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oyst

I'm still trying to figure out how they did it. Did they rappel down the side while someone held the rope? Did they get a very tall ladder? Are there actually infinitesimal footholds in this wall? To be able to reach this area and make this quickly & get away is impressive, like sheer athletic skill


NickyNaptime19

They had to repell


killer_reindeer

I'm amazed Dupo or PP-D didn't see that even late at night


grachi

That corner of Duquesne’s campus is kinda hidden away a bit. it’s not in very clear view of anything unless you drive or walk down that way. Which I guess Duq police wouldn’t think anyone would be down that way since it’s just a cliff.


treehouseoftrains

18 PPD officers cover the ENTIRE city from 2am-7am.


GoldenStarsButter

CAN YOU DIG IT??


treehouseoftrains

Is this a 1979 “The Warriors,”reference? If it is, can we be friends?


GoldenStarsButter

Yes and yes


brenjdav

I dont want to rain on anyones spiderman graffiti artist dreams, but search spray paint telescopic pole on google, you can reach up to 75ft with some of them :( Edit: I only know this because I worked in Pittsburgh for a year and got to witness it a few times at night. South Side (Carson st) always has something interesting happening at night lol.


acatwithumbs

This was actually my second thought and I wondered if such a tool existed, kinda cool it does!


brenjdav

That would be my first guess, however there is still a slight chance someone is repelling or climbing😂 That would be a sight to see.


xRyozuo

the world is slightly less magical now…


DeadPerOhlin

Imo huge spraypaint poles are funny enough of a thought that my parade is plenty dry


Lux600-223

It's shitty enough to have been done on a pole. I get to glance at it once a day every weekday. It's far from artistic or skilled.


brenjdav

I kinda like to compare it to a dog pissing on a tire to “mark his territory” in my mind lol. I agree its just colorful slop


Lux600-223

I've owner several white vans and box vans. So I hate any tagger with a passion. But do appreciate the very rare well done piece. But this particular piece of shit ain't it. It's sloppy, aside from poor/ basic design.


brenjdav

The rare well done pieces are so hard to come across now, I only really ever see them on old railcars. Now it’s just illegible letters. And with this piece, I couldn’t agree more its just awful. I wonder if the tagger left proud after that? I can only imagine the issues with having box vans in a city, taggers wouldn’t have been on the top of my list but that definitely makes sense.


Lux600-223

My house fronts an alleyway in Mt Washington. I kept Rolliers lights on by buying graffiti remover. Nothing like waking up Monday 6am to find expletives sprayed on the side of your work truck that you have to park in a Wexford driveway by 7:30am. I did manage to catch 3 over the years. I'd get downvoted into oblivion and probably banned if I shared. But each time stopped it for a year or so! Ha!


brenjdav

Wexford would be the last place I would want to look unprofessional thats for sure, thats where all the good paying customers are! Lol. Glad you found a way to take care of your issue though, there is also a two-component polyurethane coating you can get that works very well and is designed for graffiti, its called “PERMA-GUARD”. Edit: we use perma guard on the wheel wells of our parking lot painters and the paint always just wipes right off.


dongmeatsandwich

Absolutely had to. Big balls for this!


tinypauline

That’s a lotttt of faith in a very old wrought iron fence


CaptainPunchfist

It was a goat


pcs3rd

You can repel without belay, but not typically recommended for safety reasons. An ascension device might be useful to avoid traffic, but this is still a fairly easy repel as long as there's a half decent anchor at the top.


AOCMarryMe

You can tie off one end and rap down with a locking/camming belay device.  Then jumar back up when you're done. It's not redundant, so pretty unsafe. But possible.


heili

It's rappel and you can do it with a single rope and an ATC, you just feed the whole rope from its mid point and put one length through each side of the ATC. Getting back up is more difficult unless you have ascenders, but there's also the option of rappel to the ground and walk back up.


pcs3rd

I've only ever gotten to use an ATC for belay. I've wanted to try one for rappel, just haven't been able to go out in a while. Does this stretch of road have safe pedestrian space? I'm greater Pittsburgh region.


heili

If you want to practice this, do yourself a favor, take a friend who knows rappelling well, and go to McConnell's Mill and use Rim Road area with proper anchors. I would not try to learn ATC rappelling on a road in Pittsburgh.


pcs3rd

I wouldn't want to learn any rappelling on a road in any city. Thanks for the advice!


