HeightsGuy Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Is it me or am I not the only one noticing an uptick in the amount of graffiti? Living in the Heights, I am, to a certain extent, used to it. Someone mentioned it on another thread a month ago, and at the time I just chalked it up as a seasonal thing, it being summer with all the kids out of school. Over the past month I seem to be seeing more and more all over the Heights, Montrose and Midtown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestGrayGuy Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 I would agree. They have gotten very bold lately. They have tagged the art deco building at the corner of West Gray and Taft.A shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 Maybe those guys they busted with the cherry picker a couple of years ago are back to their old mischief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 I am in the Heights/Rice Military a lot and yes, there has been more lately. Usually it's vacant buildings or fences but now some of the even nicer buildings are ate up with it. What's with this one I've seen at several locations with the star of David, and "November" all over it. Some kind of terrorist warning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 School is still out, it's hot, and the gangs are restless. That's why the artwork is so prevalent. Even my cherished bike bridge has been tagged! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 School is still out, it's hot, and the gangs are restless. That's why the artwork is so prevalent. Even my cherished bike bridge has been tagged!<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Bummer, dude. We all know how much you love that bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeightsGuy Posted July 29, 2005 Author Share Posted July 29, 2005 I tried googling graffiti in Houston and came across a blog that said, under Mayor Brown, Houston had a graffiti abatement team, and that Mayor White recently nixed it which is why we are seeing more of it. Does anyone know if this is true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Don't know if it's true, but I have noticed an increase, and primarily in the areas already mentinoned: Heights, Midtown and the Montrose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssullivan Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Seems to me like it's increasing all over the city. I've seen a lot more of it on the freeways on signs and bridges than there used to be. Damn deliquents with too much time and not enough sense to find something productive to do with it messing up our city... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groovehouse Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Sadly, none of the graffiti is any good.The grey building across the street from Diedrich's on Westheimer has been tagged and it's horrible. Bunch of scribbles and no art. Sad, sad... they should be using the spray paint to get high instead of tagging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Gold is the best to Huff! This is me last weekend: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 Seems to me like it's increasing all over the city. I've seen a lot more of it on the freeways on signs and bridges than there used to be. Damn deliquents with too much time and not enough sense to find something productive to do with it messing up our city...<{POST_SNAPBACK}>As for the Heights/Rice Military, I wonder if the increase has anything to do with gentrification pressures; the desperate wails of cornered young beasts watching their territory get erased and remade block by block. That section between I-10 and Washington is losing it's ghettos faster than Brazil's jungles and now only small, isolated patches remain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest danax Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Our beautiful, new work-of-art 59 freeway has been tagged big time. A real design gaffe when they made the exit sign and lighting poles at an easy climbing angle.Is city hall just without ideas as to how to catch them? Come on, Mayor White, Stop Trashing Houston should include a plan for catching graffitists. I propose we install hidden closed-circuit cameras and an invisible laser trip-alarm so that HPD will be alerted as soon as the ascent begins. Then, a fitting punishment. If they have a nice car, anyone who desires can tag it while it sits in impound for a month. Then since they crave recognition, publish their name, address and photo on a city website. Or maybe put them on rat-hunting duty as community service in our downtown parks during the graveyard shift. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Not bad ideas. I like the rat patrol duties especially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Not bad ideas. I like the rat patrol duties especially.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Those graffiti people are incorrigible. I'm afraid we'd just wind up with painted rats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 There is some reall cool grafffiti across 59 from GRB.It's actually art. Kinda looks like a space alien. Have y'all seen it?Very cool.But most of this new "graffiti" is just chicken scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 In India, they call the night rat killers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Well to bring it all home, the back of my brand new 7' fence was just graffitied. I live against Mason Creek which makes it a little tempting but "holy crap", didn't I move out here to escape things like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Timmy Chan's Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 Well to bring it all home, the back of my brand new 7' fence was just graffitied. I live against Mason Creek which makes it a little tempting but "holy crap", didn't I move out here to escape things like this.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Where did you think the kids doing the spray painting come from? Boredom+Suburbia=Stoned Teenagers Stealing and Spraypainting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 Where did you think the kids doing the spray painting come from? Boredom+Suburbia=Stoned Teenagers Stealing and Spraypainting<{POST_SNAPBACK}>You're right. And I'm tired of them terrorizing us.Let's bomb Spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YakuzaIce Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 Let's bomb Spring. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think you are on to something here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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