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Peripheral Visionary |
We don't go to the city all that often. However we've had a few trips into Houston over the last few weeks and it sure seems like all of a sudden there is a big increase in the amount of graffiti, particularly on the highway road signs. Anyone else notice?   | ||
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Oriental Redneck |
It's called "art". And I agree, thug art. Q | |||
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I live in Houston. My daughter and son-in-law live on a corner, and had their fence tagged. The constable told them to clean it off ASAP and it would stop. They were tagged 1 more time, cleaned it right off and no more tagging. Some of the tagging on rail cars and highway overpasses are actually pretty good. "Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist." Edmund Burke | |||
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| Peripheral Visionary |
A lot of what I've noticed has been script painted in white. Plenty of thug art too, but the script is much more neatly done. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I long for the days when you could watch a train go through town that wasn't covered in graffiti. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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There is an entire subculture. Recent documentaries on it. NYC origination but crews in Houston. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
I hate it when people's personal property is defaced, leaving the owners to spend time and money to remove it. I guess this is the world we live in because no governmental official or agency will risk pissing of the "kids trying to turn their lives around" God forbid. It seems rail cars carry this "art" as a badge. As I wait for trains to pass, I'm often awed by the talent that created that and wish it was aimed at a more productive venture. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| In the yahd, not too fah from the cah  |
Idk about Houston by Massachusetts has been hit hard recently with it particularly on bridges and the back of the large green highway guide signs. It appears to be just one or two people doing it, but it's popping up everywhere. | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
Could be worse ... you seen NYC? | |||
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| Peripheral Visionary |
Could be worse for sure, but it was significant enough to notice the increase in two weeks time. | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
Graffiti is often far more than art. Learn to read the basics and understand what’s going on in your cities. More graffiti is no bueno… "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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| Peripheral Visionary |
Indeed. | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
[drift] As an aside, a businessman in a district I worked as a cop, found his business being tagged daily. He was at an intersection of two bordering gangs. I mentioned to him about repainting it and then coating it with wax. Worked like a charm. He painted the whole wall one morning, then had his employee coat the wall with wax, (like Johnson’s paste wax). The next day there was spray paint but it didn’t stick and the taggers quit using that wall. [/drift] Whenever I see tags I know it’s an area you don’t want to be in. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
"Maybe if you wrote it in fuckin' English I could fuckin' understand it."This message has been edited. Last edited by: egregore, | |||
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| drop and give me 20 pushups |
Thug Art sometimes might be quiet good...But the bottom line it is "vandalism" no matter how you look at it unless the property owner gave expressed permission for the "Thug Art".... Also used to mark gang territory boundries.... drill sgt. | |||
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| quarter MOA visionary |
Houston is a big place, might be just where you are. | |||
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| Peripheral Visionary |
We drove down US59 right past downtown on our way to med center and seemed like every other sign above the roadway had the white paint on it. Don't remember seeing it two weeks ago. Maybe I missed it the first time. | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
Rapid City took an interesting tact. They established "art alley." An area where graffiti artists could feel free to create. Has been effective in curbing unwanted "tagging" elsewhere. https://www.artalleyrc.com/ Some examples:   Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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It is a pox on cities world-wide. Disgusting. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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It's been there for several years. I see it because when I'm going North on 59 it's always drive time./ "Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist." Edmund Burke | |||
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