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An Introduction to my first Graffiti Removal Class given by the San Francisco Graffiti Removal Program. We will be talking about the difference between Graffiti Art and Tagging Graffiti.

What is Art and What is Crime?
stopnoise

20 responses // Graffiti in San Francisco

  • Good job stopnoise.
    futuregen
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  • Art is throwing something up that makes people think or stand in awe... Trash (I won't go so far as to say a crime), is someone just "tagging" their name anywhere for the sake of seeing their name on something or repping some misconception that they "own" or run a particular territory.
    Mafioso
  • graffiti is pure, straight from the belly of the beast.most hide their feelings because of the image they hold.in graffiti people get to develop a name for their ego which is very empowering.a taste of bliss.
    kingtsohg
  • Excellent Art work!
    Anum
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  • Most people don't realize that for a graffiti artist to have any kind of actual representation in the community they need to tag, less they want their pieces to only stay up for a few hours. A tag is like a stepping stone into something bigger that you would call art, rather than vandalism.
    SESCHUAN
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  • Really! Where do you live? Can I start my road to recognition by tagging your house first?
    stopnoise
  • these damn corporations keeping us up to our ears in advertisements and real estate companies trashing the green areas in our neighborhoods is the real vandalism. Get your priorities straight.
    gratefuldan
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  • stopnoise, check out those paints. Are they natural/green/sustainable? Perhaps you could encourage the use of green materials since they are repainting so often. Start in San Fran and then go nation-wide to all cities. You could be a middle man/salesman to the cities and perhaps make a little money. Plus help save the planet. Food for thought...
    futuregen
  • San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez, who has thumbed his nose at the establishment before, let a graffiti artist spray paint his City Hall office walls with the bright orange message: "SMASH THE STATE."

    There is irony. There is art appreciation. There are raised eyebrows.
    Anum
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  • Great subject. Edits are a little ruff but I think as you learn to tell stories in this medium it will improve.

    Informative.
    gargoylex
  • you force me to read ur sorry ads, i force you to read my name, if u can
    honeybadger
  • i love tagging, weill never stop ;/

    and they shouldnt let people run the streets thinking there making a diff, cause they might get hurt out there who knows lol
    POOR
  • wat gives buisnesses the right to shove advertisments down my throat??

    i put up a few handstlye/s"tags"

    and its a big deal?

    just cause i dont have money to but up a billboard means i cant be heard?

    when u buff off graffiti...its like youre wiping out a culter.

    would u like it if i went, got history of someone and just made it disapear?

    graffiti has way more to it than just "marking your territory."
    tukbsm
  • Graffiti is destruction of personal property. YOu could save money by actually drawing on paper. Lose less brains sells. Huffing paint is dumb.
    gargoylex
  • keep painting over it! there's nothing like the feeling of the first tag on a blank canvas; almost better than sex!
    donkeyfly69

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