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Graffiti Snails Attack London

metro.co.uk — A London artist, known only as Slinkachu, has used the molluscs' shells for a series of designs dubbed 'Inner City Snail – a slow-moving street art project'.

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  • EricaBZ, on 07/20/2008, -3/+90Hilarious! These snails are truly inner city.
    • andy101, on 07/20/2008, -0/+15By inner city, I think he means they're not gonna last a day without being accidentally stepped on.
      • championchap, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1Or eaten by birds.. how facking visible are these now?
    • MiniCooper2007, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5Dawg! You must be snailin' me!
    • thechosen, on 07/20/2008, -2/+1What does that even mean?
  • BirdCatcher, on 07/20/2008, -3/+21now if he could just paint all of them.
    • ZeeZee2k, on 07/20/2008, -0/+10PETA is not happy about this.
      • carnivalofmmo, on 07/20/2008, -0/+16I am happy when PETA isn't. Cheeseburgers!
      • forceuser, on 07/20/2008, -1/+10People eat tasty animals?
  • okpeery, on 07/20/2008, -2/+6If he could just come to Toulouse and encourage the terrible gar artists here to start on snails then this city wouldn't be so ugly.
    • Supernova36, on 07/20/2008, -1/+11Does France still have a graffiti problem?

      (Before you digg me down, there is a difference between Graffiti Art, and spraying ***** on everything.)
      • Paulish, on 07/20/2008, -0/+14Yeah, for the latter you should probably see a doctor.
      • biznatch11, on 07/20/2008, -6/+2ya spraying ***** on everything is what happens after i eat mcdonalds.
      • JoeDiggsIt, on 07/20/2008, -2/+2I spent a week in Paris this summer and saw more graffiti than I've probably seen in my entire life. London is pretty bad, too. Although I did get to see a Banksy, that made my trip.
    • Millsee, on 07/20/2008, -0/+20What's the point in doing graffiti on the French snails?

      People would just eat them.
  • blooksllc, on 07/20/2008, -7/+17Starting now, a worldwide campaign - painted snails in every city by the start of the olympics. Olympic painted snails! Tell your artist friends. But don't tell everyone, I don't want asseholes with no tallent getting drunk and harrasing snails with a magic market.
    • McMaster88, on 07/20/2008, -1/+19Magic Market you say?
      • iJessicaRabbit, on 07/20/2008, -1/+4It's an epidemic.
      • carnivalofmmo, on 07/20/2008, -1/+15Don't drink and digg.
      • MoClippa, on 07/20/2008, -1/+6That sounds like a wonderful place, I'll be sure to visit it after my stay at the Sorcerer's Inn.
      • TyrelVnne, on 07/21/2008, -0/+0magic market! sign this traveling democrat up!
    • W00DR0W, on 07/20/2008, -9/+1Snails act as intermediate hosts for several different parasitic worms, which is why most countries try to kill as many as possible.

      I think I'd rather see 'em stepped on than painted.
    • GJempire11, on 07/20/2008, -1/+2Buzz Kill...
  • sgtcaboose, on 07/20/2008, -20/+6'Inner City Snail – a slow-moving street art project'
    Oh I see what they did there.
    • digitalpencil, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3congratulations! you have achieved a level of intelligence equaled only by the humble badger..
  • phyx726, on 07/20/2008, -2/+76does that mean slugs are homeless?
    • Dexists, on 07/20/2008, -1/+0What's the difference between a slug and a snail?
      "Big issue?"
  • BennyGreenberg, on 07/20/2008, -2/+12ghetto escargot rock
  • andsalvatierra, on 07/20/2008, -2/+24Direct Link to the artist's project page: http://innercitysnail.blogspot.com/
  • monsieurginger, on 07/20/2008, -1/+4This is just awesome. I wonder if there are any collectors?
  • scabbers, on 07/20/2008, -1/+151.Countdown until Banksy makes one with a little plastic policeman hitting the shell that has drawn-on cracks. Or a bag lady snail pushing a tiny shopping cart full of junk.

    And no, you can't copy my idea.
    • hagfish70, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1I thought it was Banksy's idea...
    • xsuite, on 07/20/2008, -4/+3Youre not Banksy. If you were youd have better things to do instead of post on a social news site. More important things like drawing pictures that you sincerely hope will instigate people to a revolution, but instead cry when people look at pictures of your work, while they are sitting in their cubicle working for the man. Banksy is nothing but a distraction, like the Fight Club Movie, that the collective daydreams about while they continue their meaningless lives in labor for the bourgeois.
      • rreadysetno, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1You are reading way too much into that guy's comments.
      • TyrelVnne, on 07/21/2008, -0/+0im going to ***** in your soup
  • Branbot, on 07/20/2008, -1/+45Oh the art is just a distraction! The artist is packing every snail with C4 in their shells. These so called "Inner City Snails" will be the end of London.
    • Millsee, on 07/20/2008, -1/+11I heard of those bomb-shells...

      www.instantrimshot.com
  • TheMightyDane, on 07/20/2008, -16/+2So .. Banksy isn't the only brittish graffiti artist ?
  • xs11ax, on 07/20/2008, -1/+5snail wars
  • mrloci, on 07/20/2008, -0/+8I have a feeling thousands of snails are in for some abuse today.
    Im going to do a "howls moving castle" snail.
    (well i would if i wasn't lazy and had talent)
    • MadOgre, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5Turtles are doomed too.
      And crabs.
    • TaylorSiluwe, on 07/20/2008, -0/+0LOL -- you may be lazy, but you made laugh. That's talent.
  • seantubridy, on 07/20/2008, -1/+20There goes the neighborhood.
  • Typhoon2009, on 07/20/2008, -3/+8That's really cool.
  • yagotmeseruchi, on 07/20/2008, -10/+0Cool, too bad the lettering is wack
  • -Chi.0, on 07/20/2008, -1/+5Gangster lol'z
    • carnivalofmmo, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1I believe the prefered term is loluscz

  • agreenall, on 07/20/2008, -1/+49"don't be too surprised to see a brightly-coloured snail making its way down a street near you."