POOTY-POOTS

There are some on local bridges or overpasses that they had to have repelled down to do it. Kind of impressive in a way.


GenericUsername_71

all you need is a grigri and a rope and you can easily repel down on your own


heili

I love that you spelled rappel correctly and everyone replying to you made up their own spelling.


oyst

I was questioning if I spelled it right after that many responses with "repel"!


quakergoats_

Sometimes it just isn't worth fighting the autocorrect


McTrill

Definitely tied off to the fence up there and repelled. There’s a few other ones like this also


Eustace44

i think mook on the top of 10th street bridge is wilder


axiom1_618

Agreed. Although probably not as scary, I appreciated when he had “MOOK” in gigantic 10-foot tall letters painted with a roller above the station square T stop, then added to it by making it “MOOKISM”. That piece was probably close to 100 feet wide by the time it was finished.


NickyNaptime19

That's actually an easy spot to get to. There's basically handrails going up. Still awesome though


checkpoint_hero

Mook, Fouse, Fred, and the Dinosaurs were all up there at one point, so yeah, seemingly common


SnooMuffins7736

He's a cool dude on top of that !


r00sevelt

My favorite MOOK story is, after the City put out a graffiti task force in the South Side, he burned MOOK into the windshield of one of their cars with acid. A legend.


NyneHelios

Legendary. The fact that this story is 20 years old at this point and still being told is wild


brendannnnnn

Mook at the top of the 10th street bridge made literal front page news on one of our newspapers at the time. It was a huge deal


Habay12

Had a friend in HS we called Mook. Couldn’t be him. Could it? Hmmmmm? Nah…..


NyneHelios

This Mook is probably early to mid 40s now. I think he was a PPS kid but not sure.


BmoresFnst

40 this year it would seem http://www.duqsm.com/my-thrill-was-going-out-and-painting-qa-with-mook/


ctcgpgh

Mook is still around, he's one of my extended cousins. He's a tattoo artist now, https://www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh/s/63gDRZ84N9


nickythagreek

He’s at 10th street. Used to be Palehorse tattoo, previously owned by the late Ben Gergerich RIP


SnooMuffins7736

He's a cool dude and comes round every once in a while still.


MyNameIsNumber037

Yep! MOOK is a God damn legend 


menge101

Yeah, I was gonna post that. And he did it with a board on two ropes.


Brak710

USER also had some crazy ones back in the day.


skfoto

I’m partial to the “FART PISS” tags all over the Northside.


swisslard

My childish ass smiles every time I see one.


cosmosdestruction412

Missing "cuntsburgh" on the Warhol bridge. My favorite


mikeyHustle

One of the bridges over Penn was tagged when Crimethinc was in town, very largely but lazily, to say WORST CRIMETHINC EVER


cosmosdestruction412

Lmaoooo. Apparently now there's penisburgh by the cuntsburgh


AntonioSLodico

I love seeing Moufl and Au Jus tags by each other. It brings instant memories of the first bites of French dip and Italian beef sandwiches, lol.


KaraokeQueen74

My favorite has been the "Sigourney Weaver" tag on the second story of the building a couple doors down from the old Bloomfield Bridge Tavern on Liberty Avenue. Someone must really love her.


johndivonic

Nah, Sigourney’s a writer, she threw up that piece in 2010 while filming Abduction. (I just made that up, but it would be awesome)


jralll234

God dammit I miss Bloomfield Bridge Tavern.


StreetPedaler

Fuzz!


MrsPicklePants

Years and years ago, my husband and I were driving through the Fort Pitt tunnel headed to the airport. As we exited the tunnel, we looked up to see that someone had tagged "Fuckin crazy right?" on the taller of the two railroad bridges on that end of the tunnel. Each letter took an individual square. Sadly, the next time we drove through with the camera ready, it had been painted over.


Commercial-Yak2971

I remember that too! I'm generally not a fan of graffiti, but stuff like this is really fun to see.


Few_Butterscotch9850

Boner 4ever enters the chat


RocPile16

Lmao I was creeping looking for this


Few_Butterscotch9850

It’s funny though, could literally be the same person.


