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Today, as promised, San Francisco's Warm Water Cove, aka Tire Beach, aka Toxic Beach got a fresh new coat of paint. So now all that graffiti is gone. Read about it here. The urban artwork had quite a few fans, and news of today's event made the Graffiti Archeology News and the Stencil Archive. Even Chicken John Rinaldi weighed in on what to do about Ensenada de Agua Caliente. Was the whitewashing a good thing? See you after the jump.
No, it's not the first five seconds of the How Soon is Now? video, it's the Potrero Power Plant's belching tower, just north of the cove.
A 55-gallon drum of something in the foreground and graffiti in the background. Which is the bigger crime?
Today's mise-en-scene, featuring "75-80 volunteers" ready to get painting.
We think this sign says "Gmzeeo", or "Celebrate Graffiti", one of those. The tagline reads,” The real crime is painting over artwork!"
A peaceful protestor shares a brief joke with a whitewasher.
Safe Under Watchful Eyes. We wager it'll be more difficult to express yourself around here in the near future. Beware, beware. Will there be new graffiti there soon?
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horray! fresh canvas.
I'd bet "2 days" before fresh graffiti shows up. Most taggers keep their hoodies zipped up when they're doing the nasty, so cameras won't be that much of a deterrent, and cops are too far away to get there in time.
Gavin should have used the money for this towards cleaning up the needles in GG Park. This was a colossal waste of time!!!
Why can't he be as diligent about cleaning up something that is detrimental to the people's health?
Why not gather volunteers to clean up all the crap in the water instead.
[2] There was a special team of people picking up the syringes that were all over the place. They filled up several bio-hazard disposal boxes.
[3] They would not allow people to climb down the broken cement and rocks to get to the water where the wrecked rubber tires and other junk was. Too dangerous to get to it.
I was able to get to one spot halfway down and found two old pairs of Calvin Klein jockey style shorts and and an empty bottle of Gray Goose. At least somebody had been doing something in the park more fun than graffiti.
[2] There was a special team of people picking up the syringes that were all over the place. They filled up several bio-hazard disposal boxes.
[3] They would not allow people to climb down the broken cement and rocks to get to the water where the wrecked rubber tires and other junk was. Too dangerous to get to it.
I was able to get to one spot halfway down and found two old pairs of Calvin Klein jockey style shorts and and an empty bottle of Gray Goose. At least somebody had been doing something in the park more fun than graffiti.
Thanks so much for the update and the photos!
The link to Graffiti Archaeology News is broken. Here's the original post:
http://www.otherthings.com/grafarc/blog/archives/2007/08/the_end_of_tire.html
Wow, what a let down. After all the complaining I was hoping for so much more from those pictures. Aside from those 4 main pieces from the article photo, and a couple more in the slide show... the vast majority of that graffiti was pretty ugly and not worth saving if you ask me.
The pictures in this piece don't show off the place all that well. There is a whole lot more there still. I am curious to how much actually got buffed. Everything or just the easy to reach places? Oh, and there was a good blog done on this place here(scroll on down):
http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=668&Itemid=63
Oh, and I forgot to add...this:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22tire+beach%22
Clean safe, streets are simply thoroughfares to get one there from here. Fresh paint cannot coat a child’s mind, unless of course it is graffiti. Squalor destroys youth and brands adults with low esteem and even lower expectations.
If John likes graffiti, he should get graffiti. Party on, Chicken John!!!
Gavin Newsom Sucks.com
Video of the Wall of Fame before Saturday morning happened here.
maybe if the walls were painting with murals like these: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1649278,00.html?xid=rss-photos
Then it might have been worth saving. But a bunch of kids writing their names is not what I consider "art"
Guest12, are you the arbiter of what is art and what isn't?
be careful. the cops are fucking everywhere out there. Unmarked but easily spotted cars and they are hiding out by the semi trailers. someone should climb that pole and take out the video cam.
gavin is an asshole.
GavinSucks: Thanks for your support. Gavin does suck. We will have graffiti. Chicken John For Mayor
that camera isn't even on the walls of tire beach, its like two blocks up... there is a security gaurd, but most of the time hes alseep.....glad to see they shaped up warm water for the bums and crackheads.....
Didn't say the camera was on the walls of Tire Beach.
There are various security guards, they do take cat naps now and then.
its just a shame.....how high of a priority graffit is.....
its just a shame.....how high of a priority graffit is.....