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https://news.artnet.com/in-brief/street-artist-vandalizes-a-rock-in-joshua-tree-national-park-272490
Andre Saraiva is an internationally known graffiti artist. He owns nightclubs in Paris and New York, works as a top editor of the men's fashion magazine L'Officiel Hommes and has appeared in countless glossy magazines as a tastemaker and bon vivant.
Two months ago he showed up on the decidedly un-fashionista website Modern Hiker, along with a photo of a boulder he tagged in Joshua Tree National Park. Since then, Saraiva, who lives in France and is known by his fans as Mr. Andre and Mr. A., has been scorned by American nature lovers and thrust into a highly charged debate.
Saraiva is of a new generation of graffiti artists who regard nature not just the built environment as their canvas. They tag national parks, then post photos of their work on the Internet.
Those acts infuriate outdoor enthusiasts, many of whom are otherwise fans of graffiti art
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-graffiti-20150427-story.html#page=1 of graffiti art.[
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)Lars39
(26,110 posts)with a size 9 boot on the backside!
virgogal
(10,178 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)OK, right now, pass the laws: Huge fines and jail time for this shit.
And community service removing graffiti in the city or wherever it can be found.
A year should do.
If you're not a US citizen you are out of here for ten years or longer after your serve your time.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)Pull the bastard's visa.
longship
(40,416 posts)Let the fucking idiot tag the natural wonders in France.
Or arrest him when he arrives and sentence him to hard labor cleaning off his narcissistic and ugly tags. Until they are all gone.
NBachers
(17,135 posts)"But, dude . . . it's art, man"
longship
(40,416 posts)And lemme have the can of spray paint. I can make those paleo bisons look groovy.
PSSSSSSHHHHHHHH,
Dude! Look what I did. I better sign it with my tag.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)VScott
(774 posts)in order to try and be relevant, and get attention, and/or one up other graffiti and underground artists.
The problem is... no one outside their narrow minded "edgy" community, even cares, understands, or gives a flying
fuck.
romanic
(2,841 posts)Grafitti is garbage.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Some deep ecology artivist action. Does the paint on the rocks harm the ecology more or less than tourist traffic? That is the question.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)I'll bet there would be less...
petronius
(26,603 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Wtf? I'm a fan of some graffiti art, that looks like something a three year old did with a crayon.
Make him scrub it off with his fingernails.
Then fine him and send him back where he came from.
msongs
(67,433 posts)NBachers
(17,135 posts)Reports say she's "Incredibly Remorseful"
How "Incredibly Remorseful" does she look here?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)It makes you an asshole.
Pooka Fey
(3,496 posts)Taking navel gazing to new heights of absurdity.
GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Vinca
(50,302 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)If nature is their canvas, why can't they, their faces and their belongings be our canvas? (And make sure to use waterproof sharpies.)
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)until he cleans up his mess. Not being able to come here can hurt his pocketbook.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)NPS is stripped to the bone like every other agency under the GOP Grover Nordquist traitors. They are dismantling all of the government functions that are useful to all of us so they can steal the Commons.
They're doing an outstanding job, really. The landscape has been changed and they want this park land. For all I know they are paid by the Koches or similiar gangsters seeking to make the park system an eyesore and no longer seen as valuable by the public with the complicit media.
Then they'll sell off the land for nothing and the holdings of the oligarches will increase until there is virtually no land for common people to stand upon or make use of anything.
That's what I think this is.
Baitball Blogger
(46,755 posts)throw the vandals in jail.