Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Cornbread (graffiti artist) Darryl McCray (born 1953), better known by his tagging name Cornbread, is an American graffiti writer from Philadelphia. He is widely considered the world's first modern graffiti artist. [1] [2] [3] McCray was raised in Brewerytown, a neighborhood of North Philadelphia. During the late 1960s, he and a group of ...
City agencies removed 5,000 and 8,700 tags in 2019 and 2021, respectively. [ 6] In 2023, Gary Horcher of KIRO-TV said there were approximately 20,000 reports of graffiti in 2021 and wrote, "Seattle has been covered in more graffiti, and more graffiti is being covered up — at a higher cost to taxpayers — than ever before." [ 7]
Metro Transit Assassins. Metro Transit Assassins, also known by the initialism MTA or as Melting Toys Away and Must Take All, [ 1] is a graffiti street artist collective based in Los Angeles, most famous for its half-mile graffiti "MTA" tag along the concrete walls of the Los Angeles River. [ 2]
Tag Team (group) Tag Team is an American hip-hop / pop-rap duo residing in Atlanta, Georgia. They are known almost solely for their 1993 single "Whoomp! (There It Is)", which appeared in numerous advertisements, films, and television series. [ 1][ 2] The duo is made up of Cecil Glenn ( DC, the Brain Supreme) and Steve Gibson ( Steve Rolln ...
Tag (graffiti) Tags are one of the primary forms of graffiti, along with throw ups and pieces. The act of writing a tag is known as tagging. Tags are often thought of as the simplest form of graffiti art, prioritising legibility and flow [ 1] and are the form that most artists start with. [ 2] Tags, perhaps due to their simplicity, are more ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Handstyle or hand style is a term in graffiti culture denoting the unique handwriting or signature / tag (graffiti) of an artist, also known as a writer. [1] The same way that in typography there are different typefaces or fonts, in graffiti there are different handstyles. Similarly to the way a typographer would focus on typefaces, point sizes ...
Daniel Halpin (born 1985), also known as Tox, is a British graffiti writer. He has found fame for adding his tag, always simply the word Tox followed by a number indicating the year, in a very large number of locations across the London Underground network and walls around London and Glasgow. He was convicted of criminal damage in June 2011 [1 ...