Oyster card hack to be published

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:15:00 -0600

from the BBC:

"Details of how to copy the Oyster cards used on London's transport network can be published, a Dutch judge has ruled."

BBC story here and a description of the hack (with detail link) here

Mr Sabe

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:20:05 -0600

GRAFFWARS UPDATE 39

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:14:56 -0600

22 train and trackside pictures from around Belgium mostly with a few from UK and France, here

Religion...Sigh..

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:03:55 -0600

Completely unrelated to anything but good none the less...

ABCDEFGHIJKLMONPQRSTUVWXYZ

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:46:52 -0600

http://www.fotolog.com/space_queen/

Belgium Update

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:22:35 -0600

Belgium update coming very soon, plenty of runners and tracksides.

JOSEPH KYSELAK

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:11:46 -0600

THE FATHER OF GRAFFITI

Have you ever heard of Joseph Kyselak? No?

That is not too surprising. Even though the Austria-born magistrate is perceived nowadays as the ancestor of modern day graffiti. Kyselak was born in Vienna on December 23rd, 1799. His perspectives weren't too bad for a man of his time. His Family was fairly rich and he was able to go to University. Anyway Kyselak obviously was far from too much career-orientated.

Sometime in the early 1820s, Kyselak made a bet with a couple of friends in Vienna. He bet that his name would be known all over the Austria-Hungarian Empire within 3 years (a vast piece of land at that time) without inventing a new kind of suicide (in fact, the people from Vienna were obviously well known for commiting suicide in very unorthodox ways).

What he invented instead was nothing less than modern-day "tagging". Kyselak travelled all over Central Europe in 1825 leaving his name in bright red and black at each and every exposed place he could find. The tag "Kyselak" could soon be found everywhere. He painted it on churches and castles, rocks and trees, bridges and obelisks. And in fact, within a year even his betting partners had to admit that Kyselak had indeed become very well known all over Austria and that he has won the bet.
But Kyselak could not stop. He started tagging buildings as soon as they were opened to the public. He was even asked by the police not to paint his name to a new Bridge over the Danube until the public opening ceremony was over. Kyselak agreed and waited one more week until his well known signature could be found painted on the bridge.

Kyselak can be seen as the father of modern-day tagging since he did not do anything but paint his name on a wall. He did not create pictures or symbols, his nickname was enough. As in modern-day graffiti viewers don't necessarily know what a tag means. It is just a name without an additional information. And that, indeed, makes Kyselak an ancestor to nowaday's street culture.

To make a long story short: Kyselak only became 31 years old. He obviously became fed up with this life and when the Cholera broke out in Vienna in 1831, Kyselak refused to leave the City. As it is a good way to get infected with Cholera bacteria he decided to eat loads and loads of unwashed plums and finally died of Cholera on September 17th, 1831. Eventually he did not only invent tagging, but also a weird new way to commit suicide.

Mare 139 In Brighton

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:06:05 -0600

Worth a look me thinks.

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