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Signs We’re Over the Recession: ‘Freelance Graffiti Artist’ Now An Actual Job Title (thepoliticker.observer)
Get paid to vandalize! (Getty Images)
Remember the good old days, when Mayor Giuliani would have you arrested just
for keeping spray paint cans in your backpack? When "tagging" buildings and
underpasses were used to connote different gang areas? Of course, galleries
have been promoting graffiti as "outsider art" since the 80s, but it really
took **Banksy **and _Bomb the System _to turn elevate the expression of
juvenile delinquents into haute couture.
Now that everyone and their grandma has seen Exit Through the Gift Shop, we
guess it was inevitable for "Graffiti Artist" to start appearing under the
special skills portion of resumes.
From Craigslist:
> ## Freelance Graffiti Artist
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> * * *
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> Date: 2012-01-23, 3:15PM EST
Reply to: job-carud-2814318612@craigslist.org[Errors when replying to ads?]
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> * * *
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> Freelance Graffiti Artist
>
> Exciting, young company is seeking a Freelance Graffiti Artist!
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> - Seeking a freelance graffiti artist to create a series of graffiti style
assets.
- The final works will be required to be submitted in digital form.
>
> If interested, please respond to this post with portfolio samples.
Ironically, these job listings will probably lead to a downturn in paint
bombings, as kids realize that either a) the ...
James Castle- Portrait of an Outsider Artist
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