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Write My Name in Graffiti Graffiti World (Updated Edition): Street Art from Five Continents
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Write My Name in Graffiti, now updated, is the most comprehensive and bestselling survey of graffiti art ever published. The original collection of more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists around the world is joined by a new section devoted to work created in the five years since the book's first edition.Graffiti has long been a ubiquitous aspect of the urban landscape, since anonymous, largely unsung spray-can art first hit city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, emerging in the 1980s as the symbolic artistic language of young people everywhere.Today's graffiti artists incorporate a variety of mediums, including stickers, stencils, oils, acrylics, and oil-based chalk, as well as an ever-expanding range of social commentary. This evolution in style and subject matter has guaranteed graffiti's long-lasting influence on art, graphic design, and style around the world.
Write My Name in Graffiti
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Write My Name in Graffiti
Write My Name in Graffiti Presents:These people write their names on the side of a garbage can or the underpass of a bridge and suddenly think they're the shit. I guarantee you; if a real graf artist heard that shit in New York their cans would get snatched and they'd get their ass beat. Unfortunately, since this is Ames, IA these little punks get away with it. Worse still, Write My Name in Graffiti artists already have a hard rap to beat and THESE toy taggers make it worse by making garbage instead of representing true art.
People often forget that Write My Name in Graffiti is one of the four vital elements of hip-hop (the others are b-boy, MC, and DJ). When you represent graffiti you're representing hip-hop for better or worse. Now if you're gonna tag in my city, you're gonna do it with respect to the culture -- and if I catch you making a punk tag with nothing more than your name in a white outline with no colors or styles I know a few kids who aren't gonna play that.
And I encourage you -- step to the toy taggers. Respect the real Write My Name in Graffiti, but not the toy taggers who give us all a bad name. If you're a city commisioner or a police office and you read this, understand: we aren't trying to ruin your fair city with our art.
Write My Name in Graffiti is supposed to beautify ugly brick walls and boring building sides. Good art should not be painted over -- wall scrawlers and toy taggers I could care less about though. If you don't like graffiti ask some artists to paint you a beautiful hip-hop mural and then watch THEM defend your building for you from all the little toys who would come fuck up your building and their artwork.