The 'Legal' Street Art of Singapore 

Pie Nation why not ? Itll make Singapore more colourful and lively and everything!

@@ariffinwahaha Colourful and lively is not the words that come to mind.

@@godsama959 there have been mrt trains with murals on it if ure wondering. for years there have been on them. so ya

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yellowsparks andy well i mean that isnt illegal,drawing and that are two different things

you described it perfectly. its absolutely beautiful.

exactly the same for me I also got the place I was staying pop up as an ad its creepy

lovejdm *G O O G L E*

I'm sure after spending 25 years doing accounting and then having the opportunity to make art that people appreciate will make anyone happy :D

25 years and looks like that? Is he immortal??

you barely know where we came from and how we’ve developed. if you’ve nothing to contribute to the conversation, then nobody’s asking you to be an empty vessel.

Didi Tribal you know nothing about how we were & how far we’ve come. piss off.

@Didi Tribal It is true haha

Didi Tribal ok go back and farm in ur third world country then

@Didi Tribal Which third world shithole did you come from?

true a government going hard against street artists/ graffiti artists will eventually end up killing its next generations of artists.

Well, in a general sense, what's poison to some is food to other, and food to some is poison to other. The government is there to promote the common good, a certain harmony, if they see graffiti as an obstruction to the general populace then they would listen to them. Imagine a random guy showing up to your house and spray paint your walls without your permission. Would you be pleased? So it all comes down to mutual respect. Art doesn't always have to be inhibited by anger and rage, we already have a truckload of that.

@@ronneilcabrera2301 some guy in fact tagged my house some days ago. its just a time stamp of someones existence. its not something people do just for fun. in most cases it comes from a deeply existential force. yes there are people (obviously about a bunch in each place of the world) who write their names to find purpose in live. what a surprise. a wizard doesn't become an astronaut just like that. its one of a few forms of art that require the will to do something that could have extreme consequences(physically, finically or both), which actually sets it even with doing sport. people who get caught should pay exactly the real damage + lawyer and not end up in prison surrounded by people that might introduce them to the real bad things. imo this is a put situation since the intellectual value of a tag/graffiti counters the material/optical devaluation of the wall/building its painted on.

@@MapleXD2000 the severity of legal repercussions they placed to those artist are undeniably unjustified. And I agree with you. But why break the law in the name of art? If the state had clearly announced their limitations why denounce it and break it still, then complained about it? I believe the law supersedes sentiments especially when it's trying to protect the interest of the general populace.

@@ronneilcabrera2301 i see your point. but if the law really tries to protect the interest of the general populace, why is public advertisement legal and graffiti not? public advertisement is just as inevitable and intrusive as graffiti. To me at least. It is brought into the public not autonomous like graffiti but by someone paying money. The result is the same. Maybe if all graffiti writers had the money and time to to get permission for every spot they paint, there wouldn't be illegal graffiti, just like there is no illegal advertisement.

Sean hahaha me to🤭

it is mahathir

It's his brother.

That is him. That's how he stays under the radar.

now that you point it out yeaa

who cares

Yes it is Slac.

Sean Wow that’s awesome!

@@soapy2587 He was a popular icon for photography back then. Always got a smile on his face. A nice uncle. On that day I also took a photo of an old man doing net fishing on a sampang at Singapore river at boat quay. It was like the last sampang around. And he was wearing a traditional conical straw hat.

Sean Amazing.. is there any way I can see the photos?

@@soapy2587 Hard to find at moment. Need some digging

Is there a country that allows graffiti?

@@Denso1980 Colombia, Taiwan to a degree, and there's many others were cops got more serious problems to worry about other than paint on a wall

Without the caning punishment in America

a lot of youtube videos have subs for whatever languages spoken, it is for etc deaf ppl to read.

@@qiqi7127 but RU-vid has a specific button for that. Only reason I can think of is if they post it on another website.

Well thats sterotypes. We can be better. This is a society issue.

That's true grew up with it

Grew up with racial profiling in Malaysia where Malays are given privilege written in the constitution. I'd say you're lucky to be born in Singapore.

in singapore its very hidden, but there is racial profiling, its widespread in work environment where they hire bilingual speaking. in the military its worse. there is a reason 3rd generation minorities are all leaving or have left the country

@@Asyrafazman11 And Malaysia originally belonged to Indians. What's your point?

Good if a highly skilled artist worked on it. Bad if done by shitty “artists”

In Kandy

It is ok if the govt says ok. U cant just go around drawing on people’s properties. I guess theyve found the right balance . Approving art n putting them on proper places

I even spray painted my bedroom wall when i was young.

Orang apa? Indon?

Itu dahulu. Cerita sudah basi. Mohon majukan pemikiran

I agree. Also the guy with the glasses makes way better art

I really love his art style, really unique and talented

Please educate yourself about street art before making such comments.

@@sidewalkslam Exactly. There r many different types of styles, but street art goes way back when street art was essentially tagging walls and wut not.

R.Y while not everyone is into subcultures and able to appreciate the alternative art form, i do agree on your “educate yourself first” comment because them normie just dont know when to stfu and learn some new stuff outside of their normie lives. Lol.

@Didi Tribal Have you served NS? If not you will not understand such good 'discrimination' that the majority of the combat vocations personnel see. A store vocation gives the person a lot of free time. Some even get to stay out and go home daily. For driver, they got a license for free which is very relevant as a civilian. And everyone loves to get into SPF and SCDF. I am not sure about the free tertiary education thing. I just know that in the past it was free. It was quite a low profile thing and I dont know how it works.

@Didi Tribal I just checked, there is an awesome tertiary tuition fee subsidy programme for needy Malay family. Can cover 70 to 100 percent. Such a programme does not seem to be available for Chinese. So this is another good initiative for Malays

@Didi Tribal The Malay scheme should be the best one. The Chinese scheme is different and also must be for a super needy family

@Didi Tribal I check that for Malay, 1400 SGD per capital household income can get 100 percent subsidy. The Chinese has a bursary scheme but must be 690 SGD per capital household income and they get 4000 SGD as subsidy per year. So it is a good scheme to help Malays to move forward

@Didi Tribal The annual tertiary tuition fee in Singapore for NUS starts from 8200 to 9000 +++ SGD for most courses. This is after an MOE grant that most would receive. So a full subsidy is substantial as compared to a 4000 SGD bursary

Brings back those RSO memories.

I guess the long hair increased the chance. And if there are exposed tattoos, it will even be worst. Cannot blame the police to have some baseline profiling.

That guy is very insecure..

so O$P$ is a art ?

@@sdqsdq6274 there is no thought and creative process in O$P$ at all

Good thing that it has changed already. And that point on being a sniper isn't true. Ive worked with a malay encik who was a sniper back in early 2000s. Hes part of the SAF shooting team. Chill dude who has an aura of mystery. Those who've seen him will know who im talking about.