January 10, 2005
Who is BORF?
You've seen it around town: a stencil of a smiling face labled "BORF," sometimes accompanied with a quirky statements. The work of the enigmatic Borf can be seen along U Street, in Adams Morgan, in the West End, Foggy Bottom, in Georgetown, and even at least one in Virginia. Just who is behind the graffiti?
While we still haven't met him, a little internet snooping has unearthed some clues.
His has sparked a post on Craigslist's rant and rave secion, and a reply which points to this usenet posting which says in geek-speak to "borf" someone is to "To uncerimoniously disconnect someone from a system without prior warning." Our trusty standby the Urban Dictionary has a significantly different definition, claiming it refers to a mental state of nirvana achieved through unsavory means.
His sheer volume has sparked some resentment, one Flickr user even posted some anti-borf graffiti.
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| Examples of Borf graffiti. From top right: graffiti on a sign on K Street between Georgetown and Washington Circle, a Borf stencil on a lightpost on the same street, a message on a garbage can south of Dupont Circle on 20th Street, and his pirate flag stencil on a cement wall outside the West End D.C. public library. All DCist photos by Rob Goodspeed |
First, rather than being enigmatic it appears Borf himself has an account on a website called stencil revolution, where he's posted a number of examples of his work in a gallery. The site's members in general review his work highly and post comments and requests. A user going by the name Boon posted last Friday on one post, "i see your stuff everywhere in DC its amazing ... please put more stuff on the key bridge for us loser virginians to amuse ourselves with as we cross it every morning ..." and Borf himself replying on Saturday, "will do! ill do one just for you within the next week."
All of this is interesting, however it doesn't say much about the identity of our graffiti artist friend. A post on this DCist's personal blog uncovered some intriguing claims. "i see him in new york, north carolina, richmond, maryland, dc, and even in bloomington, indiana," wrote one commenter. "Meghan" contributed the following:
I heard BORF is just some traveler kid that drifts around the east coast. They say he faked his death to get away from all the bullshit he had to put up with like school and work and all that, and now hes just putting up his face everywhere he goes to let people know he’s still alive. I don’t know if that’s true, but a friend of mine saw him putting up a sticker in adams morgan and talked to him about it. She said that’s what he told her. She also said he was the craziest kid she’d ever met!
Whomever he is, Borf is merely a graffiti fad when compared to some of the legends of D.C.'s graffiti history. For more information on that we suggest checking out Free Agents: A History of Washington, D.C. Graffiti, which includes information about the infamous Cool Disco Dan the most famous writer in D.C. history. The scene seems to have cooled recently, and some writer's work was even featured in a Georgetown art gallery in 2001.
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I thought those were pictures of Jerry O'Connel put up by some super-insane Sliders fan. Guess not....
after seeing this stuff on key bridge for several months during my daily run, i've decided the face of this guy looks just like scott peterson. check it out.
I thought it was Jerry O'Connell too. Is this guerilla marketing for "Crossing Jordan"?
It's true. Borf is Jerry O'Connell. That's his orgasm face.
i dig BORF
does Borf also paint the stenciled guerillas?
Borf is incredible. I passed him on the corner of piney branch and aspen every day. It was like seeing an old friend. Then someone painted over him!! i was so upset i wish he would come back there again!
It's been less than a year since i've been seeing BORF popping up everywhere. I think it's way too premature to be calling BORF "a fad."
more BORF pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glueslabs/sets/86051/
YUID
Here is a better article in the Raleigh News & Observer about Borf:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2078610p-8458533c.html
that stencil is absolute replica of my boyfriend. i kid you not the resemblece is uncanny
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/leftcoastenvy7/DSC04699.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/leftcoastenvy7/cody1.png -a younger one. but i'm not kidding it is so him
if it's not i'd love to know who it is
According to the grafitti near my Woodley Park apt., Borf writes letters to my children. Hope he's providing them with some good life lessons -- or at the very least some good websites to safely download mp3s.
borf i heard was none of the above.. his best friend was suffering emotional depression and commited suicide in '03 and now he is trying to live on his spirit by placing his face everywhere and BORF stands for his anitials... thats what i heard
I found Borf when I visited DC in January. I think this was on 19th about a block west of the Octagon House.
http://www.dailynugget.com/images/2004_Borf_800.php
borf is becoming a legend i hope 2 meet him soon...for us graffiti artists got 2 watch out for each other..you dig...
the stencil character is of borf's friend who killed himself two years ago.
