Army of Darkness Invades Water Street

AOD, who basically owned the underpass I had gone to Antigonish to see, put up some new stuff at the Water Street parking lot this week. ZORA, a member of AOD, who also tags around town, has a piece which mentions Rosa and Pax, who were also noted in Antigonish. Perhaps its time for a return trip to the Antigonish tunnel...

Graffiti Gone...NOT!

So the theory is, if you cover over graffiti quickly it discourages the tagger from repeating in that area. Sounds fine in theory, but what if the person who covers it over, carefully paints it out so it is still identifiable, as in these two shots from QEH. They are clearly SAME and HEU5. Several questions arise, such as have these guys been discouraged by this action?, and is the school just running low on beige paint, but reluctant to re-order as red paint will be needed at the new school next year?

POUTINE

Given the late night, post consumption, meals of choice in Halifax - either a Donair or Fries smothered in cheese curd and gravy - how can you not love POUTINE? I don't see it around that much, but when I do, I just have to laugh. Someone emailed me and said that most tagging is done by drunk teenagers, so maybe POUTINE is a craving rather than a tag...

Go WEST Young Man

Taking John Soule's 1851 advice as popularized by Horace Greeley to heart - WEST came to Halifax from Newfoundland this spring and left behind a piece at the Water Street lot, and some tags around the downtown core. Now a couple of months later, they are almost all gone.

Feedback

This piece at BC Silver School has been labelled "Toy" by a critic. One definition of "Toy" would be "An inexperienced or incompetent writer. Someone whose writing is either wack, who uses sucker tips, or whose style is just plain cheesy".

Presumably this is the message that has been left in paint for the writer.

Boing-boing recently offered up a less destructive way to give feedback. Originating in San Francisco, the creator wanted to give feedback to local taggers




According to the creator, Brandon Thomas Baunach - "It’s a project I started a couple of months ago after seeing my neighborhood (The Mission District of San Francisco) receive an amazing amount of ugly, large, and talentless graffiti. I wanted a way to combat the ugly graffiti while at the same time give praise to the talented graffiti writers who I feel make the streets more beautiful. It occurred to me, that many of our local taggers don’t realize how ugly and talentless their graffiti is, so I wanted to give them some feedback."

Find the PDF for the form here.

FOES2

FOES2 seems to be a member of VA, along with SAME, AP3R, HEUS, POP*z(YOOPZ), SODA, SIAMER. There are two versions of the tag I have seen - FOES and FOESTwo - which look similar, and I therefor assume are the same person, but who knows?