Tony Quan, tag name Tempt One or Tempt1, is an American

graffiti artist Graffiti (plural; singular ''graffiti'' or ''graffito'', the latter rarely used except in archeology) is art that is written, painted or drawn on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from s ...

who began writing in

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in the early 1980s. His style combined the city's local

cholo ''Cholo'' () is a loosely defined Spanish term that has had various meanings. Its origin is a somewhat derogatory term for people of mixed-blood heritage in the Spanish Empire in Latin America and its successor states as part of ''castas ...

writing culture with New York's hip-hop lettering to create a uniquely Los Angeles style. In 2003, Tempt was diagnosed with the degenerative nerve disorder

ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most comm ...

. Now fully paralyzed except for his eyes, Quan has been able to use the

EyeWriter The EyeWriter is a low-cost eye tracking system originally designed for paralyzed graffiti artist Tempt1. The EyeWriter system uses inexpensive cameras and open-source computer vision software to track the wearer's eye movements. EyeWriter was c ...

to continue his art.https://gizmodo.com/5403741/eyewriter-allows-man-to-paint-despite-paralysis http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/11/eyewriter_graffiti_physically_paralyzed.html

References

External links

eyewriter.org

fffff.at - Tempt’s EyeTags are uploaded directly to this page

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tempt One American graffiti artists Living people People with motor neuron disease Year of birth missing (living people)