So - the mish planted the graf acceptance seed and now it's up to you.
The whole point to this exercise was to wipe out the wak tagging and put up graffiti pieces.
Note the difference?
A distinction between Graffiti Pieces and tagging. That's what the advocates are trying to do - get the public to see them as separate. I even overheard a few writers commenting that tagging was what gave graf a bad name and ruined it for everyone.
We all know that most writers start off with tagging, and that tags are part of graf and have their place on role calls, but it's the weak-as, offyaface or bored, can't-get-noticed-any-other-way tags that are causing the grief.
The wall owner doesn't mind you doing pieces, as long as they don't go above the window line. And most of the writers who got up over the weekend fully expect their pieces to be capped but that's ok too - as long as they're capped by pieces. Man - use your tag as a signature to something of substance - that's what most artists do.
I'm not nominating myself the Wall Police, I'm just telling you what's been passed on to me. Bottom line is if you spend time doing pieces no matter how good or trainerwheels you are (and there's no excuse for not taking your time if the wall is legal - that's what your black book's for isn't it?), there's more chance that we'll be welcomed, even encouraged to have our wicked way with these walls in the future and respect for those pieces is the only way Lefties will ditch the label Toy Alley.
You might not know this but we were this close to losing these walls a few months ago - they were almost going to close off the alley to the general public indefinitely.
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