Friday, December 31, 2010
This is the last in a five-part series of posts describing the results of my analysis of my graffiti corpora. I strongly recommend you read “Prelude to a graffiti analysis” first to understand the methodology, data, and sampling. You might also be interested in part 1, Arizona State University; part 2, University of Colorado – [...]
Friday, December 24, 2010
This is the third in a five-part series of posts describing the results of my analysis of my graffiti corpora. I strongly recommend you read “Prelude to a graffiti analysis” first to understand the methodology, data, and sampling. You might also be interested in part 1, Arizona State University; part 2, University of Colorado – [...]
Friday, December 10, 2010
This is the second in a five-part series of posts describing the results of my analysis of my graffiti corpora. I strongly recommend you read “Prelude to a graffiti analysis” first to understand the methodology, data, and sampling. You might also be interested in part 1, Arizona State University. An endearing hippie-town in the mountains [...]
Saturday, December 4, 2010
This is the first in a five-part series of posts describing the results of my analysis of my graffiti corpora. I strongly recommend you read “Prelude to a graffiti analysis” first to understand the methodology, data, and sampling. Located in a college town that seems to have neither a coffee house nor a bookstore (and [...]
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Over the next six weeks, I’ll be posting a set of results from my recent graffiti analysis, done with some degree of seriousness this time. The last time I put together a (tongue-in-cheek) analysis of the data, it was a smash hit that got the attention of Slashdot, the Wall Street Journal tech blog, and [...]
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
I’ve started slogging through all the graffiti transcriptions for my next analysis (see previous post for details), and as a teaser I’m posting the data about quotes found in the Brown University corpus. Perhaps “plagiarism” is unnecessarily accusatory. Many of the pieces pull from popular culture, a frame of reference ideally shared by writer and [...]
Saturday, November 6, 2010
It’s taken some time, but graffiti is creeping back onto the bookstack walls in the Regenstein Library. Most notable is the wall of poetry, where “To Delmore Schwartz” by Robert Lowell has been joined by an anonymous quote: Rejoice! O Man For your achievements are great and number as the stars (read both full size) [...]
Brown University’s Rockefeller Library is reminiscent of UChicago’s Regenstein. They’re both rather ugly from the outside, they both have two basements, they both have nicknames (the “Rock” and “Reg”, respectively), and they’re both filled with graffiti mostly written in literate1 English. In just three hours combing through the study areas in the Rock stacks, I [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The other day, a baby boomer coworker asked me about politics in the graffiti. Was there protest graffiti after the recent Supreme Court ruling on corporate spending in elections? “Of course not,” I replied, surprised that he’d even ask– though it’s something I’ve heard from other baby boomers before. It’s not that politics are absent [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
About a month ago, I was invited to put together a guest post for Inkling Magazine, and the resulting pseudo-scientific analysis of the graffiti is now up! The “analysis” considers: Happiness, as measured in the ratio to smiley faces to frowny faces Love vs. hate, with a spiffy Venn diagram of the objects of the [...]
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