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In reply to the discussion: It took vandals one day to deface SF's new $3.5 million parks [View all]Baitball Blogger
(46,702 posts)149. Is this Trumad's doing?
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Maybe folks some spend less time discussing how to ban happy meals and pet stores
snooper2
Jun 2012
#6
I worked at a downtown institution that is open to the public. Toilets purposely clogged
Liberal_in_LA
Jun 2012
#12
I hate it when you can't find a working pay phone for miles in parts of the city
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jun 2012
#21
I lived in NY in the early 80's and they did this with the subway cars. There were some really
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#22
Let me assure you that it was always illegal to paint subway cars in NYC
alcibiades_mystery
Jun 2012
#28
You're right, apparently it was an informal arrangement(?) and the best artists got together and
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#163
This what the authoritarians never get. The more you escalate, the less you accomplish.
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#40
It's authoritarian to have the rule of law and not allow defacing of others property?
jpbollma
Jun 2012
#49
I think you miss the point. The methods of restriction, enforcement, & penalties we use don't work.
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#53
Yeah, you did. First, I have lived in graffiti covered buildings and never did it effect
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#66
No way in hell I'd call the cops. A mere $400 in "damage" could get a kid
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#69
"People from the suburbs who come into a city to shop and do business get scared by this stuff"
girl gone mad
Jun 2012
#73
I'm a iconoclast...I do things precisely because they will be met with public disapproval.
Chan790
Jun 2012
#97
Grafitti is one thing, but purposefully BREAKING public facilities is something else.
mainer
Jun 2012
#164
Whenever they catch people who do this they ought to A) have to fix whatever they damaged
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#11
Yes. I realize that art is more than painting & sculpture. Thanks for trying, though.
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#158
Sadly, there are plenty of "progressives" that support these vandal "artists".
Odin2005
Jun 2012
#15
Yep- "most notably with the removal of six of the 14 metal keys from the popular xylophone."
Heywood J
Jun 2012
#151
I reject the idea that we just let these human scum have the run of our cities.
jpbollma
Jun 2012
#24
No need to hire people. Just give them the freedom to create and they will do so organically.
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#33
Advertising is about smearing your name all over town. Graffiti can be and often is
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#101
FYI, the graffiti in the picture is in a skate park built in 2008. NOT Dolores Park.
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#23
Ridiculous. If the owner of that building or the city wanted that art they would ask for art
jpbollma
Jun 2012
#26
Industry abandoning our cities and our country is what has killed our urban cores.
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#102
Check out this near the skatepark (I'm not sure if it is still there...)
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#108
People need art and self-expression that isn't assessed and compressed
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#132
What "process" were they shut out of that they think it okay to deface public property?
cherokeeprogressive
Jun 2012
#138
So there is no art without money? And without that money, I can paint whatever the hell I want on
cherokeeprogressive
Jun 2012
#154
Oh give me a break. First of all, the picture in the OP is not the kids park that was recently
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#129
sadly, too many people don't know the difference between tagging and graffiti..
frylock
Jun 2012
#125
A real vandal would have used optical illusions to mess up the people using those ramps.
jp11
Jun 2012
#99
Yes. The skate board park is crappy tags (but not gang tags). Ever since the city
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#107
Thanks did not know that. I saw a lack of any real graffiti art and figured crappy
jp11
Jun 2012
#153
Its a crying shame. When I lived there many years ago, that was one of the most
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#136
What do folks think about 'reverse' or 'green graffiti' or projection graffiti?
Earth_First
Jun 2012
#130
A lovely reverse graffiti project in the Broadway tunnel in San Francisco
Luminous Animal
Jun 2012
#134
how is it that it is assumed that the vandals who damaged the playground are also responsible...
Earth_First
Jun 2012
#142
I see a lot of 'mindless vandalism" in the city also. I suppose a psychologist would
Liberal_in_LA
Jun 2012
#174