![]() and into Canada and Mexico.Īcross the Americas, hip-hop kids began to compete for the tagger fame by “Getting up” in the most inaccessible places or the most times. This moving canvas spread the new “tough urban kid opposed to gang banging” life style across the U.S. ![]() Tagging busses, subway trains, and railroad cars got the tagging exposed all over the city, and hopefully across the country. So early on, “going to the heavens” or tagging on high rise structures became important. This tagging and “bombing” was most prized when it was the most visible to the most people. These original dancing graffiti artists and street poets were strongly opposed to gang violence. These murals colorfully depicted a New York, or at least an urban skyline. When hip-hop music became popular in New York, kids stood on corners with boom boxes and did pop lock and break dancing moves in front of murals on brick walls or old cardboard boxes. Does this story sound familiar? That’s because it was depicted in a movie called “TURK #182.” So the story has a happy ending because the city did finally grant the firefighter his retirement. Eventually he drew the attention of a New York Times reporter who tracked him down and wrote an article about the tagger and his fireman brother. He wrote on buildings, street signs, and on the transit subway cars. The fireman’s younger brother tried to draw attention to his plight by writing TAKI #183 everywhere in the city. Over the years he grew depressed and financially hard pressed fighting for his retirement. The New York City authorities did not grant him a medical retirement because he was not properly on duty at the time of the injury. ![]() He was a hero, only problem was that he was also off duty. The Fireman was injured in an emergency situation while rescuing some people from a burning building. This was actually the nickname and badge number of a New York City firefighter. “TAG” stands for Tough Artist Group, and the first recognized tag was TAKI #183. Reading gang writing-the newspaper of the street-is a necessity for gang investigators, but you must use lots of imagination to read most tags.Īnd you can’t blame these Taggers on Los Angeles they were born in New York in the summer of 1970. But in gang graffiti, the gang name or symbol must be clear to others. In Tagging the letter shapes and word spellings can be sacrificed for aesthetics, or the look. Tagging is very different from traditional gang graffiti, or “placas” in Calo gang slang. Perhaps today, I might have been a tagger.Įveryone has seen these colorful crew and individual stylized “tag” signatures on any writable surface in our cities. Today I still sign my drawings with the VIA VAL. I belonged to a group called VIA for Very Important Artists. Read the welcome-and-rules and verification channels on Discord for Verification information.In my Compton High School days, I was on the production art staff specializing in large murals and Christmas windows. NOTE: /r/Nerf is not officially affiliated with the /r/nerf Discord. c/Nerf (Lemmy): A small but growing community on a decentralized reddit-alternative.ī: A German forum (and mostly German-language, though English is welcome too). Technically active but not accepting new members.ĭartSweep: A system for finding games and groups with more features in development. NerfHaven: One of the oldest forums in the hobby, currently serving as a 20+ year archive of old information. Nerfy Discord Servers: There's tons of Nerf servers on Discord that are worthwhile. ![]() High pressure air powered blasters: /r/HPAnerf/īritNerf: A traditional forum catering to British foam flingers.Small and less active related subreddits: Nerf community history: /r/HistoryOfNerfModding.Examples of how to not post: /r/BadNerfPosts/.Chatter/memes/off topic: /r/nerfchatter.Buy/Sell/Trade/what's it worth: /r/nerfexchange.Hobby Blaster Catalogue by /u/TheJettisoned - "A Convenient List for New Nerfers With Too Much Money for Their Own Good" If you have general 3d printing questions such as "What 3d Printer should I buy?" please check out /r/3dprinting. Lipo battery guide, charging, safety tips Zombies.Īutomod's "Blaster-Gun" and "Black/Prop" Post Explanation Link Welcome, Warriors! This is a place for Nerf, BoomCo, Off-brands, Water Blasters, Modifications, Homemades, Assassins, Office wars, and Humans vs. Offending posts will be removed and posters temp/perma-banned. Please do not post Amazon "affiliate" links. r/nerf is not affiliated with Hasbro, or anyone else. ![]() (Please look in these places or do a Google search before asking questions. Then, if you still have questions, refer to the subreddit NERF FAQ's + WIKI PAGE. ![]()
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