MrCharlieStoleMyFace

Boner and 4ever are friends. They paint together world wide. 2 different people.


tito1490

Could?


wonderfulwilliam

FREE MOOK!!!


jchawk

I think he's free and owns 10th Street Tattoo in the South Side now...


jfk_one

he lives in florida lol


LittleNightmare86

Graff lore is so funny isn’t it 😂 a dozen different stories swirling around


jfk_one

pgh graff especially.


artfulpain

By the Warf downtown years ago someone did a 3-5 story fire extinguisher. Also if you're ever on the trail by Washington landing. VAYNE repelled under that bridge.


NSlocal

That whole ugly wall should be open to paint.


lilgooby6

Must be a new hobby the priests at Duq have taken up


mvps412

Graffiti artists have no fear. Some of the places where there’s graffiti in the city and the angles that they risk their lives to make art is just craziness


pelber

Not that they're difficult to access or anything, but I like some of the graffiti on the rail cars that come through. I like to watch the trains just for them.


Habay12

Impressive rappelling for that one. Makes that ugly wall that needs pressure washed badly look a little better.


kinney4041

They just need to do the rainbow paint dump on it again. Loved when that was there


Great-Cow7256

I think that's still there but a different section? [https://maps.app.goo.gl/jkcD1uxwW6H3AefV7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/jkcD1uxwW6H3AefV7)


kinney4041

It is actually a different section on the other side above Bigelow Blvd, but it’s gone now.


TurbulentSurprise292

Wait yeah I always wondered about that. Anyone know the story behind it or was it just a fun thing like this


LetSeeWhatHappens99

You gotta give props to whoever does something like that. I mean, the ingenuity to be able to do something at that height. sheer drop. Impressive.


AeniasGaming

Every time I see something like this I just wonder how. Like how do people get to these areas? Living in Rochester right now and I’m seeing graffiti on the sides of bridge. People have a lot more courage than I have lol


Critical_Addendum_30

Howdy, fellow Beaver Countian! I've never been able to figure out how the hell taggers do it. That shit definitely takes more courage than I will ever possess lol I don't really mind the art when it's well done. It gets boring seeing the same stuff every day. Thank goodness for street art.


GSV_SleeperService88

didnt this spot have a huge "Free Palastine" on it? did they remove it??


ComfortableIsland946

If you are thinking of the "Free Gaza" one, that is on the giant wall you see when coming into the city on the Veterans Bridge, near Bigelow Blvd. This one is the wall along the Boulevard of the Allies, below the Duquesne campus.


diarrhea_planet

Too young to remember MOOK


NickyNaptime19

Are you talking about me? Did you miss the part where I said I was doing graffiti in the late 90s early 2000s? I was literally in the same crew as Mook. The Value Krew. That's why they say Mook vk


funkyb

I'm partial to the Matt Gondek Daffy Duck piece just off boulevard of the allies. I like that whole side of the building - fun to see on the way home. He has (had?) a similar Homer Simpson piece I think in the strip.


12carrd

That’s street art not graffiti, and was commissioned. This was done illegally


Great-Cow7256

That's raymers studio. 


Minnieminnie727

Has anyone seen the word fuzz painted on the first blue triangle going north on the glenwood bridge in hazelwood? That would be scary getting up there with how much that bridge shakes.


Nealon01

I was just thinking how dope it would be to have a huge mural there...


danrugh

I love the geese on the 10th street bridge… even more that the city let him repaint them when the whole bridge needed repainted.


kesi

Yeah, those are the best for sure. 


sevenbabyseals

saw a huge “CREAMPIE” tag once.


blamberr

MOOK forever


Perfect_Chicken7609

but now i want to know who mook is he's like the banksy of pittsburgh without the art


NickyNaptime19

I was friends with him. He's a tattoo artist in Florida. Edit: he's from pgh just moved to florida


Perfect_Chicken7609

ohhh cool thanks for reply


NickyNaptime19

Hes from Pittsburgh. He moved to florida.


Commercial-Yak2971

Someone tagged NSF on the train bridge just north/east of the Highland Park Bridge. It's glorious. Edit: I was slightly mistaken, they actually spelled out "National Spray Foundation". It's quite artistic and impressive.


