The
south side of the 112th Street mural. Photo Rosemary Ponnekanti.
Tired of seeing gang graffiti on the bridge at South 112th
Street and Portland Avenue, local graffiti artists have painted over
the area to create a mural measuring 50 by 34 feet. The mural was
comple...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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News
Nicole O'Reilly The Hamilton Spectator (Jun 28, 2010)
Graffiti is a crime that has
been and will be prosecuted.
That's the message being spread by police, the city and community
leaders as part of an anti-graffiti strategy aimed at deterring and
catching people who commit graffiti vandal...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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Events
Coming off the Turnpike only to brake
in the crawl of Holland Tunnel traffic, there's little entertainment in
the concrete valley of billboards and storage centers.
Stare
long enough and you'll start to notice the faded graffiti tagged
along the top floors of some surrounding factories, like the crude white
letters spelling KAWS on two sides of a rooftop at
13th and Coles.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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World News
O***** F******, 32, was sentenced to the
minimum three strokes from a rattan cane and five months in prison after
he pleaded guilty to breaking into a Singapore train depot last month
and spray-painting graphics and the words "McKoy Banos" across two
carriages.
He was accompanied at
the time by with a man identified as L**** D*** A********, a Briton, who
was in Singapore for just three days, according to the prosecution.
Singapore has sought the extradition of
A********, who it said was ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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Charged
Man pleads guilty to graffiti charges
Thursday, June 24, 2010
By Lindsay Carroll, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Police say Ian Debeer left this tag on
the Allegheny Wharf.
A man who allegedly caused more than $200,000 worth of damage with
his graffiti pleaded guilty to charges of vandalism today.
I** D*****, a 22-year-old originally from Buffalo, N.Y., had been
charged with 100 counts of vandalism to city, railroad and private
property. Prosecutors reduced some of his charges and withd...
Common Pleas Judge Frank Palumbo ate a little crow for
breakfast yesterday.
During a morning court session, Palumbo ordered two former
Philadelphia police officers - Sheldon Fitzgerald and Howard Hill III -
to stand trial on criminal charges for their alleged beating of a
graffiti vandal.
This was an about-face for Palumbo, who last ye...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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New Laws
(06-23) 14:48 PDT Los Angeles, CA (AP) --
Prosecutors are seeking an injunction designed to thwart a graffiti
crew known for massive scrawls of its Metro Transit Assassins initials
"MTA" along a quarter-mile stretch of the concrete-lined Los Angeles
River.
The Los Angeles city attorney's civil court injunction request filed
Wednesday identifies 10 members of the MTA vandalism squad. Unlike other
anti-gang injunctions, the city attorney's office says the one
targeting MTA is the first...
WINDSOR, Ont. — Unsightly graffiti is being replaced with
colourful murals by a group of young spray painters who have found a new
artistic outlet.
Marco Boskovic and his team now create
thoughtfully planned-out pieces of art.
"There are a lot of kids
out there who are in a lot of trouble because of this kind of stuff and
the only reason is because they have nowhere else to paint," said
Boskovic, 22.
The alley behind ICI Paints on Tecumseh Road East
was once covered with the motley wo...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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Old Skool
Then come back here and refresh the page.
After being dormant for almost a decade, the Phun Phactory, the city's
largest showcase for graffiti artists, opened in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
on Saturday.
More than 60 artists, including some premiere aerosol
artists, filtered through the group's new permanent space on North 15th
Street and Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg.
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, June 20, 2010,
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Charged
SAN BERNARDINO - A year of intelligence gathering
resulted in a two-day sweep of suspected graffiti vandals earlier this
week.
Thirteen people were arrested on various charges, including felony
vandalism, possession of marijuana, cultivation of marijuana, burglary,
outstanding warrants, felon in possession of ammunition and
probationary violations, said San Bernardino Police Department Sgt.
Dwight Waldo.
Firearms and narcotics were also confiscated during the raids
Wednesday...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 16, 2010,
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World News
The anonymous graffiti artist Banksy has
popped up again, and this time maybe he's been captured on CCTV.
OMG apparently there's a new Banksy! No, we don't mean another anonymous vaguely
anti-establishment fellow with a spray can and stencils; we mean
Banksy's done another work, this time in the garden of the Princess of Wales in Primrose Hill. It depicts a
lion looking at a girl holding a heart-shaped ballloon – profound as
ever.
