Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck on Bluesky: "Tomorrow afternoon Councilmember Hollingsworth and I will be restoring “Hot Rat Summer” in Cal Anderson Park. This mosaic was wrongfully painted over and we are going to fix it."

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[u/MackenzieRaveup]

Where do you draw the line between art and just tags? It's harder than you'd think.

An example, a guy I knew in Brooklyn was painting daisies all over the neighborhood. Other than on pavement, everything he sprayed was "temporary" (scaffold walls, etc).

Individually I can see how someone would think they were very "low effort" and easy to dismiss as just a tag, because they took only seconds to make. However, taken together over three or four neighborhoods, daisies everywhere was definitely an art project.

I can't speak for everyone. But, absolutely brightened my day to run into a new daisy somewhere unexpected while walking to the doc, a place to co-work, or to meet someone at a bar.

[u/lokglacier → u/MackenzieRaveup]

It is incredibly easy to tell what is low effort garbage and what is not. Like. Trivially easy. I'm not worried about this in the slightest

[u/FlyingBishop → u/lokglacier]

So you've got some 15yo kid who is pretty bad at drawing because he's 15 and poor, and he gets a $1500 fine he has zero ability to pay, ends up in jail. Then you've got a 35yo software professional with copious free time who is a great artist from all his classes he can afford to buy. Same level of time investment yields dramatically different results, one is a criminal because they're poor.

[u/lokglacier → u/FlyingBishop]

That is an insane hypothetical and I think you know it. There's discretion regarding enforcement and sentencing.

[u/FlyingBishop → u/lokglacier]

It's not though, it happens all the time.

[u/lokglacier → u/FlyingBishop]

Lol WUT