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44 year old loser.: I've been making paintings for 20 years using some of the same images as Banksy uses...however, he is much more clever (and prolific and successful) than I will ever be...I'm glad he's gettin' the message......

in response to: graffiti stencil making a statement... by Skulz

surfer: Colorado Kid And I do mean Kid, when you say (THEY) whom are you referring to?...

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

surfer: One more item on Brooklyn. Do not beleive everything you hear about Brooklyn being unsafe. Us Brooklynites have been picked on since DAY ONE....

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

surfer: Answer to Megan> Bensonhurst is changing from Italian to Chinese. Still a good neighborhood. Answer to Danielle> Sunset park is now called the 2nd Chinatown. Excellent neighborhood. I grew up there in the 50's & 60's.......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

JP1515JeffersonAve: I find it amazing that so many have so many different views yet we all have a common thread...the Love of our hood. I grew up in Bushwick back in the 70's through the 90's.......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Eleanor: Lou, UFF and everyone else who is reading this post. I certainly don't think that Bushwick Buddies is too crowded ... as a matter of fact we have more and more interesting pictures every......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Roke3 Nyc: This masterpiece measures a staggering 250’ x 55’ (nearly the size of a football field) and took 125 gallons of latex roller paint and a year of carefully planned nights to complete. Every supply......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

JoeyD: Sticky: 4th Aug 2006 - 01:13 GMT UUummm, that's a skater kid, not a hippie, check out the "rainbow family" or all the kids that used to be on Phish tour type stuff for what modern......

in response to: Modern Hippie by JoeyD

Peter: ive counted about 7 in my neighborhood. a new, utterly smashed-up honda appeared in the lot at the corner of central and hart today; ill carry my camera in the morning and get a shot......

in response to: A Sign of Past Times? by CartLegger

Surfer: I got one of these, and searched all over the internet to find out what was up with this creature and his large testicles: [[img:28437]] ...

in response to: Don\'t Drink the Sake by serlingrod

Director 9209: Nice pics, but you should keep off the High Line (Notice that it's two words or FO will get you!) because it is a bonafide construction site complete with all the OSHA phobic hazards, and......

in response to: The High Line: by Peter

dirty: that looks sweet nice little swallow to surf... i think i will attempt to surf the drowning machine. just kidding that actually gave me a shiver thinking of being trapped in the jowls of this......

in response to: The Drowning Machine by ksedge

Peter: if i had a dollar for every time ive heard someone from a hard/bad/depressed/rebuilding neighborhood comment something like ##"_______ is really that bad and has been for years"##... [[76:cabrini green]], [[1727:henry horner]], [[4368:hutchinson]], [[646:bushwick]], to......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Tex Re: Me: Nice try, but some of us have to be the voice of truth, because they sure won't hear it coming from some of you'all up there. How come you want to post so much......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

yeah yeah: i think its amazing how people are suggesting that jacksonville should become like miami or orlando in order to become more "entertaining"... havent any of you people taken a walk around outside or a swim......

in response to: Scenes from a Little Town Called Jacksonville by Jones

Peter: for the record, i love how people surf into this post to complain about ZOMG ILLEGAL GRAFFITI when everything pictured in this post was done legally on what appears to be out-of-the-way back alleys. ...

in response to: graffiti alley / style in progress \'05 by jeeff

Peter: hey "movin to wick", wake up! youre working with a conception of {new york} thats about 20+ years outdated... i mean, serously. youd think {brooklyn} was {beirut}. perhaps youve been watching too much ##law and......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Peter: tom: i think its ludicrous to simply look at the "thousands of lives lost that day" without trying to dig deeper into the why and how of it. i think it disrespects both those who......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

Pearlykingjim: Wotch ya all not been on this site for a couple of months, just thought i would catch up on things that are going on in the Pearly world i see mr smith is still about wotch......

in response to: The Pearly Kings and Queens by Jamie

Evelyn Villanueva: Hey, Nerva.. its me your Co-grandmother! Funny how we surf the same sights. this is my 2nd writing on this web-page. Using my maiden name to practice for when the divorce comes through. ...

