{"id":343,"date":"2005-06-21T23:48:37","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T03:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/06\/21\/graffiti-archeology-revealing-the-past"},"modified":"2005-06-21T23:48:37","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T03:48:37","slug":"graffiti-archeology-revealing-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/06\/21\/graffiti-archeology-revealing-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti Archeology – Revealing the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From top left: Jim Stubchaer (1949); Bill Volkmer (1955);
\n Martin Schall (2000); Graffiti V?rit? (2002); Ladytribe (2003); Amy McKenzie
\n (March 2004, May 2004); Aaron Bocanegra (July 2004); Cassidy Curtis (August
\n 2004).<\/em><\/p>\n

A Tunnel’s Tale A historical photo of the Belmont Tunnel
\n in Los Angeles, 1949, top left. The award-winning Web site Graffiti
\n Archaeology <\/a>traces the tunnel’s evolution from 1955, top center. From
\n top right:
\n the shifting look from 2000 through August 2004, bottom right.<\/p>\n

The creator of the site, Cassidy Curtis, a San Francisco
\n animator in his 30’s, isn’t just being cute when he calls it "graffiti
\n archaeology." It really is archaeology. You start at the surface
\n and then peel away layers to look into the past. When you choose one
\n of the locales and pick which wall you want to see, you are shown a recent
\n photograph first. Then you can move backward in time or hop around, using
\n a timeline at the bottom of the page. You can also zoom in to see details
\n and navigate around the surface of the walls.<\/p>\n

from the New
\n York Times<\/a><\/p>\n

Graffiti
\n Archeology<\/a> web site<\/p>\n

Note and use the zoom and pan controls on the lower left. Access may be difficult due to heavy traffic.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From top left: Jim Stubchaer (1949); Bill Volkmer (1955); Martin Schall (2000); Graffiti V?rit? (2002); Ladytribe (2003); Amy McKenzie (March 2004, May 2004); Aaron Bocanegra (July 2004); Cassidy Curtis (August 2004). A Tunnel’s Tale A historical photo of the Belmont … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}