Door and Glass

Doorway in the East Village, 3rd Street

It’s really hard to understand what has gone here.The glass in this door has been tagged, but it has certainly been done before the wood panelld were painted black. That white spray paint was once clearlyt outside it’s the bounds of the glass: this tag once coverfed not only the glass but also the wooden pieces above and to the sides. Sure, someone was pissed off by this, but surely it’s more important to replace the glass so that you can outside, rather than clean up the wood? Perhaps the glass just couldn’t be scrubbed, so it was painted black? In any case KCR has added his red presence here. how weird...

Brown

Brown spraypaint on creme wall, Chinatown.

With this tag you can clearly see the movement of the writer's hand.

Post Office Boxes

POST BOXES ARE A COMMON SITE FOR GRAFFITTI AROUND THE CITY. THESE TWO WERE CAPTURED IN THE ASTOR PLACE, 4TH AVENUE BY 11TH STREET. IT SEEMS THA THEIR UNIQUE CONFIGURATION REQURIES DEFINITE ADAPTATION BY THE WRTIOERS TO PLACE THEIR TEXTS ON THESE SURFACES: A CIRCULAR TOPPED RECTANGLE. THE BOX ON THE RIGHT HAS ELONGATED AND CURVED HIS LETTER VERTICVALLY SO THAT THEY SEMI CIRCULARLY REACH THE PERIMETER OF THE SURFACE. I FIND THE PEIRCE ON THE LEFT MORE INTERESTING. IT FITS INTO THE BOUNDS OF THE SHAPE FAR MORE ELEGANTLY. IT SEEMS THERE ARE TWO LINES OF TEXT:

POR
SHOT

(?)

THE TEXT THOUGH TAKES ON A THE MOVEMENT AN FLOOK OF A DANCER. IS IT JUST ME? THE ‘P’ BECOMES THE HEAD, WHILE THE LOWER STRETCHES OF THE ‘S’ AND THE ‘T’ ARE FEET. THERE ARE ALSO SOME KEITH HARING LIKE ENERGY SIGNIFIERS; SEE THE LINES VIBRATING OFF THE DANCING BODY / TEXT GIVING IT THAT PULSING FEEL OF ENERGY THAT SO CHARACTERISES HARING’S FIGURES.

NOTICE THAT THE GARTBAGE BIN ISN’T TAGGED? I WOULD QUITE LIKIE TO SEE SOME TAGGED BINS.

Blue

Beautiful rich blue, though with some stretched type of moments, as the hand of the writer moved faster than the paint sprayed out from the can. there's also a real nice sense of movement and confidence here. The only thing I don't likehere is the writer's choice of canvas: the section of the wall he's used is just underneath a window-sill, so the tag is kind of boxed in, stifling it's movement and boldness somewhat. But this was stilll one of my favourites from today.

Sikh Curry House Bathroom

The Sikh curry house on Houstan St, East Village has some cool material within its two toilets. Here we have lots of thin lines, and simple colours: whites, silvers, and a bold primary red. There's also a good mixture of text and humble images which I really liked.

Hello there

html test html

shalom

shalom

kjhkjhkjh

A Favourite

This is like the text on a Holy site. A hymn to a new urban utopia of chaos and industrial beauty.

I also love the way this is a type of an accepted alternative writing script; one over the traditional font of tagging

Trux

Union Square
East Village. The guy in front of the truck's cabin got slightly protective of his vehicle when he saw me trying to capture it on film.
Patriotic Mexico tag in Union Square. The truck behind it actually looks way cooler ... I don't know why I didn't get a photo of her..?
China Town / Soho.
Soho. Good curving movement in this simple black spray paint rite. I've got no idea what the 'Aids' text is about...

It's really hard to tell with most of these trucks whether they were bombed, or whether the truck drivers asked some writers to go over thier boring white van. Maybe the owner of the truck is herself a writer?

Classic Bubble Text

Here is a nice example of some bubble text. This is surely the 'classic' font that is associated with graffitti. It's easy to do and within minutes you got some 3-D looking writing. I was happy to see this one, and know that bubble text is still capable of capturing some appeal. I liked that it's still being used by graff writers today. I felt as though this peice of graffitit captured some of the original innocence of graffitti which has been lost a little bit with the chaotic complexity of some of wildstyle peices.

Graffittied Doorways

Chinatown



Here are some of them

DRO

I've seen Dro all over lower Manhattan, as well as in Brooklyn. The three letter namw is prime; what a shame all the three letter words were taken by other writers by like 1983!