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http://www.RaggedEdgePress.com/ Michael --- Roger Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think anyone's mentioned the Sticker Dude > yet. > > Haven't got his Earl but Michael might have. > > Must rush, off to the matinee of > A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum > > Harry Verdirchy > > It's a blog! http://rogerstevens.blogspot.com > > Buy a book http://www.rabbitpress.com > > Visit The Poetry Zone > http://www.poetryzone.co.uk > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Kathy Forer > Sent: 28 September 2004 03:56 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FLUXLIST: Fwd: Stickers > > Now this seems incestuous, forwarding email from one > list to another, > but this one is timely. Urban stickers. > > Begin forwarded message: > =============== > Download, Peel and Stick, and All the World's a > Gallery > > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/arts/design/26STOR.html > > web ref -----> http://www.urbanmedium.com > > By SAMANTHA STOREY > > Correction Appended > > TWO years ago, a sticker depicting Che Guevara as a > "Star Wars"-style > storm trooper began cropping > up around Los Angeles, pasted to the backs of > mailboxes and street > signs. Inspired partly by the > popular duotone Che portrait marketed on T-shirts > and posters, the > image seemed an amalgam of two > of the most iconic images of the last half-century. > > The sticker's creators, Derek Fridman and Heather > Alexander, who run > the site www.urbanmedium.com, > initially intended the character, called Chetrooper, > as "a commentary > about how trendy/pop the > whole Che concept was," Mr. Fridman said by e-mail. > "So many people > were wearing his image on a > T-shirt without really knowing who he was and what > he did." They posted > it on the Web for > downloading and passed the stickers out at clubs. > > Using military colors, they went on to create a > multi-hued Chetrooper > series styled after Andy > Warhol's silk-screen "Marilyn" paintings. Soon they > were receiving > e-mail messages from people in > Japan and Australia who had spotted Chetrooper on > telephone poles in > Kyoto or Melbourne. A > phenomenon was born. "Once we started pasting and > sticking the image," > Mr. Fridman said, "it took > on a life of its own." > > Inspired by graffiti, posters and the communal > culture of the Web, > stickers are gaining wide > attention as an artistic phenomenon, academics and > practitioners say. > Hand-drawn, stenciled or > screen-printed, the images float on the Internet, > available for > downloading, printing and pasting > in ways that the creators could only have imagined. > And as they make > their way around the globe, > from one e-mail in-box to the next, one cultural > context to another, > their meaning tends to morph. > > Now that broadband users can send large graphics > files in an instant, > stickers are a very > fast-moving medium. A sticker can be created Monday > morning in New > York, e-mailed to a stranger in > Paris and affixed to the back of a trash receptacle > on the > Champs-�lys�es in the early afternoon. > > "It works particularly well in walking cities," said > Alice Twemlow, who > organizes shows about > visual culture as program director at the American > Institute of Graphic > Arts. "Walking brings > intimate encounters with the stickers that could not > be experienced > while driving. There is also > an immediacy with which people can respond." > > Scott Rettberg, a scholar in new media, attributes > the resurgence of > stickers to low-cost inkjet > printers and "the ubiquity of the global network." > "Cheap printers give > artists the ability to > mass-produce work intended for public consumption," > he said, "and > stickers are easier to place > than traditional graffiti." > > Many sticker artists cite the mainstreaming of > skateboard culture as a > turning point in their > movement. "Kids want to have cool high-quality > stickers, especially > more subversive ones from > underground artists," said Zarathustra James, who > runs the sticker site > www.bomit.com. "They'll > actually fistfight for free stickers at skate > demos." > > Initially skateboarders used them to decorate the > bottoms of their > skate decks, but eventually > they made their way onto more visible urban > signposts. "If there is a > graffiti tag or sticker or > stencil on that electrical box/pole/sign, it looks > more aesthetically > pleasing than the plain > box," Mr. James said by e-mail. "And it makes you > think." > > Because the stickers are exposed to the elements as > well as to > sanitation crews, Web sites have > sprung up with the goal of simply documenting a > transient art form. In > 2002, Marc and Sara > Schiller of Manhattan founded > www.woostercollective.com, a site > dedicated to street art. > > "There was a real great need for artists who are > putting art on the > street to connect with each > other," Ms. Schiller said. "The site offers everyone > the ability to > cross continents, ages, > generations." > > Many sticker artists trace the origins of the > current movement to > Shepard Fairey, who created a > sticker of Andre the Giant, the professional > wrestling star, in the > early 1990's and posted it at > the Web site www.obeygiant.com. Soon he was shipping > the stickers to > people all over the world. > What began as a prank to market something that had > no meaning led many > people to rethink the > potential of such images. > > Colby Woodland, who exhibits street art at > www.20mg.com, describes > stickering as a form of "visual > narcotics." But whereas "the media's bombardment of > images is intended > to make you feel and act a > certain way," he said, "stickering can confront the > viewer in > situations when they least expect > it." Most of his stickers are subversive in that > they seek to create an > awareness of the dulling > effect that the conventional mass media have on the > senses. > > Paul Burgess of Brighton, England, who photographs > stickers on the > street and posts them at > www.streetstickers.co.uk, agreed that the art could > be visually > addictive. "You develop a kind of > `sticker sense,' " he said, "and you spot more and > more." > > A picture caption on Page 34 of Arts & Leisure today > with an article > about stickers as an art form > reverses the names of two examples. The one at top > left is "Bullseye"; > the one at its right is > "Salesman." Two credits are also reversed. The > picture at the top left > is by Marc and Sara > Schiller; the one at the bottom left is by Jeff > Sharman. > > ===== > > > > > > > ===== It's another blog! http://flobberlob.blogspot.com/ ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
