images from sheffield

Mozaz have you ever read the editorial guidelines?

 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/static/editorial.html

 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2003/07/274189.html here you will find more work of the same.. now in consideration is this news.. we could have this mass-debate for weeks i feel.. but my point is this.. i have sparyed lots of walls here in sheffield a lot of my friends are the same working class people who on a sunady afternoon take over this grey-mono culture and add colour.. for me this art form is an expression of the urban-paranoia isolation - desperation - poverty and so forth our class feel and suffer on a daily basis.. we cannot afford oilpaints, canvas, renting an art studio etc.. for people like myself the walls of this urban landscape are our means of self expression.. so why when i post images of the same nature being told i'm fucking spamming the newswire etc.. take into consideration this  http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2003/07/273815.html now is this news.. the working class are being shafted in this city of sheffield and slowly we are finding ourself in ghettos, a conversation i had this morning with friends.. the middle class of this city would be happy to place down our spray cans.. happy to stay in our ghettos of lowedges etc.. while the city centre become the playground.. the city centre that has been built on the labour of the very people who are now finding themselves excluded.. i'm an artist and it has liberated myself from the ghettos of working class / i chose to live in lowedges not because of poverty.. because i feel more at home there than say in nether edge or indeed the city centre of sheffield.. it was the middle class who started administrating this class war.. for me i see them as irrelevance and prepared to work with them for the emancipation of human beings no matter their status.. we will see who is truly on our side come the barracades etc..
for now, lets get on with the task in hand fighting the beast that we call capitalism not each other.. i'm 38 on friday and have grown fucking tired of this class war.. this post was not intended as spam or self promotion.. no, these images were posted because there good images and secondly theyre an expression of working class culture and in my thoughts this is news.. as often our self expression on this scale is consdered by the state as vandalism while the likes of picasso are treated by the established order of the middle class as non-meaningful art.. now his work sells for thousands etc..
david bomberg ( http://images.google.com/images?q=david+bomberg+&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search) was doing the same shit in 1938 he was to some extent part of the futurist movement.. now we go onto what is art.. another debate for another day..

for now
mozaz

Mozaz said:

lets get on with the task in hand fighting the beast that we call capitalism not each other..

Yep, good point, I'm sorry about the title of my comment above, please accept my appologies.

One tip for the future, if you tick 'Culture' when you submit things like this then they will show up in the Culture section of the site...

I think that graffiti is on-topic for the culture section of Indymedia, and if people want to look at more stuff I just found this great site:

Art Crimes : The Writing on the Wall
 http://www.graffiti.org/

It has loads of photos from around the world and a section of ant-war graffiti:

 http://www.graffiti.org/war/

 http://www.banksy.co.uk/ is considerd to be politcall etc.. me i love his work.. indeed we did a stencil dureing the main part of the ocupation of iraq.. we visted in the dead of the night the streets our mp and other politicos.

the message

ON THIS STREET WHERE YOU LIVE ALSO LIVES A PERSON WHO HELPS KILL THE INOCENT..

there was no cam etc as we kinda did not have the desire to lose any of our tat if caught etc.. however much of our work has been cleaned away.. to be expected..

i'm truly fed up of this class war shit and for me art as a form of expreshon says damm more then any other shit..

i love some of the work chris has done and no sucking up here the man was an insparation for eatmorefruit formaly urbanparanoia and the work we do now useing photography as a base..

of course we have gone back to sparying the dull walls of sheffield and no the game is not to tell where our work has appeard etc.. there are no egos here just some mates haveing a joint on a sunady with spary can in hand and chilled wine in a glass by the feet and haveing a good old laugh and then going home at dusk happy in the knowledge we have given more than marching about in circles sat in meeting etc.. though all have there use.. just the fact i'm now 38 need to move on and art is where my shit finds itself now a days..

we are ploting more stickers flypost and who knows another zine but more art based then past work etc..

good links chirs more here  http://image.lowtech.org/links.html if this your thing enjoy..

another image from the sharrow fest