A British Graffiti artist is wanted by Singapore to face charges of
vandalism. L**** D*** A********* sprayed his tags on a Singapore tube
train, but fled the country after a warrant for his arrest was issued.
Singapore does not take kindly to graffiti - and if convicted, A********
could face a $1500 fine, three years in jail and three to eight
strokes of a cane.
The caning wouldn't even be the first for a vandalism case - i... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 8, 2010,
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WANTED
SINGAPORE: A warrant of arrest has been issued for B****** L****
D*** A********, the man suspected to be an accomplice of the Swiss
national charged with vandalising an MRT train in Singapore.
In a statement released late Monday evening, the Police said that, in
consultation with the Attorney-General's Chambers, it applied for the
arrest warrant and this was granted by the Subordinate Courts.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 8, 2010,
In :
Artist
Maria Popova on June 4, 2010, 5:07 PM
What happens when an artist loses his or her creative
currency – the capacity for self-expression? That's exactly what
happened to legendary Los Angeles graffiti artist Tony Quan, a.k.a.
Tempt One, when he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. As he began to lose use of
his a...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 8, 2010,
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Artist
A sticker, like
the one above, was found on an airport trashcan, raising concern among
security officials. (Photo courtesy Rene Gagnon)
A sticker found on a trash can at a Washington, D.C., airport last
week depicting what appeared to be a suicide bomber is actually the logo
of a popular graffiti artist. His fans have plastered his stickers
around the world since around 2005.
The sticker caused a bit of stir among Department of Homeland
Secur...
A GRAFFITI vandal who caused £86,000 of damage by
spraying his signature "Osne" tag on buildings and trains in Bristol
and London
has been jailed for 18 months.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 1, 2010,
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Busted
A number of arrests for graffiti have recently been made by a
special anti-vandalism unit in the 49th Precinct. Vandalism is bad
enough, but what might be especially disturbing to some is that the
young people arrested already have lengthy rap sheets for graffiti and
are vandalizing property close to their own homes.
The transit
vandal squad made arrests of two young men in an area that police
officers recently volunteered to help clean of graffiti. The brazenness
and long rap sheets is... Continue reading ...
Shepard Fairey hasn't always been considered the street
artist's Street Artist (in the way Burt Reynolds is a Man's Man). The
meld between Fairey's multi-million dollar clothing company and the
propagandist graffiti he does irks the hell out of many "true" graffiti
artists (it could also have something to do with this ad
campaign he did for Saks last year). Which leads us to the subject
of this post: Since...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 1, 2010,
In :
Artist
Written by Administrator
Friday, 28 May 2010 10:51
On 7 June, FNCC goes to the streets with its
latest exhibition called Urban Decay, the exhibition will showcast
graffiti art by G*** R*** aka Real. Born in 1982 in London, Real has had
a passion for graffiti all his life. He started out like most graffiti
artists by spraying his tag on walls but soon got fed up with spraying
on walls and cars for the sake of it. The desire to have his works
regonised prompted him to...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 1, 2010,
In :
Events
by Mandy Richardson May 27 - June 2, 2010
Mark your calendars,
folks, because it’s about to go down NYC style in the only place that
matters: C to the mutherflippin’ Bridge, yo! It’s time to prepare
yourself for a night of graffiti, hip hop, drum n' bass, and topless
hotties, because on Friday, June 4, Spun Turtle Productions and
Mandyland Promotions are bringing you the First Annual Street Dreams
Graffiti Art Show.
This much...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 1, 2010,
In :
Charged
A Richmond graffiti artist will spend
time behind bars after vandalizing several local neighborhoods.
M****** A******* was sentenced last week after admitting to defacing
properties in the Fan District and Oregon Hill. Atkinson, who often
spray paints his "who" tag, will spend 10 weekend days behind bars,
allowing him to work during the week before turning himself in on
Saturdays and Sundays.
Police said A******* generally tags private property, and is known to
have spray-painted restau...
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On 7 June, FNCC goes to the streets with its
latest exhibition called Urban Decay, the exhibition will showcast
graffiti art by G*** R*** aka Real. Born in 1982 in London, Real has had
a passion for graffiti all his life. He started out like most graffiti
artists by spraying his tag on walls but soon got fed up with spraying
on walls and cars for the sake of it.
