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Attention anti-graffiti ilk: there's a new anti-graffiti Twitter feed for you to follow, @SFGraffiti. While still in its embryonic stage, it has @311 following it, which might very well result in some sort of tagging cleanup around the city if it gets enough people involved. So, send all your most irritable graffiti sightings (plus a picture, ideally) to @SFGraffiti.
In related news, graffiti artist Steven Free ("Girafa"), a local celebrity whose Toys ‘R’ Us and It's-It parodies captured the attention of graffiti fans, was arrested last week.
His art, if you will, is actually quite cool to the eye. Then again, we like giraffes and ice cream sandwiches. We're a bit biased.
Anyway, Free was arrested on a $100,000 warrant and is, according to the fuzz, responsible for at least $40,000 in damages in San Jose alone. A benefit, we're told, might be held to raise funds for his legal case. We'll update as soon as we know more.
Conversely, and while not nearly as hipsterly romantic, you could donate your money to the Richmond High School gang rape survivor, whose story gets worse and worse as details unfold, or the San Francisco Food Bank, who are in desperate need this year.
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There is a shit load of Tagging/Graffiti on Market Street. I even saw one of the guys spray paining the wall.....hes a shady charictor, always slicks his hair back, and wears a blue tie. He is known by many names, The Gavinator, Womanizer, Mayor of San Francisco, the Walk a way mayor...............
Why would I want to be tweeted everytime a tagging is spotted in San Francisco, and how would this stop tagging? Would anyone like to be tweeted every time a dog is euthanized in California?
Todos santos Steven Free.
Girafa es mi Amigo, Girafa es muy bueno, Girafa es spectacular
Oh noes! Think of all the "art" that will be lost forever!
"quite cool?" someone tell brock that all graffiti is crime and thus ugly, no matter what. also: graffiti = tagging, always.
this just isn't the case. while graffiti is old, banal and (inarguably) a dead art form -- and it frustrates me to see so many local bloggers take such a strong interest in something that means so very, very little -- it can, now and then, make me smile. right or wrong, it does that at times.
There is only one solution to the graffiti problem. It is simple, it need not be a burden on the taxpayers, and it is condoned by the U.S. Supreme Court (1970).
What to do? Eliminate the game of Hide-n-Seek. That allows a police investigator to identify the vandal in court. If a judge accepts the evidence, accountability for bad behavior follows.
http://graffititaskforce.blogspot.com/2009/10/solving-graffiti-problem.html