SURVEY: Did you or do you ever write tags or graffiti?

I used to do both when I was younger, though I only did graffiti with other people, because I don't have proper skills for that myself.

I think stencil art also counts as graffiti, if you've done that.

I could never be arsed, could never think of anything witty enough, and tagging always looked like shit to me.

the more illustrative stuff always looked better to me.

when does graffiti become a mural? A. if it's a picture? B. if it's done with the permission of whoever owns the wall? it must be either A or B or possibly a combination of A & B.

and no never did graffiti. Too scared of getting caught and the consequences thereof.

In junior high, I spraypainted bullies' names around my neighborhood:

Brad F. was here!

I don't know if anyone ever got in trouble for that, but I sure hope so.

I wouldn't call that tags or graffiti though, as Tuomas intends the question.

i did this stencil but it's kinda fucked up

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/lucontstencil.jpg

Cool, who's "Lucont"?

He failed to make much of an impact at Fulham under Chris Coleman and I understand he is playing somewhere back in the second tier of French football.

What are tags?

Tags are like this:
http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/photos/tags.jpg

Graffiti I'd say is more like this:
http://twi-ny.com/graffiti2.jpg

(Random examples taken from GIS)

I never did either, by the way. No talent for art, no desire to scrawl my name over things.

A handful of half-arsed tags when I was 16/17 just to be part of the gang.

Tags by definition are pretty half-ass.

I dunno, I think they can look cool if they're well enough designed.

I drew on my desks a lot in elementary school, and many other things. We were on a field trip one time, passing by some tagged-up train cars, and my teacher said, "Look's like Abb13's been there!" Then she made that joke like EVERY DAY. "Did you see the trains today? That was Abb13!" Sheesh, alright. Back to drawing Garfield hanging himself.

There's a thing written on one of the bus benches here, in that cholo tagging penmanship:

Ex-ter-mi-nate
Wheelchair fake
Skanky looking
Retard bitch ho

Cruel, but if you know the bus regular they are talking about, it's pretty amusing. (She fakes her need for a wheelchair and whines endlessly about clearly made-up shit and tries to beg folding money.)

I wrote graffiti until I got arrested after doing a throw-up off of a freeway wall when I was 18. I still catch tags every now and then, but fuck going to jail.

You can get jail for that? I think in here painters, if caught, get massive bills, but I've never heard anyone getting anything worse for that.

People ought to go to jail for it.

I corrected someone's spelling on a toilet wall once, does that count?

"Borf Gets Month in Jail And Rebuke for Graffiti: Graffitist to Spend Month in D.C. Jail"

02/06 Washington Post

Borf is not his real name

Is that the guy who used to do those golf videos?

One billion pounds

"Success of the campaign was measured by the media coverage generated and the number of MP’s signing up to support the campaign."

BORF

Okay, there are a few of his tags up in Foggy Bottom right now. I don't know if they're old or new. What a dick.

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Never did, but I like looking at it if it's interesting

I can't believe Emily thought I was serious when asking what tags are. I'm not Finish. ;-)

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https://i.imgur.com/kKkEC35.jpg

Plain labels with your handwritten tag is a great way to bomb. Cheaper than custom stickers, lasts longer than a sharpie, and each one is unique