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Though most people hate backfat when they look in three-way mirrors, another kind of backfat has surfaced. Someone has been tagging "Backfat" in Brooklyn neighborhoods Windsor Terrace and Kensington. The tagger has been hitting up pretty conspicuous places, like the public library on Fort Hamilton Parkway, schools, and stores, and has been fraying nerves in the process. One commenter on Flickr says:
back fat is getting on my nerves. he is all over kensington and often in just rude places (on top of the public library sign, for example.)A teacher lamented to the Daily News, "It's everywhere. We have to paint and scrape the doors on the school. As soon as it is redone, they do it again." Even though someone asked Backfat to reveal his/her identity via craigslist and one resident's daughter has made "a game out of counting the new 'Backfat' tags that she sees," Backfat is still a mystery. Maybe all will be known when cops close in - a sources tells the News, the police are "coming close to finding him."
one funny back fat tag suggests that he does not like to pay a fare on the subway (he uses other words to say that,) and it is at the entrance of the fort hamilton highway station which does not have a booth, so it is all just automated gates. i wonder how back fat beats that...
so yeah... really getting tired of back fat.
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Dobkin, you have the floor.
And don't tag it.
I hate it when women show their backfat in public and think they still look good. It’s disgusting.
This tagger is obviously a Hero for bringing this to our attention.
It looks like neckface to me, using one of his other tags...
kojak, it's called a muffin top :-)
C'mon, Dobkin. We're waiting for one of your insightful "graffiti is art" lectures.....
"...it's called a muffin top :-)"
Ugh.. i'll never touch muffins of any kind again.
I have seen this alot lately... most recently on spring st. just west of varick, and just the other day right by ground zero.
This vandal sounds like a prime candidate for some good old-fashioned sidewalk dermabrasion.
What's more offensive, written back fat or actual back fat?
Yay for street art! YAY!!!!
who is claiming this is street art?
well it certainly isn't "News"
You mean it isn't Street Art?
Okay, now I'm confused...
Brooklyn definitely has a lot of backfat. It's called Queens...
No, this isn't street art, it's someone writing backfat a zillion times.
All writing on someone else's property is vandalism and illegal. There is a subset of that vandalism that has artistic or aesthetic intentions and merit. That's the portion known as "street art".
Like any art, most street art is dreck, but a small portion is high quality work. The appeal of any piece of street art depends on an individual's taste in art. One's appreciation of street art diminishes rapidly when it is applied to your property.
shit is funny. BACKFAT HIV POSITIVE. that shit is subversive. and pissing people off igenerally is a good thing. I'm going to write on a library right now.
Okay so really there is nothing that differentiates street art from vandalism except for how much Gothamist pimps it. ;-)
One's response to street art is very subjective. It's clear that you have a very low tolerance for it. That's fine. I would argue that sometimes the artistic merit of the art outweighs the vandalism done. I'll probably never convince you of that just as you will never convince me that it is always harmful.
Boy, you guys are rough on Jake. And he called me pugnacious!
Personally, I think a good penalty for graffiti vandals would be they get the tool they use shoved up where the sun don't shine. The spray paint cans would be bad enough, but the acid etch writers would really have fun. Heh heh.
can we see more photos on streetsy or bluejake?? PLZ SAY YES.
That's my point though. Unless it's commissioned, it's vandalism, and isn't vandalism (ie: defacing or destroying other's property) always bad?
There's no artistic merit here. I live in the area. It's some thug spray-painting his tag over everything (the library signs, sidewalk, subway station, mailboxes, people's homes). It's pure vandalism, it's ugly and it's going to cost taxpayers a lot to cover this mess.
Backfat was busted on the night of the 16th, great reporting!
There are a decent number of these tags on road barriers and backs of stop signs in Williamsburg, north of the Lorimer L stop, too.