09 July 2009

Melbourne : A Brief History of Tagging

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Despite Melbourne's reputation as a place enlivened by its street culture, including its graffiti, Melbourne City Council continues to promote an anti-graffiti policy.

bLOGOS/HA HA was therefore recently amused to note this succinct Melbourne survey of sign and style.

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OURS IS A FINE MONOGRAM
yours is an ugly tag


bLOGOS/HA HA notes also the additional means by which these two self-promoters focus our attention. The MCC adds a Right-angular battlement frame to their insignia and thereby double-centers it. KIA, free to move, plays the Outside(r) territory and releases just below our sightline to the Monogram a wobbly upward arrow that elevates our focus past the centre-locked Imperative, to their target. KIA claims the crest of the other and there self-crowns.
LOOK AT ME
look at me

KIA 'takes a speccy', in other words. Like Paddy Ryder (below) in Round 7. We observed the KIA v MCC match-up on the way to last Sunday's Saints v Cats game.



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At the peek
bABY bL takes a speccy
in the manner of Patrick Ryder