Spraying the urban forest?

The repeating stencil is -really- ugly, its hard to say the anti-tagging measure (painted tree pattern) was any better than what it was trying to prevent.
Anybody know how much this cost the ACT Taxpayers?

Someone has really gone to town on the fences along Athlon Drive already, and having this repeating pattern _which is in the highest-visibility part of the colour spectrum_ as a background just makes the tagging -really- visible.
Thankyou for thinking this through so thouroughly TAMS.

I will give TAMS (or anyone who owns a large wall) this advice for free:
Purchase a series of standard colors of cheap paints. Tans, browns, whites, greens and grays, dark blues (all natural colors)
When a wall or public structure is tagged, paint a patchwork design on the entire wall.
Kind of abstract designs with basic shapes of natural colors but not very detailed and not too loud or distracting.
This type of design would be easy for almost anyone to paint since there is not really any precise format or pattern to follow and it would be natural color schemes that would blend into the environment.
If the wall gets tagged, covering the vandalism would be easy because there is already a patchwork effect on the wall.
You would never know the graffiti had ever been there because it would be covered with one of the several colors already in the patchwork.

yeah i thought that too, taggers tend to leave professional work alone. I have a friend who has a colourbond fence in chisholm that it constantly tagged, perhaps she should ask them to do a nice picture or something!

The best way to deal with taggers is to grind them into red sludge and use it to fertilise your veggie garden. At least then they will be useful.

I hate tagging. It has to be one of the stupidest things in existence. Scribble some shite no-one understands to make something look messy.

someone has gone over the ones on Atthlon Drive already… good to see!

Felix the Cat said :

There’s an artist guy (can’t recall his name) that does this sort of thing and he has an exhibition in Gundaroo at the moment (a couple of doors up from the Cork St Cafe). If it’s the same guy then the artwork is pretty average, looks ok from 50ft but up close it’s a bit rough.

It’s a fence, I don’t think it’s supposed to be a Da Vinci masterpiece.. it does look decent from 20m away while I drive past though. I guess we will have to see whether it is effective or not, though the fences I’ve seen it on surpisingly didn’t have a much of a graffiti problem.

There’s an artist guy (can’t recall his name) that does this sort of thing and he has an exhibition in Gundaroo at the moment (a couple of doors up from the Cork St Cafe). If it’s the same guy then the artwork is pretty average, looks ok from 50ft but up close it’s a bit rough.

Deckard said :

I saw a guy in his early 20’s doing the fence along the bike path in Florey.

I’ve noticed that not all fences have been done and that there are sometimes gaps. Does this mean that they ask for permission? Has anyone here had it done to their fence?

Yeah I saw someone along the lines of this description doing this in West Belco during the day on a Saturday a month back with a fairly new ute and trailer; alluding this is professionaly done.

I saw a guy in his early 20’s doing the fence along the bike path in Florey.

I’ve noticed that not all fences have been done and that there are sometimes gaps. Does this mean that they ask for permission? Has anyone here had it done to their fence?

How about some pictures of native fauna too, just so we can remember what was lost to the urban sprawl. Although…palm trees? Are there any native to the area?

I hope they’re better than the appalling naif daubs on the fence near the Dickson pool.

I think that they work pretty well on the older wooden fences, especially where there is a certain amount of screening plants in front of them.

I wouldn’t be putting it on a nice new colourbond fence though, unless it had already been tagged to high heaven.

Seconding MrMagoo. I’ve only seen the ones in west belco, but I think they look pretty ridiculous.