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Friday, March 31, 2006 Link
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A couple of years ago, Erik Davis wrote a short blurb for Wired Magazine on industrial street tagging, or as he dubbed it, Urban Markup Language. A vague recollection of that article popped into my head after reviewing a recent series of images I had posted to Flickr. I realized that I was consciously (or perhaps subconsciously) photographing these spraypainted ticks, arrows, lines and acronymonic noise for their colourful anti-aesthetic and blue-collar geekiness. I figured that other people were probably attracted to this form of street art as well, and after a bit of carefully executed tag surfing, I discovered I was right. Now we have a communal home for our obsession. The small, but growing Urban Markup Language Group on Flickr documents the transient, functional language of construction and reconstruction.
View a full-size image in my Flickr account.
Do you know that feeling you get when some Crazy Apple Rumors Site quotes you so far out of context, that your head spins around on your shoulders and you end up thinking you actually may have said something like that to someone? Well, now I do too. And although they may have been uttered independantly of each other, I am fairly certain of the fact that I have never used the phrases "your momma" and "obsolete" in the same sentence... ever.
Monday, March 13, 2006 Link
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Well, it was a nice break while it lasted. Now, would someone please explain what all this snow is doing in my driveway? Ugh.
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