I've posted another recent example of Borf graffiti at the link below. I wonder if these silver-penned sayings are the same Borf. It's a departure in style. When Cool "Disco" Dan was huge he sparked plenty of copy cats too, each with their own noteworthy variations.
cityscape page
I've seen a number of blue-penned ones as well. The simply say "BORF" with no stencil or message. I assumed they were just copy-cats. Saw two between 14th and Vermont along the north side of U, and another around 16th and P. And a silver one downtown on 7th and Jefferson.
I think 'BORF' is the reincarnation of Cool 'Disco' Dan.
I saw a "BORF is good for digestion" one today. I think it was in Cleveland Park.
Borf was in Berkeley, CA, recently. Nice portrait stencil in front of Pegasus Books on Durant at Shattuck, and the same one on Telegraph. Also a creepy mail threat on a mail depository.. He's got balls for sure, seeing that Berkeley crawls with cops.
good interview with BORF at visualresistance.org
BORF is up all over San Fransisco in the last two weeks.
7 foot tall stencil of a kid with a sledge hammer bashing in a wall. Some of the best BORF shit ever!
you guys are stupid... i knew borf... you dont... i will not tell you anymore of what or where he is... but only to say that he is everywhere and thought about only by the people who understood the meaning of borf... hippies
Holy crap...have you seen the chalk Borf above the COsi on Connecticut and R...its 6 feet tall by 10 feet long...damn
Borf is better than bush. art over war. capitialist bastards. $laves the all of you. chase that paper . . .
bitches
i've seen trails of borf on belle isle in richmond virginia with the quotes "there are reasons we don't say 'just adulting'" as well as "borf kills grown-ups." this prompted me to buy a puppy and name him borf. then just earlier today i saw another sign of borf in athens, ohio at the ohio university. so awesome. i have pictures, email me.
Hits DC again, coming in to town via 66, half a highway sign. Wish I had my camera!
Hilarious. This is merely just some blown out of proportion facination with some "thing" that merely catches your eye for a quick second. BORF is not a graffiti artist. BORF is a rip-off 18 year old kid who's reeled all you in. Cool Disco Dan was a master. Free Agents is also a book who's main purpose was to capitalize off of graffiti and to push it into mainstream media. Roger Gastman, a la While You Were Sleeping magazine, began to glorify graffiti in DC last decade. Now we see traces of graff in commercials, print ads, and hip Urban Outfitters clothing lines. Use some imagination people - think for yourselves! BORF is a toy and his ego will only get fed if you allow it to. Again, he's an 18 year old toy with no appreciation for graffiti whatsoever. Great, why don't you all continue to suck on Shepard Fairy's balls while you're at it? You know you have been! Graff isn't about getting rich quick or how much you can get up. This kids a biter in every sense of the word...
hahahaha: you're past tense. Herb. Get up, or shut the fuck up.
hahahahaha is a fucking wanker. Who does Borf bite? The only reason people pay any attention to him is because he's different and original and everywhere. You're probably just some jealous 18 year old kid that is frustrated at your own lame attempts to get attention. And since when has graffiti not been about "how much you can get up?" You're a fucking toy. Where do you think all the fascination with Cool Disco Dan came from??? From his ubiquity, dumb shit.
What is Borf capitalizing on? Has he sold anything? Does he do Nike ads or work for urban outfitters? You dont know what you're talking about. "Get up, or shut the fuck up." !!!
I live in DC, and BORF "works" in my neighborhood, and I have to say that I am not a fan.
borf (a borf, anyway) recently did cardozo high school on Clifton between 11th and 13th along with 'Laze' and 'Object'. It said 'for the kids!' next to it. Cool. I saw the same grouping near 16th and U.
Also that half sign coming in from 66 was awesome.
http://wusatv9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=39378
Borf, like the majority of grafitti "artists," is just a bored suburban kid (albeit not one from here) who thinks he's expressing himself by getting high, listening to Jay-Z and Against Me!, then making a mess of walls and boxes in a cash-strapped municipality that he knows is going to spend money on cleaning up his garbage instead of on, say, job-training programs.
I have a proposal for people who dislike Borf as much as I do: get a bunch of stickers, print FUCK on them, and slap them over his crap. If he wants to make "art" in a public forum, on public property, he should expect some public criticism.
Haters to the side borf is crushing dc proper!!! all debate is over, unless you get up shut up!
I love seeing BORF! You never know where he'll pop up! For a long time I wondered what he was supposed to be - and in reading here there seem to be a million "urban legend" type explanations of who he is and why he does this. Does it really matter? It's funny!
Borf is fighting for our rights, our freedom of speech and expression. He is proving to everyone that stolen land belongs to NOBODY.