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

mike: elaine: is that the same as pebbledash? i think pebbledash is applied to a surface just like stucco. i think this is an aggregate concrete that is structural....

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

EvilGentleman: The first picture is very close to my grandparents' old apartment, which was at the corner of Water and Fulton. Of course, Fulton is now known as either Old Fulton or Cadman Plaza West, but......

in response to: Under the Bridges by Peter

joey: ##can someone explain the history of this whole 'no surf in cleveland' thing? was it a song? a book? just a popular phrase from the 70s?## none of the above. it was something i thought of......

in response to: There Is No Surf in Cleveland by joey

Anonoymous: I will try to be succinct with my words. The symbols, ideology, artwork, whatever you prefer to call it serves one grand purpose, and this purpose, I will reveal in the conclusion of this......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

...just lookin for a job, lookin for a job...: OMG! I thought I lived in a pretty good place until I stumbled onto this site while surfing for nursing jobs in this area. I've been HappyInHutch for 30+ years and known about......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

jack: peter you bring tears to my eyes, the old brooklyn-manhattan transit, the sea beach express, the f train and others, i rode them almost everyday, i would walk to school and pass under the el......

in response to: Coney Island, Stillwell Avenue Station by Peter

Anon.: Nice post. I surfed in from [[http://curbed.com/archives/2007/10/11/thursday_pm_linkage.php]] - this is a good site here!...

in response to: Ugliest Building in New York? by Peter

EvilGentleman: The simple reality is, Americans are welcomed warmly by most Montrealers, and generally disliked but tolerated by the rest. And that dislike is often because they are getting mistaken for Torontonians, or other English-speaking Canadians. Dislike......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Listen up: Don't use this recipe. Use the one where you bring the flour/water mixture to a boil. It lasts about a week refrigerated in an airtight container but its fast to make so don't worry about......

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

Bass Girl: Oh my gosh PAPERGIRL17....do you live in the salt mine hundreds of feet under Hutch or something? Lets try coming to the surface and having a cup of reality.... 1. The Cosmosphere (since there are......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Sup Party People: Hey Hip Hop has been goin down in Belfast from the early 80s, We were Breakin emceein and rockin beats, and doin Graf since 83, its not a new thing but it seemed to dissapear......

in response to: Belfast Rap by P.Lismore

christian biker: there is many ex 1%er christian bikers here in california. the biggest is phil augulars church in aniheim california there is about 1500 members from ha ,vagos,mongols,its called set free church.there is also......

in response to: Hell\'s Angels - New York City by sine

CO-TX: Ok you want some real dirt on denver look: at South Table mountains (west denver) NREL complex it is officaly of solar research station but really a tunnel door (south west corrner of the facility......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Instorenow: i find spray adhesive only works on metal surfaces for me anyway. I've tryed brick walls but nothing happens, how did u make it work?...

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

Peter: [[http://english.montrealplus.ca/portal/profile.do?profileID=527389]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promenades_Cath%C3%A9drale]] surfing those links, i came across the "underground city"... whats the story on that? sounds cool... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_city_%28Montreal%29]]...

in response to: A Quick Glimpse of Christ Church Cathedral by EvilGentleman

Nicolas: I am from Montreal, Quebec. I am not a tagger, but I like graffiti. In my opinion, there's...let's say a "way" to do it. I totally agree with the fact that graffiti is an art. Those......

in response to: Albuquerque Graffiti Flood by Relapsed

Lily: Hi, a friend and I have been planning to put a series of posters on a long, thin surface. The posters will be in the form of a comic strip and will need to be......

in response to: Wheatpasting: How to by An@Rch15T

EvilGentleman: I tried, grange. I now have a severely bruised tailbone since I had 12 webs in a row snap. Apparently, the tensile strength of a spidey-man web is only 300 pounds, dammit! Ever notice that......

in response to: Rooftop Mystery by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: And you just **know** there would be some surf dude trying to ride that wave all the way to Disneyland....

