I am absolutely signing on to a full course of Great Falls Tribune goodness. Thanx

indarwinsshadow: The funny part, is the turds that did this will one day age. And realize that it takes time and effort to gather the things we enjoy in life. Money spent, time put in, years go by. And when that day comes, some young arsehole will come along and wreck whatever they most cherish. Just. Because.

I would have agreed with you....until I looked at the mural....

It *really* isn't appropriate for a skate park. Stereotypical or not, the target demographic of skaters are not going to appreciate cartoonish birds and rainbow colors. It doesn't jive with skater culture. And this lady isn't a skater. She doesn't come to the park. Legally/technically it's a public park or whatever - but in the eyes of the kids that use it, that hang out there, that skate - they probably feel like she has no business covering the park with stuff I'd expect to see in a children's day care.

This is the park before.

Seems fine to me.

Anyone got a link to page 2? In a twist of comic irony, when I turn on JavaScript so that I can click "next" the whole page is grayed out.

/Page used to have a nice "a href=". Must have been vandals.

Rufus Lee King: I'm glad to know that immature idiots on skateboards are the arbiters of the art world these days.

...and Farkers.

Man, I'm having trouble fathoming how many absolute asshole dicks are posting in this thread. I mean seriously, all you "her at sucked anyway" / "that shiat doesn't belong at a skatepark" douchebags need to just go smoke another joint, fire up another round of whatever ridiculously time-wasting video game you're currently into and go back to being the silent loosers that you are. I've known plenty of people like you idiots, and invariably you are are about the most worthless, unmotivated, bad-attitude-having oxygen thieves that the world can produce, and your parents are truly ashamed of you.

The place I live just got tagged for the second time in two weeks. I saw it when I got home 20 minutes ago, and it wasn't there this morning. My landlady is livid. farking vandals. Middle class douches who think they're hardcore. Somebody needs Baseball Bat Therapy(tm)

/not getting a kick at all

Gyrfalcon: burning_bridge: neenerist: mongbiohazard: Her mural sucked. And it was pretty rainbowlame for a skatepark too.

And nowhere in the article does it mention the skate park users were consulted. Sounds like they just took the space back from a group trying to co-opting it.


Skating over that multicolored monstrosity would have given me vertigo. The people that painted over it probably did it to keep kids from falling down and busting their heads open. Skating by it must have had a kaleidoscope effect on you. And if she honestly expected the locals to respect it, just about anyone with any sense would have explained the folly of such thought. She choose her canvas poorly.

I really doubt that. Like someone said, this was a semi-professional job by someone who wanted to totally remove the mural. I agree that someone wanted to obliterate it; but the kind of people who would do it that way would not care if skaters fell and busted their heads open. And skaters wouldn't have done such a professional looking job. They'd have either sprayed it or, if they did cover it with gray like that, they'd have used brushes and probably different colors of gray. Like a spot-job on a graffiti cleanup.

It was some old fart who just didn't like the look of the thing. Or a young fart, but not one who cared about the well-being of the skaters, I'm guessing.

Maybe an ex boyfriend of the artists...

Bondith: The place I live just got tagged for the second time in two weeks. I saw it when I got home 20 minutes ago, and it wasn't there this morning. My landlady is livid. farking vandals. Middle class douches who think they're hardcore. Somebody needs Baseball Bat Therapy(tm)

/not getting a kick at all

Go for the knees and elbows. Joints take WAY longer to heal, being more complex, and if you are diligent about the original lesson, when they are old and grey they will STILL remember you. It's a sort of immortality.

Rufus Lee King: I'm glad to know that immature idiots on skateboards are the arbiters of the art world these days.

Oh, fark you. This isn't somebody erasing a Gerhard Richter. That thing was horrible. The people who are speaking up for it must be at least legally blind. An unrelieved expanse of gray paint is a vast improvement. I, for one, salute these public-spirited individuals and fine upstanding Americans, whoever they were.

Graffiti is Art.

Tags are time-wasting bullshiat. A form of splutching the ejaculate of your mental masturbation upon strangers...

I don't know why I have to accept one with the other.

I'm too old to skate nowadays and a dozen of you have already said this but that painting is terrible and has no place in a skate park. She got what was coming to her. I can imagine there are many graffiti writers who frequent the skate park who saw it as an affront to their craft and found a humorous solution.

Mad about the vandals but still yapping on about how "street art" is about freedom and expression and we shouldn't just throw the yipnips in jail for shiatting spraypaint all over everthing? Tastes like irony.

Twice Banned: WordyGrrl: My guess: twas some old fart who thinks all graffiti is awful and is an affront to society.

When was the last time you saw an old fart at a skate park?

Tony Hawk?

Only an idiot would be truly surprised by this. Skateboarders are young rugged individuals, many embrace the counter culture. They slapped up a gay tropical bird mural right in front of them.

This would be something like putting an Obama mural up in an NRA meeting, and expecting everyone to love it.

"Oh noes those dirty skaters defaced my pretty pink pterodactyl I painted for them!"
"Well, you put a pretty pink pterodactyl in their skatepark."

/If that flaming mural was really several thousand dollars and needed several artists to complete, shes doing more than one thing wrong

titwrench: Twice Banned: WordyGrrl: My guess: twas some old fart who thinks all graffiti is awful and is an affront to society.

When was the last time you saw an old fart at a skate park?

Tony Hawk?

Practically everyone from Jak's?

Bondith: The place I live just got tagged for the second time in two weeks. I saw it when I got home 20 minutes ago, and it wasn't there this morning. My landlady is livid. farking vandals. Middle class douches who think they're hardcore. Somebody needs Baseball Bat Therapy(tm)

/not getting a kick at all


If the area isn't frequented by too many kids, add something underneath the taggers name. For example, if dumbass tagged his name as "Tagger A" on the wall, mimic the writing style as best you can and add "is bi-curious" or "tags like a 12 year old".

