Graffiti Report Card, Critiquing the Taggers
Brandon Thomas Baunach has created a Graffiti Report Card, inspired by Graffiti Critique, that allows you to give feedback on graffiti. Just print out the PDF, fill it out when you come across some street art that could use some critiquing.
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.
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This moronic project also clearly makes the assumption that all graffiti aspires to be great art when much of the graffiti out there is good because it doesn't make such pretentions - and in my own opinion the crude and blunt graffiti that's out there is the most interesting, while the graffiti produced by technically talented artists concerned with making the 'city more beautiful' is often boring and contrived. Brandon Thomas Baunach has stupid ideas.
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What incredibly pompous pomo jackassery.
So Zonal likes the talentless scrawl? Well, Thomas doesn't. Who the hell is Zonal to tell him to shut up? Oh, that's right, he's a patronizing pseudoanthropologist trying to protect the "primitive" work of the "natives" from criticism from the class of people he doesn't like....those who don't draw on other peoples' property.
I'm printing up some report cards now.
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I cannot believe we are supposed to react to graffiti with anything other than utter and total contempt.
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The graffiti artist judged the surface to be ugly or at least useless...why can't other community members have their say on what replaced it? Is the tag sacred? Why is someone with a spraycan better than the rest of us?
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Am I, along with hundreds of thousands of other non-subcultured people, supposed to be impressed or care or support your important scribblings across cities around the world?
Oooooo KZ57 hates DarioX...wow, this must be put across a train carriage.
Oh no! Mazuz has a thing for 44AAAA, wow, please no, ruin some activist graffiti or a mural, but painting it on top. Make sure that those you hate also ruin the mural.
Yeah, your cause is more important than spending that same amount of time helping end global warming.
Thanks Jim
btw this is not a judgement. Its a neutral culture jam to allow people to critique in the open, rather than their minds.
Your support for tagging is not superior than this sticker, and vice versa.
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Perhaps ZF should go to Brooklyn and educate the taggers there in the error of their ways, chastising their lack of respect for the 'overall hypergraphic system'--I 'm sure he'd receive a proper street response to his academic b.s.
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