@Pip – yeah, pear probably is one of the kids who wrote borf, which is a giant “who cares” b/c borf was a yawner, and only has a bit of legend in the city b/c he began writing just as “street art” came into vogue with the same reverse white flight crowd he comes from.

@Anon 9:35 – Pop sounded uninformed and out of touch (which is why he got some internet whining for it).. just as he did with that ridiculous, “Fenty Great on Parks! (corruption scandal?)” post. (*note: I am a fan, it just did look daft though.)

@DCZen – Actually, there was to point, hence the question. The owner who abandoned that building and contributed to blight, its vandalizing neighborhood in his own way. Anyway, the question was about artistic merit, go kick rocks or something.

Graffiti should almost never be discussed in public, because people are generally totally ignorant about it.. as the a lot of the discussion here proves (my point is that, people have their opinions and tastes, it’s a go-nowhere convo.)

Graffiti is art. Corporate Ads are trash.

Using “hip-hop” to only describe rapping/DJing misses the rest of the picture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop#Cultural_pillars

The best way I’ve ever seen graffiti dealt with was where I went to college. They had legal places around camping where one could graffitti, and as a result it channeled most of the graffitti there, and we got to enjoy even more artistic graffitti.

art of graffiti…. ugh. Are you sure you should be writing a city/urban blog?
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dude, he’s just getting us talking about it. and people are. so, i’d say yeah. Pop should be writing about it. you’re not in tune with dc if you think the city at large embraces graph and this debate doesnt happen at nearly every anc meeting or civic gathering.