Not to be an old fart, but here goes. Tagging a freeway sign is dangerous, there's been multiple times driving with my inlaws who live in chimacum, that an exit or distance to an exit has been covered because of some dumb "signature". If you don't drive here daily that can cause problems. As for graffiti on private buildings, there's a big difference between some type of political tag on a public jail/courthouse/government institution, as opposed to a business owners windows. Someone tries to tag my home, that's an intrusion on my family's safety. Don't do it.
Nice performative public display to give middle class property owners voters good vibes. Meanwhile there are so many homeless people that need help and we are spending resources chasing graffiti artists. I particularly like that "government sanctioned" is part of the definition of art..
So Seattle Police Department can make "policy" as to what its officers can do and need not follow State law (or, apparently, refrain from killing people with their vehicles), but taggers are liable for monetary damages and imprisonment because they don't officially apply to paint sunrises and sunsets? Got it.
If you think the text "dotcom" over and over again is "sunrises and sunsets" then you and I see very different things on the horizon each morning and night.
If Seattle has an obsession with cleanliness and order…we are very bad at this set of obsessions. Perhaps we should learn from the obsessed in almost any other developed city.
Not to be an old fart, but here goes. Tagging a freeway sign is dangerous, there's been multiple times driving with my inlaws who live in chimacum, that an exit or distance to an exit has been covered because of some dumb "signature". If you don't drive here daily that can cause problems. As for graffiti on private buildings, there's a big difference between some type of political tag on a public jail/courthouse/government institution, as opposed to a business owners windows. Someone tries to tag my home, that's an intrusion on my family's safety. Don't do it.
I don't live in Seattle, but in SE King County.
Neither me nor my child like it when playgrounds and playground equipment are "tagged".
And while correlation is not causation, the morning after a playground gets tagged it is frequently littered with adult garbage.
If one finds this to be art, install it inside your own abode.
The discourse shouldn’t just be around what constitutes art. It should also be about where to put it.
Nice performative public display to give middle class property owners voters good vibes. Meanwhile there are so many homeless people that need help and we are spending resources chasing graffiti artists. I particularly like that "government sanctioned" is part of the definition of art..
So Seattle Police Department can make "policy" as to what its officers can do and need not follow State law (or, apparently, refrain from killing people with their vehicles), but taggers are liable for monetary damages and imprisonment because they don't officially apply to paint sunrises and sunsets? Got it.
If you think the text "dotcom" over and over again is "sunrises and sunsets" then you and I see very different things on the horizon each morning and night.
Seattle leadership needs to enforce/prosecute actual violent crimes, human trafficking and disparate income. This is too little too late Seattle!
If Seattle has an obsession with cleanliness and order…we are very bad at this set of obsessions. Perhaps we should learn from the obsessed in almost any other developed city.
I actually quite enjoyed hot rat summer. it brought me joy in contrast to the humanitarian blight of the campaign and election