjas will come out so I can piledrive them

 

[nonotz]

For most Graffiti on Train, like "Lil Crack" or something .. FUCKING NO

but if its a proper themeing like hello kitty train ... HELL YES

 

[Clippy]

There are multiple facets to this question I feel.

1. There's graffiti and then there's graffiti - graffiti can be art but usually it's just some stupid tags/scribbles/insults. Way back someone had a beef with a good friend of mine and spray painted her home number onto a building on one of the main streets of my town advertising it as a good time (you know what I mean). Poor girl was jumpy around any ringing phone for years.

2. Vandalism - if you have the owner's blessing to spray their wall it's completely fine, if you don't, keep that spray can in your backpack and move on. Back in my junior high school days the problem of kids just spraying over everything was so prevalent that my school designated a wall for graffiti. Admittedly a pretty cool move for crusty old farts that the higher-ups there were and it actually worked.

Graffiti can be cool. Problem is that usually not only is it not cool, it also happens to be vandalism.

 

[What's His Face]

Where I live, NO. The graffiti where I live are gang tags. There is nothing artistic about it. If I could round-up all the defacers and force them to eat their own spray paint I would. It would drastically cut the crime rate.

 

[Marco_STFX]

Some of the various train cars that I've seen over the years has had a lot of different things graffitied onto them, like there was one of Space Ghost on one that I saw a few months ago, which was pretty cool. There's always a lot of graffiti on train cars that I'm not sure what it's suppose to mean, if anything.

Not in trains, but I've seen cool Graffiti on some streets every now and then.

One of my favorites so far:

I don't live in a city TOO urbanized to actually see trains with Graffiti though it clearly depicts culture whenever it has.

TWEWY is clearly an example of this.

 

[bjork]

I see trains near here with a pretty even split of something that took actual time and multiple colors of paint, and then just some person scribbling quickly. I like the more elborate ones, even if there are better places they could be displayed. I'm more of a fan of building murals. I used to live pretty close to the King County hall of records, which has been demolished in favor of two apartment buildings, but they had two sides of a city block dedicated to murals and I thought they were pretty cool.

 

[Karnik]

Absolutely not! ? And if I catch you in the act scribbling on the train carriages, get ready for a good spanking! ??

 

[Mecharocca]

I don't. I don't like graffiti (tags specifically) on things for the sake of it.
I get the sense of rebellion but personally I find it rude.
To be clear, I just mean tags.
If it's some mural that has beauty or is artistic in any way, sure go for it, but again it depends what's it on.
For trains, personally, I don't find it nice.

 

[newageretrohippie]

I am inexplicably drawn to grafiti and sticker art...

i cant stop looking at it once i start.

it bakes my brain how they make a word look like 5 different words at the same time haha

i prefer professionally done murals and cool stickers to plain tags, but it is all interesting.. it turns a city into an art gallery

 

[Karnik]

i prefer professionally done murals

Those on trains are not.

it turns a city into an art gallery

Who decides that certain scribbles scattered here and there are art? ??‍

 

[newageretrohippie]

Those on trains are not.

Who decides that certain scribbles scattered here and there are art? ??‍

yeah, you are right... i mean i guess art is in the eye of the beholder... the thing is some of that boxcar art i've seen in the past several years could really pass for commissioned work if it were anywhere else. i've seen some really good stuff on trains recently.

 

[Saoi]

I don't really into graffiti, especially if it's done in a really unpretentious way or just ugly.Buuut when I was in art school, the whole class went to make graffiti(with the teacher) and it was really fun.
(I don't have the pictures sadly :c)

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

Not in trains, but I've seen cool Graffiti on some streets every now and then.

One of my favorites so far:View attachment 6016

I don't live in a city TOO urbanized to actually see trains with Graffiti though it clearly depicts culture whenever it has.

TWEWY is clearly an example of this.

I mostly see graffiti on train cars but that Sonic graffiti looks really good. Surprised that no one drew Tails, Knuckles, Amy or the rest of the characters.

 

[Nidoking's icon Nidoking Nidoking]

I mean I really don't care for vandalism in general, but there's a certain sense of nostalgia to it, and sometimes when it's not just 'generic graffiti' it can be pretty neat or even funny.

 

[Deleted member 7989]

Yeah, not the Graffiti around me, it's all gang tags. Can't remove it either, they'll just respray it. I hate Mid-Michigan.

 

[MegaHiro91]

As some have said, if it's done with the property owner's blessing, like on a mural or the side of a building, AND actual effort is put in, then fine. Graffiti on trains however? Stop that shit! It's vandalism.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Tagging on public assets is illegal.

On your wall or on an abandoned train in a scrapyard it could be fine but let's remember that areas with tags tends to be associated with a poorer socio-economic area.

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

If they actually make something out of it instead of tagging then yeah I'd appreciate it more but they don't so it just looks like an eyesore.