Photo du jour: Think before you tag

11 comments

1. Good one :). Hopefully the untalented Montreal taggers (all of them as far as I’m concerned) will read this, and think before they continue spreading their ugly stuff around. We need more legal work and creative noninvasive stencil, and less outdated stereotypical signatures.

2. Est-ce que c’est vraiment utile de glorifier ce vandalisme?

3. Tagging is like a typography convention gone horribly wrong. It’s like a bunch of disoriented schoolgirls have been doodling all over town. It’s pretty sad.

4. Ça m’étonne de voir comment les gens sont choqués par les graffitis, surtout considérant tout les RÉELS problêmes auxquels montréal fait face…

5. This is far from being one of the most important problems anywhere Jasmin, everyone knows that, but still, caring about aesthetics is part of human nature. We feel more motivated to do our more important jobs when we are in an environment that looks good. And seeing these incredibly ugly scrawls every day is quite depressing.

   The existence of more important problems doesn’t mean we will forget about the simple ones.

6. Who is TOWANDA? Anybody know? That tag is everywhere in my neighbourhood (pointe-saint-charles) and i thought it was limited to here. I like one of “her” “his” tags: it says: TOWANDA loves Chapped lips + Wrinkles (or something like that)… i hope i understand what that means and it’s not actually a euphemism.

   Also can’t we agreed that the ugly aluminum siding improved vastly with the addition of any art, no matter how uninspired?

7. the uglier the better. more 13 year old kids with cans of tremclad they found in dad’s basement. less grad students and grown ass man and women trying to intellectually combat stuff done by drunk hoodrats.

8. Tagging is for kids who don’t care and political statements you’re not allowed to make anywhere else, not lefty pseudollectuals who want to create aesthetically pleasing urban spaces. It’s a good cause, but a tag like “Think before you tag” is a lot more obnoxious than the “Fuck” somebody put on top of it.

9. Well, they probably STOLE the paint from some hardware store.

   Freight cars on trains are now tagged, too, sometimes covering numbers that are pertinent to railway operation.

   Amazing that the ‘F- word’ seems to be all-pervasive, appearing in other places than Montreal or Quebec, where English NOR French are the maternal tongues.

   Once, in Spokane, WA., saw it spelled with the ‘u’ and the ‘c’ interchanged.

   Still do not know if it was intentional.

   In usually the spoken tongue it can be used as almost any part of speach. Verb, noun, adverb etc., defying most ESL rules.

   Personally, I dislike tagging, but, a minority of it is quite creative, must admit.

   Usually it is desecrating privat property.

10. Cdnlococo:

    fcuk (French Connection UK) is a clothing brand. That could be what you saw :). They take advantage of the similarities between fcuk and the F-word.

11. Dear Adolfo,

    Thank You! for letting me know that! Of course there are other languages than English that letter-substitution would create something that would look like a mispelling.

    The area in Spokane was plastered with other graffiti, broken bottles, used needles and by-the-hour motels, so I, at the time, PRESUMED the writer/tagger was either too stoned/illiterate to spell the F-word correctly, or, he was being very clever and intentionally mispelling the F-word to F others’ heads around?

    Of course, with the option you have provided, maybe he was boosting his particular choice of apparel.

    One really never knows what goes on in the minds of man.

    Subtle, subtle, subtle.

    Thank You!