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Last summer the Bonnie and Clyde of the graffiti world, Danielle Bremner (tags: Utah, Dani, Erin) and her boyfriend Jim Clay Harper (tag: Ether) were both taken down by the man after causing $100,000 in damages to city transit facilities. The Daily News now reports that the 27-year-old FIT student and Queens resident, Bremner, turned herself in Wednesday. Following a tagging trip abroad with her boyfriend last summer, the police found 450 cans of spray paint and, amongst other things, a photograph of her tagging a train. She faces up to 7 years behind bars if convicted of her "criminal mischief, making graffiti and possessing graffiti tools" charges. And that's just for tagging trains in Queens, she faces similar charges in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Boston and France. DA Richard Brown released a statement saying, "According to the charges, the defendant is reportedly well known in the international graffiti community—and to New Yorkers who have had to put up with her ego-driven vandalism of public property, which has cost taxpayers thousands of dollars to clean up."
Graffiti Gal Faces Hard Time
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Hey those are white people names!!!
well, someone has to clean it up right? and that someone then gets a paycheck, no? way to boost the economy Danielle!
graffiti has become a white person sport.
make them pay back the money to the city slowly, locking up people like this will waste more then 100k.
I bet if NYers knew the amount of their hard earned tax $$$ that went to cleaning up the graff in tunnels, bridges, train lines, etc. they'd think twice about it and find an alternative solution. I imagine they'd rather have their $ elsewhere and leave it in the train tunnels and lines.
Maybe we should start beating the shit out of vandals who do this damage and THEY'LL think an alternative solution.
pay to spray.
pay to spray.
Graffiti isn't seperated by white or black, it's for everybody. Stop stereotyping people...
SEVEN FUCKING YEARS?
i despise graffiti vandals
heavy fines plus heavy jail time
why bother cleaning it up? someone else is gonna come back and spray all over again. why should we have to pay every time?
I say leave it. Then graffiti-ers won't have any room to do more...or they'll just go over the existing stuff.
I think graffiti is an artistic aspect of new york city's urban areas.
but who care what we all think or say....the city will do what it wants at our expense anyway.
graffiti is tasteless vandalism
not all of it is tasteless, some of it even has artistic merit, but all of it is vandalism. why not let it sit there? because this isn't the late 70's/early 80's.
Um, ALL of New York City is urban, dimwit.
over-development and empty high rise condos are tasteless vandalism. way more psychologically and physically damaging than paint.
ok, i'll come over and tag up your home
art!
assh*le
I guess you're assuming that it would bother me? In any case, a subway car is hardly a private home, and it's not up to any of us to define art. There's no rule that says art can't be illegal, annoying, misguided or juvenile.
There's no rule that says art can't be illegal, annoying, misguided or juvenile.
And you happen to be b, c and d.
How about I graffiti my tag on your forehead?
27 years old? Seriously? Jackasses.
Worse. 27 years old and still a student. She's probably leeching off her doting parents, who will pay for whatever their little girl wants.
All you Graffiti haters, is this better?
http://www.pbase.com/ckuhn55/image/63205464
Let me guess, this is excusable because it falls in the realm of capitalism.
Exactly, piknyc! If it were up to me, billboards would be considered unsightly urban blights and banned forever.
Billboards are not acceptable strictly because they fall in the realm of capitalism, but since they are capitalist tools, the people who make them generally try to make them attractive to a wide audience of people...whereas the number of people who find any visual appeal in the word UTAH bubble lettered onto bricks is nearly non-existent.
A subway car is private property moron. How about I come to your house and paint dicks all over it? Who are you to define art? Jackass.
But if she ran over and killed little children with her car, the DA wouldn't be able to figure out a way to send her to prison for 1 year, let alone 7. What a crock of shit.
One is premeditated. The other is an accident. If you can't figure out the difference, please don't ever vote.
7 years. Good.
Graffiti isn't art. It's vandalism.
If these "artists" want canvas for their paint, they should buy fucking canvases.
Or buy their own buildings and spray 'em up.
Goody Bye First Amendment, Sanitize your reality. Art must go at all costs. Cops barely let street musicians perform anymore unless they are part of muisc under new york.
It's not art when you're painting it on city owned or government property without permission. Anybody who thinks otherwise is deluded. This selfish little bitch should have her hands cut off. 7 years in jail is nobody's fault but her own. I hope she gets it.
In response to the person who posted the link to the AF billboard. YES I'd much rather look at the Billboard that was put there legally than some little FIT white bitch who thinks she's so goddam special and above everyone else that she can go around defacing both public and private property. I wish cops had the right to shoot these vandals on sight.
Excellent that the cops snared her and her male cohort in filth. And that 'tagger's nest' with 450 spray paint cans has to be some kind of record. 7 years is too light, I'd throw the switch.
Right on, but will you let me punch her in the face first a few times?
Grafitti sucks.
But "possession of grafitti tools"? How the fuck can that really be a statute. The crime is in the commission. WTF?
Should all men and women be locked up for "possession of prostitution tools"? All locksmiths for "possession of burglary tools"?
To the asshole defending the Abercrombie ad - are you fucking serious? How is that giant piece of shit adding anything to the urban landscape? Let's just turn the entire fucking city into a giant mall...We can turn the West Village into a food court...the Upper East Side into a giant Saks and Brooklyn into a parking lot.
I'll not get into defending graffiti as an art form but these ads all over the place are just as ugly and literally bombard you with stupid shit.
All you sheep just keep lapping up those Gossip Girl, Pepsi, Snickers and Boost Mobile ads......baahh, baahh.
I don't think anyone is defending the artistic or aesthetic value of billboards...but the clear difference between billboards and graffiti is that one is there with permission (and paid for..."commissioned," if you will), and one is there against the property owner's permission.
There can be no debate about that.
Graff is a part of NYC.
7 years is a bit harsh but I seriously doubt she'll get that.
But seriously, hands being cut off, people being beaten?
Probation and jail time are perfect punishments for this impulsive crime.
I have no problem with graff writers being arrested. It's the risk they take, and the risk that makes the experience exciting.
There is a certain extra element to seeing a ballsy piece that obviously took time and skill but was also illegal.
Well, I've never into cutting off the hands of graffiti vandals. However, I've always thought that they should be held down with their hands flat against an anvil and then have those same hands hit hard with a hammer. Underage vandals could be hit with a hard rubber mallet.
While they recovered, they would have lots of time to mull on the errors of their ways.
Graffiti iz one of the Few True Art formz today. Every Billy & Tommy want to participate but few really have Talent. Go after white collar college grads!
Bury that bitch !
I am appalled at the extremism shown here as manifested by the comments calling for imprisonment, gross bodily harm, and death for the offender mentioned in this article and those committing similar acts.
Regardless of whether or not you agree that what she did had value or caused devaluation, what she did alone most certainly does not warrant such extreme punishment.
In reading these comments, I am thankful that we have at least a provision in our constitution against cruel and unusual punishment, for if not, certainly those of you who propose these things would be more likely to be satisfied.
To those who would be satisfied in this way, I call you as you are: barbarous and uncivilized. You may wear the trappings of this current society, and may play some part in it for which you may be considered to be an "upstanding citizen." But at your heart, you are an animal, no better than a commoner in the stadiums of Rome, thirsting for blood, and no better than those that take part in the modern stonings of the Taliban.
For your own infractions I hope judgment is passed upon you by your own standards, and that punishment is enacted with the same extremism you would enact on others.
I think people now a days have so much envy & are insecure.
putting people down makes them feels great. its really sad & dark