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| | Ethnograffiti: Graffiti, Writers, and |
 | | Though the largest number of graffiti practitioners are still young teens who simply write a chosen "tag," or nickname, in spray paint, marker or other media, a small number of those go on to paint large, ambitious, multi-color murals based on a highly stylized design of their tag. |
| | Evidently the Phun Phactory, which provides space on their building for three months at a time to writers who agree not to tag the surrounding neighborhood, has had an effect. |
| | We were about three blocks from the street the Phun Phactory was on, and the row of warehouse walls and razor wire fences along the train tracks meant that if a cop were to get to that street (where the MTA truck had been parked earlier) before we did, we would have been trapped. |
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