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I love the first one here ... how not to buff.

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Funny ... fucking up public bathrooms seems to be a world-wide semi-acceptable activity, judging from the photos in this thread.

 

Anyone ever have someone walk in on them while tagging a bathroom and actually say something or try to stop you? I usually keep a good ear for the door. Only time I got really caught was another writer at some Burger King or some place like that.

 

Sometimes I feel a little guilty hitting up a clean bathroom. Yes, I am a pussy.

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You think these were ever kept clean, and the owners just gave up? Or did they basically start this way from day two (day one was probably still clean) ... Seems like it would take a while unless patrons were very determined. Then again, I have seen just-painted bathrooms fucked up within hours.

 

Always have a marker ready.

 

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MARK FEREM has made a career out of crawling around urinals -- and he's not a janitor. Inspired by a Rainer Maria Rilke quote ("For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror") scrawled on the bathroom wall of a Houston dive bar, the native Angeleno began a small photo essay on the subject. Thirteen years later, his obsession with latrinalia has led to dozens of trips around the country and a 160-page photo book on the subject, "Bathroom Graffiti" (2007, Mark Batty).

 

Where tagging and street graffiti obsess over marking territory and artistic self-aggrandizement, the "bathroom blogosphere," as Ferem calls it, is devoted to a more interactive form of self-expression. "I used to think bathroom graffiti was invisible, and I never really paid attention to it. But seeing that

got me more interested in it as a ritual. Why is it that people use this medium to acknowledge these moments in their lives?" Ferem says.

 

Christie Scott, one of the organizers of now-defunct punk club Il Corral, has an idea: "It's a pure democracy. It's anonymous. It's complete expression with no censorship. You have the same power as anyone else who can mark a wall." During Il Corral's reign, graffiti and stickers dotted the entire club, but the nexus was in the bathroom and adjacent hallway, where patrons first began marking the vivid orange walls as they waited in line to use the club's only toilet.

 

It was one of Ferem's favorite haunts. For the best of latrinalia, he recommends cafes Insomnia and Karma Coffeehouse, the Hollywood outpost of Thai restaurant Toi, Echo Park dive bar Little Joy and another all-ages club, the Smell. Though he hasn't noticed a distinct difference in graffiti varietals from city to city, the sheer quantity of L.A.'s bathroom graffiti continues to awe him. The nastiest bathroom in L.A.? That distinction belongs to Al's Bar, circa 1995. "The men's bathroom was crushed with graffiti, layer upon layer. It was like a time capsule," Ferem says with palpable regret.

 

Scott, whose years at Il Corral turned her into a de facto curator of latrinalia, will celebrate the art form at the launch of experimental art and performance space Zero Point. Guests will, of course, be welcome to mark up the bathroom walls. But a curated exhibit of Ferem's photos of bathroom graffiti, printed, framed and under glass, will also hang in a gallery area. "Maybe next time when someone goes into a bathroom," Ferem says, "they'll perceive it in a different way."

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Funny ... fucking up public bathrooms seems to be a world-wide semi-acceptable activity, judging from the photos in this thread.

 

Anyone ever have someone walk in on them while tagging a bathroom and actually say something or try to stop you? I usually keep a good ear for the door. Only time I got really caught was another writer at some Burger King or some place like that.

 

Sometimes I feel a little guilty hitting up a clean bathroom. Yes, I am a pussy.

 

i usually prop the door with my foot while hittin tags in bathrooms like that....that way anyone walking in willl have to push hard on the door while i quickly put the marker away and act like i was walking out while newjack is walkin in...

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You guys ever hit up the bathroom where you work? I work at a small retail store where my manager almost caught me so I'm a little cautious. I also walked in on some temp employees who were hitting up a bunch of gang graffiti (fucked it up in short time) while one was pissing in the soap dispenser. They were brought in to help with inventory ... not the best temps ...

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