photos courtesy of ancient history (above an below) top courtesy of the Watchdog
I was surprised to find an online critique basically giving praise to a graffiti art campaign in which said "artist" chose to use "buff marks" for fill ins for skull characters i will now dub "BuffSkulz". The praise (and decent photo documentation) seemed to be coming from one of the site's creators and administrators, a man who shall remain anonymous but i will refer to as "the Watchdog" in my attempt to recreate the story i see unfolding in our very own home city.
The Watchdog dreamt up a website to monitor issues around town and repair them. One of the main issues to be monitored, triangulated, and in some cases policed (as well as just being buffed) was graffiti. The Watchdog took much of this to a personal level, he sought out the writers himself, and when he got in over his head he brought in the law. The writers didn't like this and the anti got upped and it turns out that the buffers sucked at their job and started to make a bigger mess and spend alot of the city's money, and the police could only be bothered so much because we live in a city with an increasing crime and murder rate. The watcher began to take pictures to document said crimes; and somehow.... he began to embrace an artform he once felt compelled to "rat out" the creators of. A commentary emerged from the confused minds and from other artists alike who were trying to grasp this new revolutionary form of street art..... and now you can watch as this drama unfolds.
