Posts Tagged ‘tagging’

“Ex-Vandals” Create New Mural in NoPA – “In Progress, Please Respect” – Presenting the Blue Man Group

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

A few days back on McAllister at Divisadero:

“MURAL IN PROGRESS – PLEASE RESPECT – EX-VANDALS”

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And here’s the scene yesterday, with sidewalk cyclists giving the thumbs up already, or terrorist fist-jabs or something:

And here’s the crew putting the final touches on:

On It Goes in the Western Addition…

Tagging a Postal Van? Man, That’s Cold – Here’s What Mayor Ed Lee’s San Francisco Looks Like These Days

Monday, October 1st, 2012

Oh well:

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How much will it cost to mail a first-class letter in five years? I’m thinking a dollar…

The Beautiful Graffiti’ed U-Haul Trucks of the Western Addition – Egg-Head and Blondie – A Rolling Art Gallery

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

These two pieces have lasted months and months on the mean Streets of San Francisco.

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Look for them on McAllister Street

 

Hey Park and Rec! You’re Losing the McKinley Statue Graffiti Battle Again, Just So You Know – Long Term Plan?

Wednesday, August 15th, 2012

I thought you all were on top of this sitch.

What’s your long-term plan, DPR? Oh, I know, give you all more money. But if that’s not going to happen, what if we just take this whole statue thing out? Would you like that DPR?

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Anyway, I think KKKatie is still in the hoosegow, but SFNOB(?) and cat-face have taken over the reigns…

Well, It Appears That Rec and Park is Getting the Upper Hand Against Graffiti on the McKinley Statue

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

It goes back and forth, but lately, RPD has been in the game.

(Perhaps local real estate interests have the ear of the powers that be these days.)

Here’s what 2011, 2010, 2010, and 2010 looked like.

And this here is the sitch a third of the way through 2012:

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Looks fine to me.

That’s the update.

Leaving you will a gallery of older graffiti: 

I Just Can’t Tell If This Delivery Truck Mural is Valid Youth Street Art or If It’s Merely a Mobile Billboard for The North Face

Friday, June 15th, 2012

I could go either way.

As seen in the Western A (or what rich white people call the Alamo Square Historical District, so you don’t think that they live in or near the PJ’s):

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What Happens When You Leave Your Van Parked Overnight on the Mean Streets of San Francisco? Art Happens, That’s What

Friday, March 16th, 2012

And then you look at your panel van and say, “Art happens, man.”

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Gold Mountain Mural in North Beach is Gone, Long Gone, Owing to Graffiti Vandals – Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Friday, March 9th, 2012

The news of this mural going away had escaped my attention the past couple of months.

Here’s what it looked like before….

…and here’s what it looks like now:

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Here are your reading notes:

Gen Fujioka of the Chinatown Community Development Center is involved with promoting the horrible Central Subway to Nowhere.

Artist Ann Sherry is fortunate to get a five-figure commission for anything, so I’m not sure why she’s so perpetually cranky. 

It’s not smart to put up images of authority figures (you know, people in military of police uniforms) in a sort of wild part of town

I don’t know, maybe this was a bad idea from the start?

I don’t know, maybe San Francisco government has lots of bad ideas, you know, from the start?

What can we learn from this episode?

Minimalism on Clement Street: A Thoughtful Tagger Matches Graffito with Canvas

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

W.A.S.I. Investment Advisory Services at 432 Clement has a new-school look about it,* so the latest tagger to come by honored that with a similarly minimalist scribble.

See?

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Let’s all applaud this youthful artiste de rue for his restraint, for his thoughtfulness.

*Complete with a sliding-glass(!) main-entrance door (and a sign telling everybody how to operate it).

Depeche Mode du Abaissez le Haight: The Fast Fashion of This American Apparel Ad in the Lower Haight

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Andrew Dudley of the Haighteration blog has a heck of a gallery of the infamous American Appareal MUNI bus shelter ad what’s on the corner of Haight and Pierce.

Check it:

The eternal sunshine of the spotless American Apparel ad. 

Wow. Talk about fast fashion - this thing changes every day.

Now here’s the cleanest copy I have, sent in by a Gentle Reader:

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Personally, I think this whole charade is welcomed by the American Apparel.

Personally.

(To wit, a bunch of American Apparellers are, once again, following this morning’s 415 drama from down in Los Angeles. It looks like this:

Domain Name americanapparel.net  (Network)
IP Address 66.151.52.# (American Apparel)

AA just loooooooves this kind of stuff, IMO.)

Anyway, here’s my contribution, from a little while back:

 

I don’t have a clean image of this erbiquitous American Apparel bus stop ad campaign that’s all over the SFMTA’s MUNI property these days, but you probably already know what it looks like.

Anyway, this particular advertisement on the south side of Haight, around Steiner IIRC, was turning heads over the weekend.

See? It’s the most arresting ad in the world!

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I can explicate with a close-up shot, but only after the jump, as this is a family blog (more or less).

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