YOUTUBE: Hobart Graffiti Web206

This week the web publishing activity has been optional, (the dawg loves a challenge!) so I dove (like a high dive!! and not a flying bird thingy...) into my image files,, put on the "runners" and.... Trekked out and about around Hobart (lots of sore paws!!!) to find some more great graffiti heritage to publish in digital form. Enjoy, was so much fun making this.. am thinking of making another... let me know what you think.. comment if you would like to see another vid! Gd.

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Music: Grunge (November 4, 2006)

This audio titled “grunge” is part of the collection: Community Audio
Artist/Composer: John McQuiston

Shared under the Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Retrieved from http://www.archive.org/details/TwoGrungeGuitars

.....................TWITTER

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What happens when: dawg takes to twitter as her nemesis loulounilly!

Hash tags: #graffiti, #socialmedia, #tagging

This week I have been looking into Twitter, how the graffiti community communicate via this form of social media. My first tweet and hash tag for this week’s experiment with social networking has been somewhat successful. Because I consider that graffiti should be defined as social media I used #socialmedia in one of my tweets.  “Is #graffiti #socialmedia? http://graffitidawg.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-graffiti-social-media.html”. The post initiated a response, re-tweet and inclusion in an associated Twitter paper.li web page by Danny Peters http://paper.li/dannypeters_/1310827243 which looks at Social Media 2.0 Trends.

The hash tags #socialmedia #graffiti initiated the incorporation.

VoCKlantreizen Danny Peters

Social Media 2.0 Trends is out! bit.ly/oXQUuM ▸ Top stories today via @admmarioartur @loulounilly

My second tweet utilised another one of my blog posts, this time about the consequences of getting caught tagging along with the link to the GRAFFITIdawg blog: http://graffitidawg.blogspot.com/2011/09/graffitidawg-looks-into-results-of.html. I have the use of a platform called Tweetdeck, combined with a service called Deck.ly (instead of 140 letters Tweetdeck/Deck.ly allows for double that amount) which enables me to write longer tweet posts).

There was disappointment on my part that the tweet “Do you think people should be given a jail sentence if they are caught”, using the hash tags"#tagging" #graffiti? http://bit.ly/n2hYbH” did not generate any responses even after personally re-tweeting the post. To be very frank Twitter is unpredictable with who follows what in which trend, and admittedly, graffiti and associated artistry does not appear to ‘trend’ very well.

Graffiti is a tough medium to chat about via social media without getting into a ‘degenerate youth’ conversation with some interesting characters. After some in-depth research across twitter trending hash tags, my favourite subject does not appear to be popular (who knew!).

As a prolific Internet user, and a fan of social networking, I tend to have Twitter/Tweetdeck quietly humming in the background of my computer/iPhone; this allows that inter-connective-ness across the twitterati to multiple personalities who deem it interesting to connect right back.

IS? Graffiti Social Media?

From Social Media To Human Media - critical reflection on social media & some design methods to design social environments

View more presentations from Niels Hendriks Susan Herring and associates have concluded that, '... social networks consist of people connected through various social relationships and exchanges ...' (Herring et al, 2005). dawg is prepared to argue here that GRAFFITI and its derivatives (paste-ups, tagging etc. etc.) is just that - socialisation , but in pictorial form. Artists and taggers express themselves to each another and to an ever widening audience (thanks to the Internet) in a manner that is saying something about them in a language that others can understand

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So by graffiti(ing) on my own image, what does that say about me? 

Social spaces - cumulus conference Paris 2011

View more presentations from Niels Hendriks

Are we all contributing to social spaces by using a variety of
graffiti, to send a message in one form or another to each other like the
Ancient Egyptians did with pictographs?. (dawg does
not condone the use of illegal drugs btw...Image 4.
((which has now been painted over by the Hobart City Council 10-10-2011))
So is graffiti a social message then? AND who are they talking to about what?

