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Friday, February 12th, 2010New Graffiti Laws – GB property owners must remove graffiti
Thursday, February 4th, 2010New program shedding light on graffiti problem
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Army engineers clean up graffiti along L.A. River
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
The riverbed that runs east of downtown has long been a haven for taggers, an open canvas with easy entry and easy escape routes. Crews are painting over the tags and working to keep new ones out.
For as long as many can remember, the section of the Los Angeles River that runs east of downtown has been an open-air gallery for taggers. No more.
Members of the self-described “Metro Transit Assassins” used the river’s sloping banks for massive tags of their acronym that stretched for blocks and could be seen from passing aircraft. “Buket,” who gained notoriety for tagging the Hollywood Freeway overpass, put his black-bordered, mint-green moniker here at its biggest and boldest.
But in recent months, these tags and tens of thousands of others have begun to vanish beneath coats of grayish-white paint. And with the year drawing to a close, the river is almost as blank a canvas as when its concrete channel was built early in the last century.
Bringing Down the Curtain on a Symbol of Blight
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
New York City’s storefront gates, like its fire escapes and stoops, are there but not quite there: the unnoticed wallpaper of New York at night. They have been battered by vandals and defaced by graffiti taggers. They have secured diamonds, handmade tortellini and other valuable commodities. They have provided the clattering soundtrack of dawn and dusk, the steel canvas of struggling artists, the most compelling evidence that the city does, indeed, sleep. And now, on orders of the City Council, roll-down gates have joined the ranks of fatty foods and cigarette smoke: they have been legislated against, some right into extinction.
The Council voted on Monday to ban the kind of security gates that completely shield commercial storefront windows and doors from view — ones that resemble old-fashioned auto garage doors, with narrow horizontal slats that rise up like a steely sort of curtain — while permitting the kinds of gates common in suburban shopping malls that allow passers-by to see inside…
Chris Brown assigned to clean up graffiti and trash as community service for beating Rihanna
Friday, September 4th, 2009
Hip-hop R&B star Chris Brown says his next album will be called “Graffiti,” but in the meantime he’ll be cleaning up graffiti in Virginia.
Graffiti Cleanups are all the rage!!
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Newark has started an initiative to get community involved in fighting graffiti
This is an example of some of the more creative graffiti found on the streets of Newark. This one is at Passaic Street.
Arturo Reyes could be called a recruiter, but residents won’t find him at a career fair or on an athletic field. Maybe they will find him on the streets of the North Ward, but that is only if they know to look for him because he is an aide to Councilman Anibal Ramos Jr. who leads the councilman’s efforts to clean up the streets, literally. He searches for areas in the community that are littered with graffiti, so he and members of the community can paint over it.
The search doesn’t require much effort as Reyes has plenty of buildings to choose from. Driving on roads such as Broadway and Summer Street, not one building is singled out. In fact, it appears that more buildings are defaced than are not. Even the city says this form of vandalism is the most prominent in North Newark.
“Defacing has become overwhelming – even more now than before,” said Rose Raab, acting manager for the division of demolition and recycling. “Everybody is an artist.”
Newark’s Graffiti Education Team has been around since 1994. From the beginning they not only washed away graffiti, but educated businesses and residents how to remove it for themselves. An increase in graffiti has required a greater initiative that involves and educates the community.”If someone did something to my house, I’m not going to wait for the city to clean it up,” said Habib Ahad, supervisor of the city’s team.
Ahad’s crew consists of two other workers with one truck. Although Raab said they would like to get a second truck, she emphasized the importance of the community’s involvement in keeping Newark’s parks and buildings clean. The community will have the same knowledge as her team, knowing what solvents to use on different building materials and where they can find those solvents. She introduced these efforts to city employees last month and will introduce them to the community later this year at the Green Fair.
“We are trying to recycle their minds,” Raab added.
And so far it appears to be working. They are even converting some vandals.
Raab remembers two boys who the city caught defacing property. Their sentence was to work with her team. By the time they finished their required community service hours they were ready to continue the cleanup work.
