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Gore B Collectors

Friday, June 9th, 2006

It took these guys about ten minutes of sawing and prying to get this Gore B piece off the pole. They walked off carrying it away with them. View Large

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Filed under: Photos , Gore B by gamma

25 Responses to “Gore B Collectors”

Flickr: GammaBlog, on June 9th, 2006 at 5:55 pm Said:

When it first went up last November:
Flickr: Choice Royce, on June 9th, 2006 at 6:05 pm Said:

thats pretty awesome i hope they have a good home for it
Flickr: C-Monster, on June 9th, 2006 at 6:32 pm Said:

whoa. total action shot… nice work, gamma b.
Flickr: Irene Rx (aka Irena Kittenclaw), on June 9th, 2006 at 6:42 pm Said:

What the…?
Flickr: abelincolnjr, on June 9th, 2006 at 6:45 pm Said:

thats going on Ebay right next to the Revs stuff they unwelded
Flickr: tozzer, on June 9th, 2006 at 6:52 pm Said:

hmmm how does he feel about this kind of thing?
Flickr: Trois Têtes (TT), on June 9th, 2006 at 7:01 pm Said:

Brilliant shot, though it leaves me a little sad
Flickr: FuZzy L0giKz, on June 9th, 2006 at 7:52 pm Said:

motherfuckers!!!

these aint no collectors … look up for that shit on ebay. fuckers need to be beaten up or have their fingers chopped off or something

gorebs and slugs boards from and around bedford are gone. thats kinda too systematic for street art fans. im sure someone is making some sweet $ out of this
Flickr: GammaBlog, on June 9th, 2006 at 7:55 pm Said:

Yeah, I talked to Gore a couple of weeks ago and he was feeling pretty dispirited that all his boards were disappearing from Williamsburg. I guess they’ve moved on to Manhattan.
Flickr: FuZzy L0giKz, on June 9th, 2006 at 8:51 pm Said:

fuckers – i wonder if you can call the cops on them. they are not supposed to be fuckin with the poles, regardless

a dope shot. where were you when you took this pic? looks like you were somewhere elevated… sorry to ask, but its puzzling me
Flickr: GammaBlog, on June 9th, 2006 at 10:11 pm Said:

GammaBlog sees all, fuzzy.
Flickr: goreb83, on June 9th, 2006 at 10:42 pm Said:

hummm. maybe its time to make peices out of broken glass and barbed wire
Flickr: FuZzy L0giKz, on June 10th, 2006 at 2:33 am Said:

lol … you should !
Flickr: Trois Têtes (TT), on June 10th, 2006 at 9:40 am Said:

Howabout Supaglue on the screw threads?
Flickr: Dr Joolz, on June 10th, 2006 at 10:00 am Said:

brilliant shot. They are thieving bastards though. Wanting to keep it for themselves when it is there for everyone.
Flickr: tozzer, on June 10th, 2006 at 2:50 pm Said:

hahaha good idea gore
Flickr: C-Monster, on June 10th, 2006 at 3:41 pm Said:

how ’bout something that delivers a mild electric shock when touched?
Flickr: lucky_dog, on June 10th, 2006 at 4:05 pm Said:

here is a security solution.

when you are securing your boards to poles, use carriage bolts

as you can see, it’s a domed head, and the only way to tighten the bolt is from behind. when you are tightening the nut, a square piece underneath the domed head will sink slightly into the wood to hold the board in place. since you are using plywood, which can split in half, you might as well use a washer.

then to prevent ppl from removing the nut, you strip the threads on the bolt a little with a pair of pliers or something.

i also recommend you use bolts that you can also bend/hammer back so nobody can get to it.
Flickr: txmx .2, on June 11th, 2006 at 7:58 am Said:

also good : imbus screws with the key hole drilled round after fastening.
(step 2 : >then to prevent ppl from removing the nut, you strip the threads on the bolt a little with a pair of pliers or something.
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that produces some nice frustration.
Flickr: GammaBlog, on June 11th, 2006 at 12:50 pm Said:

These guys used a hacksaw blade inserted between the board and pole. Neither of these bolt suggestions would have made much difference.
Flickr: lucky_dog, on June 12th, 2006 at 5:44 am Said:

they used a hacksaw? nothing is tamperproof, or hackproof, the key is to make it more frustrating to the thieves to steal it. stuff like adding obstructions on the pole so the hacksaw would have a harder time getting behind the board. or using bigger boards so the hacksaw can’t fit

obviously, if the thieves has a portable sawzall, then all bets are off, you might as well start selling your own boards on eBay to undercut the "competition".
Flickr: c_damage, on June 13th, 2006 at 4:31 am Said:

great action shot. that’s an amazing sight to capture randomly.
Flickr: volcano vaporizer mode enabled, on November 16th, 2006 at 5:52 pm Said:

very true months later and more have falling prey to such fate
Flickr: Justseeds Visual Resistance, on February 23rd, 2007 at 1:56 am Said:

Seems bound to happen. Evnetually going to be these two, or the DOT if they ever have the funding or get organized enough to remove them.
Its unfortunate that its not in public anymore.
I wonder how much of the frustration represented here are a result of the assumptions we can make about the people that are taking the piece. Would it be different if we assumed they were graf artists. Artists take each others stickers and pieces from time to time. They are collectors, maybe not in the financial sense. There’s many nuances and assumptions to be drawn.
Great Catch, too bad it took me this long to see it.
An "interview" with these two would have been a great compliment to this photo. I like recording peoples interaction with graf, and just hearing it. It may be interesting to know why they were taking it, their intentions, their job, etc.
As a civilian it would be funny to tell them that they aren’t allowed to remove public property like this.
There’s some parallels between this and folks destroying public art. Someone "breaks" the law to install it, someone else comes and destroys/takes it. The community that covets it screams foul play, demands accountability.
I don’t have an answer.
Flickr: GammaBlog, on February 24th, 2007 at 12:15 am Said:

Me either, VR.