Risk Meets With City Attorney Carmen Trutanich Live at KABC

Posted June 29th, 2010 at 02:00pm by Risky

With all the recent negative hype about Graffiti. I decided to be pro active rather than reactive. I realized this will take some patience and many small baby steps. My first goal was to get “on air” and establish the difference between the various types of graffiti. Peak interest and open door for dialogue. Peter Tilden on KABC talk radio was open minded and realized quickly the difference between art and vandalism. He was also quickly aware that there are many more issues the public needs to explore while visiting the subject of graffiti.

He agreed to contact City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, and invite him down to discus the Merits of graffiti on air. City attorney Trutanich agreed and we met on Monday live in the studio at KABC. My primary goal was to have the city attorney acknowledge that there are positive aspects of graffiti, not all graffiti is bad. He felt that what I was doing was positive and agreed to meet with me in the near future to discuss more issues and aspects. He was interested enough to go look at a piece I had done a week earlier in the parking lot where he asked some general questions about the technique and process.

This was a great step in the right direction. City attorney Trutanich will never condone illegal graffiti. This was never the issue, however maybe he will be willing to help develop some programs for youth interested in art. My goal is to develop something positive for kids interested in Graffiti art. To stop spending tax payers money on fraudulent buffing contracts and use the money more wisely , effective, and positive. Graffiti was once the voice of the ghetto now its the voice of a generation….SPEAK LOUD AND PROUD….

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KABC has agreed to continue the graffiti dialogue… We’ll keep you posted…