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I must have walked by this wall hundreds of times when I lived in the Mission in the early 2000s, but I rarely took photos of it. My focus at the time was more on graffiti than street art, it was far too detailed for the internet of the day (Graffiti Archaeology had a maximum [ ]
Here’s something new! A few years ago (checks notes… uh, 9 years ago!) I started working on some different ways of visualizing the changes on the walls I’ve documented for this project. Some of the walls are very long, and fit dozens of burners end to end. If you stitch together a slice for each [ ]
Back in 2002, when Graffiti Archaeology was still just an idea and a shoebox full of photos, I didn t know how the project would take shape. I was intent on capturing time, and change, and the work on the walls, but beyond that, anything was possible. We considered building it in 3D: image-based modeling research [ ]
Last weekend I got to attend the opening reception of a fantastic new exhibition put up by San Francisco s Letterform Archive: Subscription to Mischief features a beautifully curated collection of photos, correspondence, and other ephemera from the dawn of graffiti zines in the 1990 s. It s an amazing window into the pre-internet days when zines like [ ]
Thanks to the brilliant and benevolent creators of Ruffle.rs (the Rust-based Flash emulator), Graffiti Archaeology is now up and running again! And, for the first time ever, it even works on iOS (although be warned, the UI was not designed to be operated with big thumbs on a tiny touchscreen, so it may not be [ ]
On December 31, 2020, Adobe officially stopped supporting the Flash Player, and for the first time (ahem, second time) since we launched in 2002, Graffiti Archaeology went dark. But the internet is proving to be full of surprises. A community of kindly Rust developers have created a Flash emulator called Ruffle, designed to just work [ ]
UK-based stencil artist Mobstr noticed something odd about the way a wall in his neighborhood got buffed, so he decided to do a little psychological experiment, with hilarious results. I went ahead and grafarc-ized it into an animated gif.
Sites of Respect from Cameron McAuliffe on Vimeo. Check out this video by human geographer Cameron McAuliffe from Sydney, Australia: Sites of Respect: Legal Graffiti Walls and the Moral Geographies of Young People. He spent 28 weeks photographing a set of seven legal walls in the Parramatta neighborhood of Sydney, tracking their changes on a [ ]
What would you do with a can of spraypaint that s invisible by day, but glows under black light? Check out Bilal Ghalib s Glowffiti project for details. (via Golan Levin.)
The slowly-unfolding tragedy in Queens just took a sudden turn for the worse. In a move worthy of a fantasy villain, the owner of the building known as 5 Pointz has ordered decades of artwork buffed overnight. Read more about it in the New York Times or the Guardian.