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The Florentin Graffiti Cache Mystery Cache

Hidden : 4/19/2014
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The posted coordinates bring you to a large free parking lot. To get the final coordinates where the cache is hidden, you must walk around the Florentin neighborhood (see waypoints) and identify some of the graffiti artists that "work" there. Specifically, you must find the "pen names" of 5 of the most prolific artists, each with a very distinctive artistic style.

Florentin (Hebrew: פלורנטין‎) is a neighborhood in the southern part of Tel Aviv. Historically, Florentin has been an overwhelmingly blue-collar neighborhood. However, recent years have brought to it a growing population of young students and artists trying to make this area their own. As a consequence many of its ally walls have become living canvases for aspiring street artists with an urge to express themselves. The locals seem to be largely accepting of this phenomena, and the police generally turn a blind eye. In fact, there were demonstrations when the municipality was planning on removing an iconic street mural depicting Rabin's assassination (see photo).
Some of these graffiti artists only wish to "tag" their name. However, several are remarkably talented artist. It's worth noting, that unlike most cities, you will find comparably little profanity or hate speech expressed in these graffiti. The street art scene here is highly regarded; so much so that some claim that it's considered to be among the top locations in the world. Graffiti artist are said to come visit from around the country and the world, to see and leave their mark.

For this puzzle, I chose 5 famous Graffiti artists (or groups), marked A through E, where each one of them has a distinctive style. In the panel below I give one or two examples for each artist, as well as the first and last letter in their "pen name". Your task is to discover the full "pen name" of each artist and note how many letters are in the name. So, for example, if artist (X) calls himself "jdevor", I would mark it in the panel as "j*r", and you would set X=6, since there are six letters in the full "pen name".

The final coordinates:

N 32 3.(B)(A-B)(A-E)
E 34 45.(D+E)(B+C)(B+D)

Note: If at all possible, I recommend doing this cache during a holiday or Saturday, when the shops are closed. Though this neighborhood is far safer than it used to be, nevertheless, I would avoid doing this cache after dark.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Urnq urvtug (vs lbh'er gnyy). Oruvaq n "Qnatre bs Qrngu!" fvta. Frr gur trbpurpxre sbe shegure uvagf.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)