Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Graf artist terrorizes cow town



A coworker tipped me off to this article in the Hartford Courant of a graf artist terrorizing a cow town in Northern Connecticut.

Slideshow here.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have known Olof for years. He is Brilliant! And to focus on every little thing about the troubles in his past instead of acknowledging what he is trying to do for a lame town called Stafford is wrong. There is not one thing interesting to do in that town for teens. Art should be in everybody's life. It lets you express your feelings about situations going on around you instead of turning to violence. Would you rather have kids fighting with one another in the streets? or Maybe underage drinking at parties and driving drunk appeals to you more than letting them express theirselves in a way that everyone should appreciate. If you don't want it all over town, then why don't you give them a designated place to show their wonderful work. There is a difference between art and "tagging"names.
Art is Beautiful to look at and has some kind of meaning to everybody that looks at it. To say that he is terrorizing a cow town is just plain and simply ignorant. If anything he is giving that town and the teens in it a well deserved revision.

12:17 PM  
Blogger me said...

stafford has terror in it from the drunks, drugs, and broken homes, lol and all that other crap ....
his art expresses life and his views, stafford needs to focus on its serious issues other than a artist trying to express himself.
This is just petty and the selectman needs to stop trying to live back in the old days and relize that the urban world is everywhere, and is in stafford and the rest of the world. people are going to express themselves wheither "he" likes it or not......
Its deep work and i think u are truely doing a awesome job

"OLD STAFFORD RESIDENT"

1:58 PM  
Blogger Mene Oner said...

:::QUOTE:::
"There is a difference between art and "tagging"names.
Art is Beautiful to look at and has some kind of meaning to everybody that looks at it. To say that he is terrorizing a cow town is just plain and simply ignorant."

Maybe Vic and Carissa misunderstood the irony in my title for this post. My use of the word terror was meant in the best possible way. On the contrary, there is no difference. Whether you are painting "beautiful art" or simply "tagging" your name, Handselecta supports anybobody, young or old to infuse a little culture into your own lame town, no matter where it is. (Just read some of our other posts)

3:20 PM  
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1:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is in Regards to what Mene Oner had to say:

Okay so i guess there is just misunderstanding all together. And/or maybe the wrong use of words.
I wasn't aiming the blog towards you. Sorry if you thought so. I was just using your choice of words to write it. I wrote it towards the people so against what is going on.
It is a title i would definately use.. Because the people against it in that town see it just as you titled it.
Sorry for any misunderstanding on my choice of words.... and/or how I wrote it.

1:15 PM  

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