October 22
...serving up your daily dish.
Not as perplexing as this graffitti, but full of intrigue nonetheless. On the rock at the bus stop at Park and Wildwood, folks speculated about the message "You are beautiful!" and the possible object of admiration the writer was addressing. For a brief moment, everyone had a secret admirer. The most likely target of this message-- a teenage girl who lives close by. Unless, of course, someone just really digs rocks.
October 22, 2005 in Cute as Hell | Permalink
or maybe a reminder that we, ourselves, are in fact beautiful-all of us
Posted by: cstarling | Oct 22, 2005 12:10:35 PM
http://www.you-are-beautiful.com/
it's started by these guys and supposed to spread all around the world if people do it. check out the pictures people have interesting ways of doing it. I'd do it but I almost feel like it's stealing an idea instead of contributing, but that's just me yo.
Posted by: katie | Oct 22, 2005 1:03:46 PM
Sounds like the kind of thing where they ENCOURAGE you to spread it--why else would they give out the free stickers? Don't feel like you're stealing, Katie. And thanks for clueing us in!
Posted by: latebloomer | Oct 22, 2005 4:17:25 PM
I think it's a beautiful idea. Positive affirmation instead of selling.
Posted by: rudebuddha | Oct 23, 2005 8:02:03 AM
Katie- Gotta agree with LateBloomer. They're giving the idea away, it's the idea that no one really owns this concept, that it should spread regardless of the glory that could belong to one or two people. Collaborative art! And a beautiful idea at that.
Posted by: Scott | Oct 23, 2005 12:56:49 PM
oh no i understand. i just always thought if i were to start doing graffiti like this again i'd make up my own thing.
Posted by: katie | Oct 23, 2005 4:01:06 PM
(I think it's a beautiful idea. Positive affirmation instead of selling.)
I dunno...seems like graffiti to me... no matter the form or the message. Call me old fashioned, but I don't like to see things defaced.
Posted by: Pam | Oct 24, 2005 12:13:53 AM
The same message is stencilled on the floor of the bus shelter/gazebo at Watchung Plaza. It's been there for months.
Posted by: Anne-Marie | Oct 24, 2005 9:45:04 AM
Beautiful idea, yes, but only on your own rick. On somebody else's it's an act of vandalism. Better than "go f--- yourself", I suppose, but vandalism nenetheless.
Posted by: walleroo | Oct 24, 2005 9:55:48 AM
"Call me old fashioned, but I don't like to see things defaced."
I'm with you, Pam.
Posted by: Miss Martta | Oct 24, 2005 10:35:25 AM
Don't paint my damn rock or I'll kick your beautiful ass all the way to Kearny.
Posted by: crank | Oct 24, 2005 11:46:19 AM
See I agree that someone shouldn't paint a rock on someone's lawn, or anything like that, but if it's public, then I say go for it. I enjoy graffiti and would still be doing my own if I never had a run in with the law. Though I never did it in Montclair, I think it's best on a busy highway. But something like this could be done anywhere. If you see on the site, people wrote "You Are Beautiful" in the fences of bridges with cups, it'd be like doing that over the parkway around exit 142, I think it'd make peoples commutes much more enjoyable. Hey who's up for it?
Posted by: katie | Oct 24, 2005 12:14:47 PM