D_Evans45: Only an idiot would be truly surprised by this. Skateboarders are young rugged individuals, many embrace the counter culture. They slapped up a gay tropical bird mural right in front of them.

This would be something like putting an Obama mural up in an NRA meeting, and expecting everyone to love it.

"Oh noes those dirty skaters defaced my pretty pink pterodactyl I painted for them!"
"Well, you put a pretty pink pterodactyl in their skatepark."

/If that flaming mural was really several thousand dollars and needed several artists to complete, shes doing more than one thing wrong

Ahh, so that automatically gives them the right to violate the law and just do whatever in the hell they want? I guess if they decide as a group that Kentucky Fried Chicken sucks it'll be okay for them to just burn down every KFC they come across, right?

/go back to your mom's basement and your warcraft raid, looser.

Arthur Jumbles: Vandals are dicks. However, in the future it's possible to cover murals with a protective coating to minamize this dickish behavior in the future.

my first thought was that the wall was already painted with this protective coating & the rain washed it off overnight.

Wanted for questioning:

"But yeah, skating is for kids. So we commission someone who's been illustrating children's books for a couple of month and we give her a couple of paint cans. After all, how difficult could that be?
Plus, kids will be kids so put anything friendly, like a friendly bear or a friendly bird.
But make sure to make it frown, because kids want to be tough"

I love illustration for kids, cartoons, cute things... More even than my girlfriend.
But for fark sake, this is unicorn poop. Colorful but still poop.
What do we do with poop? We put it away.

The "artist" got paid, a story in the news, let her now bask and go back to her skittles.

Next time, go talk to the skaters find the artsy ones, or better, make it a collaboration.

I hate it when people mistake youngsters for toddlers.

Oh and when I say "unicorn poop" I refer to the skatepark mural. Not the the images attached.

Attention 2words1finger: Loser is spelled L-O-S-E-R. When trying to discredit or insult others, it helps to have an education.

Proximuscentauri: Attention 2words1finger: Loser is spelled L-O-S-E-R. When trying to discredit or insult others, it helps to have an education.

Thus sayeth the spelling nazi.

You do realize that you're just making my point for me, right? Oh and no, lOOser is the correct spelling jackass. That's because it is an "Ooo" sound, not a hard-Oh, which is what it would be if there were only one "O". Try going back to your 2nd grade phonics if you need verification, douchenozzle.

And this is why we can't have nice things.

2words1finger: You do realize that you're just making my point for me, right? Oh and no, lOOser is the correct spelling jackass. That's because it is an "Ooo" sound, not a hard-Oh, which is what it would be if there were only one "O". Try going back to your 2nd grade phonics if you need verification, douchenozzle.

Not sure if pants-on-head stupid

Or sublime genius troll

Bondith: 2words1finger: You do realize that you're just making my point for me, right? Oh and no, lOOser is the correct spelling jackass. That's because it is an "Ooo" sound, not a hard-Oh, which is what it would be if there were only one "O". Try going back to your 2nd grade phonics if you need verification, douchenozzle.

Not sure if pants-on-head stupid

Or sublime genius troll

Pants-on-head stupid troll.

lewismarktwo: Bondith: 2words1finger: You do realize that you're just making my point for me, right? Oh and no, lOOser is the correct spelling jackass. That's because it is an "Ooo" sound, not a hard-Oh, which is what it would be if there were only one "O". Try going back to your 2nd grade phonics if you need verification, douchenozzle.

Not sure if pants-on-head stupid

Or sublime genius troll

Pants-on-head stupid troll.


"Z0MG 1 AM S0 TEH EXXTR3AM!!!1!" It's always funny to watch the spasms of people who never got past "MY DICK WORKS SO U BETTER RESPECT ME!", *especially* when they're "trolling". : ) Being a mouthy dork on the internet sort of *IS* like spray painting your graffiti piss all over a wall, if you think about it.

2words1finger: Proximuscentauri: Attention 2words1finger: Loser is spelled L-O-S-E-R. When trying to discredit or insult others, it helps to have an education.

Thus sayeth the spelling nazi.

You do realize that you're just making my point for me, right? Oh and no, lOOser is the correct spelling jackass. That's because it is an "Ooo" sound, not a hard-Oh, which is what it would be if there were only one "O". Try going back to your 2nd grade phonics if you need verification, douchenozzle.

LOOL

2words1finger: D_Evans45: "Oh noes those dirty skaters defaced my pretty pink pterodactyl I painted for them!"
"Well, you put a pretty pink pterodactyl in their skatepark."


Ahh, so that automatically gives them the right to violate the law and just do whatever in the hell they want? I guess if they decide as a group that Kentucky Fried Chicken sucks it'll be okay for them to just burn down every KFC they come across, right?

/go back to your mom's basement and your warcraft raid, looser.


It's spelled "loser" dumbass, take note. Youll appear a little less foolish next time you post on Fark. The old "It doesnt matter if it's common sense, the law says its wrong!" mentality, followed by some horribly foolish comparisons.

/Probably a decent troll

after the new mural goes up, I would be ok with some "concerned citizens" camping out in the brush within view of the park, with a rifle and scope... you know, for protection...

Explodo: I'm going to have to agree with the several posters that stated the obvious:

It's a skatepark. The mural was all bright and flowery and girly. I expected to see a pony popping out of it somewhere. Skaters aren't typically into pink and pastels. I'm sure they hated it. It was the wrong place for it. The skaters probably banded together to eliminate it.

After seeing the picture, I now see this point ^^