graffiti

Tried my hand at anti advertising. I put it on a computer. It said unplug. I wanted those people who saw it to think I don’t need all of this technology, I’m still going to live if I don’t have my computer, my cell, or my ipod. When I put up the sign I felt the adrenaline pumping. Even though I knew I wasn’t hurting anything I felt like a secret agent planting secret devices. I was watching my back looking for staff, watching for kids starring, I stuck around for a little and saw one person look at my message. I think they got the message but they just kept going on with their lives. However one thing I observed was that once I put it up it was like that computer was off limits. No one went near it or tried to use it. So I decided to try what I want others to do. I tried to do this for a half of a day. I turned off my phone, didn’t use my computer. This was a weird feeling. I felt alone and vulnerable. I had gone to the mall by myself to buy some gifts. When I got there I pulled out my phone but it was off. I had lost my security blanket. I always checked m technology when I felt alone or needed to do something to kill time. It was a nervous habit like cracking your knuckles or biting your nails. As the day went on I felt weird still. When I looked at my phone no one had messaged me nothing bad happened. It was ok.

graffiti now and then

Graffiti has been around for a long time as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii. Usage of the word has evolved to include any graphics applied to surfaces in a manner that constitutes vandalism. It has been found in Egypt, Rome, and Asia all over the world. The graffiti in the ancient times represented street life, it also showed errors in spelling and grammar in this graffiti offer insight into the degree of literacy. The ancient Romans carved graffiti on walls and monuments, examples of which also survive in Egypt. Many of the first graffiti installations were advertisements for prostitution. Recently there has been a revolution of graffiti. In the 1920’s graffiti changed into a modern idea. It was done on box cars and buildings. France in the 1960’s was a large surge of graffiti because of the wars and strikes. They were described as revolutionary, anarchist. They were mostly anti war phrases and anarchist views. In the 1960’s in America graffiti was used mostly by political activists also. The graffiti was at the same time done by gangs such as the Savage Skulls, La Familia, and Savage Nomads to mark their territory. Next graffiti migrated to New York and blew up with tags and bombs. Basically there mark saying I was here. Then in the 1970’s spray paint began to dominate graffiti. This new rise in popularity started the state to intervene and create task forces to combat this new art. In the late seventies and early eighties graffiti began to inter twine with hip hop and rap. In the mid-eighties it became dangerous to do graffiti because of turf wars and the large anti graffiti task forces. There has been a recent change in the graffiti image. Now there are public funded graffiti walls and graffiti in art galleries. Graffiti has come a long way but is still thriving with the youth of America. There are still the gangs and taggers and turf tags but graffiti has become more accepted.

The graffiti artist is about one thing

The Splasher splasher is a common thing. He does what has been done by many people. He splashed splasher graffiti. The men in the movie who paint over the graffiti are splasher splasher splashers etc. They cover up graffiti many times upon layer and layer. I just thought it was funny that these people are similar in the way they cover graffiti. Now back to the movie we watched today. The goal of the graffiti artist is to leave there mark. And the crew cleaning up is still leaving there mark for the artist. They are changing it to a rectangle but it is still there disturbing the landscape. The crew will never ever get the wall to look proper again and this is the goal of the artist. Isn’t the painting just adding to the problem, making more clean canvas. That’s how I see it. Also it makes the city look even worse than if they kept the art. I thought the movie was completely hilarious the way they used the paint and had the different colors that did not match at all. I think it would look better if it was all the same color. I would like to paint a bow on all of the rectangles to make then look like presents. I think that would be a good project for the city of Portland.

youtube audio

This sound is a sound you hear everyday. Or at least most people hear this everyday. What could it be? Please take the poll to the right and vote on what the sound could be?

I’m hoping that the problem will fix and everyone can take my poll.

Here is my audio. I intended to have a poll next to this audio blog. However the audio at archive was giving me problems. Also the poll for blogger is giving me a hard time also. So i decided to just do a video to youtube. I intended to have the poll asking what you all thought the sound was. Computers are my enemy.

