This is pathetic. Traverse City, which is much smaller than Grand Rapids, has better graffiti. Check out these two videos from YouTube and get painting.
Traverse City:
Grand Rapids:
As was promised yesterday, the Equalized team strikes back with more photos. We added new content to every section over the past few days, so enjoy!
We added a small number of new photos and will add some more soon. As always, you cant contact us and send some photos if we move too slow.
A bunch of new photos have been added to the site.
Also, the Division Avenue Arts Cooperative is hosting a street art show called “Tag: You’re It” this month. You can check it out during the DAAC’s gallery hours from 12:00pm to 2:00pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
It’s been a long winter, but there are now a bunch of new photos up in every album. This May will mark the fourth year that this site has been up.
After a delay of more than a year, there is finally a new version of equalized.org online. Aside from giving the site a new design, the photos have been reorganized, all of the really awful art has been removed, the links section has been revamped, and this blog interface has been setup.
This site has been online in some capacity since May of 2003 and since that time, a lot of artists have stopped writing, the media has done a lot of sensationalized reporting at the behest of the GRPD, and a lot of people have gossiped about us on the internet, but we’re still here. This site exists because of a belief that painted walls are infinitely better than blank walls and that graffiti, for all its flaws, is an urban art form that merits documentation. If it were not for this site, all of this art would only exist under the layers of dull color paint that covers it up and in the photo albums maintained by the city to help them catch graffiti artists.
That said, if you have visited this site over the past few years, please consider donating a few bucks towards hosting costs, as it is not cheap to continue running this site:
Also, please be smart with how you use this site. Do not link to art on this site in your online journals with text like “I was busy last night” and do not talk or gossip about yourself or others doing graffiti.
Remember the absurdity of the Grand Rapids graffiti crackdown?
The Grand Rapids Press
EAST GRAND RAPIDS — A tip from an East Grand Rapids High School student helped law enforcement track down two people accused of vandalizing parts of Gaslight Village.
The pair — a 21-year-old Grandville man and 20-year-old Walker woman — agreed to turn themselves in and were scheduled to be arraigned this week. They are charged with defacing public property and unlawful public posting, misdemeanors punishable by a $500 fine and up to 90 days in jail.
The pair caused more than $1,000 worth of damage to street signs, utility boxes, newspaper stands and restrooms at John Collins Park, said Officer Ryan Holmes, of the East Grand Rapids Public Safety Department.
Holmes said the student’s tip led to the Walker woman’s Xanga Web site. A search of her home turned up property from the other vandal, Holmes said.
The pair were involved in “tagging,” an activity popular among high school and college-age people, who pick targets to mark and then often display the work on a Web site, police said.
The Grandville man signs his graffiti as “Rank,” and the Walker woman signs hers “Nos,” according to reports.
The Grand Rapids Press
Two vandals face charges for allegedly defacing Gaslight Village property. A 20-year-old Walker woman, who signs her graffiti “Nos,” and a 21-year-old Grandville man who signs his work,”Rank,” are expected to be arraigned on misdemeanor charges next week. They targeted street signs, utility boxes, newspaper stands and public restrooms in Gaslight Village over a three-month period, according to East Grand Rapids Public Safety school-community liaison Officer Ryan Holmes. The two are also suspected of defacing property in Eastown and on some Grand Rapids overpasses.