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Vincent Ryan & Christian Freeman: Eye of the Tagger

5/22/2014

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Feel the City Breathing - Eye of the Tagger

What gives a city its power? What makes New York City the ‘spot’ to be in terms of metropolitan areas? What does the tagger SKINS mean when he writes “feel the city breathing”? 

The answers to these questions are all based on a beauty intangible; the wonder of New York City and the ambiance that cascades onto surrounding areas lies in the expression the people in the city make clear to others. Be the expression art, design work, physical appearance, music, obvious or subtle, modern or historical, each contribution is a significant part of the experience of the city. Each person carries their own individual perspective on the city’s expression, but also is important to recognize that tangible expression in New York means to anonymously join a nameless power.

Our video seeks to provide for the viewer the experience of our perspective (the eye of a tagger) of New York City, while emphasizing the fact that any expression in the city, while it may be traced back to a certain person, firm, or group, is essentially just a cog in a seamlessly complex system of expression. Graffiti is merely a channel with which a person can join the force of New York City.

You may notice that our video doesn’t specifically label sites. Place in our video is not a priority, in fact, the ubiquity of graffiti in the video only strengthens the power of the city it embodies (although the pictures shown are grouped by their location).

music: M83 - Midnight City 
The Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
For a list of the sites we visited, see file below
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4 Comments
Pam
5/22/2014 10:49:29 am

title = win.

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mh
5/23/2014 06:56:49 am

Great topic of exploration! I would be careful with the music, which tends to be distracting and not particularly related to the images. The film is FAR TOO LONG! It's harder to edit something into a tight 90 seconds rather than include every shot you have that addresses the initial topic. As mentioned with others, the shift form vertically-framed to images and horizontally-framed images is really distracting: this would not occur in a film.

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mh
5/23/2014 07:00:00 am

...by music I meant the M83 piece.

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kate
5/24/2014 03:27:40 am

it would've been cool to track down some banksy pieces scattered across the city from the time he spent in nyc recently!

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