Comments on: Girafa pleads guilty

By: dafu

dafu — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:40:56 +0000

your views on graffiti/streetart are very ignorant and stereotypical. And judging by your comment you don’t know how big the graffiti community is.
on top of that most graffiti writers DO pay taxes and live relatively normal lives. just because you view it differently does not make it such a malicious crime

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:22:29 +0000

Sfdoggy: Except that people DO come to SF to see Graffiti art, as evidenced by the tourists wandering the mural alleys of the Mission.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:05:02 +0000

sorry mina, i think sfdoggy here nailed it.

Your turn!

By: mina

mina — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:26:38 +0000

sorry sfdoggy, i think pedro here nailed it.

i’d even go so far though, to defend even the taggers that he put down. one man/woman’s doodle is another man/woman’s artistic masterpiece. it’s one thing to have strictly enforced punishments for anyone who can be identified as “vandals,” but you can’t just fine or punish the guy because you think his art is crap.

but the real question: is street art/graffiti/tagging really such a burden on ones eyes and quality of life? and even if it is, let the punishment fit the crime. give the guy a bucket of soapy water and a scrub brush and make him work for 8 hours; don’t fine him more than he probably makes in a year.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:24:07 +0000

False.

By: SFdoggy

SFdoggy — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:52:53 +0000

Graffit art is just another name for vandalism. It is done by self-centered people who have no respect for others in their community. Maybe you like it, but very few others do. Those who own property or pay taxes are rightly fed up with the damage done by these juveniles.

By: SFdoggy

SFdoggy — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:50:14 +0000

My what anger; too bad it is sooo misplaced.

The fact is that doodles like this are ugly and have no artistic value. People may travel to SF for the artist scene, but not for this crap — vandalism is not creative, interesting or meaningful. You just need to get over yourself and start respecting others. Destroying property because of your self-centered need to express yourself is the definition of juvenile.

If you want fight against corporate billboards; go for it. No one likes them. But the existence of billboards is not a justification for acting like a spoiled child. Whether you are a tagger or just defending your friends, you need to grow up.

By: Homeless Laptop user

Homeless Laptop user — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:12:41 +0000

you are ineligible.

By: Pedro Navaja

Pedro Navaja — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:12:16 +0000

Fuck you; you’re full of shit.
You want to see a blight on the urban landscape? Look at the tags done by prolific asses such as J-A-S-T and Dan Plasma. You can’t go anywhere in the city without looking at their same-old-same-old unimaginative crap; one, like corporate advertising, assaults us with sameness, and the other one makes our eyes bleed with amateurish scrawls.
You probably don’t know it, but people travel to San Francisco from Europe, Latin America and Asia just to see and photograph the street artist scene.
Stick to your corporate cube.
You’re the type that would rather look at McDonald’s and Toyota billboards instead of something atypical.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:45:20 +0000

Hear, hear.

By: SCUM

SCUM — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:55:24 +0000

He was charged on 2 of the 10 felony charges and was fined $38,000 for damages, fuck him.

By: kusfwtf

kusfwtf — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:18:26 +0000

yeah, he definitely deserves to be put in jail and butt fucked. who the fuck are you, karl rove?

By: someJuan

someJuan — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:14:15 +0000

I like Girafa. It was always a pleasant surprise stumbling onto his latest piece. Especially when driving along 101 on the peninsula. It was like finding an easter egg. It isn’t tagging. It’s graffiti art. Tagging is the ineligible scribblings all over the city done with markers and spray cans. I’d rather see giraffe’s heads every where than tags.

By: Stu

Stu — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:43:23 +0000

You mean our justice system still works?

By: SCUM

SCUM — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:08:50 +0000

32 years old and tagging? Grow the fuck up loser. I hope he gets busted again and does some jail time. The convicts will LOVE his gangster ASS.