FREE GIRAFA!!
by Troy on Oct.29, 2009
Word from the internet is that our friend GIRAFA has been arrested .
This is a sad day for Bay Area Graffiti. I have been photographing GIRAFA’s art for the past 3 years. It has become one of my personally favorite and publicly popular projects.
Two of his most creative pieces were parody’s of Toys ‘R’ Us and It’s-It. You can see 100′s more in a Flickr pool dedicated to the hunting of GIRAFA’s here.
FREE GIRAFA!!
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October 29th, 2009 on 9:53 pm
Good one. Arrested? shit…
October 29th, 2009 on 9:56 pm
Hahah, that’s sucha sweet giraffe, he looks so awkward/confused. I’ll make sure to try and hunt some giraffe’s when I’m in SF
October 29th, 2009 on 10:07 pm
Say it ain’t so! =(
October 29th, 2009 on 11:59 pm
Yeah, nothing like going after low-hanging fruit to demonstrate the power of the man over the people. I feel a whole lot safer now.
October 30th, 2009 on 2:39 am
i wonder if there’s anything we can do :/
October 30th, 2009 on 3:25 am
If anyone else feels like those giraffes brighten their day when they see them, or just feels like protesting this, hit me up. freegirafa@gmail.com
Send me fliers, I’ll post them around SJSU. If anyone feels like going to the courthouse with signs and banners, I would be thrilled to join in.
October 30th, 2009 on 7:54 am
im willing to help GIRAFA in anyway i can.
ive enjoyed finding, shooting, and posting his work over the past 3 years. this is a tremendous waste of taxpayer money, especially when the state is near bankruptcy.
November 28th, 2009 on 8:09 pm
im down hit me up on myspace…skaterboi45@gmail.com!!!
October 30th, 2009 on 7:44 am
felony graffiti? that’s intense. i bet he was writing with a gun. those giraffes look suspiciously like they were scratched into the wall with bullets, don’t they?
it’s true, the world is safer with this man behind bars. i predict all of the bay area will be crime free today, and no bridges will fall.
October 30th, 2009 on 10:05 am
todos somos giraffa!!!!
October 30th, 2009 on 11:15 am
This is too bad to hear. I always looked forward to seeing his paintings around town. What a horrible waste of taxpayer monies.
October 30th, 2009 on 11:30 am
Spotting a giraffa always makes me smile. It’s really a disgrace to use taxpayer resources this way. SF has some *real* problems that need to be dealt with.
October 30th, 2009 on 11:48 am
This story makes my head spin. Like what Jeremy said, don’t we have anything else to worry about?!! I hope this post helps Girafa in some way… not to make light of the matter, this is an excellent photo of Girafa on that truck.
October 30th, 2009 on 2:50 pm
I love Steven Free aka. Girafa. First off the mystery of this underground artist has just been revealed and I’m left feeling like Santa was just exposed. Looking for this Art all around the Bay has been inspiring and now I’m so glad that I stole that carpool sign with it’s very own Girafe autograph on it.
October 30th, 2009 on 2:56 pm
FREE GIRAFA
October 30th, 2009 on 4:41 pm
Hooray! Another idiot whose art skills won’t earn him a dime has to stop trashing other people’s property.
October 30th, 2009 on 4:52 pm
It’s a thrill every time I see Girafa. This is terrible news.
October 30th, 2009 on 11:29 pm
FREEEE GIRAFA!!!
October 30th, 2009 on 11:34 pm
Maybe a lawyer can be found pro bono-
sanjose@calawyersforthearts.org
Somebody write them, OK?
Hemlock Tavern in SF had a benefit for cartoon artist S. Clay Wilson a while back, perhaps a benefit could be put on there.
Sorry I can’t do the follow through, I got a full plate at the moment.
Free Steven Free!
Viva Girafa!
October 31st, 2009 on 1:19 pm
QUALITY I really like this, Im not 1 for adding links in my replies but this reminds me of graffiti artist “SER” at http://www.hire-a-graffiti-artist.co.uk there are a few more good graffiti artists on the site that graffiti bedrooms, night clubs & everything else lol.
October 31st, 2009 on 11:03 pm
GIRAFA ART SHOW THIS FRIDAY NOV 6TH AT GIFT 2 GAB GALLERY IN SAN JOSE. CHECK FOR MORE INFO. MYSPACE.COM/GIFT2GABGALLERY
October 31st, 2009 on 11:08 pm
ANY ONE INTERESTED IN SUBMITTING ANY GOOD PHOTO WORK OF HIS ART FOR THIS ART SHOW THIS FRIDAY CONTACT ME AT OUTOCRUSH@GMAIL.COM
November 1st, 2009 on 12:20 am
FREE “GIRAFA” long neck 4 life the best shit I’ve ever seen around fuk wat all u haters have tu say about him they should sell shirts of the giraffa who won’t by that – free him an drop those fukn charges to WTF that’s a respected ARTIST
November 1st, 2009 on 9:23 am
cool photo
November 2nd, 2009 on 3:09 pm
any news on girafa?
November 3rd, 2009 on 9:33 am
do you know if there is a way we can get in touch with Steven Free? We had some ides in mind to talk to him about.
November 28th, 2009 on 7:58 pm
yeah i want to meet too!! maybe we can start a cltohing line…
November 15th, 2009 on 5:22 pm
Free girafa fast