Je Suis Marxiste, Tendance Groucho (aka The Slaminsky Memorial Post)

I lived in south Bristol for a time, so I became very familiar with various kinds of street art. As you no doubt know, a lot of it is somewhat indeterminate squiggles, but a lot of it is good, even some of those squiggly ones.

Aside from the now ubiquitous Banksy, the person who made the most impression on me was Lewis Da Baron, who wrote “Lewis Da Baron 2003″ everywhere. I should mention that it was only 2002 at the time. Eventually he went further and further into the future with his dates, I’m sure going as far as 2009 at one point, before disappearing.

I spoke to a friend of mine about him once, and he informed me that he was 40-something and honestly belived he was living in the future. This friend had a skateboard, so I assumed he knew what he was talking about.

Before Jean-Michael Basquiat became a well-known artist, he produced graffiti under the name of SAMO. This comprised of a number of sarcastically poetic phrases written around New York in marker pen. Stuff like this:-

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS OMNIPRESENT?

[ ] LEE HARVEY OSWALD

[ ] COCA-COLA LOGO

[ ] GENREAL MELONRY

[ ] SAMO©…

In order that I can participate in such things, I need a name for myself, because you can’t use your own name.  I have decided to use βρόδον Aeolic Greek for “rose” and metaphorically of course, “vagina”.

Anyone got a pen?