Gothamist: Splasher Katsu At It Again In Soho

God

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:09:13 -0500

Sockher, you're a little late to the party. Gothamist corrected their mistake over a week ago.

sockher

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:05:17 -0500

oh yeah one more thing. even tho i go to parsons i'm not some rich art fag. brooklyn born, queens raised, FUCK ALL YOU OUT OF TOWNERS GO BACK TO YOUR SHIT TOWN. HOLLIS STAND THE FUCK UP!!!

sockher

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:02:22 -0500

first off you guys @ gothamist are very misinformed. a huge tag done by a high sprayer, that partially covers up some shitty street art doesn't make katsu the splasher. this "splasher" purposefully splashes paint to obscure the original work of art. this here is just a lot of overspray. matter of fact when i look at it now, it seems like he went out of his way not to get paint on the shitty street art below his tag (which is wack). street artists are nothing but art fags that want to get some cred. i'm a freshman at parsons so i absolutely have nothing against art in all of it's forms. but when people get elitist and think that what they put up on a wall is supposedly more thought out than graff, i get pissed. you wack ass street artists can cover throwups and tags,and the opposite can be done to you. a street artist, under the law, is just as much of a vandal, as someone writing with a spraycan or a mop. when you put something up in a public space with no permission it's officially open game for anyone to alter it in anyway they see fit. graffiti writers realized that a loooooooooooong time ago, when will you pussy ass "street" artists realize that?

RYRYisRICH

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:20:24 -0500

YES TO ALL! LOVELY LOVELY GRAFFITI except sw**n she is just boring, boring, boring... and sucks

RYRY

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:15:51 -0500

HAHA, YES TO ALL!

parsons student

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:48:01 -0500

RYRY: What exactly is street art for you? I don't think you can lump all of the things you did together simply because they "go over people". Is all of this just graffiti with no difference between some kid spray painting his name on a wall and some well thought out wheatpaste or street installation? Are you just a philistine with some grudge against art students and internet personalities?

RYRY

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:37:34 -0500

You are all straight up morons! SPLASHER! KATSU! whatever.... This is graffiti... Who cares about the "splasher"!? Graffitti writers go over people. Banksy goes over people, Katsue goes over people. The "Splasher" goes over people. Duh! Oh... and if it was the "splosher" or whatever... he certainly missed the "street art" You guys must have jobs as: A: Professional Internet Bloggers or B: Be rich Parsons art school students.. get a life.

Damian

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:46:37 -0500

Look at the top picture in this post. You have a kind of clever paper cutout that someone put up on a building. "Street Art", right? But then somebody comes along and splashes paint on it, and you make a huge deal about it, posting story after story, inciting threats of violence and endless debate. But take a closer look. The underlying paper cutout thing is also covered with garden-variety tags. It was defaced first by what are basically logos for artless asshats who have nothing more interesting to say than "here's my logo, I demand that you look at it." So the defacement, if you want to call it that, looks to have occurred BEFORE that paint splash. Maybe the paint splash is just this guy's (or girl's tag). Doesn't that make it OK? I mean, tagging is OK, right? That's "art"? But splashing paint isn't? Who decides?

anonymass

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:59:24 -0500

Gee Marty, I didn't realize that moving to NYC meant forfeiting the normal rights that go hand in hand with ownership of property. Namely the right not to have it defaced by some miscreant. I'm sure your parents or relatives or friends who don't live in the city would be none too thrilled if they came home from watching Norbit at the local megaplex only to find their nice suburban retreat covered in the same shit we have to look at in the city every day. You know, someone's tag copied ad nauseum over every square inch of the aluminum siding, for example. Please tell me without reserve that your answer to them would be "Hey - you live in the United States, the land of freedom of expression. This is just the cost of living in such a great place." Yeah right. After they beat you senseless with the Sunday copy of the Bergen County Times or whatever local rag they might read, you would be rethinking your logic. You losers need to find a less destructive outlet for your "creativity" (aka criminal tendencies). Try fingerpainting or collage or scrapbooking. I really don't understand the sense of entitlement some of you peope bring to the table.

marty

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:37:27 -0500

a few things... one... accept the fact that street art/graffiti part of the city you live in two... read in between the lines of any article before you comment on it. this is called critical thinking. "graffiti is not art" and "jg", this was not done by the splasher, this is a tag by katsu. refer to the crossed out headline. three... jen, this isn't from the "high writer" or whatever tool you found on the internet, this was done by a fire extinguisher. you empty it out, fill it with paint, and spray (a little more complicated but look on the internet). in a way. "watergun" was right in his/her comment. four... you all need to limp back to the suburbs with your tail between you legs if you aren't ready for some form of expression. the fact that it made you angry is beautiful, and the fact that it making you angry made me angry is even more priceless. it did its job. now if i can only you can stop making me angry. five... i expect too much from people

anonymass

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:27:07 -0500

1. Use blank wall as bait. 2. Pre-install sophisticated Mousetrap© -type contraption to trap unsuspecting graffiti "artist". 3. Use indelible ink to publicly mark "artist" with big "L" on forehead. 4. Mark every square inch of "artist's" personal belongings with random designs, markings, scribblings, manifestos, etc.

leviathan

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:10:24 -0500

1. embed a can of acme super-adhesive in the graffiti, that will be activated when Splasher attacks. 2. hurl ridicule, at the now-exposed and humiliatingly stuck Splasher, in broad daylight. 3. invent a acme super-adhesive.

jaybee

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:20:48 -0500

1. Fill a wall with graffiti. 2. Find a way to monitor the wall with a video camera. 3. Try to identify the Splasher(s) on film. 4. Not sure what to do next, I suppose leave the vigilante justice up to the artists.

smitty

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:12:15 -0500

Yeah, can you guys make a separate site for this? Graffiti-ist.com or something??

jg

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:04:16 -0500

because, clearly, to combat graffiti we need even uglier graffiti. great job.

Graffitti is not art

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:00:25 -0500

How is vandalizing the entire clean side of a building considered a "response" to the other vandals? Lock these bastards up. Our city is looking more and more like shit because of these losers.

watergun

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:59:09 -0500

looks like the work of an industrial strength supersoaker to me.

Jen Chung

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:58:49 -0500

Jake made me promise I'd attempt at least one street art post while he was traveling. Think of it this way: The deed is done!

where is jake?

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:51:46 -0500

oh jen, why?

RatherBeBiking

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:50:17 -0500

Oh no, our precious illegal graffiti!

The Edge

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:43:40 -0500

That's just asinine.

MT

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:39:40 -0500

What's up with this guy? He has crossed the line from political statement to property damage. He needs to be arrested.

Dooder

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:32:39 -0500

Dave is dooder.

Dave

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:01:52 -0500

There's nothing more ironic than people who think writing one's name on a wall is art accusing someone of vandalism.