Internet helps find National Parks graffiti vandal

Social media sleuthing brought down a young criminal.

Starre Vartan

As a National Parks fangirl, when I heard there was a graffiti artist painting smiley faces in acrylic paint on rocks at Yosemite, Crater Lake, Death Valley and others, I was, like much of internet, outraged. Even though I come from a family of artists and have long considered graffiti an art form, the idea that an artist would use something that belongs to all of us as her personal canvas struck a (very angry) chord. Read more.