Sfist Photo: Graffiti Paint Out at Warm Water Cove
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?