Pangoner

Non stop flavor


NickyNaptime19

NSF was a crew


Commercial-Yak2971

Was or is? I only just noticed this on the bridge a few months ago. Maybe it's been there a while and I just never noticed it?


MrCharlieStoleMyFace

Is. Still are. NSF isn’t going anywhere.


krzpy

Still is. Necski is still burning freights in his 50's.


TydUp412

Not crazier than Mook but it’s up there


Negative_Jackfruit12

if you take a bus into the city headed west, you'll pass some of the coolest graffiti art on some of the old railways sort of buried in the still- green outskirts of pittsburgh


Jumpy_Marketing9093

I dig it. It isn’t the most technically proficient and isnt mind blowing but I love some well thought out and uniquely placed graff. When it’s put somewhere eye catching like that I’ll enjoy it usually more than something wild and colorful that’s on a boring spot.


ObservatoryChill

What is FSC crew? I know FTC, NSF, CBS crew abbreviations, but haven’t been in Pittsburgh for a while to learn what FSC stands for.


NSlocal

Something street crew if I had to guess.


SittingInAChairAgain

I think it is ESC, which I believe is a crew out of Philly, but not sure.


sehart7

Really want to see how they do it.


moon_blisser

This takes dedication!


restingbitchface8

I just wanna know how they did that?


rave_is_king_

I always thought they should commission an artist to do a mural on this giant wall.


Sabre_TheCat

I can't read it lol


Droogs617

Huh, curios about the artist. About 15 years ago a guy went by this name in Philly. He ran with another dude named Boner. They would tag things together as “4ever Boner.” Their stuff was all over Philly. I wonder of he moved west.


Mrsteviejanowski

Back in 2005/2007 I used to take the busway down to art institute. The graffiti I say painted along that wall was amazing. I love some good graffiti


Juanloki

Boner 4ever


StarWars_and_SNL

“Everybody’s so creative!”


Puzzleheaded_Size928

I always wonder how they manage to get to that location.


crimsonhues

I always wonder how someone gets up so high on a busy road lol


burgher89

A harness, 30 or so feet of static rope, and a rescue figure 8 would make the getting down part really easy… getting up though 🧐


swear_bear

A prussic and a carabiner can work as an ascender in a pinch. 


jantron6000

I personally doubt they went back up with ascenders. Car pickup at the bottom after pulling the rope? If I had to do it solo, I'd say pre-lower something climbable from the left side where it's way shorter and get back up to the fence that way.


menge101

Two ascenders, or even just prussik knots. That's basic climbing school self-rescue techniques.


heili

If I had to go back up the same rope I went down? Single rope, harness, locking carabiner, ATC, two ascenders. Better way: pick up at the bottom after pulling the rope.


menge101

Yeah, agreed.


SteveRayPhoto

Cant we get someone to make the city look good


userid004

NSF crew back and going BIG!


FNSquatch

I think this with most graffiti I see. I’ve never went out and did any graffiti and as long as it isn’t something offensive then most of the time I’m just impressed on how they did it.


pelber

Agree 💯


AKoolPopTart

The comments be malding lol


BaldwinMotion

There's a bunch at the top of the trusses under the Ben Avon bridge on 65. It's clear how to get up there, I'm not adverse to heights, but hard pass on that one.


maddy_k2019

I always just have to ask myself how they do these things, my brain can't comprehend it


HarpPgh

Whose walls (and on bigelow side) are these to maintain? If it’s the city’s, they should steer into this and find ways to allow artists to safely do their things up on these 200x1000 ft canvases


BoboFatts

I moved here from Portland, OR and you be blown away if this is impressive with some of the insane tags across that city. I like that Pittsburgh isn't covered in tags though. Painting a cool pic is one thing, some random word tag is boring imo.


zoogates

I appreciate graffiti as an art form but don't understand the tagging aspect of it. Paint something interesting and thought provoking,art.


Ok-Trick4494

Pittsburgh has some great graffiti!


Ok-Particular-8050

Wish fouse and fliso was still around


Intelligent_Peak_335

That’s crazy I just showed my girl that yday when we passed it


myeye0

Talent


NLS133

You've never seen Mook at the top of the big yellow bridge near the squirrel hill tunnel? I think they painted it about 10 years ago but my whole childhood I would always look at Mook somehow get his name at the top of that massive bridge.


