[UA] Graffiti artists and a charging scheme

[Evan Loehle]

For the major charge, they way I figure it is that it's actually pretty 
difficult. First, it has to be a major landmark, or if not a landmark at 
least somewhere that cannot be replicated and has some sort of significance. 
Second, can you think of any really unique and difficult to access place 
that HASN'T had some kind of vandalism? Kilroy's legacy, I suppose. I'd bet 
even the inside of the noses of Mount Rushmore had some bored rope-jockey 
writing something dirty. I also kind of figured it as a bit of a parallel to 
the Cliomancers in that at first, major charges were pretty easy to get. 
Hell, walk into any old city, BAM, you got one. Back when the school was 
taking off, it happened a lot. There are still a lot of old tags in hidden 
spots that just never seem to get painted over and portray someone stuck in 
a graffiti hell during a gang dispute or that house that appeared on that 
abandoned lot that this nice ghetto family moved into or that punk who 
suddenly got rich or an inexplicable and massive expanding of a gang's 
territory. A lot probably used it to just permanently gain a type of aura 
sight. Also, since this means at LEAST that they're going to have do some 
fancy rigging, probably slip past security, it's something. I do think it 
might need a little bit more. Possibly, has to be in a place that is easily 
visible as well? During daytime? Thereby showing one's total command of his 
territory.

Fame doesn' sit right with me. Kind of does, but a lot of tagging is with 
pseudonyms, so the fame is kind of secondary, it doesn't directly attach to 
the person who did the tag. People know that "8-Ball Thor" ( a real tag I 
see around town) has some mad skills and access to some odd places, but no 
one knows who it is, so it doesn't fit as well with the whole territory 
theme.

Man, Dadaists versus Bombers? A fight scene ending with three blind, one 
stabbed with brushes, one covered in burning neon, and the third just kinda 
wandering around gibbering. It's great. They'd hate each other. One takes 
"Significant" art and trivializes it, the other takes "trivial" art and 
makes it significant. They're both counter-culture, but headed in totally 
opposite ways.

And man, would they have surreal battles. ROCKING CHAIR EGGS! TYRANOSAURUS 
LEX! PING-PONG POLICEMAN!

>From an outside point of view, it might be hard to tell what effects are 
coming from where.

But the combatants? They know.
They know.




Also, is there some way that I'm missing that I can respond to posts in the 
thread instead of always starting back?

-EL

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