Art - The Streets

Street Artist Deems Beer "Good"

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

I was in Berkeley the other day getting begged for change (don’t worry, faithless readers, I was there for work), when I stumbled across what I consider to be quality street art.

Yummy Stuff Builds Buzz Right

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

I was going down Arguello earlier and came across this spot.  “Damn, this spot got fucked over with these badass birds.”  Then I noticed this shit wasn’t permanent and just washes right off.  Now I’m looking at their website.  Ice cream!  Soft Serve!  Fresh Fruit Bar!  Graffiti!  Fuckers probably commissioned this noise to be painted all over their windows so insensitive assholes like me would blog about it.

 

PURE VANDALISM!

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Oh NIMBY neighbors.  Look, I can totally appreciate how much it sucks to have to clean up a mess you didn’t make.  For example, someone takes a fat shit on my front steps once a month.  But, you know, I made a choice to live in a city and, more specifically, a neighborhood not known for being suburbs-meets-city livin’.  Sometimes people lack an understanding of the street art code of conduct.  Mourn, repaint, and move on.

From the Safe Clean Green mailing list:

New landscaping at 18th & Dolores gets defaced

For those of us who were involved in making happen or have been appreciating the new landscaping at the corner of 18th and Dolores (Thank you Rec&Park for getting it done!), it was upsetting to learn that last Saturday night three taggers defaced it with their black, red and white “urine spots.” (let’s call this crap what it is!)

PURE VANDALISM!

Removing the graffiti correctly, i.e., “seamlessly,” is no simple task on surfaces like this (stained pressure-treated wood). The boneheads who did this perhaps didn’t realize—or more likely, didn’t care—that what took them all of a minute each to do may take 2-3 hours for someone else to undo.

In my dreams I imagined an enlightened judge sentencing each one to being chained to the adjacent lamp post for a day, forced to wear a breadboard announcing I’M THE BONEHEAD WHO DID THIS, then after each has had their day in the limelight, have them all come together and remove all trace of their handiwork. It was a most satisfying dream. And then I woke up …

 

Z-Man Lets You Choose Your Own Price, and That Price is Free

— By Brizz |

San Francisco and Gurp City’s own Z-Man has a gift for you: his new, free, downloadable EP,Show Up, Shut Up and Rap. I realize that’s not as exciting as stealing it off the internet or shoplifting it from the defunct Virgin Megastore, but if you are familiar with Z’s work, you are definitely stoked, and if you’re not familiar with him, now’s your chance to jump on the bandwagon of a man who’s worked with Hieroglyphics and is part of One Block Radius, not to mention the writer and performer of the hit song “White Girls Wit Ass” off his excellent  Dope or Dog Food. My research team also just turned up Z’s Twitter, which I’m sure is hilarious, and dude is a prolific visual artist, you’ve probably seen his work at different smoke shops and different businesses around the city. 

Download it here.

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