Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts

Friday, 25 September 2015

To blink or not to blink

As you might expect "Don't Blink" is a cheesy name for a possibly equally cheesy horror movie. IMBD information right here!

It is also apparently something you will read in a university bathroom stall:

Don't Blink




Is it a warning? A suggestion? One of the reasons I think people write on stall walls is to get a reaction.  This scrawl is howling to have other things written in response to it...such as "why" or "because the boogie man is waiting for you".  Maybe someone was just feeling festive about the upcoming Halloween season.  On that note here is an interesting story I came across today about a "murder house" in Los Angeles, CA.  Enjoy!

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Have You Wondered?

...Where do you get your set of values?

I'm sure many of us can point to family, religion, and our general up bringing as the harbinger of our web of values but I feel like I know that there is a great invisible hand which attempts to work its magic on us. What am I getting at?  Take a look at this bathroom graffiti:

wall, writing

"Books Before Boys B/C Boys Bring Babies!" and written below in a different colour although it is not evident, and presumably by another person is, "Love This! Education gives you choices!"

I've been debating sharing the toilet poetry, the profane and the profound scribbles I find for a while but this just pushed me over the edge.  It is this type of benevolent bathroom education that no one asks for but for better or worse given passively.  I have divided opinions about the piece because I've come to learn that life isn't always as clear as right and wrong or good and bad. Is this message bad? Perhaps. Is it misguided, most likely. The more I stare at the two statements the more I feel like these two people are on completely different pages. You can have boys and an education, you can have boys and no babies, you can have babies and education, you can have no boys, no babies and still no education, you can have books, no boys, no babies and no education...or, maybe, you can have everything you want.