What Goes Up Must Come Down

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Charlie Todd
on October 28, 2008
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Street artist Above recently painted a little mural on the wall of a Washington Mutual (soon to be converted to a Chase Bank now that it’s been sold off.) Here’s another recent WaMu prank.

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6 Responses to “What Goes Up Must Come Down”

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  1. 1 Bill
    October 28, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    Wow…PAINT. How is that not graffiti? I have trouble appreciated art that defaces.

  2. 2 MattC
    October 28, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    Same here. Mind you this is a pretty funny joke.
    Here in Toronto though council has passed a bill saying if a business is hit with graffiti (including murals etc) they are on the hook to clean them up. Having said that when campaigners in our recent election had their offices hit by vandals, the government foot the bill.
    It has opened the debate here what is art and what isn’t when it comes to “street art”. Basically they’ve said none of it is acceptable. Which I believe is wrong.

  3. 3 Cougar
    October 29, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    It may well be an act of vandalism to “deface” the banks wall but that is far less irresponsible and much easier to fix than the mess the major banks have got us into.

  4. 4 Bill
    October 31, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    Cougar, so are you saying it’s okay to do something wrong or illegal against someone so long as what they did to you or to society is more wrong? That’s a slippery slope.

  5. 5 Ray
    November 19, 2008 at 12:08 am

    Nice. The piece reminds me of Banksy’s cocaine cop.

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