Legal Information
Mayor: We’ll Arrest and Prosecute Park Vandals
Mayor: We’ll Arrest and Prosecute Park Vandals
By: Rigoberto Hernandez | June 19, 2012 – 3:24 pm (link to posting)
The vandals of Dolores Park and Potrero Del Sol have gained a new powerful enemy: Mayor Ed Lee.
Today, during the mayor’s question time at the Board of Supervisors meeting, Lee promised to take steps to curb the vandalism that has hit city parks recently.
The Helen Diller playground at Dolores Park, for example, was vandalized just days after opening in April. Vandals marked the playground with graffiti and removed six of the 14 metal keys from the xylophone, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“Crimes of vandalism and graffiti are an assault on our public resources,” Lee said. “It’s shameful.”
Here is how the mayor promised to curb the vandalism:
- The Parks and Recreation Department is working with food vendors…
Vandal Stencils Original Picasso (Video, TX, USA)
Police are investigating after a vandal defaced an original Pablo Picasso painting at a Texas museum last week and it happened to be captured on video by another museum-goer.
A grainy cellphone video on YouTube shows a man in a suit spray-painting a stencil of a bullfighter killing a bull on the 1929 Picasso painting "Woman in a Red Armchair" at Houston's Menil Collection museum. The man also wrote the Spanish word "Conquista" (meaning to conquer) before he fled.
The person who posted the video online alleges the culprit is a Mexican-American artist. Further to that, the museum-goer who filmed the spray painter told KPRC Channel 2 the vandal identified himself as an artist looking to honour Picasso's work.
Houston police spokeswoman Victor Senties told the Houston Chronicle they are investigating it as a criminal mischief case.
Museum security immediately took the painting to its in-house expert for repair June 13, the newspaper reports.
The value of…
Read moreNYC Tagger Neo was also NYPD
Graffiti legend was also an NYPD cop
By KATHIANNE BONIELLO
Last Updated: 11:24 AM, November 6, 2011
Posted: 9:34 PM, November 5, 2011
Police have discovered the identity of one of New York City’s most prolific graffiti vandals -- and he’s one of their own.
Steven Weinberg, 43, of Flushing, a patrolman who retired from the NYPD in 2001 after hurting his leg, is the notorious “Neo” -- one of the peskiest subway taggers of the 1980s.
And the spray-painting miscreant is making a comeback, cops say.
“He’s definitely prolific,” a source said.
Transit cops investigating graffiti in northeast Queens watched as Neo’s tag began appearing all over train trestles and highway overpasses the last two years, not far from Weinberg’s home.
They knew their nemesis was a cop. Numerous tipsters confided that Neo once wore a badge, and detectives uncovered a faceless photograph of Neo online, back to the camera, wearing an…
Richmond, CA PD Install Covert Cameras
Somebody’s Watching You: City Installs Covert Cameras
by Melissa Scott Sinclair
Flash. Click. Busted.
Richmond police have placed 11 hidden cameras around the city as part of a secret surveillance program intended to catch graffiti taggers, illegal dumpers and other miscreants.
Each solar-powered camera snaps a series of still photos when it detects motion in an area known for illegal activity. Police then review the photos and, if they have enough information, identify and charge suspects.
“It’s hard for you to say, ‘It was not me,’ when I have a picture of you or a video of you,” says Maj. Sydney G. Collier, chief of staff for the Richmond Police Department. Since quietly launching the camera program in April, he says, police have used the cameras to make three arrests: two for illegal dumping and one for…
Read moreGraffito Artist: Pay Attention!! [u]
Upon deeper reading of this sign, these are NOT legal codes. They are bullet calibers! Begs the legal question: If you shoot someone for spraying graff on your truck, is it self defense?
How do you graffiti-proof public art?
4 July 2011 Last updated at 10:55 ET
From the BBC
Who, What, Why: How do you graffiti-proof public art?
Spray can Graffiti may be art to some, but it is seen as a nuisance by others
Continue reading the main story
A landmark sculpture project is at risk because of spiralling costs - including the budget for keeping it graffiti-free. How do you protect public artworks from vandals?
It was meant to be a towering monument - a 50m (164ft) white horse in the fields of Kent greeting Eurostar passengers to England. But now sculptor Mark Wallinger's so-called "Angel of the South" project is at risk because of rising costs.
The price tag for the Ebbsfleet Landmark Project (ELP) has gone up from £2m to £12m, according to reports, with the budget for removing graffiti over 80 years part of the revised bill.
Keeping outdoor artworks like sculptures and murals unsullied by vandalism…
Read moreCity Buffs Legal Mural - Toronto
Mural artist Joel Richardson was paid $2,000 by the city to do a mural on a city-owned wall on Dupont just west of Lansdowne. On Tuesday, somebody -- apparently the city -- painted over it, likely as part of Rob Ford's graffiti eradication campaign.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Artist Joel Richardson says the city has painted over a popular Dupont St. mural that it paid him $2,…
Read moreHong Kong Graffiti Challenges Chinese Artist's Arrest
Hong Kong Graffiti Challenges Chinese Artist's Arrest
by Louisa Lim
May 4, 2011 (from NPR)
The Art of the Buff in San Francisco
The art of clearing taggers' work in San Francisco
Monday, February 21, 2011
Nobody knows more about graffiti than Joe Padilla. The paint-shop supervisor for the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, Padilla oversees graffiti removal for all of the city's 220 parks.
A San Francisco native, Padilla, 50, was baptized at Mission Dolores and grew up at 15th and Noe streets. He lives in…
Read moreSpray Paint and the Buff: Bad for Air Quality?
2022 UPDATE: This post gets a fair amount of traffic via Google searches for spray paint and air quality issues. Glad you stopped by! Recently, Stencil Archive has added other posts about spray paint and environmental/health issues: a long read on aerosol pollution from Mongabay, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for Belton and MTN 94 paints, and an article on aerosols from National Geographic. Read on and get informed. - Stencil Archive
Paint it green