Saturday, April 12, 2008

Smog Rolls In

Among new tags around Halifax this spring, there was one that I thought of as 5-Nov, and one (a drawing of smokestacks) that I thought of as Smokestacks. I had not made any association between the two, until a found both on a piece of rail in a bright yellow paint marker. The final piece of the puzzle was one of the Town Pride stickers which had both tags, and 'SMOG' written on it.

Looking at the pictures I had taken over the past few months, the story I came up with was "SMOG', a member of Town Pride, starting out with tagging SMOG, then the modified SMOG (5MOG then 5MoooG) and finally SMOG(smokestacks). A perfectly sensible evolutionary theory from my perspective - except it's likely wrong. Looking back at older photos I find a 5MOG at Dalplex in October 2006, and a big Smokestacks at the Pit in April 2007, long before the first simple SMOG's in March 2008.


Evolving SMOG

Nonetheless - SMOG is an interesting tag - the '5MoooG' tag is one of the wittiest I've seen, and Town Pride seems to be an interesting bunch - more graphic - like AOD(Army of Darkness) at this point, rather than tags/fills. More on Town Pride later...

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

that shit is completely wack

Anonymous said...

toy

Anonymous said...

love all the haters that check this site, why do you feel the need to comment if you think your so much better?

Anonymous said...

your word you went over my throw with that shit

Anonymous said...

cuz we are...keep biting zora's shit because we all know how great he is

Anonymous said...

leave zora out of this, they don't know each other.
smog, you're a toy, you tagged my house. smarten up and get some skill.
town pride sucks.

Anonymous said...

would ya put some good tags on here for once. if i wanna see smokestackes ill look out my window

TagBagger said...

Which good tags would you suggest?

Anonymous said...

shit that is graffiti! i dont know if you knew anything about graff you can tell trash from a good tag

TagBagger said...

And the good tags are?...

Anonymous said...

ahahahahahaha bud says "shit that is graffiti" go read a book you dumb fuck

Anonymous said...

Your evolution of Smooog's story is swell. I like the graffiti you chose to post. Good work. Toys will rule the world...one day.

Anonymous said...

tagger bagger,
dont showcase bullshit un-graffiti like shuck, wsc, ghost, smog or anything to do with "pride" especially this shitty town, and bridge shit is gross also, lets concentrate on some half decent shit like the foes real.
i wouldnt mind seeing a relm won the great "gallery", but more importantly lets see a renos, KGB, and maby some of the old kings up in this weak ass web site

your biggest fan, RELM WON