ZORA - Tuesday's Tag Number 1

Recently I surveyed Robie Street from one end to the other - about 256 pictures were taken of about 500 or so Tags. About 10% of these were ZORA - represented both as Pen/Paint Tags and as Stickers (including 1 with a drawing of the Boston Terror Weapon "Mooninite" from the Cartoon Networks Aquateen Hunger Force - which fortunately did not cause mass evacuations/disruptions in Halifax)

The style of ZORA is variable - from crude block letters, to fancier attempts at a scriptstyle (not totally successful in my humble opinion).

Sharp eyed readers of the blog may notice something else about ZORA - a future post will reveal all...


Don't Panic - This is only a graphic representation of a weapon of mass destruction - if this had been an actual WMD, Boston Police, FBI, and Homeland Security would be all over it like white on rice...

A Message From VA?

Clearly it is a message; but is it from VA? or from someone else intended for VA?

HMT (Help Me Thursday) Number One

One of the problems with blogging, is the constant need to feed the blog - to come up with something new. Many bloggers resort to various 'memes' in order to help fill this need - responding to set questions , playing various forms of blog 'tag', or even resorting to theme days - such as Half Nekkid Thursday (HNT) (Possibly NSFW(NotSafeForWork)) on various 'sex' blogs. February in Halifax is far too cold for HNT and Graffiti to mix, but here I go with HMT - "Help Me Thursday" - in which I post a Tag which is resisting decoding, and you helpfully tell me what you think it says - win/win (sort of...)


What the heck does this say? - Help Me...

Put your thoughts/decryptions/comments in the Comments...

Laser Tagging

OK - now I know its not Halifax, and its technically not even real (permanent) graffiti, but this system developed by some guys in Rotterdam, allows you to 'Tag' a building with a laser, and in real time have the pattern the laser drew, projected on the building. Its a vast improvement, and even a great response to the ads that are being projected on more and more buildings at night.

Even better, the equipment list and computer code needed is available. Check out the amazing video for the full effect. Now you too (for a mere few thousand dollars) can let the world know, in 5 storey high letters, EXACTLY what you think!

Enough of the SAME old shit

This item was recently spotted in Halifax's excellent weekly free paper - "The Coast" in the "Love the Way We Bitch" feature

"More of the SAME"

"Fuck you, "SAME." I am sick and tired of seeing your fucking poor-excuse graffiti plastered all over my neighborhood. The few initial tags here and there didn't bug me so much, but when you started to plaster 15-year-old teeny-bopper schoolbinder bubble-letter shit all over the sides of beautiful buildings and houses in the north end, well, you're asking for it. Don't paint my neighbors' homes, fucking green bins, local businesses, sidewalks...any of it. Just don't. We are a COMMUNITY and one that is sick and tired of your shit"

500th Hit

Yes - its official (perhaps pathetic, but official) Tagged and Bagged recorded its 500th hit at 8:55 am EST on the 14th of February. The lucky visitor was from Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden.

It is only appropriate that the visitor was from outside of North America - as this group represents the fastest growing segment of visitors to this site - now surging to 2.4% of all Hits from a mere 1% 4 weeks ago - an astounding increase of 240% in one month!(remember - the book wasn't called "Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics" for nought)

The visitor is considered "lucky", since it would be cost prohibitive to mail "the prize" to such a faraway place (and besides - "the prize" is destined for someone special ("special" in the sense of the somewhat slow 2nd cousin Billy, that Cousin Margaret, wrongly thought to be well on her way to spinsterhood, suprisingly produced at age 44)).

Signifiers

Many Tags contain a character that I have called a "Signifier" which is added as a decoration to the Tag. These include Halos, Asterisks, Arrows, TriDots and Quotation marks to name those that I have recognised so far. What I don't know is what they signify - a group of taggers sharing the same character as a sign of membership in a crew - or are they purely decorative? Comments?