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Tag THIS.

Sully — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:04:48 -0800

There's this grafitti tagger here in town who scrawls his name everywhere in big black magic marker. On the sides of mailboxes, on walls, on doors. Thing is, it's a nice design and he's got a catchy name. I was thinking the other day that if I started a clothing line, I would like to use his tag as my trademark logo. Chances are, he hasn't trademarked his tag. If I decided to trademark it myself, then deployed it as the name of my clothing line, as well as use his scrawl on the backs of the hoodies I sold - legally, would he have any recourse?

I'm pretty sure it's not Banksy

randomination — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:28:51 -0800

Urbanartfilter: Who, what, and why is this the square-faced symmetrical stencil face guy? An enormous version of this guy appeared near where I work this week, along with this lady here -- who must have some connection because she appeared at the same time and the same face is in the middle of that 'PEACE' rosette.

I've seen this face on walls in several cities in the UK, US, Spain, and even in a game posted to the front page. In the absence of a Google Image Search that identifies any image you upload, please can anybody offer more information?

(Sorry for crappy cameraphone pic quality)

How Do I get rid of spray-paint grafitti?

storybored — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:09:27 -0800

How do I get rid of grafitti spray-painted onto brick? Some vandals came by a couple of months ago at night and spray painted one of brick walls of our house. How do i get the paint off without harming the brickwork? I've tried varsol but it doesn't penetrate into the rough surface. I've heard of some industrial cleaners but they are pretty expensive ($30/quart). Does anyone know of a cheaper alternative or a home-made concoction that'll do the job?

Chemical Equation for Syphilis

nomad — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:04:09 -0800

I found this chemical equation on the wall of a men's room in a bar last night. What is it? More importantly, why would someone write it above a urinal at a bar?

Graffitti building

mnology — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:38:48 -0800

I'm trying to track down a location found in the movie 'Thumbsucker'. This movie was shot in and around my neck of the woods. There's a location during the montage of the thumbsuckers foray in to sexuality and drugs where the 'bad girl' and he are in this concrete building out in the middle of the forest. It's just your basic concrete building that's been abandoned, is open to the elements and has what looks to be years of graffitti plastered all over it.

Where is this building?

What is this picture?

condour75 — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:08:24 -0800

What's this image? We saw it stenciled onto a wall in Athens. My brother took the picture. He thinks it's cool and wants to make it into a t-shirt, but I figure we should find out what it represents first, just in case it's the symbol for the local skinheads or something. (that would be bad)

Or if anyone knows a good place to go to ID grafitti tags, that'd be a start.

NYC2012

nobody — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:17:51 -0800

NYC: In a city where advertising posters of all kinds regularly get defaced, sometimes to reveal the latent cultural politics, sometimes just for the humour of it, why does it seem like all of the NYC2012 Olympic Bid posters remain 100% pristine? (For those outside of the area, these are an extremely prolific series of posters presenting various pithy phrases in colored text over black.)