Ok, so I saw this image about 9 months ago on Pinterest, and it's stuck with me. My first idea was to have a graffiti art image run across the buildings of the neighbourhood in a mix of live action and animation. It would interact with things and people in the real world.
Bowie Street Art
(I am really having problems with blogger. Why can't I get my pictures to sit nicely side by side? Why must they trail down the page like an incontinent goose has taken a stroll across my lawn?)
But it needs a reason to run around, something to do. So, I would like a character in a painting in a museum/gallery/boardroom to look out of the painting, break "the fourth wall" and see the graffiti-ed character outside.
I am hesitant to say they fall in love because I am not ready to write a romance. Let's say they develop a friendship. Which is threatened when a man from the local council comes by to paint over this "useless" graffiti. The character from the painting leaps into action! He's never been anywhere outside the environment of his painting. He leaps into the other paintings in the museum, onto the t-shirts of people walking by until he gets to the doors of the museum. Time is of the essence: he can see that the white paint is half-way up the building and the graffiti figure is being swallowed up. There are no more images to leap into to get through the doors quickly. He sees the gift shop and hitches a ride inside. We next see him with a set of crayons strapped to his feet and he "walk-draws" his way out until he comes across better options. Billboards, delivery trucks, other things. He finally makes it to the building in time to see the last bits of the graffiti disappearing under the brush. He collapses against a nearby fire hydrant, setting it off. The spray blasts the painter out of the way and washes off the white paint that hasn't had a chance to properly dry. The painter gives up in defeat. They're relieved, but what will they do? Is this the end of the threat? The next day, the painter returns to try again, only to find a fancy gold frame has been painted around the graffiti figure with a special brass plaque. There is no need to paint out the graffiti; it's now officially sanctioned art. I love these two images, but it could just as easily be a graffiti-ed man and a painted woman. Or a painted woman who sees a graffiti-ed dog and wants to save it from being erased.
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