Yeah, I like I don't have enough blogs. Ever since I closed down my L.A. Traffic blog (which seems to now be the home for someone who takes photos of their drive, though the photos weren't working for me tonight), I've wanted to do another civic blog up here. I didn't think I drove enough in King County to do a King County Traffic blog justice, so I finally hit on it. I would create a blog where people could submit photos (or the locations) of graffiti they saw in and around Federal Way, Washington. And so Federal Way Graffiti was born.
I think it has potential. You can e-mail me at federal.way.graffiti@gmail.com when you see graffiti and I'll go take a photo of it. Or you can save me the trouble and take the photo yourself and send it to me. I'll post it on the blog and on the map.
What's the point? Well, depending on how serious the City of Federal Way is about clamping down on graffiti, it will either help them to quickly find new graffiti or it will prod them to get it done quicker.
2 comments:
Okay, the LATraffic blog is a little scary to me. First, I think the woman is obsessing a bit much about the bad drivers in L.A. Some of the photos on there don't seem to be of behavior that's all *that* egregious. There's one in particular where she says a man at a stop sign pulled "smack in front of" her, but it looks to me like he had a good 50 feet of clearance. Maybe it's just the perspective of the photo and it was actually much closer, but it looks from the photo to be a bit of an overreaction.
http://latraffic.blogspot.com/2007/03/kenter-at-bonhill-316.html
But I realize that there are a lot of bad drivers in L.A. and that it would be nice to have some small measure of revenge against them, even if they never see their photos on a public humiliation website, so I get where she's coming from.
My larger concern, though, is that she's spending some of her own driving time pulling out a camera and taking photos of other bad drivers, all while ferrying a several-thousand-pound vehicle herself. I know that, in some shots, she's stopped at lights. But it's quite clear that in many other shots, she's in motion herself and is so taken with other drivers' behavior that she's compromising her own.
Plus, how is she getting some of these photos unless she has her camera strapped to her head and is just clicking the shutter release at the appropriate moment? She must be moving pretty quickly to grab her camera, focus and take the shot.
Maybe someone should be taking pictures of her taking pictures of other drivers.
Okay, the LATraffic blog is a little scary to me. First, I think the woman is obsessing a bit much about the bad drivers in L.A. Some of the photos on there don't seem to be of behavior that's all *that* egregious. There's one in particular where she says a man at a stop sign pulled "smack in front of" her, but it looks to me like he had a good 50 feet of clearance. Maybe it's just the perspective of the photo and it was actually much closer, but it looks from the photo to be a bit of an overreaction.
http://latraffic.blogspot.com/2007/03/kenter-at-bonhill-316.html
But I realize that there are a lot of bad drivers in L.A. and that it would be nice to have some small measure of revenge against them, even if they never see their photos on a public humiliation website, so I get where she's coming from.
My larger concern, though, is that she's spending some of her own driving time pulling out a camera and taking photos of other bad drivers, all while ferrying a several-thousand-pound vehicle herself. I know that, in some shots, she's stopped at lights. But it's quite clear that in many other shots, she's in motion herself and is so taken with other drivers' behavior that she's compromising her own.
Plus, how is she getting some of these photos unless she has her camera strapped to her head and is just clicking the shutter release at the appropriate moment? She must be moving pretty quickly to grab her camera, focus and take the shot.
Maybe someone should be taking pictures of her taking pictures of other drivers.
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