Bathroom Graffiti Project

Latrinalia - Bathroom Graffiti Documentary (10 min video)

2009-08-04T09:47:00.000-05:00

Latrinalia - Toilet Graffiti Documentary from Sam Trowbridge on Vimeo.

The Art of the Toilet (Video)

2009-04-09T08:12:00.000-05:00

Friendly Bathroom Graffiti: Get F#@KED!

2009-03-27T11:05:00.000-05:00

Woman on the Door

2007-09-01T19:28:00.001-05:00

Frodo Lives!

2007-07-25T17:55:00.000-05:00

Get Bathroom Graffiti Badges for Your Blog, MySpace, Facebook, etc.

2007-07-25T16:43:00.001-05:00

Now you can put your own Bathroom Graffiti Badge right on your blog, Myspace, or Facebook to help spread the word about the project and show off great graffiti pictures.

It's super easy to do. Just click here to choose what type of BGP badge you want. Cut and embed to simple code into your site and you're all set.

Thanks for helping spread the word.

Pain!

2007-07-12T19:53:00.000-05:00

Back and forth dialog in bathroom graffiti scrawls are often witty and humorous. Here's another great example found in SOHO New York City recently.

Add Your Bathroom Graffiti Pics By Phone/Email

2007-07-07T19:45:00.000-05:00

Now you can contribute to the bathroom graffiti project by emailing your favorite pictures directly from your phone.

Take your camera phone everywhere, shoot great bathroom graffiti pics and email to this address: BGPSniper211@bathroomgraffiti.ning.com

(If you create an account at www.graffitiproject.com you can also add your pics via the Web, Flickr, or get your own email upload address for your account).

Please help spread the word about The Bathroom Graffiti Project and help us collect pictures of bathroom graffiti from every country in the world!

Now You Can Add Bathroom Graffiti to Your Blog!

2007-07-07T11:48:00.000-05:00

Find more photos like this on Bathroom Graffiti Project

The Bathroom Graffiti Project has just launched a new site with lots of new features. Anyone can join the collaborative project to help collect and archive pictures of bathroom graffiti from around the world. It's super easy to create your own account and you can upload pictures from the Web site, via email, your phone, or even Flickr.

You can also grab the Slideshow from above...anyone can add a constantly updated Slideshow of Bathroom Graffiti pictures to your blog, MySpace, or Facebook. Just click the "View Embed Code" at the bottom of the Slideshow on the homepage of graffitiproject.com to get the code. Or Add to Facebook link at www.graffitiproject.com.

Thanks for helping spread the word and hopefully adding your favorite bathroom graffiti pics soon!

Minus the bomb scares, is The Splasher is proof that art can still matter?

2007-06-30T12:49:00.000-05:00

The Splasher analysis continues with yet another extensive piece in the Arts section of today's New York Times: Splashing the Art World With Anger and Questions.

Some highlights:

The current agitators, although they’ve got some of the revolutionary patter down, seem to lack clearly defined targets or priorities. Is the problem gentrification or the art market or artists or late capitalism? What’s troubling them — the street art they’re defacing or the fact that some of the street artists might also show in galleries?

And, by the way, what’s wrong with artists, even street artists, making a buck? The spectacle, as Debord might have said, of the present art world in thrall to Mammon is incredibly depressing. But selling art isn’t selling out, necessarily, and making art for people on the street doesn’t preclude showing (a different sort of) art in galleries. Physical endangerment in the form of bombs, stinky or otherwise, then crosses the line from mischief to mayhem.

New York neighborhoods are indeed changing, not all for the better, as the city becomes more affluent and homogeneous, and art shouldn’t exist in it simply as a symbol of wealth and privilege. It should seize public spaces where it can, to make itself more part of daily life, more relevant in the world, and to become a source of serendipity, pleasure, trouble, controversy and interest to people outside the art world, not just inside it.

With this much attention, The Splasher will no doubt be showing soon in a Chelsea gallery near you.

Sombody Loves You!

2007-06-29T18:43:00.000-05:00

The Splasher Manifesto

2007-06-28T15:54:00.000-05:00

The New York Times covers the Splasher today and even links to the 16-page Splasher Manifesto.

Read more about it here and here.

The funny thing is, Bathroom Graffiti Artists have been dealing with this issue forever. You put a scrawl on the wall and come back the next day and many times your work has already been painted over!

