Street Art War Rages On in Williamsburg

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The splasher is probably working for the condo developers who want to clean up the place. Nothing radical about him, probably just what he was hired to do.

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this is like, so cool. we are all witnessing our master street artists make a vain attempt to topple one another for supremacy of their craft. Two thumbs up!

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how is it no one has seen this guy splashing stuff yet?

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The real estate value in Williamsburg would not be the way it is if it weren't for the artists that make the neighborhood.

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He/she is posting some lame message next to his splashings too. Something about how street artists are scum and then goes on to warn that his pasted statement is laced with shards of glass, so "don't even think of peeling it off without injury". Lame alert!

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So there's graffiti on the graffiti on the graffiti? It's the end of the end of the end of civilization as we know it!

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Maybe the splasher is former mayor John Lindsey. I haven't seen him around for a while on the public speaking circuit.

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A street artist who would expect some special sanctity for their pieces would be an idiot, for obvious reasons. There are galleries, stores, and interiors for art preservation.

A person who would want to protect such an artist is twice the idiot.

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It's probably Vallone running around NYC splashing graffiti. But the Splasher is perhaps the lamest street artist. Destroying other people's good looking street art to prove what point? Let's face it, good street art makes a neighborhood more interesting (look at Barcelona). Splashing paint on a wall looks like crap; and when you're putting it over someone else's work you're just being an ass. You would just think that the "street artists" would handle this person appropriately. I hope they do.

10.

I think the splashes are kind of pretty sometimes. I wish the splasher would use a more diverse color palette though.

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I think the Splasher's work actually adds something to the existing art. What's the big deal?

12.

well any good cop would know by now where this artistically challenged little fellow lives by now.
theres an untouched banksy way over on the other outpost of hipsterness, the meatpacking district.

just saw another unsplashed WK piece inviting artists to leave a little something on the piece on delancey and bowery in the new park ave south stretch of manhattan, and a second untouched WK piece that I wandered past at a very late hour over the weekend (location details are hazy) below 14th st and above delancey but west of broadway in manhattan as well.

so sherlock holmes wheres the perp going to splash next....can curbed start a betting pool and make this a bit more fun?
odds are not on manhattan.

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give it up to the splasher. he/she is the one we're talking about, not any one of the thousands of other street artists trying to get their name out there. i think the splasher's destructive acts are actually trying to be constructive. semi-lame diatribes aside, his/her critique is effective. "destroy" that which aspires to inclusion. kinda broad, but, also, kinda true.

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hmmm. that the splasher feels the need to add his "manifesto"
is he afraid that people might have their own ideas about why he is doing this?

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I'm pretty sure I saw the splasher. Still somewhat light outside, Saturday, around N. 8 and Berry... I was driving. At first, I thought he was advertising something, like a gig or garage sale, with spraypaint on the sidewalk, and then I looked around and noticed fresh paint dripping from some grafatti. It happened in a flash though, as I was driving by, and when I circled around the block, he was gone.