KSTP-TV follows up Chris Steller’s post about anti-RNC graffiti on Minneapolis’ iconic Grain Belt Beer sign with a Thursday segment on what they expect will be a mounting problem. Like the first, a new graffito has highlighted letters G, O and P, only this message reads: “Greed Over People.” It appears near the Hiawatha Avenue footbridge, while another version of the Grain Belt tag, which read “Get Out Phascists,” has apparently appeared elsewhere in the Twin Cities. KSTP puts clean-up costs for the piece shown above at around $3,000.
Photo: Matt Desmond, Flickr
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Comment posted August 15, 2008 @ 10:13 am
Say, that's really great!
Maybe, for it's next work, the DFL will commission a reworking of the state capital with blue spray paint. Now, that would really impress the visiting protesters, wouldn't it?
Comment posted August 15, 2008 @ 3:13 pm
Say, that’s really great!
Maybe, for it’s next work, the DFL will commission a reworking of the state capital with blue spray paint. Now, that would really impress the visiting protesters, wouldn’t it?
Comment posted August 16, 2008 @ 8:23 am
To bestow “iconic” status on the Grain Belt brewery sign is a bit much, don't you think. First of all, drinking Grain Belt is akin to making love to your woman on the beach. F…kin near water. Secondly, iconography is typically bestowed on those objects, persons and sites that actually have made a major contribution to the world. All Grain Belt beer did was contribute to thousands of hangovers and any number of DIU arrests. So PLEASE…tamp down the overblown rhetoric.
Comment posted August 16, 2008 @ 12:41 pm
Damn, that is rad. Why would we want to take that down?
Comment posted August 16, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
Also, wonder why KSTP can somehow magically predict that there'll be more of it? I mean, it seems likely, what what source are they citing? Seems to fall in to the camp of “Some say..”
Comment posted August 16, 2008 @ 1:23 pm
To bestow “iconic” status on the Grain Belt brewery sign is a bit much, don’t you think. First of all, drinking Grain Belt is akin to making love to your woman on the beach. F…kin near water. Secondly, iconography is typically bestowed on those objects, persons and sites that actually have made a major contribution to the world. All Grain Belt beer did was contribute to thousands of hangovers and any number of DIU arrests. So PLEASE…tamp down the overblown rhetoric.
Comment posted August 16, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
Damn, that is rad. Why would we want to take that down?
Comment posted August 16, 2008 @ 5:48 pm
Also, wonder why KSTP can somehow magically predict that there’ll be more of it? I mean, it seems likely, what what source are they citing? Seems to fall in to the camp of “Some say..”
Comment posted August 17, 2008 @ 6:51 pm
Well it's not just some mindless scrawl , it has a message that causes engagement in the political process at some level . Was it done legally?, probably not, but someone wanted to be heard and this is an effective way to reach a lot of people for not a lot of money.
Comment posted August 17, 2008 @ 11:51 pm
Well it’s not just some mindless scrawl , it has a message that causes engagement in the political process at some level . Was it done legally?, probably not, but someone wanted to be heard and this is an effective way to reach a lot of people for not a lot of money.
Comment posted August 18, 2008 @ 6:43 am
Upspeak's right. If you have something to say, and not a lot of money you have the right to put your spray can message anywhere you want.
I've got a lot to say myself, and I'd like to spread my rad message as far as possible….so, where do you usually park your car Upspeak?
Comment posted August 18, 2008 @ 8:33 am
Nothing wins people to your point of view like property damage.
Comment posted August 18, 2008 @ 11:43 am
Upspeak’s right. If you have something to say, and not a lot of money you have the right to put your spray can message anywhere you want.
I’ve got a lot to say myself, and I’d like to spread my rad message as far as possible….so, where do you usually park your car Upspeak?
Comment posted August 18, 2008 @ 1:33 pm
Nothing wins people to your point of view like property damage.
Comment posted August 19, 2008 @ 8:44 am
Property damage? Surely you jest. That's property IMPROVEMENT. Those responsible should be given awards and art endowments for their fine efforts in attempting to uplift the moral and cultural standards of the city of Minneapolis.
Comment posted August 19, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
Property damage? Surely you jest. That’s property IMPROVEMENT. Those responsible should be given awards and art endowments for their fine efforts in attempting to uplift the moral and cultural standards of the city of Minneapolis.
Comment posted September 2, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
AWESOME! GET THE RNC OUT!
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