Tagging is the visual equivalent dog pissing on territory. It’s a way for a self-centered brat to say “look at ME!”.
Barack Obama knowingly hired such a crook (who illegally posted Bushitler stickers publicly) to design and illegally post his “HOPE”-”CHANGE” posters.
Liberals love it.
Tagging is something done on property you don’t own. It’s like licking your finger and touching food on an open tray saying “mine”, “mine”, “mine”.
Tagging a$$holes get angry when someone else tags near or over their work.
The local museums feed this vanity by selling a “how to” book of how to illegally wheatpost ‘art’ around town (and not get caught).
The MFAH showed this movie and the locally made followup/knockoff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_Through_the_Gift_Shop
http://www.29-95.com/time-suck/story/stick-em-returns-houston-screens
The perp even had this group liked on his facebook page.
There is even local recognition in Village Voice’s local publication:
http://www.houstonpress.com/bestof/2011/award/best-wheat-paste-and-10-poster-artist-2674702/
You encourage these douchebags and they will do it for rep and street cred.
Just as “flash mobs” are not the harmless prank that some think they are. It’s way to quickly mobilize a diversion or patsies in a protest or riot.
Ironic, isn't it?
I like to imagine that a .22 bullet in a kidney would slow them down a bit.
I refuse to use the word “tagging” when related to this. I say “graffiti vandalism” or something equivalent. Same as calling a sodomite “gay.” I won’t do it.