Gothamist: 11 Spring Opens Tomorrow!

far westside

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:22:05 -0500

WE'RE THE FUTURE WE DO WHAT WE WANT YOU HAD YOUR TIME NOW IT S OURS

chris

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:38:14 -0500

This event is incredible and unpresedented. To complain about it being an "eyesore" is to expose yourself as ignorant, close-minded, and unable to appreciate anything as art if it wasn't covered in your freshman year art-history seminar. I think we should all appreciate work such as this, that reminds everyone of the freedom of expression that once made NYC a vibrant and important place for artists and visionaries, and is sadly lacking today.

nmrk

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:21:02 -0500

Damn that's ugly. Remember, they got borf and they'll get you too.

ghop

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:17:37 -0500

if any of your ignorant stoneheads bother to take a sec to look at the street arts here, you'd realize they'd fit perfectly in place in any modern museum. they are not just tags scrawled with permanent markers, not random gang tags. These "garbage" aren't spray-painted. They are filled with subliminal and political messages. These are done by creative artists from around the world. They did not come here for the money. They come here to send to the world messages that are told through their art. All you trash talker don't even have the creativity and open-mindedness to accept them as art, so who's more evolved, you or me. Vinny, or Mr. Stereotypical, Obese, and Mind Numbingly Boring: I'm glad you call your blog insignificant thoughts, because that's what they are. You sound like your brain is as clogged up as your arteries, and your walls are painted green. How can you be complaining about graffiti when you are surrounded by phlegm-colored walls everyday? Just keep your mouth shut, read your dilbert, ask god to forgive you for calling people dirtbags, and drink your slim-fast. next time I go on the train and I see a faggot with a Canon SD800, I'll think "holy crap that's a damn eyesore."

f*artbombeverything

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:46:49 -0500

vinny- your comments are indicative of the general ignorance plaguing this thread. i have a college degree from nyu and graduated an honor scholar... so really being highly evolved has nothing to do with it. but you sit there with your smug wisecracks and think that you've said something meritorious.... my point was that graf has been around as long as humans have. it is an extension of our need to communicate our experience. graff has become a huge cultural force, inflitrating all aspects of our media culture (commerce, art, politics, community) and if you think you can toss of a few funny lines degrading it and its importance, then your just trippin. cuz you can't stop it. it's impossible to stop, because it has never stopped. from cave art to the political graff that appeared all over rome to now... graff is here to stay. and all you got it talk, son.... no history, no intellectual discourse. speaking of addresses, post yours tough guy... hmm that's what i thought. lame rhetorical postering. yeah, let's post our address on the internet for any psycho on the planet to see. your a f*ing moron. lol i challenge you to evolve and actually put down a coherent arguement that adresses specific points on a complex issue, but i doubt you have the mental faculties for such a task.

Vinny

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:03:33 -0500

f*artbombeverything: Sure thing dude. You're real brave. Maybe if you picked up a book instead of a spray can you'd write like something other than a 4 year old. Trevor, I'm sure you'll be sharing your home address so we can come "beautify" your property. So far no one would dare. Trevor and Ellen are so typical of the Graffiti loving dirtbags in this city. "We love it we love it we love it!" then they go home to their downtown Brooklyn or Park Slope apartment where if there's so much as a garbage bag on the street, they cry. Hypocrites, the lot of you.

trevor

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:00:56 -0500

i think this thing looks absolutely fantastic, and all of your sneering, backhanded nasty comments really just drive home the fact that the full blown mall-ification of manhattan is well underway.

ahem

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:58:16 -0500

hey fartbomb, my dog has a primal emotion when he smells a girl dog in heat; beings that act at the whim of their emotions are generally described as animals sorry, guess we're all too too civilized and highly evolved to appreciate grafitti here's hoping your knuckle dragging makes you gradually unable to use a can of spray paint wait - do you even have opposable thumbs?

f*artbombeverything

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:32:56 -0500

vinny and otomboy.... lol you two herbs don't have the stones to go out and tag someone's property, so stop fronting. and i doubt you couldn deal with risking your life or freedom for something that has no material benefit. and to everyone else. graff has existed in some form from the caves of france to the walls of the bronx. it is a primal human emotion, and because of that it will never be stopped. your arguements are empty and many are said with a great deal of ignorance, but hey what else is new. the same people who talk tough would get they ass smacked down if they tried to step to a writer in the streets.

Vinny

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:31:50 -0500

Hey Ellen... Post your address so we can all come and create art on your walls. I'm sure you won't mind, seeing as you love this garbage so much.

Vinny

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:30:43 -0500

Because it's about graffiti and Gothamist has a hard-on for everything spray painted* *everything = everyone else's stuff (buildings, etc)

JasonF

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:27:50 -0500

This is cool and all...but why so much coverage about this building.

otomboy

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:20:06 -0500

I wonder if they would think that crap would look good on the side of their parents house. Can i please go to their homes and write my name on their walls? Surely they wouldn't mind, being that I too am an "artist".

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:02:11 -0500

ellen = irrelevant she sounds poor and boring too

ellen

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:54:11 -0500

You know, so many of these comments are a reminder of the number of arrogant jackasses who read the gothamist. Re: -Yawn. -street art = eyesore -I think the problem with people who idolize street artists (a/k/a vandals) is that they - by and large - don't actually own any property. So it is "cool" when someone else's property is "tagged." Wow, "Art!" When these "kids" grow up and finally own a condo, brownstone, or business... we will see if they still appreciate someone signing their initials on the side of it.. I rarely read the comments, but when I do, I am usually pretty shocked at how close-minded, spoiled and "hip" (but with nothing real to offer) some of these readers are. And Michael, most people in this city will never be able to afford a brownstone or a condo, esp artists. Way to be so out of touch!

jack oneil

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:41:38 -0500

Right on Stewart! You sound like a badass to me.

stewart

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:54:55 -0500

I read a article about guys on the grafitti task force: They came upon some vandals working at night in the Bronx and did not disturb them. This occurred for several nights as the vandals were working on a large surface. When the vandals were finally done, they arrested them and then, while they were watching, painted over their art. Apparantly, the vandals cried. If I owned this building I would paint over any new graffiti every day.

Velvet Sea

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:47:03 -0500

no way the new owners are able to keep those walls untagged once they clean it up. i dont see it happening. they are fooling themselves if they think so.. it's too inviting a target.

em

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:24:01 -0500

That Honda appears to "change colors." Cool. Someone should clean up that wall.

Rodney P. Sweetchops

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:28:08 -0500

Wow that giant white smiley face is such amazing art.

bryan

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:18:33 -0500

i think its beautiful, and i can't wait to see it!

Michael

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:56:59 -0500

I think the problem with people who idolize street artists (a/k/a vandals) is that they - by and large - don't actually own any property. So it is "cool" when someone else's property is "tagged." Wow, "Art!" When these "kids" grow up and finally own a condo, brownstone, or business... we will see if they still appreciate someone signing their initials on the side of it..

Vinny

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:41:45 -0500

Holy crap that thing's a damned eyesore. "Yay! We can paint on walls! We're artists now!" Anony said it best.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:40:11 -0500

street art = eyesore

Anony

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:25:42 -0500

Yawn.