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BACK IN STOCK! What Do One Million Ja Tags Signify? – Dumar Novy  

What do one million JA tags signify? What does it mean, when a writer is present through his tags and pieces since 1985 in a city like New York? On 100 pages Dr. Dumar Novy describes and analyzes not so much the work itself, but what JA’s stuff means to him, without having ever met him in real life.

A phenomenon every writer is familiar with: you see other people’s graffiti, you read it, you follow their traces while being part of the target audience he or she maybe had in mind. By not knowing the creator a myth begins to form in your mind and you wonder who the writer is and his or her intentions while doing tags and pieces. In the case of JA, a writer who is up in the streets of the graffiti Mecca for more than 30 years, you idolize this guy and a legendary status emerges, the bombing archetype.

„NYC is Vatican City & JA tags are those Swiss Guards protecting our sacred sites.“

This reader is a manifesto in which the author takes us on a journey into his world of thought in eleven chapters. He is analyzing and interpreting actions of the manic writer which makes this book an homage, heroization and urban poetry. While once New York City was a glorious place for the graffiti culture in the 70s and 80s, it morphed into a unreal, artificial and destructive city due to repressive politics and foreign investors. Novy sees JA as last remaining fighter from the good old days, somebody who represents the original New York citizens, the John and Jane Does, the soul of the city.

„He is keeping alive the most revolutionary movement of our time inspiring some to write their existence & pushing others to join in shaping their world.“

The author’s thoughts on JA include abstruse visions of the future in which JA tags are mantra-like repeated and ritualized, dialogues with god, prayers, thoughts on racism, the criticism of society and capitalism or intimate stories on Novy’s passed dad. JA is part of every aspect of life whether he or she is inspiration, role model or companion.

This book is proof that graffiti is more than trivial writing of names, more than primitive communication between anonymous representatives of a (sub-)culture. Graffiti can affect, influence, help to reflect on yourself and open your mind. What Do One Million Ja Tags Signify? is an entertaining and fascinating insight into the effect writings of a single person can have, although the actual creator is never really in focus.

The dayglow orange edition will be the final one. If you already have the first edition in your collection, you might want to get this one too because of a completely new (ninth) chapter and some smaller changes here and there.

Now available at www.hitzerot.com  

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Hitzerot x Possible Books: Dumar Novy - What Do One Million Ja Tags Signifly?

Wir freuen uns ab sofort einige Publikationen des Possible Books Verlag mit in unseren Sortiment anbieten zu können! “What Do One Million Ja Tags Signify?” von Dumar Novy erzählt vom Einfluß den das seit über 30 Jahren andauernde Schaffen der New Yorker allcity Legende “JA” auf den Autoren hat. Dieser hat ihn selbst nie kennengelernt und doch ist er Motivation, Begleiter und Kämpfer für ein New York wie es mal war. Und noch viel mehr... Jetzt erhältlich auf www.hitzerot.de.

Was bringen eine Million „JA“ Tags zum Ausdruck? Was bedeutet es, wenn ein Writer seit 1985 kontinuierlich durch Tags und Pieces in einer Großstadt wie New York in Erscheinung tritt? Auf 96 Seiten schreibt, beschreibt und philosophiert Dr. Dumar Novy über das Werk eines Writers, dessen Schaffen er seit den 1990er Jahren verfolgt ohne ihm jedoch jemals begegnet zu sein.

Ein Phänomen, welches Writern durchaus vertraut ist: Man nimmt Graffiti anderer Writer war, liest, folgt ihren Spuren und ist stiller Adressat der Namen und Nachrichten. Ein Mythos entsteht und man spekuliert über den Urheber und über seine Intentionen. Ist ein Writer über 30 Jahre hinweg in einem solchen Ausmaß aktiv, dass er wie „JA“ allcity in einer Millionenmetropole ist, multipliziert sich der Ruhm zu einem Legenden-Status und der Writer wird zum Idol, zum Archetyp eines Bombers.

„NYC is Vatican City & JA tags are those Swiss Guards protecting our sacred sites.“

In dem vorliegenden Manifest lädt Novy den Leser in eine elf Kapitel umfassende Reise durch seine Gedanken ein. Er interpretiert das manische Handeln des New Yorkers zwischen Hommage, Heroisierung und Großstadtlyrik. In einer Stadt die sich durch ausländische Investoren und repressive Politik von dem Graffiti Mekka der 1970er und 1980er zu einem unwirklichen, künstlichen und destruktiven Ort gewandelt hat, sieht der Autor „JA“ als einen der letzten Streiter für die originären New Yorker, die kleinen Leute, die Seelen der Stadt.

„He is keeping alive the most revolutionary movement of our time inspiring some to write their existence & pushing others to join in shaping their world.“

Novy’s Gedankenspiele um „JA“ reichen von abstrusen Zukunftsvisionen in welchen seine Tags ritualisiert repetiert werden über Zwiegespräche mit Gott, Gebete, Gedanken zu Rassismus, Gesellschafts- und Kapitalismuskritik bis hin zu persönlichen Geschichten um den verstorbenen Vater des Autors. Überall findet „JA“ Platz und fungiert als Inspiration, Vorbild und Begleiter.

Dieses Buch ist der Beleg dafür, dass Graffiti weit mehr ist, als ein banales Mitteilen, eine primitive Kommunikation zwischen anonymen Vertretern einer (Sub-)Kultur. Graffiti wirkt, beeinflusst, dient als gedankliche Sprungfeder und lässt den Rezipienten reflektieren. Ein unterhaltsamer und fesselnder Einblick, der sich mehr mit dem Wirken und weniger mit dem tatsächlichem Urheber befasst.

Ab sofort erhätlich auf Hitzerot.

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JA XTC is currently one of the most up writers in the world of graffiti, and has been for over 20 years. He is so famous he even has his own wikipedia page. Starting in New York 1986, he quickly rose to fame and by 1990 he was already all-city. His tags appeared all over the 5 boroughs of New York, covering walls top to bottom. JA became so prolific, he was sued by the city of NY, the Mass Transit Authority and the Department of Transportation for $5 million in punitive damages, a move that was historic in that the city of New York decided it was not worth it to sue graffiti taggers for damages, except in JA's case because the extensive damage he had caused. In 1990, he was chased by the NY police and after being handcuffed, was beat with a night stick and kicked by police offices causing him to require 130 stitches to the head. The police claimed he was hit by a Buick. JA is known for writing over anyone who writes over him or his homies. He takes pride in never losing a war, boasting the fact that he has single-handedly taken out whole crews while he is still writing after almost thirty years now. He is especially protective of his late homie SANE (RIP) who passed away after falling off a bridge. JA still throws up SANE's tag and goes hard over anyone who disses him, including west coast legend SABER, who at one point wrote over a SANE tag. JA then flew to LA and dissed one of the biggest and most famous graffiti pieces of all time, a huge SABER piece along the LA river. Neither arrests nor other writers have ever stopped JA, and according to an uncited claim in his wikipedia page, he is and forever will be "the most up writer of all time, the undisputed true king of graf." And he just may be deserving of that title.

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EASY BASE JAONE AND SEN4 HAVING SOME FUN WITH THESE BIG TOYS LAST YEAR. #jozandeasy #sen4 #basegod #jaxtc @ja1_xtc new account