Hi David Great article http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Teen/13-teen-story nice slant
Have you ever thought about where some graffiti artists eventually could end up, career wise, and what sort of opportunities are open to them,
Check out this guy http://www.ideapete.com/Hundertwasser.html and what a name ( Freedom ( country ) hundred waters ). He started out making simple graffiti designs around windows ( for which he was put in jail ) then made steel and wood plates to make the designs semi permanent fixtures, then he extended his work to cover the whole building and the rest is history. Look what he did with this industrial waste recovery plant its incredible and on the Danube no less, then multi denominational churches, hotels and other fantastic stuff . ( You can do pre design concept work with virtual architecture in school ( software is free ) Think of most of the terrible industrial box industrial designs ( Intel Rio Rancho - The Eldorado hotel - Your School Yuck ) that surround us
Then you have Graffiti as a math model ( right brain ) in relationship to fractals and I am sure that my dear friend Jonathan Wolfe http://www.fractalfoundation.org/jwolfe.shtm would love to bend your ears on that subject ( think ever changing fractal graffiti projected on the sides of buildings changing with the seasons or in the sky with lasers - surprise competitions with sponsors ) The simple fact is that a huge amount of your fellow students relate to the world in right brain concepts and thats why left brain linear doesn't make much sense to them and its shows in their concept graffiti design.
Then you have graffiti projects that can be turned in to web movies http://www.blublu.org/ this is a great demonstration of combination of low tech ( Graffiti ) with high tech ( web )
Then again you could start a funding project for the schools ( or yourself ) with moving graffiti http://yadayadanyc.blogspot.com/2008/04/moving-graffiti.html
Last but not least the premier worlds graffiti artist http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html who's work now goes in excess of six figure $ ( My favorite piece is the anarchist flower thrower )
Maybe you should put together a whole display of this stuff at one of the Friam complexes call it /" Graffiti the next high tech frontier "/ ( using $$$$ as you center design " ) , you would pack them in and give lots of your friends HOPE ( Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the guy to talk to )
Just as a fun closure I showed the electronic page that your article appears on in the SFNM and asked all to rate the graphics ( There are 5 including the header ) The graffiti shot won by a mile ( I use addblocker and that must give Ginny fits )
Yes I know there are bad uses of graffiti but personally I think it is a huge tsunami of creativity waiting to be unleashed and we can drown in it or surf the big one
Agh so much fun so little time and the world is your oyster ( painted or not )
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