[HN Gopher] The Lost Cat Art of Ithaca, NY
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       The Lost Cat Art of Ithaca, NY
        
       Author : jdsleppy
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-08-01 20:59 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.lostcatithaca.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.lostcatithaca.com)
        
       | varelse wrote:
       | My favorite Ithaca moment was a t-shirt in a t-shirt store there
       | that made fun of a New York State lottery ad campaign about what
       | people would do with their lottery money that stated "I would buy
       | a mountain of crack and live in a whorehouse." - Joe Blow
       | 
       | Never change, Ithaca!
        
       | smolder wrote:
       | I think it's a little weird to go to the effort of cataloging a
       | low-effort serial graffiti like this, but I suppose the
       | frivolousness is part of the fun.
        
       | dtompkins wrote:
       | This is super neat but I think understates the absolute scale of
       | this set of graffiti. I live in Ithaca and it is just everywhere.
       | 
       | My favorite is the one near Sweet Melissa's (here called Large
       | Fence Cat: https://www.lostcatithaca.com/cats/10/large-fence-cat/
       | )
        
       | TedDoesntTalk wrote:
       | I went to university here, but lost cat did not exist at the
       | time. What is this about? Can anyone provide background? (The
       | Website does not, as far as I can tell)
        
         | pcurve wrote:
         | lol typical Cornell alumni response. We don't mention school
         | name... instead, we'll say, "I went to school upstate".
         | 
         | I guess it dates back a few years.
         | 
         | https://ithacavoice.com/2017/11/introducing-ithaquestions-lo...
         | 
         | Visually, they're clearly done by several different people.
         | Some related, some probably not, as a copycat.
        
         | dtompkins wrote:
         | I go there now - It's a set of graffiti images that resemble a
         | stick-figure cat with sometimes square features. They're
         | usually on the back side of signs and things like that. There's
         | quite a bit of it throughout Ithaca now
        
           | TedDoesntTalk wrote:
           | Thanks. Do you know how it started?
        
             | dtompkins wrote:
             | No idea! It was here when I moved (2018)
        
       | davmar wrote:
       | i love it. this is brilliant.
        
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