According to some idiot whose salary is funded by tax payers, Dublin city centre will be “graffiti free by next month and chewing gum litter free by the end of this year”. Let’s see how that goes.
Source: http://www.irishtimes.com
There’s a small bit about graffiti on the DART line on this RTE programme from last week.
Featuring such misinformation as this…
Iarnród Éireann has zero tolerance to graffiti and spends €10,000 a week keeping stations and carriages clean. It also sponsors art projects to discourage vandalism.
10 grand a week?! You’d swear there was actually a healthy train scene here!
You can watch it here… www.rte.ie/news/capitald
Just heard that Iz the Wiz passed away on Wednesday. After being rushed to the hospital he died of heart failure.
One of the true kings of New York City graffiti in the 1970’s and 80’s, and without question one of NYC’s most prolific writers, he will be missed.
I remember reading of him having serious kidney failure in the early 90’s which was presumed to have been brought on by spray paint fumes, before the days of led-free paint. It seems this was the start of a long period of ill health.
Rest in peace…
I'm sure I'll come back every now and then, just to let people know I'm still around!
Click here to read an article published in today’s Irish Independent on graffiti in Dublin.
Words from Raskal on the recent re-decorating of this symbolic wall…
Dude’s probably a spoilt little fuck, but this made me laugh…
from the Northside People…
DUBLIN City Council has run out of funding for key graffiti removal programmes, a Northside councillor has claimed.
Cllr Anne Carter (Lab) told Northside People she has been informed that no more graffiti will be removed by Dublin City Council unless it is seriously offensive or on its property.
“It is clear that nearly all of the service and utility boxes throughout the North Central Area have been defaced,” Cllr Carter stated.
“It is extremely difficult to find out who owns these boxes or different walls.
“Therefore, action by the city council to remove this appalling defacement of our local environment is critical.
“But we are going backwards not forwards when it comes to tackling graffiti as our local North Central Area office will no longer be able to take the initiative and clean up graffiti throughout local neighbourhoods.”
The Donaghmede ward councillor added that it was “extraordinary” that this absence of essential funding for anti-graffiti programmes is taking place under a Green Minister for the Environment.
Cllr Carter is calling on Minister John Gormley to urgently ensure that anti-graffiti programmes are properly funded in the North Central Area to support local residents in maintaining their environment.
Brian McDowell, one of Labour’s candidates in the Donaghmede ward for the local elections, said it was incredible that money could run out for the programmes.
“Given the plague of graffiti that we currently see across the whole of the Dublin North Central Area, funding needs to be greatly increased to help communities address this appalling anti-social activity,” stated Mr McDowell.
A spokeswoman for Dublin City Council told Northside People: “Graffiti is and still will be cleaned off by the council.”
This looks to be, what we call in the industry, a shit buzz…
NYC pair eyed in European graffiti spree
newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nytag0821,0,4540439.story
Cheers b0b for the linkage
The Temple Bar traders association has created a project where all the traffic signal boxes will be covered with work from various artists. According to this clip on RTE it’s all thanks to people tagging the boxes. So if it wasn’t for graffiti the boxes would still look dull and grey. Most of the art work is shit so I’d love to see the entries that didn’t make the grade. Read more from the traders association here.