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GRAFFITIdawg has joined the FatCap community

FatCap is an interestingly GLOBAL group of artists, photographers, commentators that have joined together to share their interest in all forms of GRAFFITI.  Just recently GRAFFITIdawg joined the throng to share the love. I am a novice in their group so the dawg has joined as a photographer (which is what dawg does, happy snapping all the graffiti, paste ups, throw ups, walls.... etc, spray spray spray).

dawg has joined their blogging throng, and asked a pertinent question.. (WHAT ABOUT US HOBART!) ................................well not so bluntly put and with a few more big words thrown in... as the FatCap community is a "closed" blog, you may not be able to see the post....and if you can - IGNORE the photo because realistically online 'nobody knows your a dog', yup.. one of those photos.. if not,, keep reading because...TA DAAAAAAA.... their blog and mine..

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THE FATCAP BLOG POST by Lindsay T

It’s been a while since we posted on the FatCap blog, so we decided to give you an update on the changes that have been going on over on our side. Since we launched the new FatCap, we have been managing both English and French content. With the addition of a few key players in the US we’re going to be better able to bring you content from the French site in English and visa versa. If you didn’t catch them, we’ve published a whole bunch of articles that were both originally written in French, now published in English for you to read.

• Bonom
• Village Doel
• Rock India
• The Veil and Street Art

Actually being in America has made a difference for our site, but do not fret, we keep our focus on covering artists and crews worldwide.  In addition to expanding in the US, we have also reached out to writers from Latin America to start bringing us more than stories on Chilean Miners. Not that those men didn’t give us all an epic tale to recount, but we preferred El Mural Ferroviario that Denegro1 reported on from Santiago.

The FatCap team has also been hard at work forming key partnerships with teams of photographers and artists that are making paramount contributions to the graffiti and street-art scenes. This means more coverage, shared news and exclusive content. For instance, you may have noticed that we ran an article from The Street Spot, the home to photographer’s Becki Fuller and Luna Park.

And so I can tell you a story about how this all came about. Our first encounter with Becki was for an afternoon as she gave us a tour of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Syd was in New York from Barcelona, and I trained up from Philly to meet this dedicated, quirky and prolific package of a person. On a rainy, but perfectly NY fall afternoon, we walked the streets, past abandoned buildings, art galleries, and workshops. Though the entire FatCap team has been in NY plenty of times, it was exciting to see her pages and pages of photos on Flickr coming alive. We even happened upon Julius from Laid Back. After that choice afternoon, the ladies of The Street Spot have lent us their photos for our article on The Underbelly Project and for Community Serviced, and put us in contact with Sina from Papergirl NYC. If you haven’t checked out these articles, you’re really missing out.

The team is also hard at work to bring more artist interviews to your eyes and ears. We listen to our readers, and those of you that have reached out have told us that these interviews are what you like the most. This fall we’ve given you the juice on M-City, Mark Bode, Mr Puppet, Sea and Roa. We couldn’t have asked for a better lineup, but you’ll want to stay tuned through the winter, because we got it!
Things did not slow down from there because, if you didn’t catch it, we were let in to a world of artist residencies by following AM & DCAP on their own in Paris. Documenting the real experience of American and French artists as they collide, and from a female perspective, brought a whole new twist to what FatCap is trying to bring to you on the daily. This is a community that we’re all a part of if you haven’t noticed, and it seemed to come full circle that AM would sync up with Banga, and eventually Vince when he returned to Paris from Casablanca.
We’re on the move, but always thinking of you dear. Promise to keep you posted more often.

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dawgs words..

Behind the scenes: What an amazing journey you are undertaking within the world of graffiti, through the brightly sprayed spaces of France to the techno coloured iconic imagery of America. The intertextuality/hypertextuality of your post has allowed my Internet graffiti journey to be all that more exciting and allows others and myself to feel included within an online community. 

I am interested to know if you will be relating a few more of your blog posts to the graffiti communities within the boundaries of Oceania and in particular Australia?  I live within a little melting pot island, Tasmania (known as the Apple Isle) but still considered a state of Australia, isolated and unique with our own versions of graffiti, highly prolific with our urge to be known for our own take on the side of art.

I am also interested in photographing the work of others, there are many nooks and crannies where I am that seem to be prolific in paint, and documenting that work is of great interest to me, I blog.. I am a student; I am a blogging student interested in your work. 

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HEY READERS..yeah you.. dawg-blog readers.. if you have any comments.. photos etc.. places for the GRAFFITIdawg to visit to photograph, events and stuff..COMMENT ...email me.. ALWAYS interested, need fodder for blog and I will always give credit where credit is due.. leave a comment and don't forget to tick ✓  the email box

GRAFFITIdawg looks into the results of getting caught tagging....

