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May 12, 2010

vandals handled

This project took the work of a lot of people, and I’d like to thank them. It was Sophia who came up with “Hauler” and Chiraag got me the font. Lucio and Santo did most of the sanding, priming and painting. I need to put a second coat on the letters and then outline them in black. The taggers will hopefully stay away from it now.

The large empty space of the side of a truck is apparently too much for some kids who expect to be advertised to at every moment. It’s an attempt for someone with no voice to be heard, and it’s interesting that they are basically working in the vein of advertising themselves, attempting to brand themselves around town. Nowadays a street doesn’t look real if there aren’t signs over doors, signs in windows, billboards on buildings, advertising on street lights, and offers tacked on telephone poles. A big empty space should have words. A commercial truck like mine becomes a target for them because they expect it to be selling something.

They write their names in the poor parts of towns, they write it on work trucks parked on the street by people who can’t afford to keep them in a secure yard. It feels like the unhappiness a tagger feels is taken out on people who themselves are less fortunate. That’s no surprise.

4 Comments

  1. I love it! Pretty pretty truck! Let’s hope the taggers respect the art…

    Comment by School kids — May 12, 2010 @ 11:02 pm

  2. It almost looks like an oldschool chocolate bar.

    Comment by School kids — May 12, 2010 @ 11:03 pm

  3. Thanks!

    Comment by Rolston — May 13, 2010 @ 10:48 pm

  4. Nice truck, nice design.
    You might be able to get oil or wax or something to put on it for when it gets spray painted. The bus windows here have some sort of acrylic cover than can be discarded when some idiot caves his initials on it.

    Comment by Belcat — May 17, 2010 @ 10:26 am

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