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revok LA&808: asalt is from los angelas. bad thing is, he is in jail for vandalism, fuck the pigs!!!...

in response to: Hawaii Graffiti, Part II by dubside

oh word?: I don't see why so many people think this dude's dad is eternally funding his existence, as though this oscar-winning director is going to be real happy that his son ended up a notorious crack-smoking......

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

madamep: I was there then, and you really nailed it for what it was like. I was the groupie mom's roommate. I still don't know what that was about. Her trip not mine. I wasn't into......

in response to: Trenches by Stephanie L. Jackson

og Shie 47 Los Angeles: the evolution of graff in la are the artists and u have to be good.so many people faded cuz they were limited on their skills. back in the day u could rock throw ups and......

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

Ursus: I have just applied the Black Anti-Vandal/Intruder paint to My connifer because the local brats were severely damaging it, It looks a real eyesore from the damage they caused so I decided to coat it......

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

Edward LAMB: I am very familiar with this tunnel having personally "discovered" the place way back in 1969... The following, if you please, is an excerpt from my own story : I had, one day, roaming through Riverside Drive......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Peter: weve had the discussion re: graf versus vandalism on here like 500 times, and its surprising how every other person has their own specific definition of the term "graffiti", to the point where it becomes......

in response to: The Black Cat: Poetry in Spanish Graffiti by The Hapless Hobo

Adam Enright: There is No Game like the Good Ol' Montreal Hockey Riot! A city whose hockey passions create a constant hunger for battling peace and the status quo. [[http://www.progressivewebdesign.ca/hockeyriots.html]] by Adam Enright I was thrilled to read about......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

David Stonehouse: All of us at Evergreen were thrilled with Toronto's embrace of Earth Hour and indeed all staff went to enormous lengths to do our part. Unfortunately, when it comes to Brick Works site we are......

in response to: Not So Green... by Michelle

Post-84 New Jack: See, thats the general difference in our perspectives, "W-Bear". I prefer to look to the future, and push things to new heights than to dwell on the past and the past's faded glories and talk......

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

Elicar: I do not mind graffiti in abandoned and obscure places (I took some on railways and under a bridge, but when perfectly good walls just like the one in here are "vandalized", then I am......

in response to: What Happened to BEMS? by Elicar

skip: art has always been about expression, and this is why most graffiti is plain vandalism.writing a tag and some crew under it has no expression.there are a few graffiti artists that used/use expression. heres......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

Michawl Weston: New York City graffiti trains were the 80s. Today these kids paint the stainless steel trains just for a picture!! The trains dont even move out of the spot they were painted because they say......

in response to: NYC Graffiti Train, 1995 by Metro

unknown: half or at least a quarter of this grafitti is legal work wich was done with property owners permission. about the vandalism aspect of graffiti.. hamilton has used moey from grats and from the cities......

in response to: Graffiti in the Hammer by TIMDOG

youre basted ja: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Avildsen heehe... fucking vandals !! !...

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

Graham Bate: Hi Andy, This thread is a real blast from the past! so many names I recall, Brian Bagshaw, Roy Bamber, Steve Weir and all the history that goes with the town. I come from Irlam myself......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

CHEDDI-FKS, JVC. G11 - NYC QBORO: Spoiled or not....your man is up, way up....up in the muthafucking sky. RESPECT. The NYC streetscene and subway system cannot be compared to, hands down the illest vandal cicumstances. If anything and @ the least......

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

EvilGentleman: The art/vandalism debate will go on forever, because both sides are correct. Many graffiti pieces are unquestionably artistic masterpieces. I have seen many pieces that are absolutely mind-boggling, provoke intelligent thought and debate, and are just......

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

split: why ya on his stuff for graffiti is art stop saying its vandalisam cus its not its a way to take out ower felings but not in a bad way your thinking that becuse we......