Caught!

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Recent television and Internet news that tagger Sean Robert Taylor (pictured) walked away from a Western Australian court with a 12 months sentence (suspended for 18 months) has made headlines across Australia and Internet news services. The twenty-year-old tagger narrowly avoided prison for causing approximately $23, 000 worth of damage to a Perth council property. Taylor was instead fined $500 and 100 hours of community service because of previous vandalism (most probably tagging) related offenses. Perth Magistrate Stephen Malley stated that his main concern while sentencing was that a stay in prison could damage Taylor’s emotional and maturity development.

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  Magistrate Malley noted that even though Sean Taylor’s offences were serious and should warrant a stay in prison, placing him in a facility that was full of convicted criminals with harsher crimes may leave 20-year-old Taylor at the beck-and-call of inmates that could possibly use him for interesting prison sporting activities. 

The Cleaning Bill:

Western Australia in 2002 had an expensive hard slog with the combined graffiti clean-up bill for a number of councils revealed as nearly $1.7 million. The Hobart City Council in 2009, reported annual  tag cleaning cost in excess of $70 000. Interesting fodder for thought, GRAFFITIdawg lives in Hobart and current Tasmanian legislation does not provide specific laws on offences related to the acts of graffiti and tagging as vandalism but refer to them as Marking Graffiti, anyone caught carrying or using Graffiti Implements (spray-cans, stencils and so on) without a lawful excuse can be prosecuted .

Side effects and Considerations: 


Understandably, with this current sentencing, how would you define graffiti? What factors would make you think it was vandalism? Which factors would make you think it was art or social comment or social destructive behaviour? These are just some of the questions that the Magistrate may have considered when deciding the sentence of Taylor. In the state of NewSouth Wales, graffiti is considered a crime (considered vandalism) punishable by fines, community service orders or even imprisonment. In August 2011, NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell stated that he would apply a blowtorch to upper house Members of Parliament to get harsher new anti graffiti legislation passed.  

Personal Consideration and The Fear Effect:

If you consider graffiti and tagging vandalism then vandalism can cost some communities many things in many ways, not just in the financial outlay to fix or prevent tagging and some forms of graffiti but also in creating the emotional fear of crime associated with the supposed destructive nature of young people who participate in the activity. Some people see graffiti as just another form of vandalism. For others, graffiti is self-expression, art, political comment or within a peer group: socially provoked action. 

Reference.

wHY iS it So?

I have an understanding with myself... (just letting you know) my hunger for creativity is in all realism, something that allows me to accept different concepts that melt into one word... ART. I marvel, step back, shake my head then step forward at the vicarious nature and thrill that people get from doing something 'not quite legal', even though graffiti is now becoming more acceptable within the art world and legitimately acknowledged by critiques alike. 

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WHAT also fascinates me  is how high and low those artists will climb, hang and dangle to make their mark. There is something addictive about hunting out painted and stenciled works around the city and surrounding areas, then photographing them.

As a person and a facade, it is easy to hide behind this awesome GRAFFITIdawg persona. If I could, I would spray paint you a small picture so that you may tag along a stenciled path into my interest concerning the world of graffiti. 

My interested concerning graffiti has been building up over the years to now and I am eager to find out what comes next. Like many, I have had a long-standing fascination with illustrative representations, not just ordinary old but archaeological old.

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As an artist myself, though not in the style of graffiti, it has been my opinion for a number of years that graffiti illuminates and extols contemporary urban culture and the myths that have arisen behind the concept.

In the United States around the 1990s, I traveled and viewed first hand an indigenous American Indian rock painting in Utah. My main reaction was... “WOW... a human being drew and scratched that around a thousand years ago”.  I just want to reach out like many others and touch it, feel it, even make a little mark to let people know I have been there, (note to all: I did not). 

Even before my travels, my dawg-head was in the history books. I was filled with awe and wonderment at the likes of Pompeii's colourful murals, Greece's graphic brothel and political graffiti that acted like sign posts and adverts, scratching of names within the Pyramids of Giza from early 18th Century Western travellers and lately seeing pictures online of Australian Aboriginal rock art that is over 4000 years old. Having access to the Internet has only fuelled my addiction to graffiti; the concept of accessing others' contemporary works just allows the addiction to expand in different varied directions.

