Comments on: Concrete Alchemy Street Art Displays Their Talent on Water Street

By: ok

ok — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:58:18 +0000

the old mural was beautiful & so is the new one. how lucky we are!

By: Dumbo NYC, Brooklyn » Archive » New Water Street Mural Sends Positive Message (DumboNYC.com)

Wed, 27 May 2009 15:19:46 +0000

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By: Dumbo NYC, Brooklyn » Archive » Water Street Serpent (DumboNYC.com)

Dumbo NYC, Brooklyn » Archive » Water Street Serpent (DumboNYC.com) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:01:30 +0000

[...] Street Wall Art Coming Soon, 30June2008} {Water Street Art Vandalized, 10June2008} {Concrete Alchemy Street Art Displays Their Talent on Water Street, 17May2008} {Revok, Retna, Saber Live Wall Painting on Water Street, 06Aug2007} Filed in [...]

By: oldschooler

oldschooler — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:12:52 +0000

I didnt even tell you girls what I wrote, why would you know me, clown? have fun being Saber’s bitch. ask your mom why writing in capital letters is childish…

By: JUNGLEJUICE

JUNGLEJUICE — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:08:43 +0000

GRAFFITI STILL REAL YOU JUST FELL OFF…HAHAHAHAHA …THATS WHY I NEVER HEARD OF YOU AND DIDNT MAKE ANYTHING OF YOURSELF ….IN THE “GRAFF” SCENE….

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:34:05 +0000

Hmmmmmmm. I ponder again, who gives a super crap?

By: oldschooler

oldschooler — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:30:28 +0000

Actually, I was writing in the early 80′s when most of these people were toddlers. I grew up in South Brooklyn and would write in DUMBO before it was called DUMBO, before most of you even moved to NY. To me it was a right of passage, i wrote from ages 13-18. My crew found a hatch at the foot of Furman street (know where that is?) where we would walk the tracks from high street to East Broadway (having to time it so we didnt get crushed by the trains), We would go into the City Hall and Canal street lay ups, risking other crews, work bums, and police.All this mind you, when I was a minor. My black books show it, my photo albums show it, i have no need to prove anything to you “cyber fanboys”. Keep believing you’re down. The fact that there is scafolding and its during the day proves its legal, and saying you’re “pretty sure” they have paid their dues (in all caps no less) makes you look unsure and silly. Obviously this site doesnt have the appreciation for the true history of Graffiti like, say “thestreetsaresayingthings.com, zephyrgraffiti.com, or at149thst.com” look it up kids, learn something. Oh, and when I wrote, no one called it “Graff” thats like saying “lets go get a brew and order some za” straight up suburban speak.I was part of Graffiti when it was real, have fun with the commercialized version, you’re too late, its all been done before, by people much younger.

By: JUNGLEJUICE

JUNGLEJUICE — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:55:18 +0000

IM PRETTY SURE ALL THE ARTIST IN THAT MURAL HAVE PAID THEIR DUES..AND COULD PAINT SOMETHING LIKE THAT MURAL ON A “TRAIN” AT A “YARD”….SIMPLY BY YOU SPEAKING OF THE GRAFF CULTURE IN THAT MANNER MAKE YOU SOUND LIKE AN OUTSIDER WANNA BE WITH NO TRUE CONCEPT OF THE ART..WHICH I FIND TOO MANY PEOPLE NOW IN DAYS TALKING ABOUT LIKE IF THEIR PART OF IT …THE FACT IS YOUR NOT PART OF IT AND WILL NEVER BE …

By: loose stool

loose stool — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:05:44 +0000

if it looks like graffiti, smells like graffiti walks like graffiti, and quacks like graffiti it probably is graffiti. How are we to know it was done legally or not? In actual fact it probably is illegal. LPC would never give a permit to paint that in a landmark district. In this case the landlord is aiding and abetting a crime.

By: oldschooler

oldschooler — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:06:04 +0000

Grafitti is illegal, and the fact that there’s risk involved, gives it more outlaw respect. When done legally, its simply art that’s grafitti derived or in the style of graffiti. Why wouldnt it look nice?, they were able to take their time, soak up the sun and relax. try doing that on a train in a yard you just broke into in the middle of the night with no lights, THATS graffiti. Half the “kids” doing graffiti these days are in their late 20′s early 30′s and picked it up in art school.

By: Dumbo NYC, Brooklyn » Archive » Water Street Art Vandalized (DumboNYC.com)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:01:36 +0000

[...] three weeks after the Concrete Alchemy collaborative painted the Water Street wall, it was vandalized by presumably a rival person or group. White paint was splashed over the street [...]

By: 68JayResident

68JayResident — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:49:13 +0000

Not sure if anyone’s posted this, but I walked past the mural at 10am this morning and it’s been vandalised. Some mindless moron splashed paint all over the entire mural. It makes me sick to think there’s people around here who would do something like this.

By: ING

ING — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:24:31 +0000

you guys are silly going over that old mural. son..what you thinking!

By: Diamondtrim

Diamondtrim — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:28:13 +0000

i don’t want to knock the artists for their work, but whoever made the call to go over the old mural is wack.

to keith: obviously, you got no clue talking about the old mural being “dingy and typical”. do the research homie.

By: Eloy Flores

Eloy Flores — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:08:25 +0000

Great collab between the east and the notorious west! This mural reminds me of the movie “Clash of the Titans”