Modern aerosol graffiti was born in the subways of NYC, but now that the trains are buffed the graffiti moved onto the streets. Now it is all about damage and BOMBING: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION. We wanna show the world our art, but there are those who want to lock us up, and why? because
EVERYTHING WE SEE IS COMMERCIALIZED FOR SELLING A PRODUCT.
Borf is just giving you a gift and he is dedicating a lot of time to do it for everyone, when was the last time you corporate slaves did that un-selfish? Borf is an artist in the fullest sense, he lives his art. You will soon understand what Borf's message is. He will reveal everything. All is going according to his plan. He will always be one step ahead of all you blind spectators. STYLE WARS is a great movie about graffiti. If you want to see the real roots of real hip hop check out www.stylewars.com . Borf wishes he could wage a real STYLE war, but he is constantly chased by wannabe neighborhood heros, and pastry consuming police cops.
Borf loves you and he just wants everyone to be heard, he is fueled by peace and freedom of expression. Don't hate, congratulate. Besides what the fuck is DC good for besides stupid, clubs (people who go to clubs are just fakes who pay for a horn dog, phony ass atmosphere with bullshit ear pollution music, fags be flossing fashion, everyone don't give a fuck about the government cus you assholes are getting fucked up, aborting yourselves). . . anyways you yuppie pieces of shit disgust me. back to the subject . . . DC is good for its fake ass night life, the hookers on K street,and it's monuments to the SLAVE MASTERS, and the enslaved inhabitants of a swampland with no representation in congress.
Maybe BORF is trying to give something positive to this city, the symbol of our country, you will never understand the passion that goes into his work that he does for FREE.
We talk to the people LIVING on the STREETS. THEY SLEEP IN FRONT OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD STARBUCKS. We have mad love for the opressed, we told them how the government rules with stolen knowledge and misseducation. ARTISTS REPRESENT THE WORLD, WHAT WE DO FOR FREE, YOU TAKE AND TAX FOR A FEE. For those of you who have read this up to this point: Realize that this "blogging" is just a fake, electronic version of what Borf does. Borf doesn't what you to be confined to limitations. He thinks people should express themselves to as many people as possible, that way we hold no secrets, secrets make people feel uncomfortable, for some people have selfish intentions.
He doens't want you to give up your dream to work for someone else's. Fuck money, you chase that shit like your life depends on it. Borf wants people to be free of dependencies or addictions. He wants to give everyone the freedom of reality.
We are not hippies and we are not black panthers, politicians or thugs . . . we are WRITERS and ARTISTS, and lovers of freedom. We think that if the world were more creative there'd be less destruction. Art is the opposite of war, and we just ask why people seek to use weapons instead of words? why death instead life? We fight for the health of the planet. Fuck global warming, nuclear weapons, and unfair laws. We have just realized the bullshit and we are doing something with our love instead of our hate. This goes deeper than your 9 to 5, we are all about individuality, and peace. If your not going to do something nice don't do it at all, but if you do something nice you gotta go ALL out. Don't leave one word responses, write a fucking book.
If you have read up until this point, i commend you, for the media hasn't shortened your attention span to that of a 5 year old on a sugar high. Hope this hasn't wasted your precious time/money.
the "f" in life stands for fun, take it out and live a lie.
all i am saying is: Do not HATE on BORF, DO NOT hate ON GRAFFITI. Graffiti is free public art. If you see graffiti you don't like then do something over it. nothing is stopping you besides fear and laziness.
an absent canvas = an absent mind.
the resolution(not revolution) is coming. You will like art. art will love you.
I just visited Greece, and found Borf at the foot of the Acropolis.
I'll be posting a pic to http://raptor.slc.edu/~locks/blogred/photos in the next 1-2 weeks (including a navigational sign in Greek).
Cool Disco Dan is THE graffitti artist. BORF or all the Borfs who claim to be Borf are just WANNABEs as far as I'm concerned.
U dumbass, THE graffiti writer? shut the fuck up hipster piece of shit. He does the same shit over and over a again, so fuck you. Do something toy.
STYYYYLE MUTHA FUCKERS
Borf is ill so your concern DON'T MEAN SHI-ET.
Lornz, are you drunk?
Police Hope They Have Stopped BORF Graffiti
Three Men Arrested For Spray-Painting Buildings
POSTED: 4:46 pm EDT July 13, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The graffiti has become legendary around the District and on the Internet, but police are hoping they have put a stop to BORF's creations.
Early Wednesday morning, police arrested three men who witnesses say were spray-painting buildings on 7th Street in Northwest. All three are facing charges of defacing property.
Two of the suspects are from Great Falls, Va. Police have identified them as Richard Lee and John Tsombikos.
The third man refused to tell police his identity.
