Graffiti complaints are on the rise in North Brooklyn, and as this Daily News article (for a change) correctly attests, part of that rise is due to less tolerant residents trying to take their neighborhood back.
“You can’t turn a corner without seeing graffiti around here. The city cleans it up and the kids just come and do the same thing all over again,” complained Patricia Bradford, who lives nearby.
“It’s not fair,” she said. “I live right beside a church and my house still gets tagged every summer. It’s bringing property values down.”
On the other hand, there really might be a rise in tagging, as hipster vandals like “DICKCHICKEN” and “Pet Bird” slap their stupid whiteboy tags all over town. And Peru Ana Ana Peru? You need to knock that shit off. Some of the paste-up street art is good but sharpie tags? No.
petebfd January 27th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
dickchicken!
Dresden January 27th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Is that the twat who praypainted a chicken on my building? It’s hilarious people think it’s “street art” – like the Bloods and the Crypts having a territorial graffiti-off is some sort of inner-city folk art.
I’m all for self-expression, but some of these guys are like the retards who scribbled rocks while the popular cavemen fought, fucked and killed wooly mammoths.
Dresden January 27th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
And any graff on my place lasts about 10 minutes after I see it.
Because fuck – KUMA, Ana Peru, Savagero, douchy douche – you guys’re so god damn talented it makes my sarcasm flare up so high laughing I’m like a cackling madman.
petebfd January 27th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
no, i just think dickchicken is a funny word. like twat, kudos on that. maybe i’ll come spraypaint twat on your building. where do you live?
petebfd January 27th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
but agreed, spraypainting random words is kinda lame
Matt January 27th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
THat said: I apologize for my garage door. I ain’t touching that shit until it’s warmer outside. Stupid taggers can suck a bowl of dickchicken.
kmc January 27th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Being that the graffiti artists are creating ironic graffiti makes it worse.
Nicholas Frota January 27th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
dickchicken is just following the steps of neckface…
it WAS original for neckface to be childish and ubiquitous, but dickchicken is just a stupid copy, a retarded brand move.
i do LOVE bushwick graffitis tho… it’s like architectural tattoos, sweet.
Helen January 27th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
I love grafitti that is beautiful, but I FUCKING HATE DICKCHICKEN!!!!!!! Who is that asshole?
Eric January 27th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I also have an irrational hate for dickchicken.
He’s so self-satisfied that he discovered the concept of alliteration and makes unnecessarily huge tags with no art behind them.
Jeremy Sapienza January 27th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I have been tagged once ever, and it was one day after my mural was completed, and it was only on the front door — they took care not to touch the mural itself. Not sure what the tag psychology is there, anyone got an explanation?
Bushwick Dill January 27th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
I still think dickchicken is funny.
DeniseVB January 27th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
When my daughter opened her bike shop on DeKalb, she got egged. Is that a welcome to the neighborhood tradition? It only happened that one time, she’s pretty fearless.
Bushwick Dill January 27th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I have had eggs thrown at me while I have been running, but I am too fast for those little weak armed Latinos.
Dresden January 28th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Dickchicken is like Ollie Dior – I once watched her, yes, Jew Fro her, tag a neighbors building.
The whole point of “ART” is that is takes skill and it’s a job – like artists work, 8 hours a day, 6 days a week –
Graf along these lines like Dickchicken and Ollie Dior is so weak, so so pathetic. At least Neckface draws stupid little stuff, but even his vampires aren’t as good as Haculla – Haculla in my opinion blows Neckface out of the water. But Neckface has peeked, and now his life will forever be the high of that time Beck bought a few pieces and he got drunk on Tecate.
Ando January 28th, 2009 at 9:51 am
I stumbled upon dickchicken’s studio space during the Open Studios back in June. It was being hosted by the guy he shared space with. He sorta gestured towards the dickchicken stencils and indicated they weren’t his. I had a slight urge to tag the kid’s desk but thought better of it.
Dresden January 28th, 2009 at 10:52 am
You should have written “BeautifulFalconPussyYouNeverGet”.
Dresden January 28th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
& – Peru Ana Ana Peru –
wha tha fu? seriously. explain it to me like I’m a 5-year old, take it step by step…
youth January 29th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
there are plenty of garbage tags up in the streets, but somebody on here honestly called out KUMA?!?!? that’s basically sacrilege; dude is a legend.
gary February 2nd, 2009 at 1:43 pm
there is much more behind peru ana ana peru besides the graffiti. the tags are just a starting point. check out their films. regardless of this or that, strangely enough their name is becoming somewhat epic. and yes KUMA is a legend.
Dresden February 2nd, 2009 at 3:51 pm
KUMA is Japanese for bear. Some legend. Google it. Nothing doing.
Peru Ana is pollution from boring minds. I just watched 4 of their “movies” and I still don’t get how film doesn’t equal cinema. Film is silver on plastic microfilm. Whatever though – it’s all head-up-our-ass weirdness.
Ingo Hart February 2nd, 2009 at 4:18 pm
My house was getting tagged a lot a couple years ago, but now not as much. weird because I live right off wilson in this area near the school!
herpes February 2nd, 2009 at 4:55 pm
kuma is everywhere, and from what little i know about graffiti, he/she/it is well known.
Dresden February 2nd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Know what else is well known? Herpes!
halfjew February 13th, 2009 at 12:11 am
dickchickin is a regerjatation of what godbuns was doing a couple years ago.get real
Dodger February 24th, 2009 at 1:56 am
and how exactly do we know that “dickchicken” and “pet bird” are stupid white boys?
dickchicken March 10th, 2009 at 2:01 am
haha, dresden you said you fuck wooly mammoths…
“but some of these guys are like the retards who scribbled rocks while the popular cavemen fought, fucked and killed wooly mammoths.”
dickchicken March 10th, 2009 at 2:04 am
oh… and KUMA is the real thing… that is why you do not find anything when you google him…
Anonomous March 10th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Graffiti is graffiti. Either like it, dont like it or be indifferent to it… don’t try and pick and choose who can tag and who can’t.
Jeremy Sapienza March 10th, 2009 at 9:29 am
I picked and chose. What are you gonna do about it?
OOOO March 14th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Damn hipsters, they should at least do graffiti right, it’s enough that they’re ruining the neighborhood, now they wanna ruin graff…
careful March 14th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
You spelled “cleaning up” wrong.
Richard head March 15th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Yeah, art is fake.
Irony June 29th, 2009 at 9:55 am
I love how “Dresden” calls others “retards” then goes on to refer to the Crips as “Crypts”.
Ahh, irony.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crips
careful June 29th, 2009 at 11:32 am
haha yeah dresden you’re a retard if you dont pollute your mind with useless facts about killer slum trash
avone August 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
PET BIRD FUCKS WITH WU TANG CLAN!!!!!!
DICK CHICKEN IS BACKFAT IS HACULA IS NECKFACE IS GOD BUNS IS CHEF PANTS IS DICK CHICKEN IS AVONE KING OF TOYS!!!!!