Isn't that what graffiti is all about, anyway? There is an impermanent quality to graffiti that makes it beautiful. Those who were lucky enough to view it while it lasted.

The Splasher is just reminding us that graffiti can be washed away. And that's part of its power.

Bathroom Graffiti The Book

2007-05-25T13:10:00.000-05:00

The Reverse-Graffiti Artist

2006-09-16T17:13:00.000-05:00

Graffiti Artist Moose is baffling authorities as they try to figure out if selective cleaning is a crime?

"The tools are simple: A shoe brush, water and elbow grease," he says.

"British authorities aren’t sure what to make of the artist who is creating graffiti by cleaning the grime of urban life. The Leeds City Council has been considering what to do with Moose. "I’m waiting for the kind of Monty Python court case where exhibit A is a pot of cleaning fluid and exhibit B is a pair of my old socks," he jokes.

More here: Link.

This Could Be Your Last Memory!

2006-09-09T10:57:00.000-05:00

That Peeing Song

2006-09-09T10:54:00.000-05:00

Here's a very funny animation video about Will Reinhart's bathroom experience at Mac's in Charlotte, North Carolina.

http://www.calicomonkey.com/blog/0029-macs-in-charlotte-north-carolina.php

Super Cool DIY sticker video

2006-08-08T18:49:00.000-05:00

Are you as concerned about the world's diminishing Net freedoms as we are?

2006-05-13T10:14:00.000-05:00

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft are all now supporting censorship of the Net in China and elsewhere. And now the big telecom companies are trying to push through hefty tarrifs on bandwidth. At least we can take to the streets and communicate with graffiti art once they take our Net freedoms away. Free Expression Forever!

GraffitiProject.com Featured on The Jim Richards Show

2006-03-28T22:28:00.000-05:00

Just got finished with a fun interview with CFRB 1010 Talk News Host Jim Richards about The Bathroom Graffiti Project. As soon as I get an MP3 of the interview I will post it here.

Thanks to your help, word is getting out about the BGP. We have about 1,000 people a day visiting the photo gallery and over 70 BGP Snipers out on the loose taking pictures of bathroom graffiti and sniping stickers.

Submit your pictures here.

Join the BGP Sniper Team here.

GraffitiProject Featured On ABC News!

2006-03-16T16:33:00.000-05:00

ROSE PALAZZOLO from ABC News wrote an article featuring The Bathroom Graffiti Project yesterday. So many people have been visiting the site that the servers crashed today. We will get the site up as soon as possible! Thanks for your support...read the article here: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=1728528&page=1

El Toileto!

2006-03-15T20:38:00.000-05:00

Bathroom murals don't get much better than this. Thanks Joel for this amazing submission. Keep em coming...

Boys vs Girls Graffiti

2006-03-15T20:32:00.000-05:00

The Bathroom Graffiti Project has been asked several times whether there is a difference between the graffiti in men's restrooms vs. women's restrooms. From what we've noticed the major difference is there usually seems to be more graffiti in the men's rooms. But when you find a good women's restroom with lots of graffiti, it's every bit as creative, witty, profane and gritty as the dirty scrawls on the wall from the men's room. Now that we're paying attention to this question, we'd love to hear what you think? And better yet, we'd love to have some different examples submitted to the Bathroom Graffiti Proejct so we can let people analyze this matter for themselves. Submit pics at www.graffitiproject.com.

Could Graffiti Cause A Riot?

2006-02-20T22:07:00.000-05:00

Send in your religious and political graffiti...looking for anything that might be controversial, interesting, spiritual, witty, whatever. If cartoons can cause riots all over the country, just curious about the impact of bathroom graffiti when religion is involved. Submit your images at www.graffitiproject.com.

Yes! Have You?

2006-02-06T23:50:00.000-05:00

But now I'm feeling pretty good. How about you?

Announcing The 2005 BGP Photo Contest Winners

2006-01-11T20:51:00.000-05:00

Congratulations to the winners of the BGP Photo Contest! In case you’re wondering how we selected this year’s winners, we used your viewer ratings to help us narrow the pool of finalists. We then selected the top three winners based on the quality of the bathroom graffiti image, the creativity, and how well we thought the images represented The Bathroom Graffiti Project. Keep submitting your favorite images. We will soon be announcing a new Photo Contest for 2006. Thanks again for all of your contributions. It truly was difficult to narrow down the selections.

