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).
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
The Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
For a list of the sites we visited, see file below
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