Anyway I don’t want to say what the sound is but I’m sure you can guess. It is something that we all listen to everyday and never notice. We only notice if the sound is irregular or broken. The sound is a sound that puts many to sleep when they are young. It is warm and multiple colors.

Go to a river.
Tape the noise under the water of the fish.
All night long on the longest day of the year
Bury it under the river.

So I was bored. I decided to try to do some of Yoko’s impossible poems. I tried a few. The first was to hear a clock and keep the time going second by second in my head. I did it for about one minute. After that I was off beat. I cannon see how this is possible to do all night. Another one I tried was to count all the stars in the sky. Now this is even more impossible than the last. First of all it is so hard to count all of those stars. Second you lose track of which ones you counted. And finally if you do get to the end the stars will have moved because of the earth’s rotation.
I think she makes these impossible things to challenge people and there minds, how they see the world. I think she writes these things to show how people should slow down, enjoy, listen, think and be a part of the earth. Possibly she has a sort of Buddhist outlook. Just a thought.

more novels in three lines

The minister of a school could face criminal charges for killing 30 people and injuring many more, children are to be believed to be buried under the rubble of a concrete building that collapsed. He used bare hands to put the bleeding children’s bodies under the seven story building.
Everett herald

The Mexican army announced that it found the largest cache of guns in the history of the Mexican army; they found 540 rifles, 165 grenades, and 30 sticks of tnt. They were seized in McAllen Texas.
Everett herald

Obama’s aunt intends to fight the US. She is fleeing her apartment and is on the lan. She was ordered to leave the country in 2004. Obama says obey the Law and that auntie Onyango needs to leave the country.
Everett herald

The los Angeles city council moves to stop building the elephant enclosure. Bob barker supports the elephant enclosure saying the zoo is the equivalent of guantanamo bay. He wants to remove the elephants at all costs even if it means moving it to his house.
Seattle times

My try at novels in three lines

Jobless rate jumped to a 14-year high of 6.5% in October, buttressing warnings that rival the worst of World War II.

The German sports-car maker Porsche said Friday that its pretax profit in the fiscal year was about $10.9 billion. Eighty percent of that came not from making cars but from sophisticated instruments.

When Joe showed the celebrity look alike it reminded me of a website my friends showed me a few years ago. It was back when PIMPS were really cool and having pimp cups was the thing to have. Well here is a website where you put your name in it and it gives you your pimp name. My pimp name is Macktastic Steven Loco. It’s funny so I decided to put in some everyday things and words. Here are the outcomes. I put in television (Devious Honey television Luthor) spoon (Golden Brown spoon Beautiful) carpet floor (D. Magical carpet Jazz) funny things like that. Using websites not how they were intended to be used. http://www.playerappreciate.com/pimphandle.asp here is the site if you want to check it out.

Kit Bakke Author of the book Miss Alcott’s e-mail was the speaker. She was a Vietnam War activist of the most extreme kind. She had a FBI file 400 pgs thick, lived in the “underground” for 2 years. She took part in secret negotiations with the Viakong and North Koreans to stop the war. Listening to her talk about the activism and the war made me want to read her book. Her life is so interesting. Her book is about her life and the author of Little Women life. Her life and Louisa May Alcott lives are similar. They were both activists, fighting for different things but both fighting. At first it was hard to follow what she was saying because another class at UW was learning all about the historical aspect of this era. After a while I caught onto what she was talking about.
At first she talked about the writing process and the guidelines, things to do and don’t, you should follow. The reading was very insightful. I’m not too familiar with the Vietnam War and late 1800’s. I would like to learn more about the 60’s and 70’s. I know the surface details about the war but nothing about what really happened in the streets or the protests. Her book is mainly the protests and the riots. She relates the things she experienced with Miss Alcott in a sort of time warp. She is emailing Miss Alcott things that have happened since her time. I will hopefully read this book in the future.