Comments on: The Weak Shit Shall Inherit http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Tue, 05 May 2026 21:20:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: SFDoggy http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6542 SFDoggy Fri, 08 May 2009 18:16:46 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6542 Yeah just convinces me more that graffit vandals should be stopeed.

]]> By: Jim http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6541 Jim Wed, 06 May 2009 19:40:32 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6541 The Shepard Fairey paste-up at Larkin & O’Farrell was tagged over after a few months. Clarion Alley is increasingly tagged. The “level of respect” is getting lower and lower. Kids these days!

]]> By: 26thStreet http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6540 26thStreet Wed, 06 May 2009 18:52:05 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6540 In Montreal there are commissioned walls all over the city. They even go so far as to clear coat them (yearly, I believe). I grew up right outside of New York City and the most beautiful work I’ve ever seen is there, mostly tucked under something or in a tunnel (the tunnel going into Penn Station is great). I used to think Warm Water Cove had great graffiti. I was appalled that some “community members” would organize a “clean up warm water cove” barbeque and paint over everything. There was that Uzi Suicide piece- Uzi Suicide broke up. They aren’t a band any more, and that piece is gone. It is sad and it sucks and Warm Water Cove is ugly as sin now. What asshole picked forest green paint? They could have at least made it mocha colored, or peach, or mint or something.

]]> By: Plug1 http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6539 Plug1 Wed, 06 May 2009 14:39:39 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6539 prediction: the intersection and surrounding area of 18th & Harrison is going to get crushed, and soon.

next.

]]> By: generic http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6538 generic Wed, 06 May 2009 05:39:20 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6538 There’s certainly something to your point there. While I agree with Allan & Co. on their general sentiment regarding graffiti, it’s pretty clear the other side thinks a crime is a crime is a crime, and that the relative aesthetic value of each individual crime is completely beside the point.

]]> By: 18th at Harrison http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6537 18th at Harrison Wed, 06 May 2009 03:18:42 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6537 Well not to stoop to the lingo of my opponents or anything, but graffiti sucks. Sometimes one must eschew all the reasoning in this argument and get to the lowly heart of it. Pulling the gavinator argument just doesn’t cut it, as the gavnator wasn’t the cruel author of the local law that forced people to remove all graffiti regardless of its cultural significance (which by the way is no greater then my dog’s pee-mail.

]]> By: Neo Displacer http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6536 Neo Displacer Wed, 06 May 2009 02:06:10 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6536 I call shenanigans. I’ve lived in the city for 20 years. The argument/line of reasoning is specious. Balmy Ally, famous for its murals, was tagged with garbage, tagged right over quality art in 1990. There was no respect then as there is none now. The problem of bad art and vandalism are as pervasive now as then. The notion of unintended consequences is a powerful one and shows up all the time, for instance in rent control, but it’s being misapplied here. My anecdotal evidence suggests the opposite of your anecdotal evidence.

]]> By: Plug1 http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6535 Plug1 Tue, 05 May 2009 23:36:19 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6535 @Allan: From the way the conversation was going at the Anti-Graffiti Super Huddle, it doesnt sound like Mohammed Neru (Graf Czar), Officer Christopher Putz (SFPD Graffiti Unit), Edward Reiskin (Director of Public Works ), Edwin Lee (City Administrator) or Paul Henderson (DA’s Office) are open to anything other than “Zero Graffiti” in San Francisco.

I am very interested in seeing how the post-Newsom Mayor’s office will prioritize this issue, if at all.

]]> By: Allan Hough http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6534 Allan Hough Tue, 05 May 2009 23:23:39 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6534 Plug1, do you have a sense of what the odds might be of that ever actually happening? Like, are there permanent statutes in place now preventing it, or is it as easy as a little petition? Like, maybe we could get Chicken John to mobilize his troops?

]]> By: zinzin http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6533 zinzin Tue, 05 May 2009 23:22:14 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6533 so:

side of ali baba
side of beauty bar
side of farina
front wall of my house
side of building that has duc loi (i think)
GIANT walls in bruno’s parking lot
San Carlos walls of the PGE barn that has the “vamos gigantes” mural
Side of the Lexington
the side of that art deco 99 cent store at 18th & mission

this is just shit i walk by every day.

]]> By: Plug1 http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6532 Plug1 Tue, 05 May 2009 23:19:33 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6532 bringing back spots such as Psycho City and Warm Water Cover (Tire/Toxic Beach) would certainly be a good start.

]]> By: Allan Hough http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6531 Allan Hough Tue, 05 May 2009 23:04:41 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6531 Yeah, a playoff system just might fulfill the sport aspect for some people.

]]> By: johnny0 http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6530 johnny0 Tue, 05 May 2009 22:59:55 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6530 graffiti playoff bracket, with online voting:

http://missionmission.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/stop-look-up-and-listen/#comment-7502

The creme brulee cart can chase taggers with his little blowtorch to keep it real.

]]> By: zinzin http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6529 zinzin Tue, 05 May 2009 22:58:10 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6529 also, i guess in many cases, “organized” means either “sold out” or “getting caught by the cops”.

orfn, for example, probably couldn’t participate, and wouldn’t want to.

]]> By: zinzin http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/05/the-weak-shit-shall-inherit/#comment-6528 zinzin Tue, 05 May 2009 22:55:27 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4282#comment-6528 yeah. along side for sure.

i love the idea, but i know it’s a little pedestrian.

]]>