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

Andrew Smith: Natalie The large brick bus shelter was knocked down a few years ago - they are all plastic vandal-proof bus stops now. The vicarage and band stand are still there. I'll take more pictures if it ever......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

SNARE.ONE F1C: River Park is actually a small washed-up grouping of dated townhomes adjacent Watson Park along Wellington. Part of this area IS abandoned. That was the second letter I recieved for tags in this area. ......

in response to: Respect in River Park by jeeff

pigs eye boys: i dont no who said it but if graf were legal it wouldnt be graf it would be illustartion im a vandalist i dont like little art fag graf with nthere heads up their asses......

in response to: Alright by -creAtor-

City Council's Fault: The City Council in Hutchinson will NOT do anything that the citizens want done. Hundreds of people can complain about fireworks in the city limits, stop lights being taken down around the busy post......

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

BelRoC: Although most of my work takes skill. I, like all graffiti writer take part in straight up vandalism. [[img:22395]] [[img:22396]] [[img:22397]] [[img:22398]] [[img:22399]] [[img:22400]] [[img:22401]] [[img:22402]] [[img:22403]] [[img:22404]] [[img:22405]] [[img:22406]] Please don't be offended. I know this type of graffiti upsets people. But it is a big part of what......

in response to: Bel Graffiti by BelRoC

anon (74.223.50.178.nw.nuvox.net): If the property does not belong to you, then don't touch or vandalize it....

in response to: M.s.g. Found in Charlotte,N.C. by Jimmy J.

joey: Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high....

in response to: Happy B-Day, Emily by EvilGentleman

me: ah, pissed off tax paying citizen, we meet with a battle of words once again... i am not in disagreement that the work that these artists put up- is indeed vandalism. i admitted to that and......

in response to: Albuquerque Graffiti Flood by Relapsed

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

ENEP1: thanks for showin my stuff, alot of the underpasses have been buffed though. This summer London is gonna need it's own vandal squad, it's gonna be fuckin war. Any other london writers here, account_0010@hushmail.com...

in response to: Graffiti in the Other London by jeeff

Collio: Perhaps if there was somthing to do in Sussex other then doing drugs and vandalising this would not happen. It seems once teens find something to do that is not distructive it is taken away......

in response to: Vandalism by CE

Guy McLaren: I can go with that, Graffitti is vandalism, no matter how you look at it. I find someone bombing my property and I'll bomb his fucking head. Court? no way more like an extended stay......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

sn!per: as a graff artist myself i wouild like to thank you for showing us off in a positive way and not as others would put it "vandals" ive been bombin for years and i hate......

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

rev roger: i think alot of you people take yourselfs way to fucking seriously its like being in high school all over again,jealousy over who is making money and whos not in the art biz.fuck.. for once......

in response to: Fuck Neck Face by sine

joey: guardian of the arts. yet - did you know? The Thinker Vandalized At approximately 1am on March 24, 1970, a bomb irreparably damaged the Cleveland Museum's version of Rodin's The Thinker. The bomb itself had been placed......

in response to: Cleveland Thinks by joey

richie: It is a sad fact that anti-climb paint is required, but we live in an age where vandals, thieves, and scumbags thrive. You got to do all you can within the law to protect yourself,......

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

RE: Toronto animal Assult!!!: Hilarious post! (sorry) The leaf by leaf destruction of a frustrated squirrel. The racoon who brings his own garbage to scatter all over your yard. And the cat that begs for food......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

rdgguy: Don't touch that copper. Beleive it or not, it's still charged with 11,000 volts of electricity. Several vandals have found that out the hard way....

in response to: On the Reading Viaduct by vz

N3k$ NSK crew : Rest In Paint "S@ne" i have had this obsession with grafitti since i was a kid I dont know what it is almost like i was infected by a graf virus I had this strange urge......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

Chris Erb: I have pictures of the protest prior to the arrest which I will post when I get home. If you were there, you would know that the protest was completly civil and low key.......

in response to: I Was Arrested Today by CE

KADE 36 / KIDDER: R.I.P SANE! SINCE I WAS YOUNG (GOING BACK 2 HIGH SCHOOL DAYS) I'VE ALWAYS SEEN HIS TAG EVERY WHERE! I KNEW A LIL ABOUT HIS STORY, I JUST HAPPEND TO CROSS BY SMITH AND I......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

KersTM'96: . . . and a big thank you to Mark Echo for the legal fighting he's currently in against the city of Denver mayor and NYC mayor for their anti-graffitti laws. He's trying to......

