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    Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art

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    Image of blix blix
    10/21/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    The first recorded art criticism occurred in Lascaux, France. "Who fucked up this perfectly good cave"? #thehighline
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    10/21/09

    @blix: It's funny that you mention cave paintings, because a few years ago there was this Boy Scout troop in France that went about cleaning graffiti off of local caves, and, well, you can imagine what happened. #thehighline
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    Image of blix blix
    10/21/09

    @i'm a bottle: WTF!? Speechless I am, typing like Yoda. #thehighline
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    Image of downlow downlow
    10/21/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    What about the awesome ghost ads? (first photo) I think it is a shame those are being painted over as well. They are such interesting links to our past and I feel qualify as art.

    Maybe graffiti is supposed to be a more ephemeral art-form. Even the artists don't seem to last for too long (Haring, Basquiat, Dash Snow). #thehighline
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    Image of TH42 TH42
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    Haha, "an already attractive wall." Rarely have I ever seen a blank wall and thought to myself, wow, that is a very attractive wall.

    The reason people don't like graffiti is because it makes them feel like they have no control. Illicit graffiti is a power grab by the artist. That's what makes it great.

    Oh, and lets can the tired argument that it's not art. It is indisputably art. It may suck aesthetically or it may not. But it's obviously art. #thehighline
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    and now ed norton and the ubershtupped "friends of the highline" will ask all the neighbors to pay for it. again. we lived with it thus far, so no, we will not. #thehighline
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    Image of PropSword PropSword
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art

    Neck Face's rebuttal.
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    Image of tewkesbury tewkesbury
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    oh, UGH, it looks like the exterior wall of a water park now!

    The question of whether or not graffiti is art seems way less important than the question of whether, even if it's not art, the city couldn't find about a million better ways to spend the insane amount of money this surely cost taxpayers. #thehighline
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    Some graffiti is art. Keith Haring is proof of this. And like any art, some of it sucks.

    The shitty stuff is The Broken Window Theory come to life. The good stuff is transcendent. Along the LIRR right of way near Arris Lofts, there's a series of graffiti stick figures who look for all the world like they're running. Very cool. There also used to be a whole prose story written on one of the retaining walls, and I would hope that the train would slow down long enough for me to read it. (It did - typical LIRR - and it was very fun to read.)

    Where it crosses the line into vandalism is pretty clear - we all know it when we see it. #thehighline
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    Make no mistake, there's nothing that excites taggers more than a fresh blank slate. No untagged 10 linear feet in NYC is safe for long, suckas! #thehighline
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    Image of Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    Those commenters are probably people (or person) that never have (has) been to the Highline, or NYC for that matter, or seen a graffiti (except maybe from an episode of NYPD blue), i.e. they're commenting from Indiana or Ohio or some other Mid-Western state.

    (I'd tag the Highline for a free kiss from Sheila or Moe ...oh wait) #thehighline
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    10/20/09

    @Sir Thomas More: I'm one of those commenters. I was born at St. Luke's hospital in Morningside Heights in 1972. #thehighline
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    10/20/09

    @Sir Thomas More: Oh, and I wrote the comment from Avenue B and 11th St.

    Yes, "real New Yorkers" hate graffiti too.
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    Image of Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More
    10/20/09

    @badasscat: of course you were #thehighline
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    Image of Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More
    10/20/09

    @badasscat: you must frequent Super Dive a lot #thehighline
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    Image of SkinnyNerd SkinnyNerd
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    What have they done to this city?! I may not be the biggest fan of tags and such, but what the fuck where they thinking with that wall of cream? If these people want to live in some sterile mall environment, there is an entire country of that just across the fucking Hudson. Even the Empire State Building looks so plastic in that after pic. Enough already, bring back the gritty city! #thehighline
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    The first time I ever hung out at the Highline years ago, I found myself on one of the train platforms drinking beers with bike messengers and punk rock musicians. Even being from New York, this location eluded me and I never partied there again.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    They painted it over gray? What is wrong with these people? #thehighline
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    Image of trucha trucha
    10/20/09

    In reply to Weed-Strewn Railroad Tracks Saved From Art
    Please don't ban me for saying that Ed Norton should be blamed for everything that is wrong in the world. #thehighline
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    10/20/09

    @trucha: I'm afraid you're right. #thehighline
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    Image of Flashman Flashman
    10/18/09

    In reply to Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Shepard Fairey Lied In Court, Lied To Bloggers, Covered Up Evidence
    Wikipedia (for some reason!?) has an interesting comparison of the actual source image with the one that Fairey claimed to have used:
    [en.wikipedia.org] #shepardfairey
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    Image of E. H. Cotton E. H. Cotton
    10/18/09

    In reply to Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Shepard Fairey Lied In Court, Lied To Bloggers, Covered Up Evidence
    [www.art-for-a-change.com]

    i like to post this link on every story about shepard fairy. his worst crimes were against art, for which he remains unpunished. #shepardfairey
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