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Just to let people know...the movie is going to be playing in Seattle beginning this Friday. Here's the info: BOMB THE SYSTEM OPENS IN SEATTLE FOR EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT THIS FRIDAY 6/24/05 'Grand Illusion Cinema' 1403 NE 50th Street Seattle WA 98105 206.523.3935 http://www.grandillusioncinema.org/ Producer Ben Rekhi will be in town to do a Q&A for the Premiere Screenings Friday Night.

Bomb the System opens this Friday, May 27 in New York & LA. It should be running for at least a week, maybe longer. I'm not so sure about the LA info, but you can probably find out more on the website: www.bombthesystem.com In NY it's playing at the Cinema Village: www.cinemavillage.com

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Democrats too far left? Are you joking? The entire US political landscape exists on the right side of the spectrum. There is no real left in America. The Republicans are too far right. Check it out: www.politicalcompass.org

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Yes, you are right, some justification is necessary to answer the question...i just don't want it to be the main focus of the thread. I like what you said about how doing graffiti on a building is similar to going over another artist...That's kind of how I feel about it. Do other people see it like this? If so, does it bother you to go over another artist?

i don't really want this to turn into another "how do you justify graffiti?" thread...i'm not asking for justification. i'm asking how you see your graffiti in relation to architecture. do you think it disrespects the architect's work? if not, why? do you consider the architecture when planning or freestyling a piece? my observation is that not a lot of writers do this...wouldn't it be more interesting to see site-specific graffiti that related to the architecture or its environment?

well, now that i think about it a little more...it might not matter so much if some one painted a building that i designed. here's my logic: if i'm an architect, the most important thing to me would be to make my building a reality. once it was constructed, i would have accomplished that. whatever happens to it afterwards is inconsequential, since i have already succeeded in bringing my building to life...(which is after all the most important thing for an architect) but that's only one way of looking at it, and i bet a lot of architects wouldn't look at it that way...

[just playing devil's advocate] yeah, but how about in the architect's mind? i bet it doesn't make too much since to him...he doesn't see it as a collaboration. he had a vision of a building, designed and constructed it, and no where in his vision did he imagine his perfect building with YOUR NAME on it.

i hear that, seeking. i figure the architecture on most buildings is pretty generic...using your example, a dairy queen is probably not going to have any real architectural integrity, so it doesn't matter. but what if it was some revolutionary new building style...? and if that does matter, do you just use your own personal discretion as to which buildings are ok to hit and which ones aren't?

I think this thread has potential for a good discussion...so come on, what are your opinions?

I know that a lot of writers here consider their graffiti to be art. I also know that a lot of writers here show respect for certain artists, whether it's other writers, painters, sculptors, etc. That being the case, I was wondering how people here feel about architecture. After all, architecture is an art, and there are many creative architects that a lot of writers here would probably respect: Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Rem Koolhaas just to name a few. My main question is, if you do in fact respect architecture as an artform, how do you feel about doing graffiti on it? If I was an architect, I know that I would be very upset if someone painted my building, even if the graffiti was amazing...