{"id":34,"date":"2009-01-25T13:13:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2010-09-28T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T18:34:10","slug":"acid-based_graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2009\/01\/25\/acid-based_graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Acid-Based Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/25\/weekinreview\/25kennedy.html?partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">Some like to intellectualize their street art<\/a>, but for me, I prefer my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/graffiti\/index.htm\">graffiti<\/a> dumb and ugly:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/citywide\/graffiti\/07rtrain01-21-09.jpg\" alt=\"Etching Acid Graffiti, Queens-Bound R Train, 57th Street-Seventh Avenue Station, Midtown Manhattan, January 21, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a little &#8220;scratchiti&#8221; in there, too.  I can&#8217;t tell which is worse &#8212; the acid cream graffiti that etches tags into the subway window or the furtive scribbling of scratchiti. Who knows? They are both beautiful. The MTA has been dealing with it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/how_about_takin.html\">for several years now<\/a>, and it&#8217;s still around. If only Banksy could combine scratchti and acid etching in an aesthetically cool way then I might stop being such a fuddy duddy about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some like to intellectualize their street art, but for me, I prefer my graffiti dumb and ugly: There is a little &#8220;scratchiti&#8221; in there, too. I can&#8217;t tell which is worse &#8212; the acid cream graffiti that etches tags into the subway window or the furtive scribbling of scratchiti. Who knows? They are both beautiful. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citywide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}