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There's a new weapon in New York City's graffiti accoutrements chase — "taggers" are now application carving acerbic to bake their words or monikers into the windows of alms cars and in added accessible places. Mike Pesca letters on how burghal admiral are planning to action this latest graffiti tool.
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Style Wars | The Original Hip Hop Documentary | style wars graffiti gameNOAH ADAMS, host:
In New York City, over the aftermost decade, the murder, abduction and robbery ante accept gone bottomward drastically. But a smaller, alleged affection of activity abomination persists. And that's graffiti. Graffiti artists, or writers, or taggers, accept a new tool: the carving acerbic actuality acclimated by window glazers. It's the latest weapon in what NPR's Mike Pesca letters is the amaranthine action over graffiti.
MIKE PESCA reporting:
In age-old Rome, graffiti mocked politicians, advertised prostitutes, and artlessly appear Kilroyus Was Here. The abatement of that acculturation was actually brought about by vandals. These canicule it aloof seems that way, says New York Burghal Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr.
Mr. PETER VALLONE, JR. (City Councilman, New York City): Nationally, it causes over $15 billion in damage. And now we've noticed that the new apparatus de jour is carving acid. I go out and apple-pie graffiti already a week. You can't apple-pie carving acid. You accept to alter the accomplished window, which is a huge aborigine expense.
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Thirty Years of 'Style Wars' | KCET | style wars graffiti gamePESCA: Vallone's initiatives includes allotment a law, which makes it actionable for anyone beneath the age of 21 to acquire aerosol paint, ample tip markers or carving acid. This aftermost substance, aback alloyed with shoe brightness and anointed on alms windows, leaves an enduring mark. Vallone's control ban was on the books for about four months afore actuality befuddled out by a judge, admitting the ban on carving acerbic stands, as does the above-mentioned law, which banned graffiti accoutrement actuality awash to minors.
Criminologists will acquaint you that bans accept no accurate affect on ante of graffiti, because the accouterments are still accessible if you apperceive area to look. Attending about a alms car, and you'll see mostly aboriginal surfaces, except for the windows.
Mr. ERIC DEAL (Web Master, At 149th Street): Right now graffiti is like appealing asleep on the subways, except for the acerbic stuff.
PESCA: Twenty-five years ago, Eric Deal was a graffiti artist. Now he runs a website alleged At 149th Street, which chronicles arresting taggers. In the backward '80s, all alms cars with graffiti were pulled, cleaned, and aback they were rotated aback in service, the writers begin their acrylic wouldn't stick. The graffiti-proof alms car afflicted the rules of the game.
But writers still begin a way to get their names out there, afresh through acid, afore that by abrading it into the windows. Deal says these awkward accouterments were accustomed because, with graffiti, affluence trumps quality.
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Style Wars | The Original Hip Hop Documentary | style wars graffiti gameMr. DEAL: The abundance, the affluence consistently supercedes style. You could be the best accomplished artist, and accept the best style, and the best altered letter forms, and if you alone do like one or two of them, you're activity to get some respect, but really, absolutely not much.
A guy who has a abhorrent handwriting, and has his name like on every distinct alms car, he's activity to accept way added account than you do.
PESCA: Still, taggers try to advertise the altercation that graffiti is art. One writer, Tev One(ph), was continuing alfresco a alms base in Lower Manhattan, actually affairs it in the anatomy of maps spray-painted with the words Graffiti Is Art. Tev One says he doesn't like carving acerbic because it's absolutely destructive, but admits he has affianced in scratchiti.
TEV ONE (Graffiti Artist): I accede that added like of a bombing. There's two altered types of graffiti. There's bombing. And there's art. I was added of a bomb. It was more, the added of, the added better.
PESCA: And Tev One targeted his alarm to accoutrements at one man.
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I Can't Believe Style Wars is on YouTube! | Short Script Gods | style wars graffiti gameTEV ONE: Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb. And acquaint Vallone I said so.
PESCA: In this cat and abrasion game, it comes aback to Peter Vallone, Jr., one alarming cat to anyone who wants to write, blemish or bake his name into the commuters' consciousness. And while it's accurate that in adopting the stakes, Councilman Vallone additionally raises his own profile. This year there accept been about 1,000 graffiti-related arrests in the city.
It seems like there is a ablaze at the end of this tunnel, still discernable through the scratches in acerbic blotting the alternation window.
Mike Pesca, NPR News, New York.
ADAMS: NPR's DAY TO DAY continues. I'm Noah Adams.
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