So over the past few days I have been heavily thinking about the Graffiti in the subway system. Usally, the vandels write vulgar and often offensive remarks on the pictures. They comment on the nature of the poses by the models and draw sexual imaginary on the models faces and other parts of their bodies. I am pretty certain that the intent of the vandels is just to get a rise out of the other commuters or perhaps just to kill time while they wait, but the Graffiti got me thinking. The ads which are first to be “attacked” are the ones that use sexually suggestive photography in order to sell their message. In some gorilla way the graffiti artists are actually bringing out the ads true message. What I mean, is that by placing an ovbious sexual word bubble saying “I want you to pump my hole” the vandal is really just confronting the message that is already latent in the ad.
I am considering placing an ad on craigslist in-order to find some of the vandels to interview. I think it would make for and interesting addition to the discussion in my media classes, because the “analysis” that they are doing is most likely not intended for that purpose.
