Showing papers on "Graffiti published in 1994"

Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture

Abstract: From the Publisher: Flame Wars, in comp-slang, are vitriolic on-line exchanges. Often they are conducted publicly, in discussion groups clustered under thematic headings on electronic bulletin boards. Like public bathroom graffiti, their authors are sometimes anonymous, often pseudonymous, and almost always strangers.

Laser system for removal of graffiti

Abstract: A laser system for the removal of graffiti from a retro-reflective highway sign or other surface includes a mobile crane adapted to support a laser scanner and an ablating laser under the control of a computer. An optical sensor and target indicator cooperate to function as a target acquisition device for identifying portions of a highway sign covered with graffiti. Responsive to the target acquisition device, the computer controls the laser scanner and laser to automatically ablate the graffiti covered portions of the highway sign to remove the graffiti. If needed, any remaining graffiti is manually brushed away and the highway sign is polished to restore the retro-reflective properties.

The writing's on the wall

Abstract: Graffiti can be a marker of territory. Youthful grafffiti writers in Auckland have adopted ‘tagging’, a form of graffiti writing linked to the Americanisation of popular culture in New Zealand. Regularities in the presence of ‘tags’ are documented through field observation in suburban and central city locations and related to the daily activities of the taggers. Self-proclamation, not the marking out of turf appears to underlie the territorial dimensions of graffiti in Auckland's urban space.

Graffiti and film school culture: displaying alienation

Abstract: Graffiti created by students in “film school” are examined as an organizational document from a cultural and critical‐cultural perspective. The graffiti serve as a critical discourse that reflects and creates meanings related to the sectional interests of film students. In so doing, graffiti create and reflect an ideology that is positioned against the ideology of other sectional interests, both organizational and industrial. The study reviews a variety of themes related to film students’ alienation and the discourse that counters the sources of that alienation. Themes include editing as a disliked and avoided activity, isolation, lack of artistic control, and career filters. The humorous communicative style of graffiti creates tension among cultural meanings that mediates between alienation and liberation.

Creolizing for Survival in the City

Abstract: world. To regain control over the subways, New York mayors Lindsay and later Koch initiated and sustained multi-million dollar campaigns to erase the paintings and arrest the painters. While the passionate and bold murals have vanished from New York's subways, the art form has become a world-wide phenomenon with adherents in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and all major U.S. cities. In New York the original painters, who are mostly male, still call themselves "painters," "aerosol artists," "graffiti artists," or "writers," and the most dedicated of them continue to create their work in public spaces and for art galleries. Since the beginning of their movement in 1971, New York City subway painters have used diverse cultural ideas in their creative processes. Most of the great painters were young (between 12

Of People, Of Places: Sketches from an Economist's Notebook

Abstract: This is a book of academic asides, of reportage from, in, and around the world of research and academia. From Simone de Beauvoir to Joseph Schumpeter, from evolutionary scientists in Abisko (above the arctic Circle) to social choice theorists in Valencia or the Mediterranean, this book is an irreverent traverse over a large canvas. Woven into the fabric of these light essays are observations on economic dilemmas and philosophical conundrums that confront everyone, everday. In addition, there are chapters devoted explicitly to economics. In keeping with the style of the book, these combine arguments with comments on personalities and places as well as constitute a jargon-free introduction to some of the more pressing economic-policy problems of our times. Like his earlier Economic Graffiti (Oxford India Paperbacks), this book of sharp, wry, witty and precisely observed sketches will seem a delight most specially to general readers who don't normally by books by economists.

The Gozo prisons graffiti

Abstract: The tradition of engraving on walls one's name or a distinguishing mark runs through the ages. In the Maltese Islands it dates back to the Tarxien period (25002000 B.C.) and a number of public places exhibit modern graffiti as if to perpetuate this practice. By graffiti we refer to the incision, scribbling or scratching on stone walls of pictures of ships or other symbols, names, dates or the length of time spent in a prison cell. It is interesting to note that graffiti in the Maltese Islands have been found mainly on the interior and exterior walls of churches, walls of prison cells, dungeons, internal yards of the Order's Court of Justice, coastal towers and other similar locations. In places of fortune or in places of misfortune man thought it fit to leave his imprint for posterity.

»Mother help me get a good mark in history«. Ethnological Analysis of Wall Inscriptions in the Church of St Peter and Paul in Osijek (Croatia).

Abstract: The author proposes to analyze messages (prayers) addressed to the Virgin Mary. They are written on the walls of the chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes, which is located in the church of St. Peter and Paul in Osijek (eastern Croatia). The appropriate genre into which these messages can be ranged is discussed and a proposition is reached that they cannot be considered graffiti. In the analysis the author compares them to similar messages found at yet another Croatian church and at a church in Alsace, France. The conclusions are reached regarding the age and gender of the authors, the themes and beneficiaries of the prayers, the appellation of the Virgin, and the relationship that the authors establish with her.

Un nouveau trésor de tétradrachmes athéniens et pseudo-athéniens

Abstract: . — The hoard discussed here was found in the Near East in 1992 and comprises 36 silver tetradrachms. Certain stylistic and technical details as well as the symbols indicate that some at least are pseudo-Athenian. The most remarkable feature is their deliberate marking: 28 had been tested, 9 countermarked and 2 bear graffiti. The hoard was buried probably in the last third of the 4th century.