Sunday, February 05, 2006

Press Action Hero of the Week: BORF

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  1. “Let’s hope Tsombikos stays true to his anti-authoritarian politics and retains the courage to use his talent as an artist to spread the word.”

    Well, the rich little wannabe anarchist will have to spread the word after doing his 30 days in jail after defacing my neighborhood. I’m a liberal and a artist, but supporting this punk as a way to thumb your nose at “the man” makes you as immature as he is. How about trying to really make a real difference? Try working in a homeless shelter...or teaching an immigrant to read...or anything useful!

    Posted by KDC from Washington, DC  on  02/10  at  01:57 AM

  2. I agree with KDC. I lean a little right of center, so I definitely want to see this trust fund know-it-all suffer for 30 days in DC jail. I’ve been in DC jail, and it’s not fun. I was the only white guy in that jail for four hours from driving on a suspened license, and it was not fun. I think 30 days is too lenient, but then again, he still has to answer to NYC police, and that’s no picnic either. Kudos to the judge sentencing that little prick, and to tell him to GET A JOB, not one that his rich daddy gives him to “keep out of trouble”. I love it when hypocritical little leftists end up in the slamer, then cry to their leftist friends. HA HA HA bitch. Borf sucks ass!

    Posted by bryan2369 from Washington DC  on  02/11  at  09:56 PM

  3. I’m glad the punk is in jail to! I for one could not wait for him to be arrested so the electrical boxes could be returned to their bleak and gray selves. I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I see one star bucks that’s not up to their uniform I start to get nervous, like, they might start allowing the gays back into DuPont or blacks back into Adams Morgan instead of the load drunk yuppies that belong there. All forms of art should be at least kept in their designated places for us who appreciate what our teachers tell us is art to go to, I just wish the Smithsonian will start charging to keep the riffraff out. And for god’s sake no more messages to me on my way to a mind numbing existence of what I think is a living reminding me that I’m a fucking zombie.

    Posted by chris from washington dc  on  02/13  at  03:28 PM

  4. Borf is far from being part of any sort of artistic subculture. On the contrary, he is the offspring of white privilege and railing against the corporate elitism he so clearly benefits from. He may not consider himself rich, but to the thousands of low-income DC residents wondering where their next meal will come from, Borf’s summer-long European trips and expensive Corcoran classes sure suggest otherwise.

    Posted by Daniel from DC  on  02/13  at  03:58 PM

  5. I agree with Chris. I mean, who is this kid to question the established institutions of America? This little punk who thinks for himself completely embodies everything that is wrong with our great country. What kind of a nation have we become that the humble and innocent large corporations that so kindly provide us with inexpensive, quality, made in the USA products and services can be crippled by the obviously malicious image of a young man painted permanently on the side of an enormous, beautiful building, covered with the spectacular array of wonderful advertising propaganda? I mean, its not like they can just paint over it. And they can’t leave it there, because it interferes with all of the aforementioned advertising and propaganda. Even living as far away from the scene of the crime(s) as I do, I have personally been affected by his outrageous actions. He has inspired several copycats to paint the haunting image of his dead friend, whom we could all care less about, on a city-owned electrical box in the alley across the 4-lane highway from my favorite corporate coffeshop. The image was (thankfully) covered several weeks later, but you can’t possibly imagine the giant inconvenience it poses to me to try not to question the establishment and to keep myself in line. Borf is a drug-dealer, dealing the drug of independent thinking, and it absolutely must be stopped, before this virus infects us all. I congratulate the judge on sentencing a first time offender to prison time, and also for her judgment on his motivations and personal philosophies. I am glad to finally see real criminals being caught and tried, spending the court’s time and money worthily, instead of frivolously sentencing murderers and the like. Because, as the judge said, “It’s not about whether you want to express yourself”, and that she sentenced him “Not because it’s a wall, not because it’s a building, not because it’s a fixture in some abstract sense. But because of people.” People like all of us who have been forced to see the image. Bravo.

    Posted by Rudi from Colorado  on  02/14  at  09:41 PM

  6. Borf gave me AIDS.

    Posted by NDC from  on  02/15  at  02:29 PM

  7. If it was just “electrical boxes” I wouldn’t give sh**, you self-righteous pri**k, but that little jerk painted on small businesses, historical bulding and private homes. Screw Borf.

    Posted by KDC from Washington, DC  on  02/17  at  10:18 AM

  8. i for one am glad that BORF got busted.  I know amany of graffiti artists in the DC area and anyone who has been painting for a long time knows this kid is a joke.  The writer of the article tries to compare Tsombikos to Keith Haring, come on now.  We all learned how to cut out stencils in kindergarten.  At least Haring was putting up his OWN art.  I mean even “neckface"s messages were as elementary as BORF’s but neckface doesn’t use a stencil everytime.

    As for Rudi’s comment about sentencing a first time offender, please.  Tsombikos was freashly 18.  His “art” was painted all over the city.  It wasn’t like he was caught painting on his first night out.  We have (nor does the judge) any idea of what his priors may be and what his mommy and daddy paid off in the years past.  That aside, I think the judge did a good thing, including the clowning she gave him in the court room.  Tsombikos is immature and naive.  Okay so you hate starbucks, you hate the government, you hate grown-ups.  That doesn’t mean its okay to deface their property.  People with jobs pay to fix that.  It comes out of our taxes to replace that sign, it comes out of our over priced cup of coffee to buff that wall, you know the ones we have because we are “grown ups”. 

    Tsomibikos is a hypocrite.  he’s just some young kid who bashes money until he needs it to travel to europe, driving into the city or go to college (but then he’s parents pay for it anyways), he bashes globalization until he wants to travel to europe (thank god for english guides/menus/train tables, right?), bashes gov’t until he sticks his foot in his mouth to bash large corps and says ‘’instead of having a policeman on every corner we have a starbucks’’. he complains that all shop owners feel that kids shoplift, but admits that he himself steals his spraypaint.

    Recently a bunch of his friends got together to try and “help” Tsombikos by going to a website and printing out a stencil to go and tage the city with.  Wow, they are just as creative as Tsombikos!  But then again, I suppose these are the same friends who are trying to share his glory and claiming they are all “BORF”.  I do hope they print out these stencils and tag though.  Maybe when Tsombikos is serving his 80 hours of graffiti clean up he’ll have to clean up some of this sheep friends work.  Then he’ll see just how unorginal and boring his work really is.

    Posted by koots from woodbridge  on  02/18  at  08:19 PM

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