The Seattle Art Museum has commissioned a new Capitol Hill mural on the side of The Stumbling Monk. We’ve seen what it will look like. It will look like a pretty cool ad for Seattle Art Museum. Weirdo’s work is worth checking out. And, if you do, there’s a big social media contest with a page or so of rules that you can enter to win tickets to SAM.
Artist Jeff “Weirdo” Jacobson will be creating a mural today (inspired by the upcoming June 1st SAMRemix) from 11:30am – 7pm outside of The Stumbling Monk on Capitol Hill. Swing by and watch the mural creation in process!
There’s a difference between a “tag” and a “piece”, and he’s doing the later. Just saying.
Give me a good verb for “piece” and I’m with you. “Paint” didn’t quite cut it.
+1 on the tagging vs. piece distinction. The difference is important.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_terminology – “A stylized signature, normally done in one color. The simplest and most prevalent type of graffiti, a tag is often done in a color that contrasts sharply with its background. Tag can also be used as a verb meaning “to sign”. Writers often tag on or beside their pieces, following the practice of traditional artists who sign their artwork”
You don’t need a verb.
Headlines with the same or fewer number of characters as your original:
“Art museum hires graffiti artist to tag The Stumbling Monk”
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“Museum commissions graffiti mural at The Stumbling Monk”
“SAM hires graffiti artist for work at The Stumbling Monk”
“Stumbling Monk site of new graffiti work paid for by SAM”
“Street art, courtesy of SAM, to be installed at The Monk”
You forgot to make your headline both accurate *and* interesting, CH
agreed. this is not a tag.
weirdo’s not a bad artist. i like the ‘gateway’ piece on his site. Hopefully we get something along those lines.
not feeling the typical neon triangle thing with pop culture references.
It looks more like a billboard than a “tag”, “piece” or a “mural”.
In scale, perhaps. But it’s far more artistic. It’s quite beautifully done, imo.