After some recent publicity in the University of Chicago Magazine and the Chicago Tribune, alumni have been e-mailing me with their own memories of UChicago graffiti. With their permission, I’d like to share them here.
Eric Blommel (AB Philosophy ‘92) recalls:
I shit, therefore I am shit.
For a good time, call… another school and transfer!
[Written on the [...]
Rarely does a single piece of graffiti merit its own blog post. This morning I found one such piece of graffiti on the 4th floor, next to the ad for (subsequently reverted) Wikipedia vandalism, near the Facebook thumbs up.
The second row of hieroglyphs in the image to the right (click to see larger) were written [...]
Last night I got an e-mail from Daniel Choi, class of ‘10, who got a copy of the book at Powell’s and recognized three pieces of graffiti he’d written– pieces I never would’ve thought were connected. The stories behind the graffiti, particularly the O-Chem one, are so heartwarmingly UChicago, and with his permission I’m happy [...]
I discovered today that I misunderstood the story behind this piece of graffiti, one of my favorites. My impression was that Sid Branca had written it. The story behind it, in fact, is even better: apparently she said it really loudly on the third floor one day (breaking the silence of the reading room, that [...]
I recently heard from Moira Cassidy, who came forward as the artist behind the whiteboard doodle that looks uncannily like me. She’s a Chicago artist who posts her work on this blog– go check it out!
Towards the beginning of winter quarter 2008, Alexa and her friends had a pretty prominent place in the photos I was taking on the A-level. Alexa made some pretty great charts, two of which found their way into the book (second photo on pages 42 and 103, respectively.)
When Alexa’s current roommate, Loranne, showed her the [...]
“Go to Italy, be a cobbler” seems to be one of the most popular pieces of graffiti in the collection. It was Explored on Flickr in October 2007, and used on five different blogs (to date). It’s even on the mini-buttons I ordered for the book release.
But Val Archambeau suggested on the Crescat Graffiti Facebook [...]
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