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  1. Re: On the Streets, Graffiti Is Making a Name for Itself Your both a couple of wining internet panzys.
  2. Re: have you ever tried to paint drunk ? ^^Whoever gets stopped for public intoxication deserves to get arrested.. I know my limit and even when Im past it in public I wouldnt draw the attetion of a cop.. Bombin bent is where its at and I dont mean just drunk.
  3. Re: Web Site Fuels Graffiti, Tagging Issue In Oregon Looks like im not the only one that wasnt paying attetion.
  4. On the Streets, Graffiti Is Making a Name for Itself Friday, October 13, 2006; Page WE35 Graffiti: Eyesore or art form? Would you believe eyesore and art form? As the street-art aesthetic moves ever more steadily up from the underground of antisocial vandals and miscreants into the mainstream worlds of fashion, advertising and art galleries, our culture's schizoid state of acceptance/rejection of the outlaw medium is perhaps nowhere better expressed than by Joe Connolly, as quoted in "Infamy," a 2005 documentary on graffiti and its practitioners available Tuesday ($19.95). "This is gorgeous, this is beautiful," says Connolly, referring to one of the intricate, multicolored murals (known as "pieces") that adorn the streets not just of Connolly's home town of Los Angeles, but of contemporary urban landscapes everywhere. Then he pivots to point to a series of tangled scribbles, examples of the even more ubiquitous "tags" -- those illegible signatures that seem to decorate every flat surface of the modern city: "As soon as you turn around from this artwork," he says, his voice dropping from admiration to disgust, "look at this pile of crap on the side." Known as the Graffiti Guerrilla for his one-man crusade to clean up, or "buff," those spray-painted John Hancocks into oblivion, Connolly's is but one voice of many in director Doug ("Scratch") Pray's film, which, despite an effort to be nonjudgmental about people who shoplift and deface property that doesn't belong to them, comes down solidly on the side of the outlaws. As someone who has cleaned up his share of MS-13 graffiti from his garage door -- cursing all the while -- I have to admit that even I began to see the phenomenon in a new light after watching the eye-opening film. Don't get me wrong. I'm no fan of mindless tagging, especially when gangs use it to mark territory. But after watching Pray's film, I have a better appreciation -- no, make that understanding -- of the role it plays in the hierarchy and evolution of street art. In other words, at the bottom. Which is not to say it's unimportant. In the words of Earsnot (a New York-based tagger known not just for having "bombed," or saturated, the city with countless variations of his colorful moniker, but for being gay), tagging, or the leaving of one's mark, is "the most buttery essence" of graffiti. And he's happy to leave it at that. "Get a graffiti coloring book," he says, scorning his more artistically ambitious peers who want to waste their time painting those silly, eye-popping murals -- you know, the ones that even anti-graffiti activists like Connolly seem to like. Not everyone in the film sees things in such black and white terms. The artist known as Claw (short for Claudia) sees the divisions between tagging, "throw-ups" (hastily executed medium-size works) and the time-consuming pieces as more of a continuum. Having graduated from a rebellious teenager into a serious professional -- she makes a living as a graffiti-themed designer and stylist, with a stylized paw as her logo -- Claw says the members of today's graffiti-art elite are not born but made. "If you don't bomb," she says, "then don't piece," explaining why the best and most respected artists all began as taggers: Saber, Toomer, Earsnot and others profiled in the film. Okay, maybe not Earsnot. His seems to be a case of arrested development. "If you can't support your name," she continues, "then don't bother because graffiti is not the pretty part. Piecing is just the glossy exterior. It's like, look, we're artists. But to get to that level, you have to spend a couple of years on the street, creating a name and a rep for yourself." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200383.html
  5. Be rich but stay true, if I had it easy Id steal paint alot more, if money is no contest Id have my lawyer to do the talking in court and id have the bail money so... Writers that have payed their dues and struck oil are an exception but you cant be a noob and fill a room with paint you bought and expect respect i dont care how good you are or your ups if your not doing the crime part your not a writer.
  6. Re: County Hotline to Help Combat Graffiti (CA) :beat: fuckin internet fags.
  7. Re: County Hotline to Help Combat Graffiti (CA) gehy!
  8. Re: New Tools to Combat Graffiti are you copying my articles from pg!?
  9. Re: County Hotline to Help Combat Graffiti (CA) it does say news and discusion at the top of the page right??
  10. Re: County Hotline to Help Combat Graffiti (CA) :rolleyes: What would give you the idea Im seventeen?? You still havent answered my question.
  11. Re: County Hotline to Help Combat Graffiti (CA) Affect?? Read the article again tell me it doesnt affect the Califonia graff scean.
  12. Web Site Fuels Graffiti, Tagging Issue In Oregon sept 15, 2006 PORTLAND, Ore. -- Graffiti is a growing issue in Portland, Ore., and police said a popular web site is fueling the problem. The web site is called 12 Ounce Prophet, and graffiti artists, or taggers, go there to brag about their crimes. Marcia Dennis is the graffiti abatement coordinator for Portland's graffiti removal program She said web sites like this one fuel a competition amongst taggers. "They put it up in the most difficult places. They want it to stay up forever, and now that there's the internet, they can post their photos there and have bragging rights on the internet, " said Dennis. Portland police are having trouble finding the taggers, because most of the postings are anonymous. They estimated that graffiti vandalism costs people in the Portland metro area more than $2 million dollars a year. http://www.10news.com/news/9858635/detail.html
  13. County Hotline to Help Combat Graffiti (CA) Sunday October 1, 2006 To combat graffiti in unincorporated portions of the Santa Clarita Valley, the county is creating a hotline for residents to call and report vandalism so it can be removed within 48 hours. Graffiti problems have been plaguing the valley, becoming "a minor epidemic," said Bob Haueter, senior deputy to Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. Recent complaints regarding graffiti have been reported in Westridge, Stevenson Ranch and Castaic. Currently, the only working graffiti hotline for residents in unincorporated portions of the valley is available in Val Verde. When residents in other unincorporated communities call the county to report graffiti, officials provide them with the supplies to paint over the offending areas, but not the people to do it. With the new hotline - which is scheduled to begin service Nov. 1 - the county will call a contracted company to go out and meet with the person who is reporting the graffiti and paint over it. Paul Novak, planning deputy for Antonovich, said that delays on the graffiti hotline were mainly due to the lack of a public contract with a company that would be able to paint over the graffiti. Graffiti removal programs have been very successful in other areas, and the county has public education programs and makes presentations to town councils, Novak said. The Board of Supervisors recently looked into audio/visual equipment for the detection of graffiti and illegal gunshots for the Sheriff's Department, but Novak said it has not been implemented http://www.the-signal.com/?module=di...77&format=html
  14. New Tools to Combat Graffiti September 13, 2006 - Local leaders got their first look today at a new weapon in the fight against graffiti. The makers of "Graffiti Armor" claim the sealant can prevent spray paint from getting a permanent hold on surfaces. Seal America says the $300 product used along with its special cleaner makes graffiti removal fast and easy. Roger Thomas from Caltrans says, "Taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill for whatever method governments choose to get rid of grafitti." In a recent message, Fresno Mayor Alan Autry compared graffiti to cancer, saying it spreads to other parts of the community if not treated quickly and aggressively. http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?se...cal&id=4557943
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