Tox 08
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twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Maybe him and that tube driver can get it together over an aerosol can.
Jesus, i hate tagging and all that shit but to suggest he gets flogged or killed is ...well, just the work of ------ (fill in as desired) on keyboards.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Never saw a single TOX07, but on a bridge by Waterloo station there's a couple of TOX08s.
Tagging's wanks tho.
Tagging's wanks tho.
Pleny of acid etched TOX07's on the Piccadilly line.
Tagging is the art of the talentless appreciated only by the braindead.
18 weeks locked up at taxpayer's expense and 200 hours CS has not stopped this fuckwit (and believe me the original is still at it) - so flog the bastard.
He's effectively putting taxpayer's money into the hand of the owners of the dodgy PPP companies who get the contracts to clean up after him.
I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
I thought he might be a local boy, I was walking home from a NYE party at about 3.30am on the 1st Jan 2006 and there on South Lambeth Rd - TOX 06. I have to admit I was quite impressed. He's on it.
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
I have to say I don't get the fury him and his like generate in people. I'm not a fan of tagging - but then I'm a middle-aged man why would I be? - but compared to the millions of square yardage of brain-polluting advertising stimulating discontent and avarice for more meaningless and ultimately unsatisfying consumption that is splattered up and down every road in London - tagging is just about the least of our worries I think.
Did you know that a massive percentage of advertising hoardings in London have been erected illegally? (I can't give you a percentage because no one knows it). They are stuck up, usually with the connivance of the land-owner (but sometimes just as a total blag on empty properties) and then retrospective planning permission is applied for later when they haven't been challenged.
If a new hoarding goes up near you I strongly urge you to to complain formally - it makes the retrospective permission harder to gain. Local councils which are supposed to regulate this appear to have given up (or at least Lambeth have given up). They barely know what hoardings are up, let alone what's got permission.
Tagging seems an infantile ego display to me, but that's the spirit of the consumerist age isn't it? Symptom not cause as far as I can see.
editor
hiraethified
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Saw them in paper yesterday. Wonder how the snails feel about it?
baldrick
hmmmmm
They're probably dead, snapped up by a beady eyed thrushSaw them in paper yesterday. Wonder how the snails feel about it?
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
He had a Tox.03 anti war 'fuck bush, stop the war' thing at Wembley Park (or maybe Finchly Road?) a few years back.
I saw TOX.07 near Gatwick Airport yesterday.
I saw TOX.07 near Gatwick Airport yesterday.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Saw them in paper yesterday. Wonder how the snails feel about it?
as the artist says in the piece, they weren;t harmed; they just had their homes vandalised
Etymologist
λάθε βιώσας
I really don't think this is the case. That is just not what is done. I have spoken to many writers/graffers and though a large number of them have no respect for his work aesthetically (understandably - they are just tags or bubble letters), most of them have to give him credit for his prolificacy. Daniel Halpin is a truly ingenius trespasser who has spent an unnatural amount of time spraying TOX on walls. On my extensive explorations of London I have seen his tag countless times often in places that look remarkably difficult to get to and/or remarkably difficult to imagine getting away without handcuffs on. I am not defending him but I am certainly impressed... The mess he leaves behind doesn't trouble me. On the contrary, I rejoice. I don't know exactly why but I think he deserves some admiration. There is a documentary on youtube about him (can't link it, youtube is blocked at work - its not too hard to find) and I seem to remember his parents are drug addicts or something. Give him some slack. A lot of other kids in his situation haven't done anything. He's become a master of an art (trespassing). It's something isnt it?
I'm not entirely serious but I do respect him somewhat.
A very very very refreshing voice there. Wonderful point. I will steal it and reuse it many a time in drunken arguments about graffiti I often find myself having. Thank you. (banksy makes a similar point in one of his books but you've articulated it far better and nodded to some statistics (even if they weren't there) - appeals to hard facts (even invisible ones) always win me over). Cheers.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
^ what you say
I like the series of Tox's (whats the plural?) outside whitechapel on east london line - 03/04/05 iir.
are banksy and is it eine's block letters not vandalism because they're more aesthetic in theory?
I have secretly looked out for the Tox tag - never saw any 07's
that all on this thread have seen and thought about the tagger says something....?
I like the series of Tox's (whats the plural?) outside whitechapel on east london line - 03/04/05 iir.
are banksy and is it eine's block letters not vandalism because they're more aesthetic in theory?
I have secretly looked out for the Tox tag - never saw any 07's
that all on this thread have seen and thought about the tagger says something....?
yes flog them then hang them that's what i say
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
this is what reminded me.
I don't mind a bit of graffiti. I just wish there were specific places where they would stick to, like subways, and urban waste that can actually be improved by a bit of graffiti. I do also wonder at, and grudgingly admire how on earth they get into some places.
Tox 09
I saw a "TOX 09" the other day and thought 'ello the idiot's back.
Now it seems he's entering the business fray, sellig canvases at £75 a pop!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8249419.stm
Banksy he ain't.
I saw a "TOX 09" the other day and thought 'ello the idiot's back.
Now it seems he's entering the business fray, sellig canvases at £75 a pop!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8249419.stm
Banksy he ain't.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
Is that why I never see you on the bus then?
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
I used to get the bus to work. Now I only get it to Brixton.
You never see me on the bus because I sink down in my seat with only my eyes above the window ledge and watch you. If you keep an eye out you might just see my fingers stroking the window when you pass.
You never see me on the bus because I sink down in my seat with only my eyes above the window ledge and watch you. If you keep an eye out you might just see my fingers stroking the window when you pass.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
That would be telling.
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