[UA] Graffiti artists and a charging scheme

[Ja ke]

There's three possible angles to any graffitimancy, there's the tagging 
things to assert ownership and connection to a place (which would be a 
urbanomancy variant if anything), there's tagging unique and untouched 
places as variant of the old planting flags ontop of mountains to prove they 
could do it first and there's the 'street art' as the deconstruction of 
'real' art and the defilement of statues and artistic architecture.

just some thoughts.

>From: "Evan Loehle" <wombatidae at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
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>Subject: [UA] Graffiti artists and a charging scheme
>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:48:47 +0000
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>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.
>
>
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>
>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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