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Extreme Graffiti: Fire Tagging!
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Jen Carlson
Published Apr 9, 2009
Modified Apr 9, 2009
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Looks like Ellis Gallagher, aka Ellis G, has made a giant leap from the fairly safe medium of chalk art, to the highly dangerous looking medium of fire art! Nylon Mag received a photo of the flammable tagging in progress, and their tipster noted that it's "a new obsession" of the artist's. Allegedly "the idea is to paint a tag and light it quickly before it dries," and we'd imagine a goal is to not set oneself or one's surroundings on fire. And people, let's keep a close eye on Natalie Shea, this chalk art thing could be a gateway to arson.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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