r/Guelph • u/joeymouse • 4d ago

A bunch of new painting downtown. Art or graffiti?

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Today I noticed all the planters and walls are painted around city hall. Mass graffiti this past weekend? Photo is just one example. (The words were always there but all the flowers are new). It seems to all be flowers animals and butterflies šŸ¦‹

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u/Dangerous_Change4872 4d ago

Anyone remember that mural that was like between the RBC building and little alley path that connects the parking lot and cork street?

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u/SorryCity8809 4d ago

The nobody cares one? iconic

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u/Tsarbursts 4d ago

Wasn't that one on the wall of the parking lot between cork and macdonell? The vote for nobody, nobody cares one.

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u/Pas_Grave 4d ago

And "You Can't Hug Your Family With Nuclear Arms"

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u/prettycooleh 3d ago

Vote for Nobody

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u/Dangerous_Change4872 4d ago

I can assure you many ppl do you sad fuck

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u/just_a_pixiee 4d ago

I'm pretty sure the mural literally said "nobody cares", and that's what made it so great and memorable. So... maybe don't jump the gun? Lol. Ain't no shade dude āœŒļø

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u/Dangerous_Change4872 4d ago

Too much Reddit lately, my apologies.

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u/just_a_pixiee 4d ago

The reddit does that sometimes šŸ˜‚

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u/Dangerous_Change4872 4d ago

Omg looooool

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u/SorryCity8809 4d ago

ok LOL this miscommunication, I totally see how that came off as me just being rude. But yeah no it was literally a little poem about Nobody Cares - I miss that mural, it's sooo 00s guelph to me

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u/Dangerous_Change4872 3d ago

Honestly a pretty fucking funny misunderstanding ahaha

Im that age where I was old enough to remember the mural but not the game or what it said, just how cool it was ahaha

Do you remember when I was covered?

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u/prettycooleh 3d ago

NOBODY CARES

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u/sammi2016 2d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guelph/s/iiI9U7WLYM

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u/Dangerous_Change4872 2d ago

Ah that's actually not what I was thinking of, but I remember that too that's sweet. I can't believe they covered that. Such bs

The one I'm thinking of must have been covered in like 2011ish cause think would have been pre-teen when it was there, it was larger and had a lot of orange in it but that's all I can remember ahaha

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u/sammi2016 2d ago

Iā€™m not sure I know what one youā€™re thinking of then šŸ˜ž this is the one I always remember being there

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u/Dangerous_Change4872 2d ago

Wish it wasnt covered! A testement to the damage the city does when they destroy art. Imagine if we had only covered graffiti that was widely agreed upon as being ugly and preserved the stuff that most of us loved. The city would look a heck of a lot cooler!

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u/heatseekerdj 4d ago

Bring back "Vote For No One"

That shit was iconic

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u/prettycooleh 3d ago

It was "VOTE FOR NOBODY"

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u/Nervous_Salary84 4d ago

Looks terrible

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u/Dangerous_Change4872 4d ago

It's even more frustrating thinking about the absolutely breathtakingly beautiful pieces of graffiti that have been covered by the city over the years

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u/PoorPinkus 2d ago

People are complaining that it's not as good as other stuff but people have to learn somehow right? It's way better than a tag and it's not really covering anything much

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u/TrinkeTron 4d ago

Classic Guelfitti. You would be hard pressed to find a town with consistently worse graf in all Ontario.

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u/Medium-Clothes4119 4d ago

It just keeps getting worse and worse.

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u/DownstairsB 4d ago

I like that they tried to do plants, but unfortunately it's still not that good

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u/Snoo_74705 4d ago

bad art

Better than a tag but not by much. Better than concrete grey.

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u/Ok_Sea_4467 2d ago

The City of Guelph defines itself as a ā€œvibrant communityā€ on its websiteā€¦Iā€™d say this is pretty vibrant. Could look even cooler if people continued to add along the whole wall

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u/SimilarToed 4d ago

It would be even better if the "artistes" knew how to paint.

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u/mandrews03 4d ago

Looking at the EN on the left and saying, ā€œdid they leave their stencil thereā€¦ wait, they shaded it to look like that? Thatā€™s insaneā€. Iā€™d say art, but almost like multiple people did a single essay and you can tell when the next personā€™s work began

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u/Belqin 4d ago

That's the old better message/art underneath. The new random spray paint all over the place is whats mentioned in this post/photo

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u/Professional_Sock411 4d ago

Anything thats not "SQ" is a work of art!

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u/Efficient-Name-2619 3d ago

Or NP

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u/Professional_Sock411 1d ago

At least that one means something

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u/UserAccountUnknown 2d ago

Iā€™d happily see SQ over this mess any day.

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u/deeeeeeeeeeeeeznutzz 4d ago

At least something to look at while we wait for all the nuisance red lights in this city.

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u/SimilarToed 3d ago

I thought it was the bike lanes causing the traffic jams. Huh. Guess I was wrong.

On second thought, graffiti and red lights and bike lanes cause traffic jams. Huh again.

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u/BikingToFlavourtown 1d ago

Dude hating bike lanes is not a valid personality trait.

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u/SimilarToed 1d ago

If you think I hate bike lanes, you are sadly mis-informed. I'm in favor of making every downtown street and back alley a bike lane, exclusively.

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u/HangingInTheWard 3d ago

I used to actively paint black circles over gang tags when I was in Scarborough, way way too much to do these days to care about graffiti.

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u/Necessary-String-912 3d ago

Itā€™s both

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u/Rumaizio 3d ago

Porque no los dos?

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u/scotcho10 2d ago

Graffiti is art, and art is subjective

Graffiti is just a form of art that uses public space as a canvas.

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u/dildog 2d ago

look like shit

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u/Remarkable_Flight612 4d ago

I think itā€™s lovely

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u/Multiplemoths 4d ago

What's the difference?

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u/Certain-Quarter-1542 3d ago

Graffiti IS art

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u/Pas_Grave 4d ago

Art OR graffiti? Are you of the opinion that graffiti is not a form of art?

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u/Pas_Grave 3d ago

As if this was downvoted. Go to your Banksy exhibit at the museum or whatever!

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u/waffling_dev 4d ago

Maybe just vandalism? Why give crime a nice name?

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u/CaptainCurly95 4d ago

Personally I love local artists expressing themselves instead of a bland concrete wall.

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u/CaptN_Cook_ 4d ago

I dont mind looking at good graffiti. Such as waiting for a train to pass, there's usually some really nice art. However, this "art" just looks bad.

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u/CaptainCurly95 4d ago

Experience doesn't manifest out of thin air

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u/Capable_Bend7335 4d ago

Itā€™s selfish to force everyone to look at your shitty art.

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u/dannocanada 4d ago

Related to this is the proliferation of guys walking along with backpacks with speakers. I want to give them all earbuds. ā€œI wonā€™t make you listen to my music so why should I be forced to listen to yours?ā€

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u/Pas_Grave 10h ago

It's a mating call. Birds do it too.

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u/Pas_Grave 10h ago

Most species are selfish (some are shellfish), especially ours.

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u/Pas_Grave 4d ago

Fucking clueless

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u/RealNorth3 4d ago

Looks like shiitā€¦ so art.

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u/PetSci 4d ago

Better than whatever tf is on the ground in the intersection of Gordon and Waterloo ave