Brooklyn Got 'Tagged' More in '08
With tighter city budgets, quality of life issues are bound to get worse. Case in point: Graffiti complaints in North Brooklyn were up 20 percent last year; arrests were up 24 percent. “It’s bringing property values down,” complained one Bushwick resident whose building is frequently tagged. In parts of South Brooklyn like Sunset Park and…
With tighter city budgets, quality of life issues are bound to get worse. Case in point: Graffiti complaints in North Brooklyn were up 20 percent last year; arrests were up 24 percent. “It’s bringing property values down,” complained one Bushwick resident whose building is frequently tagged. In parts of South Brooklyn like Sunset Park and Coney Island, complaints were up but arrests were down.
SOTD was for a witty quip, not sheer nastiness. That time of the month for you benson? I’s suggest midol but wine is more fun.
And for the record- I don’t think defacing private property is right but there has been graffiti that really does elevate it to an art form. And what I wonder about is that some of these kids have so much talent- we should be trying to do more to get them real venues and support. Art = communication. Some of the subway trains in the 80s and 90s were just amazing- like it or not.
I can’t get that upset over graffiti on public buildings- some of the crap that goes up just because it was paid for is a visual and social insult to most of us. Billboards screaming at us, ads everywhere- kids pick up the message. No empty space, assault all the senses. You won’t teach them to respect an empty wall because we’re so busy selling it to advertisers and we don’t care who as long as they have the bucks.
agreeance about graffitti jumping the shark. it’s all about frozen blood balloons these days!
*rob*
I used to write graffiti when I was a teenager, it truly affected the way my art is today, by the time I was 18, I was through, too many fights over walls that belonged to none of us, my art and thoughts of vandalism were maturing, and when you arent a minor anymore, the punishments are greater. Unfortunately its so trendy now, most writers are post or current art school students, havent been in Brooklyn that long, and have expendable time and income to emulate teenagers from the 70’s and 80’s. Sure there are exceptions, but Graffiti has definitely jumped the shark.
benson,
I think your most recent achievement of the much coveted SOTD has gone to your head! ; )
[No, I’m not jealous…much!]
Rob;
Put a cork in it too.
let’s play a little game people… guess the kind of person who did this graffitti…
http://gothamist.com/2009/01/27/graffiti_on_the_rise_in_brooklyn.php
*r*
‘Crack is Wack’
The most notorious graffiti ‘art’
‘Crack is Whack’
It’s now called a ‘mural’
BRG;
Do you realize how frivolous you come off in your posts?
First you write about graffitti on rooftops in Chinatown that you admore and even link to photos of them. Do you expect anyone with a brain to believe that this was graffitti that was “paid for”? I’ll tell you what it is: it was the work of idiot vandals who broke into a building and went to the rooftop and marred someone’s property. You then reward them with a photo so that all can admire their act of vandalism.
Then, when I call you on your ridiculous post, you try to tell me that you were not trying to glorify graffitti put up on someone else’s property? Oh really? What exactly were you doing by linking to these photos?
Frivolous and ridiculous. Time for you to run along and start posting on the open thread.