graffiti

And how long before this gets tagged up?

adamg — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:20:19 +0000

H_Boston spotted this plaintive request in Cambridge's Central Square the other day.

Copyright H_Boston. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Police say they caught Dot teens blue and gray handed

adamg — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:58:09 +0000

Boston Police report nabbing five Dorchester teens and a 20something on charges of tagging a beachfront boardwalk and drinking in public.

Back Bay neighborhood group declares all-out war on graffiti, ad flyers

adamg — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:18:30 +0000

Matt considers a new effort by the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay to combat scrawls, stencils and band promotions, doesn't much think of trying to curb the flyers:

If you see an old flyer, tear it down and throw it away. If someone you know regularly puts up flyers and leaves the old ones up underneath, tell them to take them down and stop being a jerk. But don't call the cops on them. Don't take $300 out of a 23-year-old kid in a band, out of a broke comic, out of a struggling theater company, or out of a man with a van. These streets are for all of us, and so are these [poles]. Taking all the flyers down all the time makes it impossible for the really little guys to promote, and while it might make your streets a little cleaner, it also makes them more sleepy. You live in a city. There's stuff going on in a city. Instead of trying to stop people from finding out about it, maybe try going to it. ... on the nights that you don't have Back Bay Association meetings, of course.

Alleged jetsetting criminal mastermind to get a taste of Boston justice

adamg — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:41:49 +0000

Tagged up Red Line car, signed with Bezat's tag.

A man wanted on two continents for massive graffiti attacks against subway systems was nabbed in Newark as he was about to board a plane for Paris and has been shipped up to Boston, where he now faces up to three years in prison for allegedly tagging up Red Line trains and Alewife station on Sept. 13, the MBTA reports.

Maxime Christian Bezat, 25, was arrested at Newark Airport on Dec. 3. Although he faces numerous tagging charges in New York, MBTA Transit Police journeyed south to bring him to Boston, which in recent years has become something of the nation's graffiti enforcer.

Bezat, who allegedly goes by "Rask," was arraigned in Cambridge District Court yesterday on vandalism charges; he was ordered held in lieu of $10,000 bail.

A photo released by the MBTA of a spray-painted Red Line train shows two other large tags in apparently different styles than Rask's. MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said "the investigation is ongoing."

Innocent, etc.

Citizen complaint of the day: The angry stenciler of Dorchester

adamg — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:32:56 +0000

Or did somebody from Allston take a wrong turn off the Expressway? Either way, a concerned Dot rat is not at all happy about this stencil on the sidewalk on Crescent Avenue:

Citizen complaint of the day: Bold jerk is really getting annoying

adamg — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:24:50 +0000

A fed-up citizen files the latest report on somebody calling himself Bold, who keeps scribbling his fool name all over Forest Hills.

Who tagged up downtown banks over the weekend?

adamg — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:20:15 +0000

With what appears to be pro-Occupy Boston graffiti? WBUR reports.

Art or vandalism?

adamg — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:40:42 +0000

The Daily Free Press interviews a street artist who sometimes wheat-pastes posters, sometimes does some stenciling and sometimes just sprays her tags on things:

After she finishes, Skeczh said she runs from the site to avoid getting arrested. One street artist she knows hung around too long after spraying a piece in an alleyway and was discovered by police, she said.

Crime epidemic in Wellesley

adamg — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:06:20 +0000

Graffiti's gotten so bad in Wellesley town officials have had to put up signs telling people not to spray-paint things. And somebody promptly spray painted those signs!

Spray paint vs. people fed up with graffiti: Spray paint loses

adamg — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:09:54 +0000

Boston Police report arresting a Brighton man on charges he was busy spraying his tags on "public poles, signs and hydrants," in the area of Arlington and Hobart streets until he was confronted by people who told him to knock it off:

The suspect, once approached by witnesses and passersby began verbally assaulting them and gave them the middle finger. As witnesses continued to admonish the suspect for his activities, he eventually became physically assaultive and aimed spray paint in the direction of the witnesses which in turn lead to a physical encounter leading to the suspect being restrained.

Adam M. Brandon, 30, of Brighton, was charged with malicious destruction of property.

Innocent, etc.

Police in West Roxbury vow to bust roving taggers

adamg — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:04:24 +0000

District E-5 reports they've recovered a can of blue spray paint and are "vigilantly pursuing possible suspects" for five graffiti incidents on April 15 and 16 that police estimate will cost hundreds of dollars to repair.

According to police: A fence at LaGrange and Redgate had obscenities sprayed on it, a car on Emmmonsdale and Linnet had a stripe added, a mini-van on Redgate had a penis spray-painted on the rear window and a garage on John Alden had both a penis and "WR" applied.

Graffiti is an act of vandalism that affects the quality of life in our neighborhood. It is unwelcoming and certainly unwanted in District 5. The perpetrators are usually teenagers who often tag as a prank or to show membership to a group or gang. In the cases reported last Saturday, it is more likely that the suspects were playing a prank.

It's not like he wrote 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'

adamg — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 03:25:22 +0000

Absolutely, we shouldn't be encouraging rapscallions to whip out their Sharpies and mark up the T, but you have to almost admire the effort, or at the very least, the amount of time, that went into this defacement of a blank sign on the E line. One wonders if a judge would sentence him based on the number of letters if he gets caught and convicted.

Via Boston Reddit.

How do you get to Fenway?

JohnAKeith — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:36:48 +0000

Seen inside the Copley Square outbound stop.

Suburbanites' arresting art fails to impress cops

adamg — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:17:47 +0000

Boston Police report arresting a pack of alleged taggers from the 'burbs on charges they marked up several Back Bay buildings early this morning, including a Japanese noodle place, the Boston Architectural Center and the Boylston Street firehouse. Police say one of the spray desperadoes attempted to escape police only to crash her bike into a cruiser.

The five are alleged to have spray painted a variety of bathroom and sexual references, as well as "EAT THE MEEK/POOR" on the rear of the firehouse.

The five allegedly scattered when the po-po arrived around 2:45 a.m.:

The graffiti chronicler

adamg — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:58:46 +0000

Rob Larsen has posted hundreds of photos of Boston-area graffiti.

Meanwhile, Jonas Prang sighs that people like the ones Larsen follows are the reason we can't have nice things, specifically, a mural at the Roxbury Crossing T stop.