in response to: No Escape by jack

.nanotech.: [[img:18501]] NAZI REGIME.911.REICHSTAG - parliament of Germany [[img:18502]] Even the location was a deliberate attempt to conceal it by constructing it in Denver Colorado's 1 mile high mountain area, knowing that planes flying at a maximum altitude will......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Alexander The Thessalonikian: People from US shouldn't argue with the fact that a country with a glorious past like Greece is offended when a name that characterizes the most of the northern Greece and that has special meaning......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

jack: i'll translate this for you all,,,,qtitfumf means Q tips are fun for my many friends, doytcbpz means do you teach puppies to snooze. pqhjnqzh means prudish grownups join quizes here. hheqajzo means hubert humprey......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

Maxi: I find it fitting and humbling to find this story while surfing the net aimlessly on a dead day when I don't want to be at work. Wouldn't the simple effort and breathtaking accomplishment of......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

little ukraine: i think it is total bullshit that the inaugurations are in new york and not cleveland. and that is a pretty annoying blurb about morrissey, i don't think anything about that song is a......

in response to: There Is No Surf in Cleveland by joey

Beadle and Tatum: Perfect base for a super hero. Or a league of super heroes. Maybe a cleveland surfer. Anyone see the NY times today? Frontpage article on these hardcore surfers at edgewater park....

in response to: Outside the Old Coast Guard Station by little ukraine

little ukraine: very nice - the colors in that first one are great. the reflections in #3 are also beautiful. I love night shots. I don't have a tripod, but every once in a......

in response to: A Night-time Jaunt by firecraker

aer suzuki: brilliant, glad these re-surfaced....

in response to: Acton\'s Lock by elaine

tomig: ok.. as famous as bondi is, being austrlia's most popular beach and msot central beach... why do so many people assume that its actually a GOOD beach? i got a lotta mates who live there......

in response to: Bondi Beach by seanStranks

aer suzuki: i'm glad this one bobbed to the surface again, what a great series, love the theme....

in response to: Pining Away by GGP

mel: who crowd surfs in a train??? dose n e 1 know who invented crowd surfing????? TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

in response to: Crowd Surfing Skytrain Vancouver by hool

SCAM28: Well...actually graffiti, I believe, by defintion is merely the application of a medium to a surface ;)...so I guess the legal question might not apply here...however, I might be misinformed... Berlin City ===> Chrome Town...

in response to: Grocery Graf by CE

Trevor: I'm pretty sure it was called the Fireball or something close to that. There was a mural on the stationary part of the ride with some cartoon superheroes; I think I remember the Silver Surfer......

in response to: At the CNE: Amusement Bot #2 by jeeff

Cosmo: Not sure how it works in Europe, but I am certain that over here in Detroit punks would urinate all over the thing, not just into the hole, thus rending the entire surface sticky and......

in response to: Public Urinals: Amsterdam by Peter

Marlo: What an amazing post. I'm so happy this resurfaced!...

in response to: Giant Rat Destroys Liverpool by banksyfan

dude: wow. georgia at the south carolina border. did you sell your surf board?...

in response to: One Afternoon on 80 by joey

Rocky: well it is only fair that ken gets to sow his wild oates. he was in a long term relationship with barbie for 50 years or so and then got dumped for some surfer dude......

in response to: Raunchy Dolls In The City by Marsha

Scott Sargent: Imagine that! Whomever you are, wherever you are is where its at, non? People are naturally defensive. Go Figure. I mean, {Norman}, {Oklahoma}. Seriously. Its nice that someone surfed in, though, really. I do sincerely......

in response to: America's Most Boring Towns: 1 by Scott Sargent

EvilGentleman: Yeeesh, the things I do when I am on hold. I must first correct my first comment in this article. The Voyagers are space probes, not satellites. Sorry about that. Now, on to the serious......

in response to: The Case of the Disappearing Lake by sine

GUS BRENNAN: [[img:12871]] this is the view down the butts, note the road has been surfaced, after all the years of pot holes, puddles and bumpy funeral rides, from duxbury`s ...

in response to: Barnoldswick by Gus Brennan

EvilGentleman: As far as I can recall from my weather observer training, ACSL (altocumulus staing lenticular) are the result of high winds aloft, and can be formed by wind passing over mountains, but they can be......

