Posted on 01/02/2014 10:11:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise
A woman is under arrest after Austin's famous Frog mural was defaced with obscene words Christmas Eve.
"The Frog," as it it known locally, was painted by singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston and was once worn as a T-shirt by Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain. Johnston lives in Waller, about 40 miles northwest of Houston.
...Rebecca Guest, 32, was caught red-handed by officers who saw her at work on the mural on Tuesday, according to a police affidavit.
...According to the affidavit, Guest told officers "she was covering it in expletives to force the owners to take it down completely."
Officials said Guest told them she found it and several other murals around the city offensive and felt they were directed specifically at her.
People regularly have their photo taken with The Frog, which was orginally painted on the side of the now-closed Sound Exchange record store 20 years ago...
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
It’s private property, and was a permitted mural by the original store (now closed, and permitted by the new lease holder which is a restaurant).
It wasn’t the only mural she vandalized that night either.
Iconic?
To who?
Art...I thin’ that word doesn’t mean what you thin’ it means.
It was the acid taking.
It was the acid taking.
Survey says, yes.
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/03/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face/
Its largely accepted that the original version of the familiar smiley face was first created 50 years ago in Worcester, Massachusetts by the late Harvey Ross Ball, an American graphic artist and ad man. Ball came up with the image in 1963 when he was commissioned to create a graphic to raise morale among the employees of an insurance company after a series of difficult mergers and acquisitions. Ball finished the design in less than 10 minutes and was paid $45 for his work....
Man, if I spray-painted every wall that talked to me, Lowes would be out of spray paint.
Now there's this dame, shee?
Rebecca Guest, shee?
All yous frogs out there keep a close one on her, shee?
Austin is a liberal bastion where below average graffiti is considered art.
She may be on drugs.
she looked pretty spaced to me. yes!
Maybe it’s time to paint over the stupid thing.
Which one?
Rebecca Guest or the frog?
Holy crap he looks like a teenage Pat Sajak in that photo.
Drugs are bad, mmkay?
One of my favorites.
Austin IS The San Francisco of Texas.
Another reason for liberals NOT to move to Texas - You won’t like the TALKING FROGS. No, actually Texas frogs don’t have much of anything to say. Only an occasional squish. We often find these little flat thingies when we sweep out our driveways. And it’s not unusual to see remnants of other assorted wildlife blowing down dusty roads on windy days. PETA, eat your heart out. I repeat, liberals don’t need to move to Texas...Our buzzards have the situation under control.
Mey-be she licked the wrong toad while trying to find a magic prince.
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