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biggie's dead? :shook: :shook: :shook: :shook: :shook: :shook:

sure, buddy.

demon is in ny and dot com is no more....

“Washington just wasn’t big enough for both of us.� by Rachel Beckman Meet Borf’s nemesis He noticed the box at 14th and Q Streets NW the week before. Ever since, the damn thing has been taunting him every day as he bikes from his Rosslyn home to his Logan Circle office. It’s a freezing cold February afternoon, and the Anti-Borf is on his lunch break. “Here they are,� he says, circling the box and finding two of the ubiquitous tags. Armed with a small yellow can of Goof Off: The Ultimate Remover! and a rag, he goes to work, scrubbing away. The white Borf graffito doesn’t budge. “Oh, no, this must be latex-based paint,� he says, scrubbing harder. “This stuff really works better with oil-based.� He gives up, throwing in the towel—into a small plastic baggie where he keeps his graffiti cleanup supplies. He vows to return the next day, armed with flat gray base paint, cans of which he keeps both at home and at work. “Something that doesn’t catch your eye,� he says. The Anti-Borf is Trevor Goodchild, a 46-year-old office assistant for a court-reporting company. Over the 2004 winter holiday, he complained to his brother and sister about how Borf had taken over the city. By New Year’s Day, Goodchild had resolved to start a one-man crusade against the vandal who’s defaced street signs, mailboxes, and newspaper vending boxes in D.C. and across the country. According to his count, Goodchild has since eliminated 103 Borf tags. “I’m an Eagle Boy Scout,� he says. “I’m just doing my good deed for the community.� Dig deeper, though, and Goodchild’s crusade is fueled by more than the 12 points of the Scout Law. His bicycle is his primary mode of transportation, and all of that bike time has put him face-to-face with more Borf art than he can tolerate. “It makes me grind my teeth and cuss,� he says. “I drink too much coffee. I’m too high-strung.� The obsession is obvious upon entrance to Goodchild’s basement office at a court-reporting and transcription firm. He’s taped articles about Borf to the inside of the door, including a quote from a blogger published in the Express after the arrest of John Tsombikos for the Borf taggings: “It figures…he probably is some 18 year old…who lives in a million dollar plus house in Great Falls and does this for fun.� Goodchild’s co-workers say they are kept well-apprised of his efforts. “We can’t help but know about it,� fellow court reporter Jim Urano says. “We get daily reports.� The crusade has hit some rough patches. Goodchild’s most difficult target was on the bridge that carries M Street NW over Rock Creek Park. Too afraid to scale the edge of the bridge to cover up a tag, he attached a paint brush to the end of a broom handle with rubber bands and painted safely from the sidewalk. “The reaction from passers-by has been nothing other than thumbs-up signals, smiles, nods of approval,� he says. Goodchild has chosen to curtail his activity lately, however. Despite a two-decade-plus age difference, he is worried that someone might mistake him for Tsombikos performing some of his 80 hours of court-ordered graffiti cleanup. Tsombikos has been held at the D.C. Jail since Feb. 9. He says he realizes that someone has been erasing and painting over his tags with gray paint, though he will neither confirm nor deny that he has retaliated against Goodchild. Evidence suggests that he might have: A week after Goodchild painted over a Borf tag on the Key Bridge in Georgetown last year, the phrase “This means war!� appeared underneath the gray splotch. The city’s Department of Public Works (DPW), which is in charge of graffiti removal, is glad to share work with Goodchild. “We are happy for the help,� DPW spokesperson Mary Myers says. “This guy is certainly doing his part.� DPW crews use a power washer called the Graffiti Blaster and cloths treated with chemicals. When those means fail, they resort to simply painting over the tag, much as Goodchild does. Myers admits that her graffiti-removal teams work with a limited palette for painting over tags, but she suggests that Goodchild contact the Citywide Call Center to report the 14th Street site rather than paint over a green mailbox with gray paint. “The feds might have some feeling about that if it’s one of [their boxes],� she says.

yeah yall are some hood "rates"

Lets get back on topic.. Coma n nore his r doin there thing yes... But becuz ur ina fucken mag does not make u king by any means ... Yes the mags will say there up there most but that's how most interviews are " we are here with (the bigest ryter ever) from (eastbumblefuck, Jupiter) tell us ur exsperiance... All that BS but... Dat nigga BORF has it on lock down there... That's all I have 2 say... Respect not jocken um! Bumps 2 Laze , Deph - 703 Yall will b seeing from me soon.. JAM1... Quoted post [/b] as eloquent as that was, hes got a point.

Wow, thats some really hot "crome."

bump this shit. how bout them skins?

:haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: i really don't think we should be sticking graffiti into the same realm as the freeing of the slaves or walking on the moon. jesus christ. graffiti is a bastard art, and it is represented in its purest form by the people that go out at night and fuck shit up. Write for Gold is awesome and all, and it captures the artistic aesthetic for graffiti, but by definition is not "graffiti". It is a "folk art" as someone mentioned above. this is not to say i have any less respect for legal walls, especially those on the level as the ones in write for gold. legality takes the term 'graffiti' out of it.

Can we all just sit and appreciate this ballsy ass shit. at least the dc heads know what im talking about. Definetly one of my inspriations growing up, had some really ill spots on the redline.

bump the hate. and joker.

ehhhh maybe im wrong, but look at the handstyle, looks like felon's

<!--QuoteBegin-eLeMeNtS@Nov 15 2005, 01:38 PM vaze/hayze ica. same guy i think Quoted post pretty sure that red character on the right of the last pic is felon.

errrrr nevermind. :$: :$: :$: :$: :$: :snowman: :$: :$: :$: :$: :$:

seven rip... huhhhh?????

I can't remember the last time someone complained about not seeing anything good on this thread. dont rely on the internet for graffiti. go out on the streets wherethe graffiti actually is.

Everyone needs to watch "La Haine" I hope i spelled that correctly, its basically "the hatred" except en francais. If im wrong correct me. my french is rusty.

did he really?

yeah down in savannah theres an fa wall and 12oz is back online, i finally copped my fix.

I asked somebody and they said PIEEEEEEEE-OHHHH apparently he was a straight grafftagbomber.

stolen from the baltimore thread 137

are you serious? so they have the same name. shut the fuck up.

nooo fuuucking way thats the same guy.

“Good artists copy, great artists steal” Pablo Picasso

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: go do your algebra homework.