Ravens' View graffiti news

newsdurhamregion.com | Committee shoots down Oshawa graffiti bylaw

newsdurhamregion.com | Committee shoots down Oshawa graffiti bylaw.

June 23/09 - OSHAWA -- The public doesn't seem opposed to a proposed graffiti bylaw, but council's finance and administration committee shot it down nonetheless. The bylaw would make it an offence for local stores to sell graffiti implements -- spray paint, broad-tipped marker pens, paint pens and glass-cutting tools -- to people under 18, or for minors to possess them in public unless they are supervised by a parent, teacher or employer.

Article says City report claimed has been used effectively in Ottawa - nope, we haven't. Was considered, but there are legal issues, staff decided to look into other approaches.

Graffiti vandal attacks man - Crime - Canoe.ca

Graffiti vandal attacks man - Crime - Canoe.ca.

EDMONTON -- A 61-year-old man beaten while trying to snap photos of a graffiti vandal in action has police warning crime-fighting citizens to keep their distance.

Shows that confrontational bylaws don't always work.

There is a better solution to Ottawa's graffiti problem

There is a better solution to Ottawa's graffiti problem.

June 15/09 - Ottawa - Re: Street work paves way for graffiti: More tagging than usual, Bank Street crews report, June 6. According to this article, graffiti removal is costing the Bank Street BIA $30,000 to $40,000 each year, including a $10,000 grant from the city. In addition, they are using up a share of the city's $2 million annual budget for graffiti management. Yet Gerry Lepage of the BIA admits "there's no end strategy, no endgame." I wonder if this approach is getting them anywhere.

Street work paves way for graffiti

Street work paves way for graffiti.

June 6/09 -Ottawa -Changing a few centenarian pipes along Bank Street means no cars, fewer people, and a tough go for businesses. What it also means — without all those eyes on the street — is more graffiti.

Man out to tag vandals | Ottawa and Region | News | Ottawa Sun

Man out to tag vandals | Ottawa and Region | News | Ottawa Sun.

June 8/09 -A downtown restaurant manager took matters into his own hands and waited long into the early morning hours yesterday to catch the people he believes are responsible for "tagging" his building 15 times in the past year.

One Amazing Writer - WILL KASSO AND THE GIANT SQUID

One Amazing Writer - WILL KASSO AND THE GIANT SQUID.

This man is another Will Rogers. (Will Rogers used to stand on stage with his lasso telling stories.) I could picture Will Kasso, spray paint can in hand on the same stage, but with the curtains all pulled, ropes hanging and back brick wall exposed. If I could get the theater owner to agree to let Will take that wall and I supplied the paint, I could probably get him to tell his stories for free and get to keep the proceeds from the box office. This man LIVES to paint!

See artcrimes for pics