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I usually avoid buying stickers, but the store had fuzzy bats and I couldn't resist. I got a few sheets and also some mix-tape washi tape. I already had some mix-tape washi tape, but it's got a dark background. I prefer dark backgrounds, but for washi it makes it hard to use in compositions. The while background on this should let it sort of disappear and let the focus be on the design:
I also acquired one more sticker by lifting a slap tag from a street sign:
In some parts of Portland, every sign post and sign back is stickered up. Some people think taking them is ... every type of ism imaginable. I don't, obviously.
Note: slap-tagging is basically doing graffiti using stickers or, like, sort of giant stickers. If you've seen Into the Spiderverse, slap tagging is what Miles Morales is doing at the start.
I want to lift a few more and do a layout with some Portland slap tags, maybe lift some of the incredibly ubiquitous vampire smile ones.
This is only lightly stickered but seeing poles like this is pretty typical:
Sadly a chunk of the Huckleberry Hound / Snugglepuss slap tag is missing.
Slap tagging in Portland had morphed over the years. I am sure that using stickers on poles has always kinda been a thing, but it was huge in Portland due to weed dealing. Before legalization, the various arty stickers marked dealer territory and let people know what strains they could get. When weed was legalized, slap tagging dropped way off... and then came back as purely an art thing. Or, well, an advertising thing. I do NOT miss the Tight Tacos slap tags. Ever since they got an actual store front they've ditched the old logo, but it used to be everywhere. The old logo was explicit. It was a, uh, 'tight taco'
It's kinda funny to me when people don't know that. I don't do drugs. I don't know drugs things very good. But, yeah... back in the day slap tagging was about dealing and *that* was why you didn't touch tags. Dealers took down other dealer's tags, obvs. Being a rando taking tags was getting in the middle of that.
But now slap tagging is just a thing. I don't typically take pictures unless it's an amusing one. There are some that are drawings of Orville Peck that I've shot and I am very fond of the sheer number of [drawing of bible labeled Fake News] slap tags. Also, that large Wednesday Adams I shot a while back was a four foot tall slap tag. I should make a separate Slap tag folder and get more some specific pictures.
Oh, and also, this picture that I took not too long ago?
Those are all slap tag designs that are very, very common. It's basically a mural of ubiquitous Portland tags, or variations on them.
I also acquired one more sticker by lifting a slap tag from a street sign:
In some parts of Portland, every sign post and sign back is stickered up. Some people think taking them is ... every type of ism imaginable. I don't, obviously.
Note: slap-tagging is basically doing graffiti using stickers or, like, sort of giant stickers. If you've seen Into the Spiderverse, slap tagging is what Miles Morales is doing at the start.
I want to lift a few more and do a layout with some Portland slap tags, maybe lift some of the incredibly ubiquitous vampire smile ones.
This is only lightly stickered but seeing poles like this is pretty typical:
Sadly a chunk of the Huckleberry Hound / Snugglepuss slap tag is missing.
Slap tagging in Portland had morphed over the years. I am sure that using stickers on poles has always kinda been a thing, but it was huge in Portland due to weed dealing. Before legalization, the various arty stickers marked dealer territory and let people know what strains they could get. When weed was legalized, slap tagging dropped way off... and then came back as purely an art thing. Or, well, an advertising thing. I do NOT miss the Tight Tacos slap tags. Ever since they got an actual store front they've ditched the old logo, but it used to be everywhere. The old logo was explicit. It was a, uh, 'tight taco'
It's kinda funny to me when people don't know that. I don't do drugs. I don't know drugs things very good. But, yeah... back in the day slap tagging was about dealing and *that* was why you didn't touch tags. Dealers took down other dealer's tags, obvs. Being a rando taking tags was getting in the middle of that.
But now slap tagging is just a thing. I don't typically take pictures unless it's an amusing one. There are some that are drawings of Orville Peck that I've shot and I am very fond of the sheer number of [drawing of bible labeled Fake News] slap tags. Also, that large Wednesday Adams I shot a while back was a four foot tall slap tag. I should make a separate Slap tag folder and get more some specific pictures.
Oh, and also, this picture that I took not too long ago?
Those are all slap tag designs that are very, very common. It's basically a mural of ubiquitous Portland tags, or variations on them.
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Date: 2022-07-17 01:36 am (UTC)From:Slap tagging isn't nearly AS big a thing here, though on our little road trip a lot of poles at rest areas were stickered completely. (Unfortunately, a lot of them in Utah were less art or indie advertising and more like... infowars-branded shit. So... Gross.) I see it periodically here, though more in Boulder and in parts of Denver. Not so much in suburbia.
Tbh, I don't really get why taking an interesting one would be a problem, though I'm not surprised other people think it is. It's an art form that's *intended* to be fairly transient and temporary. Something else will get slapped on top, or the pole will wind up getting replaced, or it will wear off in the weather, etc.
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Date: 2022-07-17 05:00 pm (UTC)From:I haven't see much Infowars here, but I do take down that and explicit drawings of genitalia. Well, now I do. Before Tight Tacos pivoted to being a community restaurant instead of an edgy food cart that logo was so all over everything taking them down seemed pointless.
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Date: 2022-07-19 12:20 am (UTC)From:UGH. Yeah, stuff that's super explicit (or anything that's actively hateful - white supremacist garbage, transphobic shit, etc.) I think is absolutely fair game to cover up or remove.