Thursday, March 18, 2010

There's Graffiti and...Then There's Graffiti !

Walking on Ocean Beach with you the other day, Rai, we noticed that the retaining wall dividing the beach and highway has a lot more graffiti on it then it used to. Whereas the graffiti used to be limited to one end of the concrete wall, it now covers the entire length of the wall from end to end.
Some of the graffiti looks good, the letters are well done, the colors well chosen but, unfortunately, most of it doesn't look too good. It's not that we're getting old, Rai, and can't appreciate graffiti art, it's just that there's graffiti art and then there's just plain tagging and vandalism. A lot of this Ocean Beach graffiti is more the latter.
And, we have proof. Haight Street is known for its graffiti art. When we last visited the Haight, we noticed that a few of the graffiti murals had been updated, redone. Now THIS is art. The murals are exceptional, sprayed by masters of this art form. The colors are vivid, the lines clear, the full images well-planned and beautiful. This is the kind of graffiti that we'd like to see at Ocean Beach. Maybe we could find out who did the work in the Haight and get them down to the Beach... Let's do it.

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