–end again
I’ve been posting on Metblogs for a few months now and I really love it. Granted, not every post has been Noble Prize winning material, but I’ve had fun. And as I reflect back on my career here at Metblogs, I can’t forget my first time. Sitting at my little red desk, my head in my hands, trying to work flickr and Moveable Type. But I had a message for the people of Portland.
I had a message and it came from –end. Or maybe just end. Here’s the post. Remember that? How much fun was that walk down memory lane? So much.
I was so pleased to find this message from –end in the parking lot for Jefferson’s Young Women’s Academy at Tubman, where Wacky Mommy has started a knitting circle. By the way, we’re taking donations of yarn and needles. There’s a basket at Naked Sheep for knitters who’d like to de-stash for a good cause. We’re also taking donations of knitters who want to knit with the girls. Contact Wacky Mommy if you’d like to spend an hour knitting with some exceptional young women.
Back to –end. This photos is a little tough to read as it was pouring rain and –end had written on a gray wall with yellow paint. It says: if basquiat hadn’t written on walls, there’d be no modern day brooklyn. — end. Basquiat! Oh, –end. How you win my heart.
Hey –end, if tagging N Portland were a presidential campaign, you’d be winning both parties. XOML
I love that graffiti, thank you for giving it (and our knitters!) a shout-out. What did the other one say, "did you remember to lock your car?" ??? I think.
If I were a graffiti artist, the first thing I’d write would be, "what happened to your brain?"
The second would be, "don’t drink and drink."
xowm
Down with graffiti. Terrible nuisance.
This may be a stupid question, but has anyone else seen -end anywhere else besides Portland?
I moved from Florida last summer saw her/his/their grafitti near my home, on a dumpster for paper in a school yard, on street signs, next to a rail road, and here and there. It was fun finding the grafitti in Orlando, but I’m easily entertained while driving.
This may be a stupid question, but has anyone else seen -end anywhere else besides Portland?
I moved from Florida last summer saw her/his/their grafitti near my home, on a dumpster for paper in a school yard, on street signs, next to a rail road, and here and there. It was fun finding the grafitti in Orlando, but I’m easily entertained while driving.
Art is important, and occasionaly grafitti is art. But I like to choose my own art. When someone splats art or grafitti on public grounds (I pay those taxes), on my building, or in my neighborhood without making sure their art/grafitti is welcome I feel a little put-upon visually. Much as you all might feel if someone consistently blasted a scent over your neighborhood thinking it would be delightful, but irritated most of you and required tax dollars to remove.
Wow, –end in Florida too. I don’t know much about the graffiti scene, but that’s very cool that he/she is national.
As to whether graffiti is a nuisance, it all is. However, I think graffiti that makes a person think is a very cool nuisance. And to put up something about Basquait near a school with not even enough money for school buses, where the students and the principal are trying to drum up rides after school, I think it’s something worth talking about. I wonder how in-depth their art program is, or their creative writing program. I do know they don’t even have a librarian. Did you read that right? Yes, the school has NO librarian.
I didn’t know who Basquiat was until college, but if I were in high school and saw that tag, you better believe I would have looked him up.
The colors of the tag were great too — in the dim light, that yellow had a glow to it. There’s a free art lesson right on the side of the building.
So yes, I agree that just some random name on the side of a building sucks. But, I also think that if that name were instead, a thoughtful comment on society, art, the value we seemingly randomly apply to certain artists, writers, musicians, or hell, CEO’s, accountants, football players, then good. Let’s start a conversation.