[Summit] graffiti

[Michaela O'Donnell-Small]

I enjoyed the article you sent out, Greg, although I'm pressed to
understand how what we see spray painted on local buildings and the
magnetic LEDs can share the name "graffiti".  I wish local kids were
gathering together to combine their ingenuity to come up with an
artistic happening like the one in Astor Place.  But maybe this kind
of thing will make it's way up I-95 (let's hope the kids spraying
their tags around Providence read WIRED).  One downfall--when the
batteries wear out the LEDs become garbage.
Michaela O'Donnell-Small
8th st.

On 4/10/06, Greg Gerritt <gerritt at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>  GRAFFITI ARTISTS COME UP WITH NEW TOOLS
>
>  WIRED - The group of 12 graffiti artists surrounds its target, a
>  sculpture in Manhattan known as The Cube, and waits for the signal to
>  begin tagging it up. It's a daunting task -- the 15-foot sculpture in
>  Astor Place was recently coated with anti-graffiti paint.
>
>  But within seconds, The Cube is covered in LED Throwies, the latest
>  innovation from the Graffiti Research Lab, or GRL, an open-source
>  think tank dedicated to developing new methods and tools for street
> artists.
>
>  Despite its coating of Acrolon paint and extra lacquer, the metallic
>  sculpture isn't protected from the magnetic, multicolored LEDs, which
>  attach themselves to every surface.
>
>  The commotion soon attracts a crowd of passersby, and suddenly
>  everyone, including kids, are throwing Throwies.
>
>  The GRL was started by graffiti writers Q-Branch and Fi5e after a
>  brainstorm on, among other things, how to get around anti-graffiti paint.
>
>  To them, the lab is part of the cat-and-mouse game that graffiti
>  artists constantly play with city authorities. Anti-graffiti paint is
>  simply the most recent weapon in the battle against the artists, but
>  "if the cat ramps up, so does the mouse," said Fi5e. . .
>
>  Another development is the Electro-Graf, a technique that lets street
>  artists embed LEDs, motors, solar panels or other electrical objects
>  into a wall using conductive spray paint. Electro-Graf techniques give
>  traditional tags a vibrant shine or even moving parts.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70552-0.html?tw=rss.index
>
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