I have no idea who “yanoe” is, but I do know that he has been spraying some pretty big tags around Brisbane in the last week. Like many other highway travelers, I first spotted this epic tag on the south side of the Captain Cook bridge around Saturday. I had been meaning to take a photo of it ever since, but when I went back thismorning the council had painted it over.
Nevermind, you can still find yanoe on the Countess St rail overpass, with a bit of an ego this time it seems. I’m not sure what the scribble on the left hand side means, but the message on the right reads – “From under rated to most anti-capateo!” My interpretation of this is that Yanoe is expressing his views on capitalism. Good on him for expressing himself!
I found a bunch more Yanoe tags around town on Napoleon Complex’s Flickr Stream, if you’re into that sort of thing, go check them out. From the size of this guy’s tags, he must be pretty big business.
This tagger in LA, who goes by BUKET was pretty big business too. This video shows exactly how these guys do their crazy tags in such precarious places. It turns out BUCKET got nearly 4 years in jail and a $100,000 for boasting on the internet.
Seen any more crazy YANOE tags around Brisbane? Let me know about them in the comments.
Tags: Brisbane, captain cook bridge, countess st, graffiti, tag, tagging, yano, yanoe