Along with MORAL’s fire extinguisher tags we mentioned the “house on a house” painting in Williamsburg. It turns out to be the work of Miss Tint, who has compiled a video of her/his house and tic-tac-toe paintings called “Kid Drawing Made With a Fire Extinguisher”.

People are always calling graffiti artists childish without having any real hard evidence. Well now they do. Join Miss Tint as s/he sprays numerous kids drawing using a fire extinguisher on walls throughout New York.

As Bucky pointed out, “What you’re looking at is not ’street art,’ it’s pure, unadultured vandalism by way of fire extinguisher.”

According to the Daily News, graffiti is on the rise, at least by number of complaints. While not the most prolific writer, MORAL is one of the names going bigger than the rest with fire extinguisher tags around Brooklyn and Manhattan. CURTIS and STER have been at it too, and someone painted a house on a house, which is pretty meta.

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