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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 125 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Honestly top is fucking awesome to look at.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I guarantee some Karen complained about the sexy Alice and that's why it was removed

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Notice the "For Lease" sign in the bottom picture. Probably what happened was the tenant who had commissioned the artwork moved out.

I saw something similar to this happen in my hometown. An artist collective had a space they were renting, and they had painted a huge mural on the wall outside. When they moved, a church took over the space, and they painted over the mural.

[–] PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well duh, Jesus hates colors.

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[–] GlockenGold@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My home town in Sweden has started commissioning artists to paint murals like those in the top image on a lot of otherwise boring and ugly buildings, and I couldn't be more proud. Really makes the town beautiful and unique.

[–] thonofpy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One major reason cities do this is because most fellow spray can wielders will respect the existing work, thus resulting in a nicely painted instead of randomly tagged building.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I really detest dumbasses that put their stupid ass tag on legitimately good art. Nothing screams "desperate, talent-less hack" louder.

[–] Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some guy recently graffitied my mate's warehouse with the word "CUNT". However, he did it using some outlines and shading, so we couldn't even be mad. Way better than somebody writing their signature in black

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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

Whats interesting is that most people would consider the original to be art, and most people would consider just the cocks to not be art, but are the cocks with the statement of intent art or naw? If just the cocks are not art, and the cocks with the statement are, then do the cocks become art if the artist knows about the art that used to be there? Do they become art if the viewer knows about the cocks and infers the missing statement? That's the interesting question here, because it implies that the piece can be art to one person who knows the context and not art to another person who is only aware of the cocks.

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it's art but not aesthetically pleasing art

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[–] thonofpy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I find that it makes most sense to me to answer "is this and that art"-questions with a yes by default. Is it made by a human with the intent to convey a message? Art. Any other approach always seems to end in questions of taste.

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[–] thonofpy@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Petition to normalize painting vulvas on walls by learning to draw a vulva and putting it on walls.

[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In my neighborhood for a while someone (probably a group of people) were sticking vulva drawings everywhere. Building walls, lamp post, mail box, etc. They were all unique and hand drawn too.

vulva sticker on lamp post

[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

That artwork is incredible...

And incredibly arousing.

Especially the eyes

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Paint vaginas around potholes to make your city fill them faster

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[–] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah we had some legend turn one of our sewage aeration pipe outlets into a Mario flower, whole city went nuts over it.

Removed within 48hrs because it "wasn't authorized"

Fucking joke.

[–] NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's BS. They converted several city owned buildings in the last city I lived in to open face "mural invites." Best thing ever. Every city should try it. Beautiful art all over.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My city has a huge bridge which is designated as graffiti area. Government even gives them paint sometimes. We use to have yearly competitions on it. These days every now and then new work shows up, but it's mostly inactive. That said, people are still allowed to paint there. It looks great what otherwise would be boring gray slab of concrete.

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[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should have painted cocks on it in retribution.

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[–] Grief@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That was actually cool art too, not those shitty tags with letters you can’t even read

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[–] li10@feddit.uk 36 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I wouldn’t want the leftmost painted on the side of my house, the rest are okay tho

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Funny? More like sad.

[–] Vaginal_blood_fart@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where's the street sign in the top one?

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Two options

  1. The extreme angle difference and/or focal length difference in the cameras pushes it out of frame from the photographer's perspective.

  2. Some chucklefuck stole it.

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[–] JokeDeity@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Sign probably came around the same time as the paint job during a little gentrification of the neighborhood.

[–] DrPop@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

Probably want there but if you zoom in you can see the pipes as well as the crack on the sidewalk line up.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Top left has some crazy pelvic anatomy.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

It's literally on shrooms

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[–] ironveil@eviltoast.org 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My highschool did something like this. There was a massive memorial dedicated to a African charity event we did. New headmaster came and the fucker god rid of it.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

This is true every time there's a change of hands of power. The new leader busy assert themselves about their role, and reorganize a system, even if it's perfectly functional. What is good must go, for the zealot has need of your suffering.

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[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Banksy's getting a bit more on the nose.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still not used to a community called "funny" actually being funny. Lemmy is weird.

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[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Nnnnice cock

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