in response to: Miami Art Massacre by Bob Edelson

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

EvilGentleman: To my way of thinking, graffiti should be both encouraged and it's location controlled within reason, with penalties for those who put graffiti in places where it has no business being. Now, before you all......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

little ukraine: kc- some of it looked like chalk, and other parts looked like paint, or some material more difficult to remove - a friend and i theorized that the 4 who were arrested for disorderly conduct......

in response to: Emptying the (astor Place) Cube by little ukraine

SCAM28: God damn it...every time I read something like that I get so pissed...and there's nothing you can really do about it... See I'm from Berlin, Germany and there's massive graf in this town...so as another measure......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

vandal eyes: skert came thru PARIS and got up. PROPS (hopefull, its the same SKERT) etched almost every phone booth downtown....

in response to: Graf Trux 1: San Francisco by moebius rex

jeeff: all hail the information age. [[http://sageauthoring.com/fdny/construction/vacant.pdf]] Fire Department, City of New York __FIREFIGHTING PROCEDURES__ __VOLUME 1 BOOK 3__ **MARKING OF VACANT BUILDING** **1.3.1** As vacant buildings shall be identified and marked to indicate the degree of hazard involved. In marking vacant......

in response to: Slated for Demolition by Peter

anon (h-66-167-175-149.cmbrmaor.dynamic.covad.net): i live in the us, but any car garage should have this: pumice soap. that'll get it off your hands. maybe if you fill a water gun or even just a bottle with bicycle chain......

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

EvilGentleman: cool-tsk, it is a shame that you wish to suppress freedom of speech when your chosen art form (and YES, I can see the artistic merit in your work) is all about freedom of speech.......

in response to: Destruction of Lisbon City by cool-tsk

Cyberia: (ran out of room ;-;) A crime rate of less than 6% in country of over 4 million is quite low, with over 2/3 being non-violent petty crimes (theft, vandalism). If you beleive that distributing Drugs......

in response to: Injustice CASE... by Rune-Willem

cool-tsk: for your information jorge theese trains were upgraded recently,and they can wash this of no problem and that's what they do.and for your information graffiti started in trains.as for vandalizem,that's your opinion,i think your to......

in response to: Destruction of Lisbon City by cool-tsk

Jorge: Woohoo. Lets vandalize public property in an already poor country that needs upgrading in their public trains. Great job guys! Aren't there any walls instead?? idiots....

in response to: Destruction of Lisbon City by cool-tsk

get it right!: Jeremy - vancouver: 2nd Feb 2006 - 21:02 GMT "the courier bears full respomnsibility for creating this confrontation and then escalating it by keying the guy's car. Tossing food is one thing but vandalism is something......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Jeremy - vancouver: the courier bears full respomnsibility for creating this confrontation and then escalating it by keying the guy's car. Tossing food is one thing but vandalism is something else....

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

justlookatthatevileyedpsycho!!!!!!!!!!: TO:Vancouver, Yes ok,some people carry things they use often in there trunks, necessities, be it leisurely items sports;hockey sticks ok maybe even baseball bats in the winter. However,those who do and I gather like......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Todd: Litter has certainly been a problem in our city. Our mayor has even asked the citizens to clean up and made us more aware of the problem. However even with the clean up......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

HRS: Laws against littering are not really there to give the police the choice to charge someone, they are in place to deter people from littering; the same way locks are on doors. They stop the......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

vince: In LEGAL terms, the motorist may be charged for littering, but ultimately, the courier girl is at fault for vandalising his car. Although some of you may want the man to go to jail, that's......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Jannx: Lets see the time line here… • Male throws trash out of his car onto the city street instead of a trash receptacle. Litter by law violation .. not too serious but do it on his front......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Becky: So the correct response to getting coffee dumped on you is to smash their face with a steel bike lock? Keying his car is OK because it's only a car, but damaging her bike is......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Jeremy: I'm on the courier's side until she elevates to vandalism. Yes, the motorist was wrong to litter, and I might have done the same as the courier. No, he shouldn't have dumped his coffee on her.......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Crayon: I've been reading through the comments on this page and am saddened by how hard it seems for many of you to use rudimentary English. Being creative and intelligent shouldn't be mutually exclusive. Here's an......

in response to: Miami Youth Faces \'Serious Jail Time\': by Justice?