    I'm sure the birds that normally eat them will have no trouble spotting John...
    • rolan1bp, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Exactly what I was thinking.
    • pjsmike, on 07/21/2008, -1/+0wouldnt the neon colored graffiti display as a warning sign in bird's perspective? You know, like those poison frogs in the Amazon..
      • DeFex, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2yes the birds in london are very wary of all the poison frogs they have there.
  • Elliuotatar, on 07/20/2008, -2/+80"Who would do such a thing!?"
    "Tiny vandals."
  • iCoty, on 07/20/2008, -4/+6Wow, this blows my mind that someone has the time to actually do this.
    • CyrusG, on 07/20/2008, -0/+7...says the guy writing a comment and reading this article on Digg.
    • DeFex, on 07/21/2008, -0/+2aah theres always a "too much time on your hands" tard when someone does anything interesting or creative.

      would you rather they spent all their life working for someone else and raising brats?
      If you had your way there would be no books, art, music, machines, or even fire.
  • drgmdp, on 07/20/2008, -12/+3wow, most comments were pretty stupid
  • nageroc, on 07/20/2008, -14/+2This disgusts me. It is bad enough we have to see this tagging crap all over our cities, now they are abusing wildlife for their childish vanity? Why is Digg glamourizing this?
    • lsloany, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2If monkeys get to wear make-up and perfume then I believe snails should be able to look pretty as well.
    • BlueLove775, on 07/20/2008, -1/+2The ignorance of your post amazes me. It's art in an original and generation defining way.
  • inotocracy, on 07/20/2008, -1/+93 down, a few billion to go..
  • easypie, on 07/20/2008, -10/+2THERES A PAINTED SNAIL ON TEH ROAD!
    LOLOPS
  • kavutu, on 07/20/2008, -7/+1Painted snails?? Whats next? Painted worms??
  • dhughes, on 07/20/2008, -0/+24 It's all fun and games until someone covers over a tag and gets gunned down in a drive by.
    • tech42er, on 07/20/2008, -4/+2Yeah...I doubt snails are gonna have any serious tags on them.
      • PoonGnarfler, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6*Feels something flying over his head*
    • Stevo23, on 07/20/2008, -0/+21That would be one slow-ass driveby.
  • cyclonesworld, on 07/20/2008, -4/+8It's only a matter of time for some "Snail Rights" group to start bitching. After all, this is in the UK
    • hamdevguru, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2What is that supposed to mean?
      • hiPpymIck, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1the English love animals


        no not like that (..as far as i know)
    • soupr, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1LDN still rules you... I love this city
  • hoodieninja, on 07/20/2008, -1/+10if i see "the" spelled "teh" one more time....
    • TehProphet, on 07/20/2008, -0/+15...
    • homer420032003, on 07/20/2008, -1/+5teh ***** are you talking about


    • quomen, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1Umm, where do you see it? I don't see a teh anyware..im searching the page too.
  • flashback99, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4ah..the metro. the forefront of news on the underground.
  • Spade914, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3I wonder if the other snails make fun of them
  • arevolutionof1, on 07/20/2008, -0/+19It's Pimp My Shell for snails. Somebody call MTV.
  • Alphabet, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5Those snails won't last long. Predators will easily spot them and eat them.
    • DeFex, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1they may think they are man made objects and not be interested.
  • cnot3, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4In other news, all the monkeys at the zoo were mysteriously shaved.
  • iPoul, on 07/20/2008, -3/+0Awesome!
  • wrathofg0d, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5These are just going to end up being picked up by people who want to sell their shells.
  • AwsmGy, on 07/20/2008, -0/+13Shhh, don't tell PETA.
    • digitalpencil, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1people eat tasty animals! mmmm.... snail..
  • zip000, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4I wonder if the bright colors make them more (or less) interesting to predators.
  • Tyrghast, on 07/20/2008, -2/+1These jokes are so silly...
  • XenoSNK, on 07/20/2008, -3/+2But do they blend?
    • Shenanigans, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1Obviously not. They're too bright to camouflage anywhere!

      See what I did there? I took your idea and went another way with it.
  • zippe, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4best. title. ever.
  • Golubovic, on 07/20/2008, -0/+0you know that this just makes it easier for birds, who eat snails, to find and then eat said snails
    • Rudegar, on 07/20/2008, -0/+1prob not as those birds will be looking for snail looking things not colourful things
  • okpeery, on 07/20/2008, -1/+1Paris is nothing, come to Toulouse. I mean I'm not opposed in principle to graffiti, but it should be at least kinda nice. The graf I'm talking about is more than just spraying ***** on walls, but a whole lot less than social commentary, and certainly ugly.

    @Millsee, the graffiti goes on the shells not the snails, the French can continue to eat them all they want, I'm jsut asking that they beautify what they toss out.
  • LeviTheSmith, on 07/20/2008, -1/+1Snails with graffiti on their shells
  • pendarn, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3with some glue they can hold a LED and lithium battery I found out last summer. They travel a long way at night.
  • TaylorSiluwe, on 07/20/2008, -1/+1Coolest thing ever.
  • soupr, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1My favourite city in the world..
  • supersoyboy, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1Damn you hip hop gnomes!!
  • ulmanor, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1I'm waiting for the "this is animal cruelty!" outcry from someone...
  • evanct, on 07/21/2008, -0/+0his Little People project is better, i think.

    http://little-people.blogspot.com
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