Graffiti-Junction.com is non-profit
Our mission is simple
To record and display as public record the changing face of wall art (aka "graffiti" or street art, aerosol art) in Newcastle City, NSW, Australia.
Artists praised on this web site are no more graffiti vandals than YOU are for dressing up your front yard or painting the house.
Though some work may be illegally placed, what qualified it for relative immortality here at the Graffiti Junction is its instant visual appeal, beauty, craft, or (for commercial art) function.
Mindless vandalistic and territorial ‘tagging’ is portrayed here on occasions as artifacts, not art. Their inclusion in our gallery is of academic interest, or to illustrate a point.
This is a commerce-free zone.
Since the legalities of copyrighted material reproduced herein is a rather slippery realm, the more acquisitive and litigious among you should know at the outset there is no gold pot attached to this little rainbow.
GraffitiJunction.com sells no images of art and displays no advertisements.
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Wall Art – photographed in the streets of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Most people are disturbed by graffiti and consider it a defacement and sign of social erosion. Should they pause to admire the intricate detail and craft of street art, letting their appreciation surface, they might experience, or see, an epiphany (and should consult a doctor immediately). We at GraffitiJunction.com see NO connection to vandalistic subcultures who incidentally wield aerosol cans.
Graffiti art – though often created without property owner’s consent - is not random, pernicious vandalism. Yet in that tiny space that is the public mind, high-art graffiti differs not from spray-can vandalism or territorial tagging.
Sadly such social blindness might never heal, but perhaps that’s for the good. The avant-garde, if not secretive and daring nature of its creation, lends graffiti a keen edge.
Graffiti Junction is a tribute to an unappreciated and impugned community of enlightening artists who choose the street as their gallery.
On this web site
Commercial - Not much around town, collecting them slowly
Vehicles - Usually driving by. Occasionally, however, we catch one asleep
Wet Paint - blog has latest pleasant surprises and general news
Why&How - discusses ‘writing’ (wall, street, aerosol art) cultural/practical
History - brief primer to demonstrate venerable history - not just kids wearing sideways caps
Legal - artistic and legal rights of artists and our right to publish such images
Links - mostly local [Newcastle & Aussie] plus outstanding world sites
Ambiance - Atmospheric locale photograph gallery
Notes on Copyright
You may download our images but MUST NOT re-use them commercially.
Images of graffiti on this website are from original photographs © [copyright] GraffitiJunction.com. Artwork depicted is subject to artistic rights and copyright of the artisans, and/or property owners if commissioned. Downloads for personal use and education permitted, though still subject to original artist’s copyright and GJ’s image copyright.
Graffiti Junction’s images are both visibly and invisibly watermarked. More on our copyright issues
Notes on computers and file types:
* Detailed description about downloading for MACs and Windows PCs
* Something to know about image size versus file size, and those pesky pixels
* Mac PCs - You guys have only one mouse button, so I’m told. Sounds like something designed for disabled folk :0) At GJ we detest the evil Quicktime as a pervasive nagger and compulsive updater, and pathological ‘must be a startup program.’ And worst of all, a file-type-association thief. But we understand it’s a MAC mainstay, so we’ll feed you Quicktimes when demanded by the material.
* Windows PCs - Hey, according to our visitors logs, that’s 96% of you. Welcome, tribe of Bill. Yer ole’ Windaz peecees display pretty much anything we can throw at ya! … when they’re not blue-screening :-)))
Expect mainly a choice of JPEG low and high resolution picture files, and for Windows-ONLY we publish panoramas as ‘executables’ (the filename ends with ".exe") which is simply the JPEG images with a built-in viewer. Since these are potentially dangerous - not ours, just executable files in general, as such ‘programs’ can do pretty much what they want - we zip them so the filename ends with a ".zip" in case your computer’s security complains. These panoramas are huge images that load into that built-in viewer allowing you to pan and zoom, like a real moving camera on location.
