Reverse Graffiti Artist Moose Does the Broadway Tunnel in San Francisco

When Paul Curtis (aka Moose, previously on Neatorama here) tells people that he cleans for art, many are baffled - how can cleaning be considered art? Here’s Paul explaining his latest project, the reverse graffiti of San Francisco’s Broadway Tunnel, in a short documentary clip by Doug Pray.

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June 19, 2008 at 5:30 pm by Alex
Category: Art & Craft, Video Clips

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15 comments to "Reverse Graffiti Artist Moose Does the Broadway Tunnel in San Francisco"

matias
June 19th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
good piece of art.
Jonathon Nierengarten
June 19th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Weird. So I actually live by the Broadway tunnel.. and just the other day a friend of mine and I were discussing how on earth that was done. Neatorama explains it….
kid_icarus
June 19th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
very cool piece.
redheadartgirl
June 19th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
It all comes down to a Clorox Green Works ad. I’m a little disgusted.
Kay
June 19th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
What a fantastic idea.
Shelby
June 19th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
It seemed all altruistic and pure and straight from the heart until I realized it was an ad. Too bad. (I’d be happy to get paid and a video on Neatorama to prove that Green Works can clean my home!)
rainbow
June 19th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Can´t see the video. I hate youtube… and carrots too.
Shea
June 20th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Good. Finally some “performance art” that is actually useful and relevant.
MoonCake
June 20th, 2008 at 5:34 am
it’s beautiful! too bad it’s an ad, but hey– at least they didn’t waste resources to make a giant plastic banner with non-biodegratable paints, only to throw it away a couple months later adding to the world-wide problem of too much human refuse and not enough space to put it.
dee
June 20th, 2008 at 8:58 am
I’d just like to point you folks at (what I think is an earlier instance of) the same thing out of Sao Paolo, by Alexandre Orion. In my opinion it’s much more powerful and either way, has a much better (locally produced) score:

http://www.ossario.net/ossario/video.html
Thomas
June 20th, 2008 at 11:03 am
very nice piece. enjoyable to watch and interesting to see how he does it.
prophet
June 20th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
It´s just a concept-art that sells. That is not cleaning. People, wake up…
Justin
June 20th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Nice video, and thanks dee for that other link. You know they only came by and cleaned it because how embarrassing the situation must have been to the authorities when they discovered he wasn’t spray painting anything. The ending was quite powerful showing that all that crud is simply draining away out of sight but still around polluting our world.
Ali S.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I think it’s more telling to see the amount of dirt on those walls and the difference of a little scrubbing.
Alannah
June 21st, 2008 at 2:44 pm
He says in the “ad” –

I am a professor of dirt.

Anyone without a British accent who tries to say that ends up sound like a total idiot. I know, because I tried. Just a little FYI.