Guest serpent of the light Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 i'm not sure which forum to throw this in so next week i have to give a 10-15 minute presentation about graffiti from an anthropological viewpoint. obviously i've got my key points based in: history, tools, and general culture. the history aspect i've got covered, tools will be easy, but the culture aspect is a little hazey. what do you guys think i ought to include in this? also, does anybody know anything about roman graffiti or any shit before the 60's. any good links on any aspect will be appreciated. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeff123456 Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 Originally posted by serpent of the light i'm not sure which forum to throw this in so next week i have to give a 10-15 minute presentation about graffiti from an anthropological viewpoint. obviously i've got my key points based in: history, tools, and general culture. the history aspect i've got covered, tools will be easy, but the culture aspect is a little hazey. what do you guys think i ought to include in this? also, does anybody know anything about roman graffiti or any shit before the 60's. any good links on any aspect will be appreciated. thanks lol i dont know why ppl always think that there was roman graffiti.. there was NO roman graffiti... they didnt have markers or spray paint cans... do u think they ran around with a chizle and a hammer and carved there tags on the wall and then when they got caught they would get there hands cut off..lol.. i dont think so i did a 2 year study or rome and greece and all of that area and there was no talk about graffiti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Mulder Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 umm they had oil paint didn't they? and when we study modern history during the 1970-80's there was no mention of graffiti in my history class either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest serpent of the light Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 http://www.moorstation.org/typoasis/tbp/to...x/eng/roman.htm (scroll downwards) i found a page earlier with more info about it, but i can't find it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest serpent of the light Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 http://www.orbilat.com/Proto-Romance/Vulga...i_Graffiti.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest -MOE LESTER- Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 Re: Re: help a poor boy out, anthropology project Originally posted by jeff123456 do u think they ran around with a chizle and a hammer and carved there tags on the wall and then when they got caught they would get there hands cut off..lol.. i dont think so hahahaha i can imagine a bunch of teenage romans, hiding graffiti tools and shit in their togas running around the city...ahahhahaah thats fuckin funny as hell.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WITS Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 Roman Graffiti... Originally posted by jeff123456 lol i dont know why ppl always think that there was roman graffiti.. there was NO roman graffiti... they didnt have markers or spray paint cans... do u think they ran around with a chizle and a hammer and carved there tags on the wall and then when they got caught they would get there hands cut off..lol.. i dont think so i did a 2 year study or rome and greece and all of that area and there was no talk about graffiti I don't know what you were studying for 2 years but it obviously left out some info.. Romans did do graffiti. For a fact they did. Where do you think the word graffiti comes from?? Graffito is Latin. Their graffiti wasn't like some little dudes running around tagging like "Tacitus Roman Crew" or some shit like that. Their graffiti was mostly political and they got paid to do it! They'd go around with,yes.. hammers and chisels and etch that shit into walls around the towns. They'd put up all kinds of shit dissing the other candidates for whatever they were running for. And they'd put up stuff saying how their guy was good etc.. I don't know if they did anything with paint.. I'm sure they did. It makes sense. People also put up jokes and other stuff like you might find in a bathroom or something. I know a couple of sites about other graffiti I will be back to post them. Gotta find them again. No Roman graffiti.Hah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WITS Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 http://www.rooke.pp.se/rooketime26.html http://www.christa.coe.ohio-state.edu/keis....4/graffiti.htm http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news170.htm http://www.holymtn.com/SriLanka/lionrock.htm http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHISTORY/GRAFFITI.HTM http://www.youthoutlook.org/stories/1996/1....californi.html http://users.aol.com/archive1/cat.html I don't know if any of this will help you out but some of it is interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest serpent of the light Posted May 20, 2002 Share Posted May 20, 2002 yeah man, thanks a lot. rather helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest -MOE LESTER- Posted May 20, 2002 Share Posted May 20, 2002 they didnt even have paint back then...it was all etch and maybe some red dye made from shit like goats blood, juices, burnt shit, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jeff123456 Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 go to art crimes they have tons of info about graffiti, how it started, the history of it.. etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest serpent of the light Posted May 26, 2002 Share Posted May 26, 2002 thanks WITS, my presentation went wonderfully. it was supposed to be 10-15 minutes, but my teacher was really really into it and kept asking questions and i was in front of the class for 35 minutes talking about everything i know about graffiti. and after class she asked if we could talk another time about it, she wants to learn how, haha. she's one of those crazy teachers who i think is drunk half of the time during class. but yeah, thanks for the help on the ancient aspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest whoami Posted May 26, 2002 Share Posted May 26, 2002 Originally posted by serpent of the light thanks WITS, my presentation went wonderfully. it was supposed to be 10-15 minutes, but my teacher was really really into it and kept asking questions and i was in front of the class for 35 minutes talking about everything i know about graffiti. and after class she asked if we could talk another time about it, she wants to learn how, haha. she's one of those crazy teachers who i think is drunk half of the time during class. but yeah, thanks for the help on the ancient aspect. if shes hot bang her.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallix Posted May 27, 2002 Share Posted May 27, 2002 sounds like she wants you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest serpent of the light Posted May 27, 2002 Share Posted May 27, 2002 dude, she's 57 and retiring this year... that's just atrocious, she was however a playboy bunny back in the day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted May 27, 2002 Share Posted May 27, 2002 well graffiti is prolly from a cultural point of veiw like a sect isnt it? in that its exclusive and you have to be in it to know what its all about. also you will prolly have to meet another person that does graffiti. im sure when every one started there was some one, no matter what relation to you or whatever they influenced you in a way. graffiti is nowa days is like an exclusive country club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_b0b Posted May 27, 2002 Share Posted May 27, 2002 Originally posted by crackatinnie [bgraffiti is nowa days is like an exclusive country club. [/b] You mean it's full of white middle class types, like a country club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricitySucks Posted May 27, 2002 Share Posted May 27, 2002 to serpent of the light: everyone now knows you write. i did a little report or whatever on graffiti back in grade school, then everyone knew my name. after that, theyd come into school the next day and be like "HEY! I saw your stuff on the side of my dads building!!!" that changed my way of telling people i write. whether its a report or whatever, people get the assumption that your a little graffiti tagger. ...or maybe not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricitySucks Posted May 27, 2002 Share Posted May 27, 2002 ^^^^horray for my 300th post^^^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WITS Posted May 28, 2002 Share Posted May 28, 2002 Originally posted by serpent of the light thanks WITS, my presentation went wonderfully. Always glad to help out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest serpent of the light Posted May 28, 2002 Share Posted May 28, 2002 Originally posted by ElectricitySucks to serpent of the light: everyone now knows you write. i did a little report or whatever on graffiti back in grade school, then everyone knew my name. after that, theyd come into school the next day and be like "HEY! I saw your stuff on the side of my dads building!!!" that changed my way of telling people i write. whether its a report or whatever, people get the assumption that your a little graffiti tagger. ...or maybe not. i knew that when i chose graff as my topic, but thats a risk i was willing to take. i'm out of this school in 3 days, and nobody knows my what i write, its not worrying me in the slightest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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