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Graffiti, Cobble Hill. Photo by Joseph O. Holmes
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I’ve managed to save up roughly $36355 in my bank account, but I’m not sure if I should buy a house or not. Do you think the market is stable or do you think that home prices will decrease by a lot?
I guess my 5 and 8 year olds could get arrested as well. Perhaps me for being an accessory for giving my kids a bucket of sidewalk chalk.
Ellis is an egotistical jerk and according to the local precinct, he can be arrested for vandalism, regardless of his medium used (Chalk).
So Ellis, if you’re paying close attention buy yourself a building and degrade it. If you were to ever poison my walls, I’d find you through my buddies on dailyheights.com and make you lick it off
I think it’s great, I love seeing his work in the ‘hood. It washing away and no harm is done.
People! It was a picture someone posted. Yowsa! Culture wars over a photo like this. Come on… this website is, in general, supposed to be a good time. Yikes.
Hey 6:23 AM,
Tell us your address and we’ll have an art party. I’ll bring a bucket of colored chalk and after we’re done, I’m sure you and your neighbors will eagerly invite us back, right?
Sorry, but you are wimpy and need more backbone to call a spade a spade.
You know, there is nothing wrong with doing just that, contrary to today’s watered down culture that can say no more than, “Whatever…”
Chalk washes away? That’s like saying I don’t own a gun, but I promote their sales
I’m no fan of graffiti either (we’ve had our place tagged at least 3 times with 6 foot un-readable letters) but Ellis does use chalk, washes away, no harm done.
Some well needed observations on this sore sight pic…
1) This website is amazing – I love it. The printed mission (right at the top) states:
“An unhealthy obsession with historic Brooklyn brownstones and the neighborhoods and lifestyles they define.”
I’ve lived in Brooklyn for my whole life and for the life of me can’t figure out how a picture of vandalized property is meeting the mission printed above.
2) To Poster 3:59… “Nice to have a resident artist in the community? Adds a little flair.”
Oh puh-leeze. Graffiti makes everything look uglier and is never a sign of life and exuberance in a community. You must be a funkster want to be, or a patronizing bore.
3) Look at how large the “artist’s” signature is. And he also has a copyright mark on the left. What an ego this person has. Go look at any real artist’s works and see how big the signature is. Aren’t most of them teeny-tiny and designed NOT to be noticed?
4) It’s the weak self-esteem that all grafitti vandals have – doesn’t matter their race, class, economic background. It’s sad that this is the only way a person thinks he/she can get noticed. If an ‘artist’ has it, why not express the artistic urges in ways that don’t involve defacing someone else’s property?
5) And it is vandalism. The art promoters (I think it’s so hip, so funky so… you know…) Ugh. Can you imagine any grafitti ‘promoter’ actually living in a dwelling that is painted in such ways? If they ever did live that dangerous experiment, then they’re most likely rich and bored, want to taste some nasty danger before strutting back home to the burbs or the upper West/East sides to join their snooty, elitist and patronizing people.
Stick this in the EYESORE section – which probably needs to be created on brownstoner.com next.
Out.