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By: Bookmarks about Toy

Bookmarks about Toy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:30:39 +0000

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By: Rolston

Rolston — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:13:22 +0000

You gotta get a tagger who is really into the scene to tell me why I’m all wrong. I want to hear the arguments, or his rebuttal to what I’ve said. Maybe Chris?

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:08:23 +0000

1. I didn’t do it. 2. You and I both knew this was going to happen, over and over again.
3. I tagged a police motorcycle once, I wrote: Fuck The Police! So there.

By: donny laundry

donny laundry — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:41:59 +0000

i see that cute little mummy guy everywhere. now, i’ve certainly done my share of bad things to innocents, but i would still empty the spray can into the kid’s mouth if i caught him doing that to my van.
if i had ever been caught for any of my capers, i would have felt i got what was coming to me. all we can do is hope that your tagger would accept the licking with as much understanding.

By: Rolston

Rolston — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:14:39 +0000

here’s a quote from Henry Miller in “Big Sur”:

“The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.”

If the hypocrisy Al refers to is the terrible destruction I wreaked on innocent people’s property, then perhaps that quote goes a long way to explaining my behavior. But I never called smashing windows and setting fires art. I didn’t think I had the right to steal.

Kids do look for a struggle, a challenge, and the only one around is the police force and school teachers. I fought them both. But the number of people still tagging in their late twenties moves it on to a different thing.

By: Rolston

Rolston — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:16:14 +0000

If you want to grant all taggers the status of artist, let’s start from there Al. I think those artists are boring and self serving. What was on my truck wasn’t really a tag, it wasn’t letters, so that might be misleading.
There is street art that I enjoy, but this branch of the arts I don’t like.
Good call Nate; Doug was arrested for tagging a few years ago and doesn’t have any problem with it. I think he still does it. Maybe I’ll get his side of the story.

By: Poll

Poll — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:46:16 +0000

Kill them all.
Save yourself.

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:36:32 +0000

I think it was Doug.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:12:58 +0000

I had a roommate that was a “tagger.” He considered himself an artist because most of his work was done on canvas but he liked to explore the public =venue once in a while. I thought his stuff was a bit, how do you say, forced.
He tried really hard but i think he was just white guy from the suburbs trying to be cool.
On the other hand who the fuck are you to say who is an artist?
your box van just happened to be there when they had a can of paint.
You might even call yourself a hypocrite.
Or I might call myself a drunk.

By: Lyle_s

Lyle_s — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:42:03 +0000

Amen. There’s no hard work left to be done in America, other than keeping yourself entertained. I think it’s a pretty normal life cycle for a society.