GC2V0R2 Samo (Traditional Cache) in New York, United States created by SherpaRoss

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Hidden : 4/25/2011

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Samo was a young graffiti artist in New York City who became famous in the 1980s as Jean-Michel Basquait, now regarded by many as the foremost Neo-expressionist Artist of the 20th century.

Bring a pen as this is a log-only Nano. Leads up from Basquait's former basement studio. Please take care in replacing as found and where it will stick as the paint layers elsewhere are too thick for magnets.

Muggles aplenty here!

This cache is placed by the former location of the Annina Nosei Gallery.

The SAMO© Graffiti appeared in New York at the end of the Seventies and beginning of the Eighties, in two phases. The second phase was solo work by Jean-Michel Basquiat. The first phase was an anonymous effort by the team of Basquiat, Al Diaz, and Shannon Dawson. Basquiat was the team's driving force.

Basquiat had had the idea for SAMO© when he and Diaz were students at City As School High School. Diaz was a graffiti veteran, having had a tag published in a book on graffiti (text by Norman Mailer) in 1974.

The collective graffiti employed anonymity to seem corporate and engulfing. The tone was utterly different from the morose and abject tone of Basquat's solo work. SOHO, the art world, and Yuppies were satirized with Olympian wit.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

98-100

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)