NET ONE 156 KRT: Words of the Prophets Take to the Rooftops by Cathy Hong SUBJECT — The Extreme Graffiti Hall of Murals LOCATION — Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens Les had no equipment but a backpack full of spray cans. (He......

in response to: Wherefore ART Thou, Ellis? by GGP

ELLIS G.: For Immediate Release: KILI is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by ELLIS G. Continues through 12/1/05 @ KILI 81 Hoyt St. bet. State St. and Atlantic Ave. Bklyn NY A,C,G Trains to Hoyt/Schermerhorn......

in response to: Wherefore ART Thou, Ellis? by GGP

NET PI 156 KRT: For Immediate Release: KILI is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by ......

in response to: Brooklyn Street Art Initiative by Peter

sultan JAFAR: YEAH..who would have thought....i'm glad peeps are having a discussion about graff and me. I'd have to agree that graff is vandalism but vandalism can be art. & yeah, I haven't bombed in TO for......

in response to: best of the bombers by jeeff

138: come on, it's not graff if it's legal. it's just not. It's like art or something, but there's nothing really cool about it, and only artists should pay attention to it. If......

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

Chino: I love graf. I use to bomb some hot s#!t back in the day. Yes, today alot is wac. Today no one can appreciate good graff. Everyone see's the weak graff and say it's vandalism......

in response to: PDX graffiti like ummm... by fuzzytank

Peter: yep. thers definitely crap graffiti out there- dont get me wrong- im not trying to make a blanket statement here regarding the fact that good and bad graf exists. but its when people label potentially......

in response to: best of the bombers by jeeff

colavito's ghost: Right on, peter. Graffiti artists are always going to be villified for what they do, but the one question that is impossible to answer is: "Where is the line between art and eyesore/crime (if......

in response to: best of the bombers by jeeff

fuzzytank: agree, hard to figure out what they are getting at. I also couldnt decide if it was the owner of the truck telling vandals he was watching or the other way around...

in response to: keep moving by fuzzytank

elaine: yeah, jamie. i was sad to see it was gone, it felt like a hex. it was a good local landmark and tied together the other ones in the neighbourhood like a well hung exhibition......

in response to: more london graf flix by SpankyHam

Toast: That is fkn awesome, 100% vandalizm, i love it!!...

in response to: Oldschool NYC by Graffiti

elaine: the badly executed 'grafitti' reminds me of when i was a teenager and there were adverts on the buses in edinburgh to tell us not to vandalise the bus, and the drawings were of a......

in response to: No, no, no, no by joey

elaine: clean off your vandals with vandalene...

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

jeeff: vandalene sounds like something sold by art vandelay industries....

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

Peter: ##"coo-var"## and ##"vandalene"## are two words ive definitely not heard before, heh....

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

elaine: sticky. yuk. my especial phobia! these are really everywhere - i went outdoors at teatime to take the pics for 'more signs' and only went just outside my flat, so kobe either had these already or......

in response to: Anti-Climb Paint by kobe

hasslehoff: i am also interested. i am stuck in rural lincolnshire for the forseeable future and dearly miss urban decay and random violence and vandalism....

in response to: good runner, needs a little work by elaine

Peter: woah. i mean, why does he do it, if he doesnt benefit? just so he can burn cars for vandalism and know that the person will still have their car paid for by insurance? weeeeeird.......

in response to: good runner, needs a little work by elaine

hasslehoff: Yeah, we have the same sorta stuff here in england. The countryside is peppered with reinforced concrete river defenses known as "pill boxes". They're protected from demolition by the government as sites of historical interest......

in response to: Leffrinckoucke Beach by Jamie

Dinglebert: funny. very funny. it is this kind of hooliganism that denegrates the christian morals out society is clinging to for faith. i personally think george bush should punish these cave-vandals. we need to keep our......

in response to: Lascaux by vz

thuc: I love this one- the color of the Manhattan Portage bag, the Chucks against the white specs have you noticed the vandalism accomplished by the APE crew on NYC busses- at the doors?...

in response to: Feet on the Crosstown Bus by Peter

egenus: That is some phat graffiti. People around here are no where near as creative. We just get the ironic "Jesus Loves You" vandalism....

in response to: under the freeway by moebius rex

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