in response to: Mt. Rainier & Lenticular Clouds by aer suzuki

Tyfoid Kid: The article talks about a concrete structure inside. The surface isn't brick. It almost looks like some kind of stucco. I stopped by on the way to work and got as close as I dared......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

force: nah nah nah.. yall got it allllllllll wrong sweet hearts.... 1st of all.. ghettos n slums never change.. white civilizations will never change.... coney island is ghetto.... u aint realizin it... cuz u focusin on......

in response to: Dangerous to Walk Around Brooklyn? by Jayne

Jamie: it's mainly rubbishy tags in public places that give grafitti the poor rep that it has. people refer to tags and anything written on a wall be it in spray paint or marker pen or......

in response to: Montreal Noise: Saint-Laurent 4 by EvilGentleman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Yes. The smaller surface area cuts down on wear and tear on the corporate carpets. Plus, they put cattle grates at the exits to make it hard for you to leave....

in response to: Shadow Box by elaine

Kusala: I prefer the solution from "The Tao of Mrs. Wei" (from Malaysian-American poet, Hilary Tham Goldberg): MRS. WEI ON THE BUS found a seat thankfully set down her bags. Hot bodies jostled her: schoolgirls in blue,......

in response to: Beware: Perv Alert! by friendly_chic407

Michelle: Precisely my points! I really can't stand all the advertisements. It is really hard to find a bit of free public space that you can enjoy for its natural qualities. Everything has advertisements on it.......

in response to: Messing Up My Neighborhood Trees by Michelle

jeeff: wow, i really like that stairwell. when i shoot at night i find incidental tripods - pretty much any flat horizontal surface will do....

in response to: Colorful Parking by Brad

jack: my attachment is to nathans in coney. and their greasy, oily, delicious fries and franks. then walk on the boardwalk ( not broadwalk ) and eat them while smelling the salty air and......

in response to: Cool Dog and Hot Dogs by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

EvilGentleman: Actually, I think the blackness of the snow depends on the quality of the pavement it was scraped off of, among other factors. This is the parking lot of the office building complex where my......

in response to: Black Snow by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: jenna: I understand completely. Who could blame you for such a neat dream? Here in Montreal, the only way we will get to surf is if a dam on the St. Lawrence River breaks, and......

in response to: Meditation Location by Tyfoid Kid

jenna: True I'd miss the beaches and the islands.. but surfing here at home would be fun. It was just a passing thought. ...

in response to: Meditation Location by Tyfoid Kid

arkon1: heres some info from tacoma news trib. about the trailer on 56Some of the most exquisite work around is by the late Plus, who painted for 10 years before he died at 25 about......

in response to: graffiti trailer by fuzzytank

Jamie: hey lucky you, i'm in idiot mode pretty much all the time. But the web cafe was probablly your problem. Public computers are genrally set up with quite harsh restriction on what you can and......

in response to: People Shall Be Banned by an impossible child

EvilGentleman: Yes, sine, it is most unfortunate that global warming is destroying this fragile ecosystem at an alarming rate. I have heard that the rate of global warming is over 6 times faster in the polar......

in response to: Muktaaq and Arctic Char a La Box by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I dunno, jeeff. If a poor old rattlesnake were to fall off the table surface onto one of the seat parts, it could result in a bent rattle, or possibly even a fractured fang....

in response to: Rattlesnake Dilemma by EvilGentleman

Peter: i like car reflections. i like driving next to shiny silver tanker trucks so i can watch the reflection of my car shimmy and undulate across its surface....

in response to: Reflection or Distortion? by EvilGentleman

an impossible child: jamie you're just being leggist now i tend to trip over especially on flat surfaces....

in response to: le parkour: london waterloo jam by 3flow

GGP: got this by entering "atlantic mussels" on google images--i saw the threads and all...but who knew i was walking on a "gut"?? Atlantic Ribbed Mussel (Geukensia demissa) You'll most likely find these edible dark brown mussels projecting......

in response to: Great Kills by GGP

anon (surf147.net.rss.rogers.com): Dear, serves her right: Doesn't it hurt your knuckles when they drag on the ground like that?...