BORF's creations have dotted the George Washington campus and have popped up in parts of Columbia Heights, Ledroit Park and other places around the city. BORF's works also have been spotted in New York; Raleigh, N.C.; and Athens, Greece.
My friend and I are trying to raise some money for BORF's defense. If you're interested in contributing we're trying to gauge interest via replies to this craigslist post so that we can set a fundraising goal. We'll be doing that via fundable.org.
I left a message for the person I hope is his mom a few minutes ago. If you have any solid contact information please email me -- this won't work unless we can transfer the money to him. Thanks!
Address is: helpborf at gmail dot com.
We have some borf work behind my office building in McLean. I always thought it was donnie darko....
BORF was some rich little brat living off mommy and and daddy's money. I hope that piece of shit rots in jail. let the little piece of shit earn some money before going out and destroying what other have made. All he does is live off his parents while regurgitating a bunch of crap he heard somewhere
Ok all you people better fucking listen right now...."Borf" is only a nickname that was given to the best fucking kid in the world. His name was Robert Leeroy Fisher III.(A.K.A Bobby) He was born in 7/12/87 and died 10/22/03. John (the one that did all the graffiti) is just very upset about his death thats why he has put his name everywhere. If you guys have n e more questions just e-mail me at punx4lifeg36@yahoo.com
I'm glad the first douche bag ORF is dead and hopefully the second one will be soon. Either that or getting slammed in the butt in jail. Let that little rich bitch learn a lesson. beofre mouthing off he ought to learn how to live in the rela world not off mommy and daddy's money!!
Rich Bitch: Seriously? You're glad a teenager committed suicide? You don't want to rethink that statement at all?
rich bitch is just a hater cus he ain't up, fuck you bitch ass toy. you just an insignificant shit talker. you don't know shit you stagnant minded piece of shit. do something bitch.
I am drunk, but i know the real.
rich bitch is just a hater cus he ain't up, fuck you bitch ass toy. you just an insignificant shit talker. you don't know shit you stagnant minded piece of shit. do something bitch.
I am drunk, but i know the real.
you prolly a POOR SUCKER
FUCK ALL YOU MOTHER FUCKERS!!!
AHAHAHAHA
we give what u recieve, take that shit you dumb fucks
u a motha fuckin bithac
u a motha fuckin bithac
* I meant bitch
BORF was caught! I guess that blog story was all BS.. BORF is some kid from Great Falls (well the tagger used the name of his friend 'Borf' who commited suicide 2-years ago). Sorry to be a buzz-kill.. check out the Washington Post article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302448.html
If you Borf supporters out there want to help him out, this is how . . .
EVERYONE: WRITE BORF, EVERYWHERE.
If you believe in Borf's message, and want to pass on the memory of BORF then get up.
Or if u don't wanna write borf, write something, express yourself.
fuck slavery
the public can ressurect borf, it's real easy to spell.
ART MUST BE FREE
BORF
Borf ain't no muhfucking trend like pogs, poker, or reality tv. trends end so put an end to trends. Borf represents life, death, freedom, and slavery. all things which exist everywehre everyday.
Peace, i love you all.
NO SHIT? PATY POOPER, YOU SLOW ASS
NO SHIT? PArTY POOPER, YOU SLOW ASS
So, what is wrong with it? rich kid going around doing some cool graffiti.You people, always creating boundaries, limitations and divisions. JUST MERGE.
and of course, F R E E B O R F
All of you people are idiots. Borf isn't the name of the man responsible for all the graffiti. Borf is the nickname for a close friend of mine who has passed away. The man who did this was also friends with him and I know him too. I think it is totally dumb that there is all of this bullshit talk about Borf and none of you even know who the man Bobby himself was. I think the worst problem with people these days is that they draw to conclusions much too drastically. RIP Robert Fisher
Quit writing my name on everything, you bourgeois douchebags!
ayo BORF is on some next shit truly i dont give a fuck about dem BORF hatta's out there because they dont know shit about paintin da streets or art all they can do is sit on their fat lazy asses and talk shit into des lame fuck show some R-E-S-P-E-C-T dont say shit cuz i'm not tryin ta hear and for BORF keep doin what you do best sock dem bitches wit some hot shit
ayo BORF is on some next shit truly i dont give a fuck about dem BORF hatta's out there because they dont know shit about paintin da streets or art all they can do is sit on their fat lazy asses and talk shit into des lame fuck show some R-E-S-P-E-C-T dont say shit cuz i'm not tryin ta hear it and for BORF keep doin what you do best sock dem bitches wit some hot shit
AND I GOT LOCKED UP....they wont let me out.....LOCKED UP....they wont let me out.....
hahahhaha! borf sucks ass. you read that post article? it makes him out to be a prophet! get real....mommy gives him the keys to the land rover and some parking money, little borf comes to the big bad city from the richest part of the dc metro area, vandalizes thousands of dollars worth of property, then quickly slinks off into the night back to his comfy multimillion dollar house in the burbs. borf is a piece of shit.
