KingM Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 A woman by the name of Casey Nocket recently traveled from New York out west to deface some of our national parks with her crappy art, and then Instagram it. Nocket doesn't sound like the sharpest knife in the drawer given the fact that she was broadcasting her rampant vandalism and was fully aware that what she was doing was not allowed, as Modern Hiker reports. But now she's at least deleted her Instagram and is waiting quietly somewhere for a call from Parks Police. Did she think this made her some kind of amazing rebel artist? That is unclear. Nocket painted her works, which she refers to as graffiti art, in acrylic paint on various rocks and cliff faces in Yosemite National Park, Crater Lake National Park (Oregon), Grand Canyon National Park, Death Valley National Park, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, Joshua Tree National Park, and Zion National Park, even signing some of them with her Instagram handle "creepytings." In one Instagram thread, she even acknowledged, "I know I'm a bad person." At first I was baffled, but really, doesn't it say something about the narcissism of some people, that she would approach these places of timeless natural beauty and think "What this needs is some of my graffiti and a selfie on Instagram!" Read the article, with the infuriating pictures here: http://sfist.com/2014/10/22/despicable_new_york_woman_defaces_y.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excelsior! Academy Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I have hadituptohere with entitlement mentality! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenade Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I hope she gets prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plink Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 ??? In what self-centered world does she live ??? You've got to be pretty stupid to believe that damaging national landmarks makes you an artist. Crazy people like that deserve any and all consequences that they receive. . . . Psst -Nutty Lady, you could have gotten the same photos with chalks/pastels, with no damage to the park, and no danger of jail time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingM Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 Psst -Nutty Lady, you could have gotten the same photos with chalks/pastels, with no damage to the park, and no danger of jail time. But then future generations wouldn't know how speshul she is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimm Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 That is sad and I hope they make her regret it very much. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halftime Hope Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Gaaah. There are no words. I hope they put her in a cell with *no* paint, and they make that stooopid cartoon face into wallpaper that repeats ad nauseum. And then, for her prison job, they should give the other inmates plenty of paint to graffiti to their hearts' content in the exercise yard, and then make her scrub the concrete clean. Wash, rinse, repeat, every single day she is incarcerated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Not that it matters, but her "art" is terrible. It looks like something I would have drawn at thirteen and thought I was totally awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingM Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 Not that it matters, but her "art" is terrible. It looks like something I would have drawn at thirteen and thought I was totally awesome. People often aren't the greatest judge of their own artistic talent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Grrr... Reminds me of those guys who took video of themselves destroying a rock formation. Idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanier.1765 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 If she had done it in chalk so that it could be washed away with the first rain, I might have been able to look past her bad art. But that fact that it's paint makes it unforgivable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewber Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 That is incredibly sad. How awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne in CA Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Narcissist is right. I live by a national park, in the middle of a national forest, and she is extremely lucky she didn't get caught here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Ugh. I can't even. I hope she is prosecuted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2myboys Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 That is awful. I think she should have to clean it all up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommymilkies Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I just want to say that this is hardly just a recent thing! Graffiti and destroying art and nature go back to the beginning of time. ;) That said, this woman is clearly ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I just want to say that this is hardly just a recent thing! Graffiti and destroying art and nature go back to the beginning of time. ;) That said, this woman is clearly ridiculous. I think the modern bit might be the chronicling on Instagram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 :cursing: This reminds me of the time we stopped to check out the view over the Columbia River. The view of the river cutting through the plateau was magnificent. Well, except for the graffiti and dirty diapers strewn around (oh, and there were empty trash cans available.) There are those who defend graffiti as art, though. I don't agree with them, but the idea is out there. I guess if they think it's okay to deface another person's private property, they'd also think it's okay to deface public property. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Idiot.... That's all I've got to say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 doesn't it say something about the narcissism of some people People have been doing this forever, though. Look at Independence Rock. If people were going there today and scribbling their names on it it'd be awful, but because it happened over a hundred years ago it's terrific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I clicked wondering if there was a reason why Modern Narcissism is worse than good old-fashioned narcissism. :lol: But, back to your original post, I think it is terrible. Whatever happened to the old adage "Take only pictures. Leave only footprints." ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 You know though, the idea that you shouldn't do stuff like that is so modern as well. People used to carve their names and art and so forth into whatever they pleased whenever they wanted. And if they saw a bit of something they wanted, they just took it - cut off a little corner of the Star-Spangled Banner, chipped off a piece of an artifact, picked up a fossil, whatever. So I'm not sure how new this sort of thoughtlessness and narcissism is. I agree with all the sentiments about her and her art expressed in this thread though. Even if it's an old narcissism, she's doing it in a new context where it's clearly deeply wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiMi 4under3 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Psst -Nutty Lady, you could have gotten the same photos with chalks/pastels, with no damage to the park, and no danger of jail time. Exactly what I was thinking... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moxie Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Proof that "art" is subjective... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swimmermom3 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I found it fascinating that one could go to some of our national parks, look at them, and think, "This is cool, but what the Grand Canyon really needs to be awesome is some of my amazing art. Then it will really be spectacular!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingM Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 She's got a tumblr account where she's mocking the people who are outraged by her behavior. I'd say that's definitely a modern spin to the graffiti narcissist. There's a petition on whitehouse.gov to press charges against her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Ugh. Just ugh. Our earth is the greatest artwork there is. I don't care if you are Michelangelo, you are defacing nature and it should be cleaned up. Pronto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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