When one picks up the bulky marker, or can of paint, and sets it against the drollness of modern homogenized landscapes, something changes in the mind of the implementer. Suddenly the world becomes a much more fantastic place. Seemingly bland urban landscapes become the playground of a hidden illicit art world. Everything becomes vast, and inspiring, while at the same time personalized. Blurred lines scrawled clandestinely all over the place become sigil gateways into a hidden, yet omnipresent world.
(Via Technoccult.)
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Terra Incognita: Graffiti Magic and the Urban Landscape
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I've always looked at the "tagged" El trains of Chicago and the subway trains of New York as a sort of "alternative" Times square news ticker...just not updated quite as quickly.
Only I don't grok the alphabet, so it just looks like cool colors and patterns to me. Old fogie...LOL
Kyle
UFOReflections.blogspot.com
I've heard that the indecipherable stuff is actually by "gangsta" wannabes.
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