He sounds great to me. The graffiti he's done (from what I've seen) looks pretty good, better yet is his message. I definitely love his youth rights message, its exactly the message I'm working on promoting myself. Just in my own (legal) way. But I certainly support what John is doing too.
For more information on youth rights/youth liberation, check out: http://www.youthrights.org
People generate and are motivated by the kinetic energy that is life.
The initial activation of that energy source was either negative, neutral, or
positive. The neutral are easily influenced by the dominating forces within a
percieved enviroment. The neutral gravitate towards the ideologies which are most
conveinient to their well-being. The negative and the positive kinetics go out
of their ways to promote or destroy others. The negative and positve are equally
powerful in enviroments void of time, life, and gravity. The three tips the scale
into the favor of the negative with the pursuit of material wealth and things that
exist only on this island Earth. Life is a coincidence of mind, body, spirit, and
consciousness. With life comes maintainence, with maintainence comes work, and where
there is work there is play, fun, and laziness. When negatives get lazy they enslave.
Where there are slaves there is a work force, where there is a work force there is
economy, industry, business, and corporations. A corporation is an institution
which is geared towards pursuing the endeavors of a single ideaology. They shouldn't
undermine the value of an individuals time of life for the sake of making the most
amount of money. In this corporate capitalist society, it is a lot easier for stagnant
minded slave masters to control and profit off of the ways and means in which recieve
our basic necessities for everyday survival, rather than educating the public so that
they may be responsible for themselves and become more independent, more free. When
people undermine and hurt others for monetary gain, they force the neutrals to resort
to the same tactics which destroy humanity. The neglected stay ignored, the poor get
poorer, and the rich get richer. The people with the money have the means of mass
communications, yet they do not always have the best of intentions.
Large scale representation of the poor in the media will equalize the dominating
negative/destructive enviroment which has engulfed our nation>world.
More representation of African, Asian, Native tribes must be evident in our government
and in our symbols and landmarks. Arts and entertainment mustn't be desecrated by
commercial endeavors.
Art is the perception of the human psyche, if you ruin an experience by trying to sell
a product, then you are stealing a chance for someone to witness a selfless act of
expression. Can you put a price on that?
If society never witnesses an unadulterated work of art, then every individual will
be stained by greed and the memory of a raped experience. Now it seems that as soon as
one is born, they are thrown into a debt. A smack on your ass and you're theirs.
The world doesn't seem to understand that a selfless act will give opportunity
for another act of love.
Art is the ultimate positive; a way to communicate our souls. Enviroments are designed,
whether it be by a single architect or a multitude of artists.
The enviroment and the things within the space which interact with society
are either form, function or both. Some of it is made mostly for the sake of function,
things like escalators, elevators, bridges, or even the wheel. The need for the
structure's functionality takes first priority and the way it is designed must be
confined to the laws of nature. The people who design those are hardly ever considered
artists but engineers and architects. There are those skilled individuals in the field
which sucessfully merge the two so that the form may enhance the conditions within its
surrounding enviroments whether it is for the sake of visual aesethics or most efficient
operation of its system. Some art is made for housing and moving people from one location to
another, some art is geared towards housing and moving money. Is that ok? well lets see:
money = time and energy, Art = time and energy.
The energy that goes into the production of art is a positive one for something is created,
where as the money system could be mastered by taking advantage of and exploiting necessities
and addictions, profiting off of destruction and consumption. So using art to make money is
contradictory to the meaning of art and degrades the art used to the level of being a "visual prostitute".
Self preservation, consumption, and the desires of things material have thrown the people of
this country into a self-destructive frenzy for money and prestige. Everyone wishes to live like kings, yet they have
NO SKILLS, only in the false reality of computers and "cyber space". It's a synthetic substituion.
Public art, art without function, free art in an enviroment which isn't a marketing ploy will
psychologically promote individuality, free-thinking, and creativity amongst the citizens. There
would be more ideas, more entrepreneurship, less coporations and mental enslavement.
Graffiti is public art and the media of the poor. The poor deserve to be represented. The poor are people.
The poor need to be loved. There is no love without respect, no respect without truth, and no truth
without reality. Art is real.
