Taggers graffiti 27 stories of skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles
aggers have graffitied what appears to be more than 25 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper that’s been sitting dormant for several years.
Construction on Oceanwide Plaza, a $1 billion mixed-use retail and luxury apartments project with three towering unfinished structures, stalled in January 2019 after the Beijing-based developer lacked the funds to complete it, the Los Angeles Times reported.
It is unclear exactly how those responsible for the graffiti covering much of the building’s exterior gained entry to the site, or when they began their daring and illegal project.
One witness, Daron Burgundy, said the taggers have been blasting the building with spray paint for the last three nights.
“I could see people up on the balcony were tagging and everything,” Burgundy, who is a street photographer, told KTLA’s John Fenoglio. “Last night there was a crew on one of the floors and people were coming out and getting detained by LAPD and getting cited and released. People were still in there tagging while the cops were down here.”
Video posted to the Citizen App on Jan. 30 just before midnight shows what appears to be a person on the balcony of one of the buildings working on the graffiti.
Aerial footage of the buildings captured by Sky5 shows phrases like, “set the pace” and “amen” spray painted on the outside, as well as other tags like, “SINKOE,” “XN28,” “ROSEK” and “AMI.”
Burgundy said that he’s surprised it’s taken this long for taggers to hit the buildings because the construction site has been vacant for years, adding that he heard people have been coming from out of state to tag the structures.
“Last night I heard that people have been coming from out of state to paint here,” he said. “LAPD mentioned that there might be an Instagram post floating around and apparently it was inviting people to come. It’s been wild to watch. It’s kind of interesting. It’s not so luxury around here anymore.”
So far, the Los Angeles Police Department has not announced any arrests in connection with the graffiti or trespassing on the construction site.
Click on the link to see the picture - is really sort of impressive.
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February 01, 2024, 05:51 PM
pedropcola
Call me a curmudgeon but I don't find that impressive at all. If they flew up there and magically did it then maybe but they just broke in and spray painted each floor of a vacant building. Which will cost a small fortune to someone to rectify. I don't find vandalism of any kind impressive.
February 01, 2024, 05:54 PM
ragman
^^^^^^
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February 01, 2024, 05:57 PM
StarTraveler
Looks like a lot of it is on the balconies. If they can catch those who did it, the punishment ought to include a safety course, including harnesses and tie-offs and them making them scrape (or brush or whatever) every bit of it off. That would amount to a couple hundred hours of community service each and might make them think before they try it again.
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February 01, 2024, 05:58 PM
bald1
I'm with pedropcola. It's an eyesore plain and simple.
Much better, although again I'm not a fan of spray paint "artists," is something like Art Alley in Rapid City, where these folks can decorate having obtained a permit. Here's a photo gallery of their work: https://www.artalleyrc.com/photo-gallery.html
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February 01, 2024, 05:58 PM
parabellum
quote:
Originally posted by LS1 GTO: Click on the link to see the picture - is really sort of impressive.
The only thing that would impress me is if the trash who did this all were found dead by the end of today. Now that would impress me.
I don't want to live in a world where this kind of shit is acceptable.
Do you really want to walk down streets and see graffiti all over buildings? Really?
Graffiti is vandalism, plain and simple. It is not art unless you have permission from the property owner. It pisses me off. You never, ever mess with someone else's property. My dad would kick our asses for cutting across a neighbor’s yard on foot.
February 01, 2024, 07:21 PM
bendable
If they could only use their super powers for good.
Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency.
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February 01, 2024, 07:22 PM
BB61
How much do you all want to bet it was a planned publicity stunt? To noticeable to be done anonymously.
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February 01, 2024, 07:24 PM
LS1 GTO
vandalism done by creatons notwithstanding; this was not a street-level fence/building and not a sign which hangs from a bridge, they hit a 26-story building and not just one floor, pretty much all of them.
if they fell in progress, not great loss to society except for the psyche of those find an need to deal with the aftermath.
And nothing on my side to say they should not be punished for vandalism of an abandoned building, The ballz it took to do this and the time, coupled with not getting caught...yet.
To me, this is akin to an assassin taking a shot from 1,700 yards away and hitting the mark.
Impressive act but still reprehensible.
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February 01, 2024, 07:27 PM
Gustofer
Used to be you could see a train roll through town NOT completely covered with that shit. I'd surely like to go back to those days.
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February 01, 2024, 07:35 PM
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The old movies depicting a fallen New York always showed walls covered in graffiti, striped cars and homeless drug zombies.
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February 01, 2024, 07:44 PM
Rightwire
I see an impressive amount of damage that some little punk needs to pay for....
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February 01, 2024, 07:47 PM
Rey HRH
The news to me is a 25 story skyscraper being dormant for several years.
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February 01, 2024, 07:50 PM
ZSMICHAEL
Nothin says GHETTO better than this shit. Some teen tagged the office building behind me. The landlord was slow at removal. When more shit showed up he cleaned it off. Then pseudo gang signs showed up on my building. I took care of it immediately and no recurrence.
February 01, 2024, 08:03 PM
egregore
quote:
Construction on Oceanwide Plaza, a $1 billion mixed-use retail and luxury apartments project with three towering unfinished structures, stalled in January 2019 after the Beijing-based developer lacked the funds to complete it …
February 02, 2024, 01:01 PM
cas
You're assuming they climbed from balcony to balcony? The building's not in use, then there's no reason they couldn't use the stairs.
No??
February 02, 2024, 01:22 PM
stoic-one
Murals are one thing, but graffiti/tagging, not so much.
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February 02, 2024, 02:06 PM
CoolRich59
I don't mean to pile on, but count me unimpressed as well.
I clicked on the link expecting to see some kind of guerrilla art, not the same crap I see plastered on the side of every rail car or abandoned building.
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