Is anyone else outraged by this Daniel Montano saga -- Pittsburgh's biggest graffiti vandal?

[tmoonshine427]

The graffiti in Flint, Mi began getting so bad (in areas) that no one knew how to handle it.

A couple organizations are in the processing of teaming up and are offering a bit of money to guys who were repeat offenders in the graffiti world. They organizations pay the guys to "professionally" graffiti (there's probably a better term) various buildings and signs.

The goal is to keep their hands busy, keep them doing the art that graffiti can be, get them on the right track and doing their art legally.

Now, it certainly won't help for the 23498985 gangs who just like to mark their territory but it'll help a bit and right now that's what the city needs.

[nuwaver88]

I personally do not mind some of the graffiti on railroad tressels and along the busway etc. I know that it is still illegal. It just seems to add to the urbaness and the grittiness that is Pittsburgh. However, when I see maiboxes and buildings and street signs tagged, that ticks me off. Therefore, I am not for it nor do I condone it.

[vectorfrankel]

Anyone who writes on private property should be given whats coming to them.

Anyone who writes on public property is OK with me, as long as it's a piece or a bomb and not some crappy tag.



Sidenote: MFOne is actually pretty cool, I dig his stuff, but not as much as a lot of the other artists in our area. You guys should be lucky they're just graff artists and not real gangs, marking territory and such

[fleetiebelle]

I was driving to work one morning on trash day, and I noticed that up and down one of the streets in my neighborhood, someone had tagged all the garbage. Not garbage cans, but bags and cardboard boxes and the like. It was funny.