“There was a mailbox right outside my door, covered in graffiti. Some of these graffiti guys are amazing artists, but not this one. My neighbor and I must have called the city hot line fifty times. Nothing. So I started thinking, Ask not what your city—I’ll just buy a damn paintbrush, you know?”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/28/paint-job-facelift-dept-andrew-marantz