First Place: The Bigger the Bellow

Location: Men’s Room, The Deadwood, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Photo Taken: July 20, 2004
Photographer: Anthony
Artist Comment: Best use of white space I’ve seen in a long time.
Link: http://www.graffitiproject.com/topImages.php?pgID=8

Second Place: The Lamp and The Tag

Location: Men’s Room, The Deadwood, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Photo Taken: July 20, 2004
Photographer: Anthony
Artist Comment: Best use of white space I’ve seen in a long time.
Link: http://www.graffitiproject.com/topImages.php?pgID=8

Third Place: I Love You

Location: The Marble Arch, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Photo Taken: January 01, 2003
Photographer: Alex Davidov
Artist Comment: An interesting cross section of Vancouver's bathroom writers.
Link: http://www.graffitiproject.com/topImages.php?pgID=17

Amazing Year For Bathroom Graffiti

2006-01-11T20:49:00.000-05:00

Thanks to all of the help from our loyal readers, the BGP Sniper Team, and all of you who continue to submit pictures, the Bathroom Graffiti Project had a great year in 2005. If you’ve been to our site before then you know we’re all about promoting freedom of expression, street art, and creative thought. If this is your first time, here’s our manifesto: http://www.graffitiproject.com/manifesto.php.

Even though, we’re just beginning our mission to collect and document the world’s best bathroom graffiti, the graffiti writers and artists of the world are beginning to unite! With your help we have already been able to collect over 330 images from around the world.

We’re a long ways of from our goal of at least one image from every country in the world, but give us a couple years. This collaborative arts project is taking off. Already the archives have images from all over the United States, Canada, France, Australia, China, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ireland, and Germany.

You can help out by taking pictures of bathroom graffiti, telling your friends about the project and linking to our site.

www.graffitiproject.com.

The 2005 BGP Photo Contest Ends Tonight!

2005-12-31T10:55:00.000-05:00

Hurry!!! Get all your bathroom graffiti photo entries in tonight by midnight EST in order to enter the 2005 BGP Photo Contest. And don't forget to vote for your favorite images over the next two weeks. The BGP Photo Contest Judges will select three contest winners from the pool of the top 50 highest ranked images that YOU the viewers rate. So help us pick the finalists between now and January 15th, when we name the top 3 bathroom graffiti images of 2005.

The BGP Judging Panel will be selecting winners based on several criteria but image quality, graffiti quality, and creativity all count. We'll also be looking at how well the image represents the Bathroom Graffiti Project philosophy as described in the BGP Manifesto and the artistic quality of the photograph.

If you miss the 2005 Photo Contest, don't fret. 2006 is nearly here, and we will be announcing several brand new contests for 2006 with lots of prizes and interesting themes. Contact Us if you have a cool photo contest idea...until then submit your bathroom graffiti images, join our Sniper Team and vote often!

Want free graffiti stickers?

2005-12-13T18:06:00.000-05:00

Soon, you will see these stickers in bathrooms everywhere...hopefully as a result of you helping to spread the word. And most importantly, we hope to find some interesting bathroom graffiti covering these stickers. Help us get these stickers out there by downloading our FREE sticker template from the Bathroom Graffiti Project web site at www.GraffitiProject.com. Just go to the FREE downloads page. Or shoot us an email at info graffitiproject com and we will send you stickers to snipe in bathrooms in your area. If you have other great ideas for sticker designs shoot them our way so we can offer them up to others and keep spreading the word.

P.S. This sticker design was provided courtesty of the great work of Elizabeth Anderson. You can find out more about her design company at www.vaquerosdesign.com. As always, thanks for helping out Elizabeth...you rock!

BGP Sniper Team Update

2005-12-09T15:59:00.000-05:00

Just a quick update to keep you all in the loop on all of the happenings related to the Bathroom Graffiti Project.

Since officially launching the www.GraffitiProject.com about 8 weeks ago (and thanks to your help) we already have over 300 images of all types of bathroom graffiti from various cities, towns, and other nooks and crannies from nearly 10 countries.

Check out the most recent graffiti uploads when you get time:

http://www.graffitiproject.com.

We have also added new functionality to the beta Web site and we'd love your feedback. Most notably, we added the graffiti rating system AND the viewer COMMENTS tool so you can share feedback, graffiti barbs, and other non-sense right underneath each image. Don't be shy…just start posting your comments.

