Urinal graffiti on a piss-wall

Posted by Cory Doctorow, February 28, 2008 11:28 PM | permalink

A graffiti artist has tagged an oft-pissed-upon wall in San Francisco's UN Plaza with these painted-on urinals. Link (Thanks, Dennis!)

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#1 posted by ggm , February 29, 2008 3:18 AM

unless I am mistook, that is not a WALL that is a DOOR. else, the grafitoid also stuck a lockplate and doorhandle onto the WALL.

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#2 posted by chalkley3 , February 29, 2008 6:04 AM

I've seen variations on this. Search on a stencil site for "pissour" and you'll see what I mean.

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#3 posted by dculberson , February 29, 2008 9:05 AM

That could certainly be a rude awakening for someone coming through the door. Whoops!!

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#4 posted by lummels , February 29, 2008 9:37 AM

I love how you can just barely see where the tagger cleaned the door before he left his own mark so the paint would stick.

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#5 posted by christ , February 29, 2008 10:21 AM

Hi! I'd just like to make a minor correction. The picture in this post does not show any "tagging". It's a picture depicting paper posters that have been applied to the wall/door.

The "clean" spots that Lummels noticed are not the result of the surface being cleaned but are of the glue/paste used to affix the paper to the surface.

Wheatpasting/Postering is not tagging.

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#6 posted by mgr72 , February 29, 2008 10:30 AM

Christ has it... those spots are just where wheatpaste was applied and not covered up by the new art.
It may not be tagging but unfortunately its the same crime....

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#7 posted by ill lich , February 29, 2008 10:31 AM

I've considered doing something similar to a wall in my neighborhood-- I was going to put up "Ladies" and "Gentlemen" signs on either side of the wall.

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#8 posted by wrybread , March 1, 2008 10:21 PM

Awesome!

I live a block or two away from these and the crackheads love to piss on our building's door. The piss flows under the door and makes a nice little pool inside where it becomes a real joy to clean up. A few years ago I put up a sign that said "Danger! High voltage! Don't piss here!", which completely solved the problem as long as the sign lasted....

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