Borf wasn't poor.
yeah, borf sure as hell wasn't poor. great falls is the richest area in the DC area. average houses over there cost 2 mill. get real. i mean, what planet is this guy living on?
this borf guy needs a boot up his ass. then he needs to do some manual labor. maybe then he'd learn about employment and how that's "selling out." i'm sure he's never done a hard days work once in his life. this jar of mayonaise needs a swift kick in the ass, needs to get a job and pay his own damn rent and bills. but, that would be selling out.
what a joke.
So what if he wasn't poor? It's not like he had a choice. He sure wans't gonna be like"uhh gee ma could uhh we start uhh being like poor or something?". Don't hate on him because of his s.e.s. He does not gove a damn ABOUT MATERIAL THINGS. He never cared about clothes, or jewelery, or having a nice car. He knew that he was privilaged but he wondered why. What did he do to deserve being so rich? NOTHING. He was born in the right place at the right time, which to him is complete bullshit, he knows that that should not determine whether u go thru heaven or hell here on earth. he is out going thru hell, trying to give something back to the people, the poor people. How many homeless people do u see in the national gallery? How many rich kids do you see in the streets of DC scaling buildings for the sake of art???????? He gave the people more to look at then your bullshit marketing ploys. You all Do not understand ART. All you brainwashed slaves who think borf is a criminal do so because you do not value human creativity and expression. All you know is the dollar and "homeland" security. War on terror? Wat IS terror. This government just seems to love to make ENEMIES. Well guess what, in the war against ART, ART will prevail. These bombs kill IGNORANCE, NOT PEOPLE.
If you want to talk about private property, why don't we talk about our football mascot: THE REDSKINS. REDSKINS? We took their land, gave blankets to them infected with SMALLPOX, manifested into THEIR destinies, confined them to reservations, almost wiped out the buffulo population, all for what? GOLD. That is a white eager entrepreneur for you. We have them a museum, but we still continue to MOCK them by having a savage sport's team named after them. NOT THE NATIVES, BUT THE REDSKINS. think aobut that . . .
I love the freedoms in this country but it is a COMMERCIALIZED FREEDOM. The more money you have the more freedom you have. Who has all the money, the high positions in corporate business, who are the presidents? who are the slave masters?
Rich, WHITE PEOPLE.
Who gets to bombard us with their ideas through the media?
RICH WHITE PEOPLE.
Who DESERVES REPRESENTION??? POOR PEOPLE, ART, AFRICANS, ASIANS, NATIVE TRIBES OF THE WORLD WHO WERE SNUFFED OUT BY IMPERIALISM . . .
ALL A RESULT OF RICH WHITE PEOPLE.
As we continue to try and keep our sanity in this
RICH WHITE CULTURE, we can expect to be opressed by some bullshit laws, which has not peace keeping value what so ever, but is profit motivated, because in the past . . .
Rich white people have proven to be DICKS AND ASSHOLES.
Rich white people will always seek ways to secretly enslave, both physical and mental.
ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL? was that before or after a black man was only considered 3/5's??????????????????
The hypocrisy . . .
UNDERSTAND THE GROUND ON WHICH YOU STAND, A LOT OF U MUH FUHKAS TALK A LOT OF SHIT WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
ACCORDING TO ONE OF THE THREE MEN THIS IS THEIR ACCOUNT. FOR THE FIRST TIME ONE OF THEM HAS A CHANCE TO TELL HIS SIDE OF THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY, THANK YOU INTERNET, THANK YOU FREEDOM OF SPEECH, AND FUCK THE "PATRIOT" ACT.
OK, according to WRITER this is how it went down:
THE THREE MEN WERE RATTED OUT BY A CRACKHEAD.
IF YOU ASK THE POLICE, THEY DID NOT WITNESS ANYBODY IN THE ACT, IF ANYTHING, THE MEN ARE GUILTY FOR RUNNING FROM WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS A CRACKHEAD.
The crackhead was following them around, they talked to him about art and graffiti. The wanderer then had asked them for some money, when they didn't have any he got mad and told the police. The police even called him a crackhead, and after the three men were in cuffs, the homless man had went to the police demanding a reward.
Have you seen the location where they were caught? There is graffiti all over the place, behind the 930 club. SLAE, NORES, KOMA, JALER, EXIST, BELEV, RANCOR,BORF,LAZE . . . they are ALL there, and have been for some time
The three men were merely in the wrong place, with the wrong base head, and in the vicinity of some bitch ass bacon.
Go ahead make prejudgements about rich people, money is the root of all evil? NO, GREED IS.
GET YOUR SHIT STRAIGHT. bitch ass WHITESKINS
Philanthropological Enviromentalistic Art Concerning Equality, understand peace???
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Take your meds, dood.