In other BGP news…

BGP PHOTO CONTEST
The BGP PHOTO CONTEST for 2005 ends in about 3 weeks (December 31 to be exact), so get all of your best shots uploaded before the end of the year. We're giving away prizes and first place is $250 cash. We'll feature the winner on the site after we announce the winner in mid-January.

STICKERS AND STENCILS
We are taking submissions for cool new sticker and stencil designs that we can give away as free downloads to help promote the Project and get more people involved around the world. If you would like to design the sticker, or have a stencil you'd like to share, we'd love to offer it for download on the site. Email us at info@graffitiproject.com to help out.

DO YOU WANT FREE STICKERS?
If you want a bunch of free BGP stickers to post in bathrooms everywhere, shoot me an email with your address. We are getting a bunch printed up and will have them ready in about two weeks.

OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP
As you know from the Manifesto on the site, this is a collaborative project about free expression. We need your help to really get it going. Our goal is to have thousands of great bathroom graffiti pictures, and at least one image from every country in the world. Yes, even those places you have never heard of.

Here are a few ways you can help the project take off:

Submit more pictures, rate pictures, and post comments.
Email your friends and tell your enemies about www.graffitiproject.com.
Link to us from your blog or Web site, or tell others to do so.
Contact us for FREE stickers to snipe in bathrooms everywhere.

As always, if you have any suggestions or feedback let us know at info@graffitiproject.com or http://www.graffitiproject.com.

Over and out,

BGPSniper

Open Call For Bathroom Graffiti Project Sticker Designs

2005-12-04T00:16:00.000-05:00

The Bathroom Graffiti Project is in search of a really cool sticker design so we can promote the project in bathrooms everywhere. Submit your best design ideas and we will feature it on the site, make it available for free download, and print up a few thousand of them to post in bathrooms everywhere. Designs should include the site URL (www.GraffitiProject.com) somehow. Please make stickers 2.5 inches by 2.5 inches as that's the cheapest for us to get printed. Upload your designs at www.graffitiproject.com, or email us at info graffitiproject com. Or if you are interested in having a bunch of the stickers sent to you to post in bathrooms, join our Sniper Team HERE and we will mail you a bunch for free. Thanks for your support as we collect and archive the best bathroom graffiti in the world.

F*#@ ME PLEASE

2005-12-04T00:13:00.000-05:00

Comment Tool Now Live in BETA

2005-12-04T00:10:00.000-05:00

We just added a new viewer comment feedback tool to the Bathroom Graffiti Project web site. It is still in BETA so if you find any glitches please shoot us an email. Check it out at www.graffitiproject.com and start posting your feedback and responses to the bathroom graffiti pictures or others' comments. As always, your suggestions to help improve the site are welcome. Email us at info graffitiproject com.

Community Feedback Tool Being Built on GraffitiProject.com

2005-11-27T20:01:00.000-05:00

We are busy building a new community comment tool so that you can post yourfeedback, thoughts and ideas about each of the graffiti pictures on www.graffitiproject.com. The tool should be built around the first of the year. If you have any other great suggestions please let us know by submitting your suggestions at www.graffitiproject.com or email us at infograffitiproject.com.

Who's Beer Is That?

2005-11-23T15:46:00.000-05:00

The Bathroom Graffiti Project Photo Contest

2005-11-16T20:09:00.000-05:00

Submit your favorite pictures of bathroom graffiti to the BGP Photo
Contest and you could win $250. Help us collect and share images of
the best bathroom graffiti from all over the world. Click here to
find out more: www.graffitiproject.com/contest.php

Sticker Art Graffiti

2005-11-16T20:05:00.000-05:00

Cafe Habana New York City

2005-11-16T19:59:00.000-05:00

The Bigger The Bellow

2005-11-11T17:10:00.000-05:00

Festooned

2005-11-11T16:57:00.000-05:00

Bathroom Graffiti Face

2005-11-11T16:56:00.000-05:00

Yes, I have no life

2005-11-11T16:53:00.000-05:00

Share Your Bathroom Graffiti

2005-09-29T20:09:00.000-05:00

The Bathroom Graffiti Project is on a mission to collect and share pictures of bathroom graffiti from every country in the world. Check out the project in action at http://www.graffitiproject.com and get your camera phone or digital camera ready...it's time to submit and rate your favorite bathroom graffiti.