It's awards season (SAG, Academy, Grammies etc..), and it's also cold outside (less new graffiti, and more importantly, my hands get painfully cold while shooting it). What better solution than some awards for the best (and possibly the worst stuff I've seen over the past year). My opinion only mind you...
What better place to start than with a Tag - given that Tagging is the entry point to graffiti for most writers. A can of paint, some initials, a bit of style, a few thousand repitions, and someone may develop enough respect to progress to bigger things.
The following is excerpted from How To Read Graffiti - "How does one judge the quality of a tag? I believe that similar criteria to the critique of calligraphy should be used. A tag is a calligraphic form and volumes could be written on the calligraphic qualities that this work has introduced. The artist Ramellzee introduced the use of calligraphic naming devices and his own personal extensions of these terms to describe features of tagging and piece styles. These language he developed is a deeply personal one and almost illegible to outsiders. Flow is a common term, applicable both to tags and pieces. It describes the harmonic usage of curves and the ability of the letters to flow into each other when reading. A good tag or piece is said to 'flow'. The flow of a tag or piece is broken by excessive ornamentation, disjointed lines and line work or poor paint work. Writers also describe flow as 'funk' in certain groups. The opposite is also true though. Innovation is just as important to the tag form as other forms within graffiti art."
So - My Favorite Tag in the past year - Easy - "The Artist Formerly Known as YOOPZ" - the Tag was ubiquitous early last year (less common now as he has moved on to a new Tag), it's flowing loopy style was indecipherable to me until I found an readable early version, and suddenly it was clear it read "PopStarz" rather than YOOPZ. (which also perhaps explains the subsequent transition to a new Tag)
My Favorite Tag 2007 - "The Artist Formerly Known as YOOPZ"
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7 comments:
yo tagbagger it says aper you fucking idiot
HAHAHA that doesn't say yoopz... touching write up tho....................
it says aper dumbshit
Wow - 3 comments, all at the same time, all from the same IP, all saying the same thing. I wonder....
1) I know it's not "YOOPZ" - however calling Tags unreadable tag I don't know what it says yet, makes it a little hard to sort the photos - my kids and friends have all referred to it as "YOOPZ" so YOOPZ it is in my dumbshit head.
2) Which is presumably why YOOPZ(APER) is now a different, but readable "APER"
hahahaha you got called on that one YOOPZ!
dear tagbagger
you fail again i did say its aper twice cause i had to get my point across but i didn't say the middle comment and as for your comment your kids and friends all fail so you all might as well an hero
love, anon
ahhha yoopz lol i think we should all call him that even the writers
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