»In which graffiti jumps the shark

Street art has been on the cusp of mainstream media recognition for some time now.

(can't fool me: that picture is from Barcelona. Note the distinctive street sign, the BCNeta bin, and the two grinning fish from Pez. Barca has glorious street art: I suspect that city, not subway taggers in New York, is what sparked my love of graf.).
And I ask myself: hath ye shark been jumped? The rhetorical answer is, "Whatever. So long as people continue tagging and pasting-up and acid-splashing, and as long as fancy hair salons contract street artists to decorate their windows, then all is good in God's world."

salim filed this under media friendsy at 11h23 Monday, 24 October 2005 (link) (Yr two bits?)