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About the Author - a brief BIO

 BIO

GRAFFITIdawg has been a voyeuristic pursuant of the contents of WorldWide Web for a number of years. As my alter internet ego,dawg has gained invaluable experience through watching certain aspects of what is art for art sake over the Web, how people interpret their own artistic merits, and is interested in why people upload their art to the Internet . As dawg, I am able to question the history as well as the illegality of certain genres of participatory online and off line art through study as an external student of an Internet Communications degree. You may ask the question... why I like street art? I see graffiti as a cultural and social record that gives people a degree of freedom of speech that they would not normally have.

 

dawg’s avatar for twitter (my eyes)

and this blog represents the dawg’s viewing of the digital self  all the while watching the Internet for freestyle art that is available to the online Internet community.

My option is to utilise the coloured adaptation of my Twitter image that I have manipulated and drawn in keeping with my GRAFFITIdawg representation.

my eyes by Laura L Herbert is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Based on a work at graffitidawg.blogspot.com.

Schoolhouse Gallery Rosny Farm

On advice from an illustrator acquaintance , this GRAFFITIdawg took a heady drive over the Tasman Bridge to the Schoolhouse Gallery Rosny Farm, run by Clarence City Council, where they have been holding an exhibition of works by art students interested in graffiti and associated stencil work. The following photos have been taken by the dawg for this blog and reproduced with kind permission from the gallery. For further photos and information check out Rosny Farm on Facebook.

AMAZING WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO WITH SPRAY CANS AND STENCILS

INTERESTING SPRAYING

WORKSHOPS ARE BEING RUN ONCE A MONTH FOR THE REMAINDER OF 2011 AND 2012 FOR INTERESTED PARTIES

Graffiti &Tagging: an easy introduction

There are predominantly two main styles of art on the streets today. GRAFFITIdawg will explain the difference between tagging, and graffiti.

• Tagging (sprayed initials) and its concept, has become the rushed act of leaving your name or pseudonym quickly, anonymously while...

• Graffiti (street art) may be considered by some: the aerosol, brush painted endeavour of an adventurously talented person who wishes to ‘share’ their elaborate artistry with an appreciative audience, even when uploading anonymously to services like YouTube.

While graffiti might be considered art,  practiced mainly on disused buildings and walls, tagging is predominantly considered by authorities vandalism (even historically), simply for the fact that spray scrawled initials are being left everywhere. There is a quasi war out there and that war is tagging.

As humans have progressed and graffiti has evolved, (well since we have the urge to leave any mark), people cover just – about - everything that they can get around, in and on. For some it is the act of leaving their own personal mark like a beacon for others to acknowledge and appreciate. Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania is one such place that has experienced an increase in both legitimate and illegal graffiti and tagging.

This is an image of an abandoned education facility, the ‘Hobart Tepid Baths’.

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People have found the abandoned site interesting enough to post videos on YouTube that show the work of graffiti artists.

Situated just on the edge of the central business district of Hobart.

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Peering into the shady recesses it was easy to see what had been tagged, and what had been graffiti-ed.

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This image is just one example of a quick tag on the outside of the building. By the looks of the flow of the writing, it might have taken less than 10 seconds for the tagger to spray on the public access wall then simply walk away unnoticed.

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As a spectator, you might consider this image - street art, an example of graffiti, imaginative art.

Hobart and surrounding areas are dotted with examples of both graffiti and tagging.

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In 2008, Street Art- Graffiti was presented as a 'legitimate' exhibition at the prestigious Tate Gallery in London, England. YouTube's ability to share with a widening audience has enabled anybody to experience that event while not actually attending in person.

Graffiti - after all - has become art in the eye of the beholder. Some may consider the spray-painting of walls vigilante vandalism, while others have a different perspective, a possible consideration that the outpouring of artistic displays avails creative open air galleries that are 'free' for viewing by young and old, rich or poor. Whatever artistic perspective a person has concerning the use of spray cans, paintbrushes and stencil cut-outs this web-blog aims to explore the inter meshing lines and colour of graffiti/tagging alongside the social bi-effects they generate