Pompeii GRAFFITI!

Click on the following links to see some translations of graffiti written and preserved on the walls of the ancient city of Pompeii

http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Latin_Vulgar/Texts/Pompeii_Graffiti.html

This one is great. The naked guy is pretty stereotypical. oh wait no its not because it was the first naked guy graffiti ever.

This picture to the left is considered the first political satirist cartoon in all of history. shizam.

GOING TO RICHMOND THIS WEEKEND!

HEY LOVERS AND POTTY PALS!

Taylor, Emily, and I are going to Chapel Hill, CArrboro, Raleigh, Durham, and Richmond this weekend to look for fantastic examples of bathroom graffiti! If you know any place that we should go to, please let us know! We are open to suggestions. I would love for you all to send me names of bars, restuarants, clubs, or bottegas etc.

Also, we are looking for great pictures of cave drawings, so if you have any cave painting pictures from archaeological digs that you went on, feel free to send them to me. haha

We are so excited.

We are translating the language of lavatories. Its how people connect and prove they are alive.

SELENA KELLEY! Is Amazing and sent me a picture from a bathroom

I love this monster. I wonder if this campaign was fruitful. I like the use of bold around the words "sanitary napkins." I think that really sets the tone.

She just emailed me this picture. KEEP THEM COMING PEOPLE!! I love to see what people think is funny or moving.

Joselyn Thursday September 3rd 7:44pm

Some Picture Taylor Sichting Gave Me

Hahaha. So True.

I have found the first PHALLIC wall graffiti.

This is the famed Kumeyaay cave drawing. Scientists believe that the the image on the right hand of the screen is an "elderberry flute." To be frank, I think its a skin flute. Maybe it is innapropriate to say that, but men have a tendency to create such visuals on the walls of the bathrooms I have been seeing as of late.

Here is an ok Bathroom grafitti website with a GREAT NAME!

http://www.thewritingsonthestall.com/
Czech it out.


Also, if you see some graffiti that you like, LEAVE A COMMENT! With the name of the place and the day that you found it and upload a pic even or leave what it said. GET INVOLVED. JOIN THE CONVERSATION.

LOVE JOZELYN

A Facebook Upload of a Bathroom in NYC

From Courtney Shea: @ 12:54pm September 2nd, 2009
hey girl I just saw your status and it made me remember a picture I took in NYC in the bathroom at the bar Angels and Kings. Ha it was awesome. They had newspaper cover the walls and people could write on it. So it was graffitied up! And on top of it they had a red light so it made it look sooooo cool.

The Experimental Documentary The Language of Lavatory : START

BANG!
The experimental documentary The Language of Lavatory investigating the culture and roots of Bathroom Graffiti is BEGINNING TODAY. Well technically it started 8 months ago when I had the initial idea, but I feel like the creation of this blog has started the journey that I've been wanting to take for some time.

This is my team:
Joselyn McDonald - Director- an island of complexity - THATS ME!
Taylor Sichting - Director of Photographer - beautiful and creative
Emily Sheetz - Audio - the moral support and coffee hound

We start our journey tonight in downtown Wilmigton. We will be documenting the bathroom graffiti in Bottega Wine and Art Bar, The Soapbox Launrolounge, The Copper Penny pub, and Blue Post bar.

If you have suggestions or pictures, PLEASE POST THEM OR SEND ME EMAILS. I love that.

We all have a desire to prove our existence.