Side-by-side on Greene you’ll find two cleverly rough-edged quotes, one used for good and the other evil. The first is fantastic street art paying homage to classic Tom Waits. The second features a similarly bar-savvy quote from Jean Cocteau, repurposed to sell fancy knickers. Far away, so close. I imagine Tom pleased and Jean contemplating undead vengeance.
Before Tom gets too happy, though, he might have a closer look at the piano. See the web address scribbled there? It points to some random guy’s photoblog. Are folks seriously tagging prominent street art with URLs, hoping to drive traffic? Of course, some of the best street art layers what went before or culture jams, but when you’re scribbling unrelated shit just to get hits, it starts to feel nasty. If it’s possible to have graffiti spam, this is it.
Hell, if you pick the right place to scribble your URL, photobloggers are going to multiply your effort by loading flickr with tons of images that inadvertently feature that address. The rule, then, is to find hot graf and spam it early and often? This could get gross like Sony. Now I feel dirty.
The last gutter dredging in Soho turned up a bit of Ass Kissing.
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