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    Reverse Graffiti

    Gleaned from Slashdot yesterday:

    glawrie writes "UK Graffiti artist 'Moose' thought he had come up with
    a perfect socially friendly approach to his art - to trade paints for
    cleaning fluid. An article in the UK's Independent Newspaper describes
    how he has created graffiti by taking '... any dirty inner-city wall or
    pavement, place a template over it, and scrub the concrete clean,
    revealing an image as sharp as any spray paint which fades with time.'
    Moose was commissioned by a subsidiary of drinks manufacturer
    to create some 'clean' graffiti in Leeds to promote their vodka brand
    Smirnoff to local students. However, this work was subsequently
    condemned by Gerry Harper, a Leeds councillor, as 'sheer vandalism'.
    With wonderful irony, the council demanded that the artist 'clean-up'
    the graffiti that appeared in one of the city's gloomiest underpasses.
    Maybe all those senseless vandals out there will now think twice in
    future before scrawling 'Clean Me' on the back of vehicles overdue for
    a wash... But perhaps the state is now going too far - surely it is
    only a matter of time before rainfall is similarly targetted by the
    good guys."
    http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/thi...p?story=535331

    I was just taken with the irony of the whole situation, despite the shaky morality of pimping voddy to you poor vulnerable young studes.
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    Reminds me of a tale from my A-level maths tutor. Whichever town he went to university in, it had a lot of brass statues/monuments around the town (loughborough rings a bell but its 12+years since I heard the story!). They'd been an ongoing campaign in the local paper to have the statues cleaned and the council saying they had no money to do so.
    Rag week came and so for a prank, the students took brasso and polished "certain parts" on all the statues to a high sheen.

    The council had cleaned the lot within 2 days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jiff Lemon
    Rag week came and so for a prank, the students took brasso and polished "certain parts" on all the statues to a high sheen.

    The council had cleaned the lot within 2 days.
    LOL! In Monaco there's a small park filled with sculptures. One is a lifesize bronze of a fairly fat naked man; the bronze has a bit of a tarnished patina- except for his privates which are as shiny as a new penny thanks to the attentions of a lot of tourist's hands.

    Rich :¬)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jiff Lemon
    Reminds me of a tale from my A-level maths tutor. Whichever town he went to university in, it had a lot of brass statues/monuments around the town (loughborough rings a bell but its 12+years since I heard the story!). They'd been an ongoing campaign in the local paper to have the statues cleaned and the council saying they had no money to do so.
    Rag week came and so for a prank, the students took brasso and polished "certain parts" on all the statues to a high sheen.

    The council had cleaned the lot within 2 days.


    Sheer genius

    For one rag week in Sheffield, someone had the bright idea of dumping loads of food colouring in the fountains - red, green, blue and yellow iirc
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