Results tagged “graffiti”

Aw, this is sad. Kids play here! This just isn't cool. Also, why did they have to go and mix in something so splendid as the human penis with something so vile as Nazi signage? It devalues the shlong.

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.

Before we begin, "Steven Free" is a far better name than "Girafa." It's action-packed! But since male artists love, love, love using stage names, he obviously had to get a new one; after all, he was committing illegal acts of painting. We digress.

If you know who detailed this San Francisco highway sign with "art," you could get a prize. Check it: MNuru, who snapped this shot on southbound 101, says, "If you have info leading to the arrest of those who defaced this hwy sign last wknd on SB 101 @ 3rd&Bayshore streets in my n’hood call 415-695-2003, reward offered upon conviction."

              

As many an art theory professor will tell you, painting is dead. Everything that one can do with paint on canvas or a wall, arguably, has been done. But maybe that's not so with the glorious art of sidewalk tagging. Freshly dumped and smoothed concrete has the power to release creative juices in the unlikeliest of passersby. See, you can't just approach the sidewalk with a sharpie with your teen buddies in the wee hours of the night and start going at it. No, with cement engravinig, if you will, being nimble and cunning is a must -- qualities most modern graffiti artists don't possess.

On Monday, we posted this angry letter written by mural artists, directed at, if you will, graffiti artists. We asked if said letter would incite the rapscallion taggers even further with their controversial scribblings.

Oh oh.

    

While the bridge has been shutdown over the Labor Day Weekend, they've been publishing images of their work in progress, using high-resolution photos. Much to our delight. Otherwise, one would never have spotted this totally awesome bit of graffiti, presumably scribbled on the on the side of the structure by Bay Bridge workers.

An old tuna cannery in Bayview Hunters Point, condemned after the Loma Prieta earthquake, has turned into some sort of hot spot for vandals or graffiti artists, depending on which side of the vandalism-as-art debate you're standing. Anyway, SF Weekly has a glorious tribute to the place, filled loads of equally glorious pictures.

Hmmm. Well. It's a bit messy. Obviously, the work of many contributors with no one cohesive statement. But, out of the blue, the shock of sunny red gibberish, amongst so much gibberish, somehow ties it all together.

The delicious folks over at Mission Mission have some very sad news. Well, sad for those of you who care about the Mission and/or Dolores Park. It seems Lisa from everyday photos (a mighty fine site featuring a glorious array of SF images) informed MM that the much-loved A Sunday Afternoon at Dolores Park--a re-imaging of George Seurat's --was defaced recently. The mural, located at 19th Street and Guerrero, was tagged by graffiti artist Musk.

A historic Muni streetcar was pulled out of service last week after anti-gay graffiti was found on one of the placards on the side of the train. The streetcar, dedicated to the late Harvey Milk, was tagged sometime during Pride, the Bay Area Reporter reports. "Sometime during Pride Month a tagger wrote the word 'fag' on Milk's chin and blackened out one of his front teeth on a photo of the late politician on one of the panels." On a different sign, the BAR goes on to say, the tagger(s) "wrote the word 'faggot.'" Mean! SFMTA spokesman Judson True said, "Especially in this historic week we want to be sure to honor Milk's legacy on this streetcar so we will do everything we can to remove any graffiti and get the dedication panels back in place as quickly as possible." This week, if you recall, Milk was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Anyway, the defaced streetcar was given a Silkwood-scrub down of any and all anti-gay graffiti, and put back into service on Tuesday.

We adore stuff like this, things that boil down the complicated and tenuous class, race and sociopolitical tapestry of San Francisco into convenient sweeping generalizations. And, which ever rapscallion took a black Sharpie to this Muni map, put below the jump due to NSFW art, deserves some sort of award. (In addition to a fine and a slap on the bottom.) It is, in a word, hilarious.

"Aerosolics Anonymous" by Plug 1 / What I'm Seeing.

As Tangobaby put it, "What?! Ewww. And cool."

Flickr photographer Andertho captured this shot of an alley off Haight Street, which provoked quite a bit of HDR love-"haight" in the comments. Well, we love it.

Yes, if you're lucky.

With budget cuts, and long lines, apparently this is the easiest way for disgruntled patrons at the Fell Street DMV to get out their frustrations. The colors are very harmonious though.

Pacific Heights can make any kind of graffiti look opulent and exclusive.

Case closed.

by Lisa Hix

by Lisa Hix

Finding peace in the Middle East, one Potrero Hill Whole Foods men's room diaper changing station at a time.

This image has been up on Mission Mission for over a week. But if you haven't seen these little fellas yet, check them out. (They also popped up on Folsom Street, near that Communist grocery store.) Mischievously adorable, yes? Yes.

Poor birdie.

For those of you who don't think smiley face tagging is positively whimsical, be sure to use 311's Graffiti Reporter. You can help erase mischievous displays of graffiti you find in public parks (Golden Gate Park, John McLaren Park, and other playgrounds and park property), on private property (personal residences, homes, office buildings), on public property (bike racks, trans cans, newsracks, mailboxs, public toilets, parking meters, fire hydrants, etc.), or any other location that affects your sacred quality of life (MUNI buses/trains/cable cars, billboards, bus shelters, BART, Caltrains, schools).

Today, C.W. Nevius (sort of) suggests jail time for hoodlums caught tagging or performing other acts of artistic expression via vandalism. Because graffiti in San Francisco is getting worse. (Or better, depending on how you look at it.)

"Gov listen to every phone call i i make 8" by Darwin Bell.

Oh oh. Here we go again. An angry, misguided soul defaced another symbol of religion, this time the Castro's Most Holy Redeemer Church Catholic at 100 Diamond Street The church was spray-painted with swastikas over the weekend. And once again, Newsom is none too thrilled about it, releasing this statement: "We strongly condemn the vandalism of the Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church. It was a cowardly and criminal act. San Francisco is a city that embraces people of all faiths. To intimidate a community and threaten a place of worship with intolerance is contrary to everything the City of St. Francis represents."

Shot by Amor de Cosmos (found over at Mission Mission), we enjoy Hipster Batman. Because we like our graffiti when it's done with a comic strip's flair, not muddled with that overly vivid graffiti font that the kids seem to like.