To the thugged out loser spray-painting the little shed on the Garrison Grounds by the CBC intersection the other night: YOU SUCK!
If I hadn’t been afraid to approach you for fear you’d knife me or something, I would have told you to stop spray-painting that little structure. First of all, I’m pretty sad that I can’t even stand up against something that’s illegal in my own community because I’m afraid, and second, you’re a fucking idiot.
I love street art, and it sucks that the city took the only space where people could express themselves, but spray-painting public property with ugly hard-to-remove squiggles isn’t helping anybody. Your little act of “art” just made someone’s day a little harder, and made a nice space look like an inner-city shithole. I would have called the cops if I had a cellphone so they could have caught you (literally) red-handed.
Get some respect for your environment, your neighbours, and yourself. If you want to make a political statement, do something productive, not something that diminishes the visual integrity of the city and makes other actual “street artists” look like hooligan vandal-gangsters. —RESPEK
This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2010.
Graffitti without a message is vandalism; Graffitti with a message is a temper tantrum.
The Feds need an Aerosol Can Registry, background checks and a 10 day waiting period. Think of the civil service jobs created. Think of the tax revenues.
Why didn’t you do something ?
Don’t you have a camera ? a cell phone to call the cops ? a cel phone with camera (its almost impossible to buy a phone without the damn camera )
Get a photo of the little F’er & the next time you see them hopefully they’ll be restoring the electrical shed to its former color.
They said they didn’t have a cell phone and were afraid to say something. Read, More.
Cell phone, dial 911
are you people mental, she said she didn’t have a cell!
Dear spray painter may I please borrow your phone to call the lads and lasses in blue so they can haul your cockroach infested carcass away and shove the paint nozzle up your piggy snout?
that might have worked, or got the OP a shitkicking
“if I had a cell phone” I missed the word ‘if’
I don”t know anyone who doesn’t have a cell phone except for a couple of young children of some friends.
As a matter of fact like myself, I know a lot of people who no longer have landlines & only have cel phones !
Your life must be pretty sweet if something like this is your biggest concern.
street art, whether it is a squiggle or a masterpiece stencil by the likes of banksy, is huge step up from the spit, piss, garbage and anything else we as a population can throw out our car window or dislodge from the depths of our jacket and pants pockets. at least this person has the balls to show a little creative edge in this city and im sure he or she knows the consequences of getting caught. maybe next time, grow a set of your own and step up like the personality you want to portray on this website, or sit back and enjoy the little things that break up the monotony of a very average bland area of the city like the rest of us.
sorry, writing stuff like “SAME” everywhere is NOT art! please stop perpetuating the myth that graffitti is cool. it is not cool. it is vandalism, pure and simple. want art? buy some friggin canvas, set it up somewhere and paint away. otherwise,paws off my city you little friggers.
I love when people think they can decide what’s “art” and what’s “not art”. Some scribbling on a concrete wall doesn’t damage it, and if it’s not someone’s house/church, etc why get in a huge spaz about it? Geeze, I understand alot of tagging is amateur and they should’ve sketched in their blackbooks for another year before picking up a can, but alot of street art is actually pretty decent. When someone makes a crappy tag on my building or near it, I put an X through it, but if it impresses me I leave it be. Makes this boring city a little more interesting.
ah yes, those devilish little faggers,er’taggers. don’t you with murder wasn’t against thelaw, in some cases like this.
street art on a derelict building or lets say a sidewalk is in my opinion okay, but when the asshole “tags” a heritage building, or a historical site like the garrison grounds…thats total bullshit and disrespect. in my opinion its as despicable as pissing on the national war cenotaph or on the sailors’ memorial…there is a time and a place for everything, but not damaging our historical monuments etc. there is seldom anything more vile and low.
Tagging ANY property is not artwork. Any fucking idiot with a sense of literacy or writing can scribble their initials or pseudonym on something that clearly belongs to other people or organizations. Tagging will never be art.
If you’re a real artist then make a deal with property owners to create something that doesn’t look like an eyesore. Look at Bearly’s for example; great artwork outside and it promotes the business.
The problem with taggers is they all think they’re creative or hot shit because they spray paint on whatever comes across their path. If I catch someone writing on my building they’re going to meet my good friend Louis from the Ville. Or prepare to catch my size 12 in your ass.
Commoner, I’m with you. I see that shit daily and can’t help but shake my head. Same with the “VA” for “visual assassins” who are the most untalented pieces of shit to hit the streets of HRM. Another eyesore is “FYPT”.
If you’re just writing your name or “crew” you’re not an artist. You’re not even a writer. You do not have one artistic bone in your body. If you have something to prove, spend some money on canvas and real art supplies and prove it.
I’m a firm believer in “Restoritive Justice” and don’t think that a young person should be saddled with a criminal record for a minor indiscretion. Therefore all graffitti artistes , when apprehended, should have “I Am A Dickweed” tattooed on their foreheads. Want to make a statement, do it on your property not on someone else’s.
can’t beat a slugger.
there’s a certain italian mafia aura about them that screams…
“if I can hit a baseball over 400 feet with this, what would it do to your ribs? let’s find out…”
that scene in “the untouchables” comes to mind
It’s a bomb, and it’s a good one at that. It’s no different than the shitty advertisements we’re bombarded with at every corner. Let the painters paint.
Did the city/owners ask for that tag to be there? No, it’s vandalism plain and simple. I see it didn’t take 2 days for someone to tag the new Fairview Overpass, and don’t get me started again on the 911 inside jobbers.
Huffing paint is a pre-requisite for believing that stupid shit.
huffin paint is a pre requisite to reading these posts. this is a group of fat, lazy, art illiterate, close minded phogies that have nothing better to do with your time than jump on a kid with a little creativity and a spray can. its a gamble and one day he or she will be caught but until then, fuckin paint away! everything and anything. why buy a canvas when your environment is a perfectly wonderful playground. i one hundred percent support street art. any and all mediums. lets color this fuckin hole!!!
we love perogies burp
And crows. RAWK.
um, scarstruck… then perhaps you should offer up your address so that they know they have a shit-hole they can violate.
Or at least put a sign out front saying ‘paint away, I love graffiti’
welcome them in and let them ‘redecorate’ your walls with their original art of ‘fypt’ in shitty black letters on every fucking surface.
and we’re ‘fat’ with a ph. I yes I just did.
excepf NiceGoingFat of course… he’s just fat.