Graffiti
Besides cornrows, I like statements by scribbling graffiti. Friends who know gave me the gift of the book Graffiti World:
Street art from five continents, a beautiful collection with a sample on the web. Graffiti does not kill, but being (the best?) graffiti artist does: "gallery owner Annina Nodei locked Jean Michel Basquiat in a basement,..., to sell his canvases wet off the easel", check out The Downtown Book, The New York Art Scene 1974--1984.
Street art from five continents, a beautiful collection with a sample on the web. Graffiti does not kill, but being (the best?) graffiti artist does: "gallery owner Annina Nodei locked Jean Michel Basquiat in a basement,..., to sell his canvases wet off the easel", check out The Downtown Book, The New York Art Scene 1974--1984.
posted by metoo at 4:46 AM
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I have no experience creating graffiti, but I sometimes like to photograph it. We've been having an interesting bilingual discussion on the comments for someone else's graffiti photo regarding conservation of graffiti or of graffiti-suitable sites.
Will have to check out that book...
Nice!!
In the context of the bilingual comments on the other graffiti: I have been intrigued by what I call "virtual graffiti". These are graffiti that exist only in the cyberworld, but are "tagged" with physical locations. If someone with a handheld PC happens to be close to a physical location with an attached graffiti, the graffiti is revealed to them on the device. (Virtual graffiti preserves the spatial context of the graffiti which is important.)
Btw, I spoke about this in a talk in 2002, did not do anything to follow up. May be others have had similar ideas?
Some theory graffiti for you.
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