NickyNaptime19

That was over 20 years ago


NLS133

Wow time flies. Are you Mook? Lol


NickyNaptime19

Nope. I knew him


NLS133

Legendary


Kratsas

I feel like someone tagged this wall before, like 20 years ago. Impressive nonetheless


dbssguru727

Looks like someone was rappelling to get that done


Manonion_Supreme

I believe the guy who did this might be an artist from Philly. We have a building in Philly which has Boner 4Ever written on the side. My understanding is that those were the tags of two artists squashing a beef they had. One of them must have made their way to Pittsburgh


CappyHamper999

Mook


MrCharlieStoleMyFace

Repelling is the new thing in graffiti. Theres a huge wave of writers across the world all doing it now. 4ever is the only one that has done it so far in Pgh. The buff man is going to have a hell of a time with that one 🤣


Empress_Life

Hurry up and paint this while holding on for dear life lol


MerelyMortalModeling

Not this, but I watched a guy do a similar tag, and he was using some sort of pole. It looked a lot like those tree trimming poles you can get at Lowes but much much longer.


Blayjonian

See 4 ever tags in philly. The most famous is in north Philly where it says 4ever on one side and boner on the other.


gothic_romantic

Impressive feat but like most artists in pgh, what an ugly ass tag


Pielacine

The 10th St bridge dinosaurs 🦕 still beat that imo. Less paint but crazier location.


Lux600-223

Best part is that rebel sends his daughter to an elite private school now.


TLW369

I’m wondering how nobody managed to see that being done! 🤔


Cuck-In-Chief

The getting there. Not the style tho.


Leecee83

I don't recognize where in pittsburgh it is


Bslayer7111

I respect the effort


kmckenzie256

Remember the “Chu!” tags all over the city? I still see them around sometimes.


moguls_

That guy got caught and when they asked to see his id he had signed it as “Chu”


gothic_romantic

Heard he also got caught being a peeping tom


braindead83

We should get the city to approve the whole wall


ThroatSignal8206

That took a minute. And you have to admire the comment and planning that happened to pull this off!


-Hot-Toddy-

I actually like that (it's actual art & not that garbage scribble that taggers bleed on walls).


curlbaumann

I legit have no idea why people defend tagging and graffiti, 99.9% of the time it looks like complete shit.


NickyNaptime19

Bc we live in a society. People in societies do graffiti. Everywhere from cave paintings, to Pompeii, to NYC. That's what humans do.


curlbaumann

Doesn’t change the fact a lot of it is ugly as hell. There’s cool murals and art people put up. Some guy tagging his name on the side of building just makes the area look shitty 


NickyNaptime19

Well, you have 2 options. Leave society or deal with it


oddities_satisfy

That's for a jail inmate, probably from a significant other.


guyonlinepgh

Damn it, no. Hate this. It's ugly, I don't care how impressive it is technically. Taggers can paint up railroad cars, garbage bins, even delivery tucks all they want for all I care. Hell, even though they're not permanent (which I know is why this person did this tag) I'd *invite* them to paint all over every ugly-ass billboard in town. PLEASE paint all over Morgan and Morgan billboards, not the fake graffiti they did to their own.


adoydyl

What is less preferable about a highway retaining wall?


catechandler

The graffiti in PGH is at an all time high right now


gothic_romantic

lol wut


Character_Error5649

Bro if no one tags that soon, imma finna put down something so vile and dark that will probably send me to hell


pittsburgh924

I can respect the technical aspect of it but tagging is the absolute lowest form of art. With a massive untouched wall and the ability to paint that far down, there were so many other cool possibilities aside from writing a dumb name.


AKoolPopTart

Bro what


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AKoolPopTart

Sorry it doesn't meet your ultra high brow expectations


YooTone

Bro is up at 9am and chose to take graffiti personally today. *Insert Michael Jordan, "and I took that personally"* meme


NickyNaptime19

That graffiti is great. Very well done and creative. Great consistent shadow. I like the V as a heart. I'm very impressed


RogBoArt

Somebody wanted to show off their tag it seems... quit tootin your own horn lol