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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape Photography Locations => Topic started by: greyscale on April 28, 2016, 08:57:57 pm
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Just watched a report of this stupid act on TV. Then found this:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865653098/Arches-National-Park-wants-to-ID-those-responsible-for-expansive-rock-graffiti.html?pg=all
I hope the park police are able to identify and prosecute those responsible for yet another stupid act.
greyscale
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Absolutely horrible >:(
Alan
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When the current American cultural senility glorifies tattoos, graffiti, and the behavior of low-class stupid people, this is the result.
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What do societal "tattoos" have to do with graffiti carvings??? More likely this ill advised carving relates to the current underground "war" between the Park service Rangers and the numerous illegal Rock Climbers who flock to do climbing stunts captured for posterity and profit on video on the Arches( the arches are currently closed to climbing since Dean Potters videoed fixed line stunt on Delicate Arch that severely damaged that Arch). Most of the rock climbers live in illegal squatter cabins on the floor of Yosemite Valley in the Park or on BLM land. and they are being forced out / arrested and the cabins removed by either the park service of the BLM. The words Anderson & Staten probably refer to George G Anderson and **** Staten his climbing partner and guiding associate. George Anderson was the first person to climb Half Dome in 1875 using home made iron pins and wood spikes, barefoot and slathered in home made pine pitch. **** Staten helped him later put up a permanent fixed line for guiding tourists / climbers on Anderson's original route; that has now been turned into the current via ferrata route up Half Dome. Just before the graffiti was put up there was a service to commemorate the first anniversary of Dean Potter's(and his climbing partners) death. If you search you-tube and other outlets i assume somebody will post a video of this carving in the near future.
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What do societal "tattoos" have to do with graffiti carvings???
Both are anti-social.
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More likely this ill advised carving relates to the current underground "war" between the Park service Rangers and the numerous illegal Rock Climbers who flock to do climbing stunts captured for posterity and profit on video on the Arches
Wow. That's a stretch.
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Wow. That's a stretch.
A big stretch!
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These graffiti are the totally innocent, because essential (Ursprünglich), expression of the destructive nature of the man, like the summit crosses in the Alps.
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Both are anti-social.
You might want to consider moving into the 21st century wherein tattoos, or skin-art, if you will, are widely accepted. Graffiti carving, not so much.
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... tattoos, or skin-art, if you will, are widely accepted...
Among freaks. And there are more and more of them, which explains the "widely" part.