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Oct
5
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Jul
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Anonymous asked: This all reminds me of Banksy's book where there's a letter from someone asking him to stop stenciling in their neighborhood because it is attracting richer buyers and driving the prices up and Banksy has published this letter to say haha and people say graffiti does the opposite haha in that it is similarly infuriating and missing the point.
oh man, that is the worst! Thank you for sharing this illustrative and super-relevant tale.
Jul
3
guys if I’m going to enter a huge debate about yarn-bombing and gentrification I can at least use my newfound notoriority to do something constructive, which is promote this rally for public housing in Melbourne. 4pm Friday the 6th of July, 140 Brunswick St, Melbourne.
yarn-bombing is IMO pretty annoying, but little more. This, on the other hand, is a very real threat to people who need cheap housing. the Liberal state government is openly hostile to public housing. their latest technique to avoid investing in it is to propose building private apartments on the open space between towers. These towers have 200 apartments each, many of which are severely overcrowded. The loss of open space would be keenly felt by apartment residents.
Judging by Victorian history, they won’t stop there — it’s likely the thin edge of the wedge for the privatisation of existing apartments, to be rented out at market rates. But it’s bad enough. I went to a meeting for the African migrant community in the towers and the women there (it was almost all women) were really worried about the effect losing open space would have on their kids. they were just like “uh, my kid is gonna be completely impossible without an open space to run around and burn off steam in”. like I said, a lot of the apartments are overcrowded, and it’s not like they have backyards. how would you feel if the government sold your backyard to a developer, huh???
if a lot of people come to this rally it will also put the tenants in a better position to make demands for maintenance, better apartment allocation, and so on.
please reblog this if you think you might have a significant number of followers from Melbourne, Australia and you reblogged anything about yarn bombing, because this is a lot more important.
& cheapest of all is scorn
no commentary necessary
MATCHES ARE CHEAP.
and don’t all of a sudden start talking about how cheap yarn is, I’ve seen all yr craftster posts, you can’t fool me
like seriously people
where do your critical thinking skills go when someone has something to say that you don’t wanna hear about the actual effects of your ~creative expression~
all of a sudden you all believe in a pure world of Art unsullied by the material plane
all of a sudden people who wanna shut down mel gibson movies or w/e are all about freedom of expression and all art being equal
hmmmmmmmm
upmountains asked: lllooolll yarnburning backlash is getting out of control!!!! no yarn has even been burnt yet!!! i think it's really funny that you have written lots of great posts with like "my most unpopular opinion is..." and i don't know how many messages you have received about those but i feel like hating yarnbombing might actually be your most unpopular opinion. how boring! you have way better unpopular opinions, yarnburning shouldn't even be unpopular idgi
I KNOW WHAT THE HELL. that yarn-bombing post has the most notes of any post on my tumblr that I wrote myself. it is more controversial than hating cupcakes, asexual activism, anarchist mental health dogma, or men. most of the reblogs are actually “YES” or “hmm never thought of that” but a VERY SIGNIFICANT PORTION are about how I need to express my beliefs in a less classist way (reverse classism!) or stop assuming that any of my experiences as an Australian are generalisable to other parts of the industrialised world (reverse US-centrism!) or stop denigrating forms of art that don’t appeal to me.
as a result my ambivalence about the world of art has vanished. I have become SUPER POLARISED and now HATE ART and think ARTISTS ARE THE ACTUAL WORST. I think this is my best unpopular opinion yet! artists in general and particularly white artists: unless you put in 5 hours or more a fortnight towards serving the most marginalised in your community, with a particular focus on housing, I hate you. I’m not even saying you’re objectively terrible, though you probably are, but I personally hate you. I’ve set you a measurable and very achievable target, you have nothing to complain about here.
I am so serious about this.
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