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August 5, 2011
The Dan Plasma Tagging Mystery
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Above: Cedar Alley - 8/4/11.
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Above: Cedar Alley - 8/4/11.
15th and Valencia: The Tiger Mural Saga
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[Above photo courtesty of MapJack]. Original Tiger Mural at 15th and Valencia (Pre Dan Plasma).
[Above photo by westbymidwest] Dan Plasma's tiger mural. Similar to old tiger, but with an eye in the tiger's back, some faces, and a few changes. Some say the old one had been tagged and defaced. I dunno.
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[Above photo from MissionMission] Then, this group piece went up over Dan's tiger.
[Above photo by eviloars]. Dan, in the process of reclaiming the wall.
[Above photo by petalum]. Pretty much the "let's be clear - this means war" type of tagging that makes people afraid to go home at night. Some say he's fled the city. I dunno.
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Above: This is a photo I shot of the piece on 6/28/11. Apparently, Dan repainted the wall with a new tiger at this point in the saga.
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Above: This is a photo I shot of the piece on 6/28/11. Apparently, Dan repainted the wall with a new tiger at this point in the saga.
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Above: This is a photo I shot of the piece on 6/28/11. Apparently, Dan repainted the wall with a new tiger at this point in the saga.
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Above: Then, this is what the wall looked like on 8/4/11. Ouch.
I had followed, for a while, the dispute over the murals at 15th and Valencia. Someone in that article indicated that "His Chinatown caper bought him a shitload of enemies[...]", but I was never clear what the Chinatown incident was.
I saw the defaced Dan Plasma Tiger mural on Valencia and 15th, but I'd missed this somehow.
More recently, I saw this message "Stop drawing lines in the sand" in Caledonia alley.
Then, in the last week, pretty much all of the Dan Plasma murals were tagged with "Fvck Plasma" all over the city...Tenderloin...Mission...Western Addition.
But I wasn't getting it. I couldn't put the pieces together.
This morning, in San Francisco, I asked some people in Cedar Alley why his murals were being tagged and they said "well, probably he tagged someone else's murals" and I was thinking..."I seriously doubt that happened", but I didn't say anything.
I asked everyone I knew to ask, including Dan Plasma.
Finally, Mike Giant explains why. Well, at least I'm starting to figure out what's going on.
Update: More here: http://www.rebel8.com/blog/plazma.
Why the Mission says "Fvck Dan Plasma"
Update 2: My understanding now is that there had been a tiger at 15th and Valencia for a long time...something crazy like 20 years. Then Dan Plasma came in and painted over it with his own tiger, and that's just not done. So, I think he got a lot of enemies when he claimed that wall by painting over the old tiger mural.
Posted by Rob Kiser on August 5, 2011 at 2:32 AM
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