“Someone needs to teach these kids to have pride,” Raab said, adding that these boys learned that while working with her team. “It might help to round up enough of them and have them work.”
Essentially, this is the city plan, but even with surveillance cameras it is not easy to catch these kids. Instead, Raab intends to involve the efforts of all the youths in the community.
One idea Raab plans to enact is a citywide mural contest. She said that this would turn “eyesores into eye candy.” She also hopes this will instill pride in the city’s youths so they will also combat vandalism.
“I’m counting on them confronting someone who messes up their work,” Raab added.
In the meantime in the North Ward, Reyes leads the graffiti removal effort for Councilman Ramos. He said they team up with Ahad and the city’s graffiti crew once a month with the councilman also painting a couple of buildings. They also collaborate with different organizations in the city, including the Forest Hill Association, ASPIRA – a nonprofit organization for Latino youths, Barringer High School and the police department.
NYC to ease graffiti removal
Thursday, July 9th, 2009NEW YORK (AP) – The city wants to make it easier for property owners to deal with graffiti.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council are working on legislation that would place the burden with the city.
Now, owners must allow the city to clean up graffiti on their property. The new legislation would give the city authority to remove graffiti unless a property owner says otherwise.
Officials say the change allows property owners to keep graffiti they consider artwork, and speeds up the removal of vandalism.
So far in 2009, Bloomberg’s graffiti removal team has cleaned an estimated 2.5 million square feet of space at nearly 4,000 sites. Other city agencies have also cleaned graffiti, for a total of 6 million square feet removed to date in 2009.
Via:AP
Overhead Expressway Signs Tagged With Graffiti
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Two overhead signs on the Dan Ryan Expressway were defaced with graffiti over the weekend The tags on the northbound Dan Ryan at Roosevelt Road were so huge that they obscured the print on the signs leading motorists to the each direction of the Eisenhower.
The tags read “OOPS” and “KWOT” in large bubble letters. Similar tags have been seen elsewhere along expressways in the Chicago area.
Illinois Department of Transportation officials are trying to figure out who defaced the signs, and how they could have done it.
The crews removed the graffiti on Monday morning, and as of the middle of the day, there were few clues in the case.
Via:cbs2chicago.com
Graffiti removal is lemon-scent
Monday, March 16th, 2009
STEVEN Carwell and his dad Terry are turning the tide on Rockhampton’s graffiti problem.
The father and son business partners helped in developing a non-solvent citrus graffiti removal solution, the first product of its kind to hit the market in Australia, and Rockhampton is getting the first taste.
Steven, 40, said they developed Graffiti Remover 100 with a team of chemist’s from a company in Texas about five months ago.
The solution is simply wiped onto the spray paint with a cloth and graffiti is moved within minutes.
Steven said they had already cleaned graffiti off the Northside Plaza sign within three minutes, which had been covered for about six months.
“Graffiti is a huge problem in Rockhampton and around the world, and it’s not just the frustration of the graffiti, but it’s the frustration of not being about to remove it,” Steven said.
He said the Morton Bay City Council was currently testing out the solution, and Queensland Rail was keen to purchase the product to combat railway graffiti.
The businessmen, who own Speedliner Australia – a vehicle spray-on protective coating company, said they became interested in developing a new product line in a bid to get rid of the nasty graffiti sprayed throughout the city.
They recently removed graffiti off the Salvation Army box on Park Street, which was left covered after a recent vandalism attack on Park Avenue.
“We are willing to help out these places that don’t have the funds to clean graffiti on their own,” Steven said.
He said they were looking at expanding the product line throughout Australia and internationally to Europe, in particular Amsterdam where there is a major graffiti problem.
“You haven’t seen graffiti until you go to Amsterdam where your bike will be painted if you leave it in the one spot for too long,” Terry said.
The product is on the market exclusively in Rockhampton at Speedliner in Frenchville for $49 a bottle.
Via:www.themorningbulletin.com.au