Who needs to worry about food, clothing, health care, material posessions or legal status, when you know your wealthy parents will take care of you if some bad shit goes down?
the revival of REAL hip hop is key in the artistic representation of the vast majority of minority youth.
CRUNK and most southern rap is ear pollution
i do not take meds dumbass, i don't believe in perscription drugs, it's a fucking SCAM. you take your meds if thats you way of chilling out, i love art and marijuana personally, infact imma bout to take a bong hit right now, peace ya punk/bitchass haters!
is it wrong to spoil your child? what if we give back? what if we don't? what do you know? how? shut the fuck up about all this money shit, he isnt going to DC to fuck it up, he goes there to spread a message, since DC is kinda political i heard? DC is like an antenna and he broadcasted his shit, he got up, you all are under his feet. You wish, you hate.
i love you all the same.
Perhaps your intake of copious amounts of cannabis is what has led you to pen a screed against rich white people while simultaneously championing the actions of a rich white person.
You trustafarians are a crack up...
he is rich but he doesnt hate the way you do, prick
your lack of cannabis consumption may explain why you are an asshole, rather be a trustafarian than a prick, but then again i am not one to label and confine to categories.
Peace
-the number one fucker u love to hate =)
You're "not one to label and confine to categories" ?????
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Is the damage to your hippocampus so bad that you have already forgotten your jeremiad against "RICH WHITE PEOPLE"?
yeah your'e right, but i am trying to equalize 500 years of imperialistic opression. I feel that they have committed an atrocity so i believe that they deserve be slandered. It is kind of like affirmative action except it's shit talking. Equality, there won't be any until white people stop this shit and say sorry. STOP TRYNA HOUSE THE WORLD. I hate guns but it they are everywhere and now people need them to defend themselves, racism is the same, if you have a race of people opressing another, shit can't just go back to normal, you can't expect a smooth transition, like as if nothing happened. Borf and his artwork was a way of giving back and in a way telling everyone that the world belongs to everyone.
white people started this confinement of race to categories. It all happened when they chose dark skinned PEOPLE from Africa, and forced them thru the middle passage and into a world of slavery, the whites started it when before that there was peace manintained by vast distances. You all had to start exploring cus you people were cornered in that sorry as corner of earth called europe. Thats right, you all are cold bloody lazy pieces of shit, realize that you dirty disease ridden slave masters. Time for the afro asiatics to rise up and take back whats theirs, love, equality, and reality. Fuck you and your money making ways.
I feel that if the media were to broadcast information on how white people fucked up, and if the media were to represent more minorities and other misrepresented people in the media, then it could enlighten the world, and then we can start forgiving the rich white people of the world. I hate to sound like a little kid saying "ooh you all started it" but shiet, if you are gonna blame me for standing up for the oppressed then go fuck yourself.
Ha! Don't you worry. I don't anyone is going to even come close to blaming you for standing up for the oppressed! Credit where credit is due, after all.
what are u talking about?
more assumptions? fuck that u think it's about what u KNOW.
more assumptions? fuck what u think it's about what u KNOW.
more assumptions? fuck what u think it's about what u KNOW.
Exactly.
and your point is?
Jason, you got access to resources and info cus u a media hound? you think you on top of this shit? ha, this media outlet and this way i communicate is just one out of an infinite. This media institution is limited by it's politics and "correctness", so when you think that you see me or my message or you think you begin to understand what it is truly about, realize that i have the advantage of knowing what imma do next, and that step will always be one step ahead of yours, cus you and everyone else on here is a gossip snoop. I make the news and you report it and thats how it's gonna be.
Indeed. I have access to a urinal that's big enough to "report" your "news".
And I am currently three steps ahead of you.
No, wait. Seven.
Sorry, my bad. Three.
Well, three-point-two-nine.
You may not understand the concept of flow.
You have a lot to learn from the aforementioned urinal.
That is the way it is going to be.
i see nothing but the words of a confused individual. Sorry but i think absurdity is toy
My head hurts.
truth has been known to hurt
So has nonsensical ramblings.
Lemme guess: you like to sit around in a living room with some of your friends, smoking w33d, using sharpie markers to show off your crude designs on the back of oil-stained pizza boxes that litter the filthly little rathole, and freestyle to show your amazing rappin' abilities? Or some variation thereof. That seems to be how many of the so-called anarchists I know spend their time practicing their so-called art.
The bums lost! My advice is, do what your parents did! Get a job, sir! The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski? THE BUMS WILL ALWAYS LOSE!
Some say that the picture gets even more complicated as a result of the hand-to-mouth existence even top Aboriginal artists often live. Despite the thousands of dollars they are frequently paid for works, most Aboriginal artists still live simple lives, quickly giving away most of the money to family members or hangers-on.
