Cool Star Wars Graffiti: I Am Your Father
Really cool looking star-wars inspired graffiti done on mangy old thug-corners. You see now, there is a star-wars nerd among everybody..even hooligans and crooks who lurk in the shadows.
Featured on Flickr with the title “Hi Dad” [via: Net-O-Rama] probably done by Banksy
Update : It seems that my post hit digg frontpage and a lot of diggers are upset because I called the talented artists behind numerous street-arts/graffities as “Hooligans and Crooks”. I just wanted to say that I’m extremely sorry to cause this confusion. I’m a star-wars fan (if not a fanatic) myself and I absolutely adore graffiti and highly value this swirling art form. My post was merely meant to cause sarcasm unto those who undermine street art as “Thug Crap” or “Junk of the hoods”. I was trying to mock those who think that ripe brains are only aplenty in the high annals of the new-yorker or the NYtimes. Please don’t be confused, I’m a big fan of street art too (especially the Latino ones and those found in Bronx)
Update 2: It seems that the digg effect has virtually started to deteriorate my blog’s image elements and what not. If you can’t view the image you came looking here for, then please visit its flickr page. You can also find the “Star-wars related art criticised by faux star-wars lovers in a south-east-asian-brown dudes random blog” there
Oops, you mixed up “Hooligans and Crooks” with Artists.
Comment by dvdlwdn — December 27, 2006 @ 7:00 pm
His grafitti has been painted on many a wall by the artist “Dolk” here in Bergen, Norway. I don’t know if he created the original, but I think most of his works are.
Comment by Espen — December 27, 2006 @ 8:01 pm
That’s almost certainly an Eelus image - he’s a UK artist who’s done a run of star wars grafitti images such as shat-at and Chewbarber - you can see them at eelus.com
Comment by grom — December 27, 2006 @ 8:19 pm
“there is a star-wars nerd among everybody..even hooligans and crooks who lurk in the shadows”
YES - BECAUSE EVERY GRAFFITI ARTIST IS A HOOLIGAN OR CROOK THAT ‘LURKS IN THE SHADOWS’.
If your oppinion of graffiti artists is stereotypical as to of that, you obviously dont have a diverse group of friends and are the type of person to stereotype other races as well.
Comment by keus — December 27, 2006 @ 8:59 pm
Dude, ‘Keus”…I’m a brown south-east asian Muslim guy…and you are telling me about discrimination and being stereotypical? How deliciously absurd
Comment by naser — December 27, 2006 @ 9:11 pm
some of them are talented artist and some of them are having pissing contests, and some are hooligans and crooks who lurk in the shadows. stencil art is always my favorite form. you know it was something that had to be planned out and not just randomly left on a wall.
Comment by lock — December 27, 2006 @ 9:23 pm
I can’t believe no one could see the sarcasm in your post. Some people get it at least. Some people just try to find things to fight about.
Comment by Farmeunit — December 27, 2006 @ 9:26 pm
Don’t you DARE apologize to these PC morons. You said “there is a star-wars nerd among everybody..even hooligans and crooks.” That’s not the same as calling star wars nerds who live in ghettos hooligans and crooks.
Don’t let your humility be perceived as a lack of testicular fortitude, or these knee-jerk morons will use your decency to bully you the rest of your life.
Comment by Andrew — December 27, 2006 @ 9:28 pm
Thanks for the positive responses, Farmeunit, lock and Andrew . I must say, I was feeling a bit disheartened to see so much anger and filth in the comment section. I hope more understanding diggers like yourselves appear from now on
Comment by Naser — December 27, 2006 @ 9:55 pm
I missed the sarcasm, and I’m one sarcastic bastard. I think that the problem is context: on Digg, your blurb is jumbled in with a whole bunch of other ones and nobody has a clue what your attitude is.
Compounding the problem, while many Digg blurbs are insincerely exaggerated, it’s usually done to attract clicks, not for rhetorical effect.
Probably, some quotation marks around the derogatory terms would’ve been clues enough for me.
Comment by Eric S. Smith — December 27, 2006 @ 11:03 pm
It’s NOT a Banksy!
Comment by NotBanksy — December 27, 2006 @ 11:09 pm
looks like eelus to me, he has a similar print called shat-at.
Comment by dan spielman — December 28, 2006 @ 12:02 am
This image made me think of something else (click on name)
Comment by reeses — December 28, 2006 @ 12:31 am
hey come on guys. Just because you’re an artist doesn’t mean you’re not Painting On Someone Elses Wall. I love graffitie art but drawing on someone elses wall is a crime done by criminals. If you want to paint do it on something you own or dont’ get mad when someone says “hey that’s pretty but go buy your own wall.”
just saying.
Comment by joel — December 28, 2006 @ 1:25 am
Hehe…he said “testicular”….
Comment by Bob — December 28, 2006 @ 1:28 am
“Hehe…he said “testicular”….
Heh..indeed..and that was by far the best comment made on my blog. I gotta write this down, might come in handy in a gay-republican-bashing partayy…
Comment by Naser — December 28, 2006 @ 1:36 am
Painting on other people’s walls is illegal, wrong, and vandalism.
Thus making grafitti “artists” law breakers. Calling it art doesn’t make it cool or legal or right.
If you love graffiti “art” so much maybe you should park your car next to some nice work and let the “artist” paint you a masterpiece.
Personal injury lawyer on a banana peel?
http://www.givemetheinfo.com/blog/blogger.html
Comment by cbgaloot — December 28, 2006 @ 4:18 am
Painting on other people’s walls is illegal, wrong, and vandalism.
Thus making grafitti “artists” law breakers. Calling it art doesn’t make it cool or legal or right.
If you love graffiti “art” so much maybe you should park your car next to some nice work and let the “artist” paint you a masterpiece.
Personal injury lawyer on a banana peel?
http://www.givemetheinfo.com/blog/blogger.html
Comment by cbgaloot — December 28, 2006 @ 4:30 am
Hey, cbgaloot…lucky for me, I live in a third world country where people don’t have the money to buy a day’s chow…let alone a can of compressed paint
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We also lack creativity, because the west has suppressed us for so long and thus ripped our souls in the bud. So, tough luck..I can’t get graffiti on my car even if I try all day long and park in places where monsters dwell
Comment by Naser — December 28, 2006 @ 9:09 am
Same graffiti but taken in Bergen Norway in July 2005. So this is dolk’s work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71894505@N00/336043597/
Comment by Dagfinn — December 28, 2006 @ 3:53 pm
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Check it out now.]
peace
Comment by DsyNE56 — January 4, 2007 @ 2:45 am
graffiti is not a crime
Comment by Graffiti — March 12, 2007 @ 8:39 pm
These comments have been invaluable to me as is this whole site. I thank you for your comment.
Comment by Annerose — June 4, 2007 @ 1:02 am
Is this graffiti made from Banksy? I’m not sure of this…
Comment by tijean — July 4, 2007 @ 1:43 pm
In which country do you live?
Comment by mozilla fire fox — March 21, 2008 @ 2:32 am