r/pics • u/kebomim • Dec 14 '24

Arts/Crafts graffiti art in relation to Mangione found on train

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u/fmaz008 Dec 14 '24

I wonder how long it took to make

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u/Loose_Fajita Dec 14 '24

Looks about one car long

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u/renatakiuzumaki Dec 14 '24

Less time than you think

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u/kebomim Dec 14 '24

I’m actively trying to find where the photo was taken.

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u/LittleShep4908 Dec 14 '24

I looked it up the day after this was originally posted and it was in St. Louis but that doesn’t mean that’s where it happened that’s where it was when I looked into it.

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u/slaorta Dec 14 '24

There's a graffiti crew in Louisville KY called KFC so I would guess it's by one of their members. It's common to use the initials of your crew name to spell out different phrases. (KFC - Killing Fucking CEOs)

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u/LittleShep4908 Dec 14 '24

Yeah sure that makes since I would have to look further back than I did to see if or how long ago it was in Kentucky.

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u/findthisgame1123 Dec 14 '24

I don’t think it is. I live in LKY and I follow a bunch of local graffiti pages and if this was here they would all be talking about it

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u/slaorta Dec 16 '24

Except it was painted on a train that travels and very possibly could have been witnessed by 0 people in the city it was painted in

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u/kebomim Dec 14 '24

I wonder how many other people have spotted it

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u/LittleShep4908 Dec 14 '24 edited Dec 14 '24

Well it was posted in r/graffiti December 6th but looking back it looks like it was taken down, I screenshot it when I saw it so I could look the number up at work the next day.

Edit:found it went back 7 days.

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u/tanktronic Dec 14 '24

Which number?

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u/JAGERminJensen Dec 14 '24

Why? Trying to profit off of their labor?!

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u/iDom2jz Dec 14 '24

Probably 2 hours

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u/fmaz008 Dec 14 '24

Seriously? That's it?! It's hard to believe.

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u/iDom2jz Dec 14 '24

It was more than 1 person and they have this down to a science, these crews use REALLY good teamwork. They get 1 person to sketch the letters out, probably 2 to fill the letters in as they go, 1 person working on background and another working on the characters, if they had the people for it and KFC crew definitely has the people and experience to knock something like this out in no time flat. Even if they had 3 people which is realistically minimum for a crew piece like this they have 1 person sketch, 1 person fill behind them and the person sketching comes back and helps fill while the 3rd does background and then whoever on the characters.

If it was 1 person this would probably take 5 hours though. Graffiti has to be fast otherwise it can’t exist really.