Comments (7) to “Under 101 ~ Downtown”

1. Jolt PTW L4T 254P wrote:

   

   the homie Class L4T doing real BIG haha. clean.

   Posted on 18-Nov-09 at 12:39 pm | Permalink

2. tae wrote:

   

   sick
   wish that blue wasn’t there

   Posted on 18-Nov-09 at 1:51 pm | Permalink

3. rice wrote:

   

   yeah, that was a classic mural. Too bad all that garbage has ruined it; what a bunch of jack-asses. the image is “powerful” because of the artist who painted the original mural. “CLASS”?- what a f*ckng joke. parasites and self-aggrandizing pricks.

   Posted on 18-Nov-09 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

4. Gilbert wrote:

   

   rice do u think that only artists the government says can paint have the right to public property and should be protected on the streets 4 all time? it’s a big city and decay happens, it’s like rust on a statue. u call it garbage, i call it a reflection of my city. i think it’s more powerful since it’s evolved into what it is. the government can pay for murals but should they be frozen in time forever? naw it’s the streets homie. shit changes and we are the better 4 it.

   Posted on 19-Nov-09 at 6:32 am | Permalink

5. Samie Burrito wrote:

   

   Gilbert you raise an interesting question but I think you are missing the point. I Find it highly unlikely that anyone on this site “thinks that only artists the government says can paint have the right to public property”. The problem that I think Rice and I have is that class could easily have choosen a way to hit that wall without defacing the previous artists work. In fact I would go so far to say that if “Class” had thought about it for a moment he could have worked his piece into the original making the total become more than it had been. But he did not. Instead he did a bit of a disrespectful move and just plastered over. You could argue the guy with the blue paint super soaker is a worse offender and you would be right, but I don’t think that guy intended his work to be anything more than a dog pissing on a hydrant. Class looks like he has some skills and takes pride in his work, he should also take pride in works of others. Place it in her hand like she is holding it, use the face or hand and the outline of the shape for your piece, something more than just just slapping it up there like its a play bill. It’s all about adding to art not taking away and a few seconds of thought about composition could have produced amazingly different results here. Love both pieces and I would never tell anyone to not make art, just be respectful of this art you have such a passion for and keep making more!

   Posted on 19-Nov-09 at 7:41 am | Permalink

6. C. Baines wrote:

   

   I think it’s a little wrong to go over a mural. Sure you can use the whole public argument, but still. Nevertheless, it has already been defaced, so it doesn’t matter.

   Posted on 20-Nov-09 at 3:03 am | Permalink

7. Acme SH LOD wrote:

   

   Its more than a little wrong to bomb on a mural. It shouldn’t be done at all, whether its been previously hit or not. Graff writers are supposed to and should stay off murals. As funny as it sounds, some criminal activity has its own set of morals or ground rules, graff is no different. And getting up on a mural was/is one that is not acceptable to do. Getting up on a mural seems to have become a new landmark in the late 90′s because the buff wouldn’t get it. So writers kept on hitting them because shit wasn’t getting buffed like everything else. The great majority of people are followers, so the toys followed suit. All it took was a couple prominent writers to do this and it was like giving a stamp of approval to all the youngsters. (the ‘ol “he’s doing it so it must be ok” mentality).Then it got so bad murals we all grew up with, in some cases watched their creation, were getting whitewashed and began to dissapear. Now we have a new generation that has only seen murals one way, and that is bombed on. They no it no other way. That is why some may see it as a truer reflection of the city. But all of the destroyed murals were reflections of the city and its peoples and their histories in that city. If one would take the time they would see these pieces of art done on a grand scale were and are about us,them, the city we live in and the people that live in it. There is no justification or acceptable reasoning for destroying these works of art. We are not better for it Gilbert. One other thing, Never modify someone’s mural without their consent. That’s also disrespect(to respond to one of Samie’s well intended points). I had an unsuccessful talk with Dahm about this last year and it was another lesson in the thought process of new generation. Some still don’t get it and never will. Peace, and stay off the few clean murals we have left!

   Posted on 04-Feb-10 at 8:06 am | Permalink

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