Ugly Sidewalk stencling around the hill (see Photo) is to promote HG Lodge, 722 E. Pike.
I tried filing a report of vandalism of city property with the police, but they say the city has to file.
We should take stronger action against the club to clean-up their vandalism.
What we can do:
Contact and complain to the club itself and encourage them to clean-up the damage they’ve done: 328-7666, [email protected]
Or report the graffiti with the city hotline at: (206) 684-7587
Let’s not let them get away with this!
don’t you have better things to do? chill.
There are many more important things to be enthusiastic about. These ads aren’t hurting anyone. Put your anger towards this petty reality of living in a city against something legitimately hurting the community. Into something positive. Go volunteer at Lifelong or something, geez. Relax man!
People who don’t like someone’s opinion about an issue often respond by saying there are more important things to be concerned about. Of course this is true, but that doesn’t mean the opinion is not a valid one or that the issue doesn’t need to be addressed.
All advertising on our public spaces, except for postering which complies with City regulations (which it rarely does!), is vandalism and should be discouraged as much as possible.
Chillax Laurn,
Jake is right. What if every business decides to do this?
If it was chalk it would be one thing, but with all this rain lately, that wouldn’t work either.
JAKE! JAKE! JAKE!
Booo Laurn!
Advertising is advertising, what’s the difference between that and a billboard? Ohh it’s because Coorporate dollars make it ok. So only the mega rich can advertise? I for one would prefer advertisements to be done from a grassroots perspective…my 2 cents
looks like there are some holes on the sidewalk too, we should complain about those as well
Get a life. Second, that doesn’t promote the club. Say OK is a promoter. Maybe you should talk to them considering it’s the promoter, not the club, who is the one who spray painted their tag.
Every business has decided to do this. It’s called commercials, side of busses, top of cab’s, front of Sounders Jerseys, ALL of Nascar and even that Cupcake Royal banner at the bottom of this page. We either need to get rid of all of it or none of it.
Jake,
You should complain to the government! I saw the space shuttle that was paid for by tax dollars and it has a painted stencil that says NASA all over it. Scoundrels I tell ya! (Might be the same guys) hmmm
You don’t own the sidewalk. It’s not like it was your home or business. Grafitti in general is part of urban culture. Move to the suburbs if u wanna bitch
Jake,
Did you just move here from Bellevue? Maybe Mercer Island?
The REAL problem on Capitol Hill are all the new condos popping up, bringing the yuppies from other areas. Capitol Hill used to be an urban environment where artistic and diverse people flourished. Now that gays, artists and musicians have been run out we are seeing these new neighbors complaining to the city about noise, stencils, graffiti and wheatpasting. Everything that made Capitol Hill the desirable place to live is now being crushed by Gentrification. Didn’t Seattle learn anything by watching NYC with the Lower East Side and Brooklyn?
When commercial interests pollute our mindspace with their messages, by tagging them on public property – the community should be outraged. It’s not graffiti, not art; it’s simply opportunistic advertising. Unlike bus and blog ads; they didn’t pay to put it there, it’s not easily removable, and especially irresponsible since the message will be outdated in what, a month? But we’ll be looking at that for the next 20 years unless graffiti rangers manages/bothers to scrub it off.
Just because corporations and businesses shit all over our public space doesn’t make it right. You should be all be pissed, but apparently we’ve all been worn down to a state of dull apathy.
“the real problem is condos”
NO – the real problem is that no one gives enough of a shit to make their community what they want it to be. Instead they whine about it on blogs and move away when their feelings get hurt.
BTW – If ya pay taxes, YOU DO OWN the sidewalks, dammit. ;-)
Please spare us your lefty drivel. It’s only corporations that can afford to advertise? Take a look at the Seattle Weekly and The Stranger…there are hundreds of ads for small, local businesses.
I’ve lived on cap hill since 1999. This is my home. I hate cheap shit condos and I am not a yuppie snob. I am however a person who finds apathy for ones surrounding offensive and @funkisockmunki made a very succinct point. I fully agree. My business pays for adverts in local media. I would never assume permanent stencils would be an appropriate medium to advertise. As it is i need a license from the city just to have a banner and a frame sign out front. Im certain they had no permission from the city. After reading all the previous comments i realize I’m not sure why some people in this thread seem to be so volatile in regards to a subject that they dismiss as unimportant yet go to the trouble of stressing their view. If its so unimportant why even respond? Do you have a total disregard for your neighborhood? Do you think these stencils are acceptable? Should we all just do whatever we want to the streets and walls? Lets all stencil our favorite brand name wherever we wish just because we want to?
Whether hglodge or their promoters are to blame I believe Hglodge has a duty to the neighborhood to address this concern, after all, the locals who live close by are what keep most of us busineses thriving. Not fare weather fun seekers from outside Seattle. Let’s hold Hglodge accountable.
mad about your sidewalk becoming a cheapskate’s MARKETING canvas rather than Art canvas? ok, agreed!
make the perp into a canvas for the cause/business of your choice: see how they like the taste of their own bitter medicine.
Simply apply golden rule, kids.
personally, I’m going to make a DICKS stencil – not to benefit Dick Spady per se, but because I like the ‘deeper’ meaning …
Note that CHS reported that Hunter Gatherer Lodge owner Marcus Lalario admitted that he knows who did this.
Funny thing is that NIKE did an advertising campaign last year in SF that was exactly the same thing.
Its interesting that people are getting so upset. Im indifferent to the advertising (seeing that its only on the sidewalk) but it does make me chuckle a bit to see that people think this is some legit business avoidance. Its just a club promoter doing a free or really cheap night with great musical talent. I dont know the guys that are running it, but I cant imagine that they are making much (if any) money. Might not be legal but kudos for being creative.