Comments on: High-rise Taggin' http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/ Saluting San Francisco's Mission District Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Mission Valencia Art – Win Some, Lose Some (and Then Some) « Burrito Justice http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6935 Mission Valencia Art – Win Some, Lose Some (and Then Some) « Burrito Justice Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:10:50 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6935 [...] View Bank, established in 1911, was taken over by US Bank in 2002. The building got paintballed by MAC 10 years [...]

]]> By: Willy http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6934 Willy Fri, 22 May 2009 20:18:13 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6934 Best I remember, BigStep promised to employ mission residents and engage the community, but they ended up eventually going out of business or being bought up. Looking up the address on superpages.com it looks like there’s a various group of businesses on the 5th floor.

]]> By: zinzin http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6933 zinzin Fri, 22 May 2009 17:49:44 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6933 hm. i do seem to remember that. what was the result of the protest (other than the paint)? did BigStep move out?

who’s in there now?

]]> By: Willy http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6932 Willy Fri, 22 May 2009 17:32:55 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6932 Offices above the Bayview bank were rented by non-profits and community groups. The lease for those spaces was taken over by a web site hosting company BigStep (which is no more). MAC organized the protest that took over the offices and paint balled the building.

]]> By: joe http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6931 joe Fri, 22 May 2009 15:49:12 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6931 Read “On the Lower Frequencies” by Erick Lyle to get a personal story about how those paint splashes ended on the side of the building.

]]> By: Eric http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6930 Eric Fri, 22 May 2009 01:32:07 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6930 There’s a ladder built into one side of the sign. They may have simply climbed up.

]]> By: derek http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6929 derek Thu, 21 May 2009 23:54:22 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6929 heard there was one of those pg&e type crane things near it, at least that’s what the graf forums said. Shit is nuts no matter how it was done

]]> By: derek http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6928 derek Thu, 21 May 2009 23:51:48 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6928 aww I always had the idea that they used a water balloon launcher with paint in them. Always walk by that ugly building happy to see the marks

]]> By: johnny0 http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6927 johnny0 Thu, 21 May 2009 18:57:53 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6927 If the bank had been smart, they would have bought more paint guns and turned it into a giant Seurat mural. Or the Mona Lisa, like Mythbusters showed. (The slow-mo in the last 20 seconds in epic…)

]]> By: crunchpow http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6926 crunchpow Thu, 21 May 2009 18:31:45 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6926 I was just going to say this.

]]> By: zinzin http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6925 zinzin Thu, 21 May 2009 17:51:24 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6925 what’s inside that building now?

]]> By: olu http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6924 olu Thu, 21 May 2009 17:46:45 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6924 Speaking of which. have you seen the tag on the top of the Safeway sign @ market & Church? I wonder how they got up there.

]]> By: Kevin Montgomery http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6923 Kevin Montgomery Thu, 21 May 2009 14:34:16 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6923 Are you serious? Wow, I’m fucking observant. I just noticed them a couple of days ago

]]> By: LibertyHiller http://www.missionmission.org/2009/05/21/high-rise-taggin/#comment-6922 LibertyHiller Thu, 21 May 2009 14:29:41 +0000 http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?p=4543#comment-6922 The paintball stains on US Bank’s building are leftovers from the anti-gentrification riots of the dot-com era, around 1999. The building was occupied by BayView Bank at the time; I guess they hoped it would just wash off.

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