Or, consider the use of ultraviolet lamps. In the early 1950s, according to Dr. Brickner, the use of ultraviolet lamps was widely believed to cut the spread of TB, but their use fell out of favor when antibiotics and improved living conditions decreased the incidence of the infectious and potentially deadly disease. TB began to make a resurgence in the mid-1980s, however, when conditions in which the disease spreads -- including poor nutrition, crowding, poor ventilation, alcoholism, and incroaching poseurs masquerading as authentic artists -- became prevalent among America's homeless population.
Have you ever looked at your hand?
I mean reallly looked at it?
The bums will always lose because they don't have a chance, theyve never had the chance. Would you let them have the chance? "filthy little rat hole" how do u know what my house looks like? And no i do not use sharpies, i use aerosol paint, silkscreens, dark rooms, paint markers, and photoshop. I am am not an anarchist, in fact i would love to live in a FAIR government, which isn't corrupted by greed. And sorry, i am not an MC, although i have a lot of respect for rap, i try to represent the other aspect of hip hop. The bboy and the graffiti aspect primarily. Sorry but my endeavors are creative, my time is too valuable to be wasted in the pursuit of financial stability and things material. I must dedicate my life towards my passion and that is people and art. Sorry that you had to conform, be a bitch to the government and it's system, now you defend the hand that feeds you cus u wanna raise a family, have fun, consume, drink beer, and ignore oppression and poverty elsewhere. These people have artistic expressions which must be acknowledge and valued so that they are considered equal human beings, not the dwellers in a wasteland third world country. "The bums will always lose?" well if thats the case and the way you think it oughta be, realize that you are an asshole shitting on human beings when you undermine them like that. So if this is "nonsenical" rambling, then your shit is justifying hate and ignorance, which has a negative impact on those who view your bullshiet.
my hands are clean, they got skills.
the rich need the poor for their prestige, the poor say fuck the riches fuck the prestige.
those who do not value money are not valued in society
P.E., I was just using you to push the comment stream on this topic over 100. I think that's the first time we've ever done that here. I'm going to go enjoy some apple juice in celebration of that.
I hope that I don't leave you with the impression that what you have to say isn't valuable and that I didn't pay attention to it.
I mean, it's not valuable, and I didn't pay attention to it, but I figure that you could delude yourself into having another impression about the whole thing.
money is a False value, FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE? your life, is valued into a number a number which is NOTHING in the INFINATE AMOUNTS OF MONEY that can JUST BE PRINTED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THIS determines your ability to pay bills, buy shit you don't need, and eat.
Seems kind of absurd to me, like a mouse running on a wheel.
word up, well thats great cus there is no cure for fools like yourself. All i am trying to do is be heard and be seen and get my message across, and i will get my "delude" out of bombing people's minds and exposing them to another perspective.
And why do u have to instigate bullshit to push the comments over a hundred? i mean you knew it was gonna do that anyways.
Keep it real Jason. Keep it raw, clear and to the point. Don't front like you are a dumbass to provoke me, just tell us how you feel. I hate how the media tries to be so un-biased, the media should be allowed to promote their beliefs if it is for a righteous endeavor, in this case it is a graffiti writer, but i guess you would not want graffiti writers to have freedom in the media? please if you are inclined to do so, tell us what the "DCist" thinks . . . Fuck all this other shit, If you are gonna do that just admit you are using Borf to promote yourselves. AMDIT that and thank him. like you sed Credit where credit is due . . . give borf some credit.
I live just above the poverty line. I don't have electricity where I work because the building's circuitry is old and we can't afford to fix it. I have roaches in my office as long as my index finger. I have a Master's degree. I'm not a slave to money. I believe deeply in hip-hop and the importance of honesty in racial dialogue. And I think you are a pompous, most likely Napoleonic, little windbag who needs to put his actions where his mouth is and quit judging people you don't know about while at the same time railing against this tendency in others. Get your facts straight. Clarify your message. Quit acting like your claim to being a "bboy" and your knowledge of hip hop circa 1982 is something to be dropped like knowledge. Grow up.
You see i like being provoked, cus i like to take that negative energy and use it to spit my shit. Kill the negative add the positive.
If you love what you hate, then you will eliminate hate. I love debating about what i speak of because i am fueled by the truth, It's like the light from the sun, it will always shine over your clouds of hate.
Just what are YOU fighting for?
Alright well i been typing on here long enough now, imma take a time out . . . let the hate build up and squash that shit all at once . . . later =)
i'll be back . . .
just remember; Don't complicate simplicity. Don't hate congratulate.
And with that, I think it's time to close this ever exciting discussion. Thanks all. Comments are now closed.