Graffiti in the City

def GraffitiandNeighborhood_NowandPast():

Graffiti used to be considered a sign of a bad neighborhood. But is it really so until now?

I was curious about if graffiti makes a neighborhood bad or sketchy, so decided to compare the images of same locations overtime by using Google Street View. I’ve created tiled images of current (2016) graffiti in the city. When you hover over your mouse on an image, an image of the same location years ago (7–8 years) will show up! It seems to me that having graffiti actually is making a neighborhood nicer… what y’all think?

def setup():
size(1310, 755)
global bgi1
bgi1 = loadImage("location-old-1.jpg")
global bgi2
bgi2 = loadImage("location-old-2.jpg")
global bgi3
bgi3 = loadImage("location-old-3.jpg")
global bgi4
bgi4 = loadImage("location-old-4.jpg")
global bgi6
bgi6 = loadImage("location-old-6.jpg")
global bgi7
bgi7 = loadImage("location-old-7.jpg")
global bgi8
bgi8 = loadImage("location-old-8.jpg")
global bgi9
bgi9 = loadImage("location-old-9.jpg")
global bgi10
bgi10 = loadImage("location-old-10.jpg")
global img1
img1 = loadImage("location-1-0.jpg")
global img2
img2 = loadImage("location-2-0.jpg")
global img3
img3 = loadImage("location-3-0.jpg")
global img4
img4 = loadImage("location-4-0.jpg")
global img6
img6 = loadImage("location-new-6.jpg")
global img7
img7 = loadImage("location-new-7.jpg")
global img8
img8 = loadImage("location-new-8.jpg")
global img9
img9 = loadImage("location-new-9.jpg")
global img10
img10 = loadImage("location-new-10.jpg")
def draw():
if mouseX < 350 and mouseY < 275:
image(bgi1, 0, 0)
else:
image(img1, 0, 0)
if 1150 < mouseX < 1310 and 450 < mouseY < 755:
image(bgi7, 1150, 500)
else:
image(img7, 1150, 500)
if 420 < mouseX < 1140 and 410 < mouseY < 755:
image(bgi8, 330, 200)
else:
image(img8, 420, 410)
if 820 < mouseX < 1310 and 0 < mouseY < 300:
image(bgi9, 720, 0)
else:
image(img9, 720, 0)
if 420 < mouseX < 790 and 200 < mouseY < 320:
image(bgi3, 420, 190)
else:
image(img3, 420, 190)
if 740 < mouseX < 1120 and 300 < mouseY < 390:
image(bgi4, 730, 280)
else:
image(img4, 730, 280)
if 1170 < mouseX < 1310 and 350 < mouseY < 480:
image(bgi6, 1157, 308)
else:
image(img6, 1157, 308)
if 450 < mouseX < 700 and 0 < mouseY < 170:
image(bgi2, 440, 0)
else:
image(img2, 440, 0)
if 0 < mouseX < 400 and 300 < mouseY < 755:
image(bgi10, 0, 290)
else:
image(img10, 0, 290)
# image location
#image(img7, 1150, 500) #hep
#image(img8, 420, 410) #lenoxave
#image(img9, 720, 0) #pizza
#image(img3, 420, 190) #greenppl
#image(img4, 730, 280) #leaves
#image(img6, 1157, 308) #titanic
#image(img2, 440, 0) #cleaning
#image(img10, 0, 290) #bw animal

Idea inspired by: http://gizmodo.com/this-nifty-tool-turns-google-street-view-into-a-graffit-1595919773

Data source: https://www.google.com/maps, https://ny.racked.com/maps/nyc-best-instagram-walls-street-art