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Psychobabble: I'm teaching a class on Environmental Psychology right now. And this sequence of events is a perfect illustration of domain generalizability. There is a debate in the enviro psych literature over whether behaving in a......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Psychobabble: I'm teaching a class on Environmental Psychology right now. And this sequence of events is a perfect illustration of domain generalizability. There is a debate in the enviro psych literature over whether behaving in a......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

ellar: I would like to commend all the passersby who stepped in during this most unfortunate altercation. There are many people in this world who wouldn't want to get involved and these good-hearted people may......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

GGP: there's a great scene in Fellini's "la dolce vida" where a character talks about tranquility, and his sense of the impending violence or unrest just beneath tranquility's surface; this image gives me a similar sensation....

in response to: Night Sky Moon by joey

Peter: I do that with the shuttle train where it surfaces up near the {brooklyn botanic garden}, and also where it crosses {park place} in {prospect heights} (like in [[1534:this entry]])... i love watching them go......

in response to: Peterborough and the Smells of Pollution, Etc... by Colin James Watling

jeeff: using the JEDI ([[http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi]]) i couldn't find the word, but i found some other interesting ones on the subject of beauty: ##kyakusenbi## (n) beauty of leg lines ##kyoukasuigetsu## (n) flowers reflected on a mirror and the moon......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

Peter: ahh the cliche wanker/troll shows up to weigh in, offering info that is not only completely off topic for this entry (he surfed in via a search for "fuck england", so is apparently looking for......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

joey: when the earth is empty and devoid of all life, including pigeons - there will still be cigarette butts on the planet's surface...

in response to: Vermin to Some by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

elaine: hawaii appears to be harbouring a giant elephant just about to emerge from the surface...

in response to: Pu\'u O\'o Vent National Park by barry

elaine: i think mine is quite bleak and english, and hools is all effervescent, like they are singing 'hey, hey, we're the monkees' and rushing over the road to go surfing...

in response to: N.Y.C photo. by barry

Melissa: Need info on Pedestrian Beach, Surfside, Texas. Thanks....

in response to: 1am by ian

Editor:: wide eye: there are a few editors, so sometimes its hard to tell who did what. but odds are, if your ocmment got deleted, it was because it had little value- as in, all it......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jeeff: ha, don't get all paranoid. remember, this site exists as an open forum because of the efforts of the admins, and i know that it's not easy to keep up with the spam/trolling/hacking attempts......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

jack: these are great. i traveled that train everyday when i lived in bklyn. it was called the sea beach line. i remember running down the ramp to get to surf ave to cross......

in response to: The ~old~ BMT Stillwell Ave Terminal by Balloonhedz

Peter: well aqeela, what is it that you want? you surfed in here off a google-link for [[goo:sixy]]. please... i beg you... solve the mystery for us and for god's sake, tell us what this {sixy}......

in response to: sixy trolls under a bridge by elaine

elaine: it's jaunty. and because the surroundings are clean and clear it contrasts with the bitten up surface of the sign and draws you in to look at that detail...

in response to: Musical Sign by joey

Jime 10, boston, MA, usa: fuck etch? etch is totally a natural progression of graffiti. just like those stupid wild style murals where you can't even make out a single letter in a 15 color spaghetti "burner" with tons of......

in response to: Snatch by Peter

jack: i believe there were apartment buildings and cottages for summer renters at brighton beach. the hand ball courts are famous for some of the best games in the country. if you were travelling down ocean......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

green: big up jafar most recent work of his that i know is in the block west of the drake part of resurface june 2005 courtesy of the style in progress cru www.styleinprogress.ca peace green www.rhythmicru.ca...

in response to: best of the bombers by jeeff

Mystical Witness...: The basis of an individual's existence is governed by self-dertermination. The distinction which is made to those who fail & refuse to fall through the cracks of an industrialized society is based primarily in the......

in response to: The King Was Correct by Lili

Peter: apparently this person is really into snails... ascii snails? surfed in from lj... [[http://www.livejournal.com/users/she_snailie]]...

in response to: Forgotten Memorial by Peter

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