Thursday, April 19, 2007

The end is near...


Could New York's graffiti be coming to a end? Gothamist runs an alarming story. Move or marijuna smokers, taggers will soon be joining you for lengthy prison sentences.

"Relatively light sentences for graffiti crime might be a thing of the past, however, if some of the local District Attorneys get their way. In a groundbreaking case, they've charged the legendary Alan Ket with crimes that could land him in the clink for decades-- crimes that no one ever witnessed him committing.....If Ket gets convicted and the conviction stands, many of those artists could be prosecuted-- not just for the pieces they were caught doing, but for ones that they've photographed and stored on their computers. And a logical next step is to try to prosecute people for pieces that have been documented by themselves and others online-- and that could have some serious repercussions for anyone who's ever taken a picture of graffiti and uploaded it to Flickr."

As a result I am seriously thinking of ending this blog.

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