Buket in the Slammer

My favorite kind of graffiti is the kind that makes a political statement, not a territorial one. I guess that could launch into a debate about public and private spaces, which I'm only half-way interested in engaging in, but mostly... I think defacing public spaces should have a greater purpose, like the tags in this classic video:



In my Tivo cram session tonight, I heard a quick snippet about a "prominent LA tagger" being arrested for a boatload of stuff he did around LA and posted video of on youtube.

So, what does this mean for the rest of the "street artists" out there. Is this the reason for the hustle to get off the streets and into the galleries. I know that when someone has jacked up the GR store with an ugly tag, paste-up or stencil, I'm always on the hunt to find out who the person is - typically because the work is lame, and doesn't deserve to grace even our outer walls. It's ridiculously easy to find out who a person is with all the shameless self-promotion the internet allows for nowadays. I guess that's the point for these kids. Now it's coming back to bite them in their baggy pants covered asses. These are black days.

Anyhow, maybe I should have everyone's backs and stop adding incriminating tags (whoa... double entendre!) to my friend's pics on my Flickr....