Joe Connolly "The Graffiti Guerrilla"

                                                Joe Connolly "The Graffiti Guerrilla"

 

 

       The person I chose the documentary is Joe Connolly. Joe Connolly is a Graffiti Buffer in Los Angeles. He has over 30,000 hours of community service He goes around the city and paints over illegally done graffiti tags, bombs, pieces, etc. He has became a fan of the legal done pieces that are on buildings, galleries, and the streets. He likes the graffiti art(murals,etc.). The next paragraph is going to be the rhetorical appeals of he and his work.

     The first of the appeals is the ethos of his work. Ethos is the presentation of yourself and your creditability. The people of Los Angeles appreciate what he is doing and how he is improving the city by removing the bad graffiti tags. He is indirectly reducing the murder rate in the city by removing the rival gang's tags in other gangs "territory". The second of the appeals is the logos of his work. Logos is the reasoning behind the argument/situation. the logos of his work is that he is cleaning up his neighborhoods and the streets in the city of bad graffiti. He gets into the heads of the taggers by going to the places they tag and painting over it over and over again until they stop tagging there. he sometimes puts his own tag A.M.B(All My Bitches). the final appeal of his work is the pathos of it. pathos is the emotions that occur from it and how he feels about it. you know that he really cares for the his community by logging over 30,000 hours of community service by going around town painting over graffiti.

   The reason why Ichose Joe as my person is that graffiti can be an art if it is legally done and it is appealing to the eye and it's not a bunch of tags and gang symbols.

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The graffiti says: "Jam" in big black letters with a blue outline. over this graffiti is another graffiti that says " Don't be a Dick". this graffiti appears in two different spots, but they are relatively close to each other. They were formerly located on the cylinder object next to the chemistry-physics building and on the wall/guardrail thing next to the building. In the next few paragraphs, I'm going to discuss the rhetorical situation triangle:author,topic,audience,and context.

Author: The street artist is currently unknown. I'm speculating that the artist is an UK student or someone who knows where this building was. The reason why i think this that one day it wasn't there, than the next, it was there.

Audience: the speculated audience is everyone who will pass the "art" and noticed it. this was proven true when someone saw it and decided to put up the response of "Don't be a Dick" over the "Jam" graffiti. i, personally noticed it everyday that i pass the building.

Topic: i have no idea what was the message of this "art", but i presume that the artist wanted to be "funny" and tag those locations. the message of the "Don't be a Dick" is pretty self-explanatory

Context:The context of this graffiti is that it is just there to be there. The context of this graffiti won't change at all if the graffiti was moved to any location in the world.