Kingdom of Knuffel

A theme park doesn't require earplugs because of machinery and stuff, a warehouse generally does
Those machines aren't made with mufflers to keep them quiet, they're made to do their job, noise levels be damned. Now get a bunch of them together in an enclosed space, and the noise is magnified. Moreso when you have to walk around, over, and under them

Mmmm, I've never really gotten why industrial machinery which *could* be made with mufflers gets a pass on noise laws. I get why industrial machinery that truly *can't* be designed with sound baffles of some sort get a pass, but....


Eh well.


So if you work at a theme park, then I have a different question (there are always questions, until you tell me to stop asking them): is the quality or type of graffiti that shows up at theme parks different at all?
Is it still mostly stylized initials and things, or do you get people trying to match the theme of the the theme park in their graffiti, too?

What graffiti

it's a big gathering of humans. I somehow don't have the optimism to assume anything but that there will be graffiti of some sort showing up shortly after the masses of humans is allowed in.

If there is any, it gets spotted and removed pretty fast
It's vandalism, and with the amount of park security plus police, it'd be a bigger pain getting the stuff in, never mind doing anything, and that's ignoring every other employee
Vandals generally prefer quiet places without people, and a park is the opposite of that

Only graffiti I've seen in parks were abandoned, and via images

Huh. What a funny reversal of expectations.



Now I'm more thinking about graffiti in general. I know the word comes from the same root as that for writing, so is there a separate name for 'graffiti' that is just art without any lettering?

Usually it's called street art, but by definition most of it's still graffiti
If it's done with permission, then it's a mural, and usually done by a group with more standard paint

I sometimes wonder how often you see the mural-type art and it's street art, or you see what you think is street-art and it's actually commissioned/authorized work.

It's also interesting to me to see how, when you travel, sometimes street art looks much the same and other times a city or region will have a really unique style to the street-art that is like a geographic signature, you could tell the city by the street art if you saw a picture of it. And not all cities or regions do that, so then you have to wonder, okay, is it just one group of artists and they've influenced each other, or is it really that this region has developed its own aesthetic? Or, I guess you don't have to wonder, but it certainly makes me ponder it....


Then I keep coming back to the notion of how EASY it would be to get away with adding your own art to a city if you were, instead of a rogue painter, a rogue sculptor. Throw some statues around in odd places and NO ONE would ever think it was anything but authorized to be there....

Legal ones tend to be huge, while the rest aren't

There's a few sculptures in NYC that aren't actually legal
Generally get left up cuz authorities are "meh the meaning behind it us good"
Like the one bull statue that the creator said represented the everyday people getting through the recession, that one isn't legal
Neither is someone else's addition of a girl standing in front of it cuz they decided the bull had a different, less nice, meaning. Something something stock investors
It was a mess

What's up?