Posted by Tag One on Sunday, September 26, 2010,
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Rebel Diaz: Community centred
Rebel Diaz make political hip-hop for the people
Rebel Diaz is a politically engaged hip-hop trio from the Bronx, New York and Chicago that voices the struggle of the diaspora, from Chile to the Caribbean.
Rebel Diaz consists of Teresita Ayala (known as Lah Tere) and brothers Rodrigo Venegas (known as RodStarz) and Gonzalo Venegas (G1), born of Chilean activists. The trio position themselves within a history of political resistance through music and question the sh...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, September 26, 2010,
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Legal Graffiti Art
ON Monday morning, the street artist known as Blek le Rat, considered the godfather of stencil graffiti art, set out to create his latest work on a wall opposite the Standard Hotel on West 13th Street.
Mr. le Rat (né Xavier Prou) has been spray-painting his tag on monuments and street corners since 1981, and because what he does is usually illegal, he uses stencils to be speedy. He was working more leisurely on Monday, s...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, September 26, 2010,
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World News
By Marc Burleigh (AFP) – Sep 14, 2010
SAO PAULO — Graffiti?s long struggle to be seen as valid urban expression, not vandalism, is being crowned this month with an exhibition in Brazil by international artists who not only sprayed official works but also spruced up abandoned corners of Sao Paulo.
A raid on a dilapidated factory by many of the 66 artists on the eve of the event?s opening was a celebration of the roots of graffiti, which emerged four decades ago from New York?s subway system....
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, September 26, 2010,
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World News
Graffiti youths caught
by StreetCorner 14/09/2010
Do vandals have keys to Sydney’s trains and rail yards. This is the accusation made today by the Shadow Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian, as she revealed that 100 sets of keys open trains and rail stabling yards have been lost or stolen since 2006.
The information was obtained under Freedom of Information by the NSW Liberals & Nationals. Records since 2006 to March 2010 show 75 sets of keys were lost and 22 stolen, 5 have since been rec...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, September 26, 2010,
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Busted
Dave Gonzalez and three accomplices were charged with defacing the Bethesda Terrace, a Central Park landmark, in January 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)
Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — A young man who was literally caught "red handed" after allegedly defacing the picturesque Bethesda Terrace in Central Park pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday.
Dave Gonzalez, now 22, had red graffiti paint smeared on his hands when he and three accomplices were caught on the 72nd Street Cr...
Police arrested four teens and are seeking a fifth who they believe are
involved in a series of graffiti incidents at 13 or more sites in
Bayonne, according to a story in today's Jersey Journal.
Some of the incidents were seen by witnesses, who were able to help police track down the suspects, said Capt. Walter Rogers.
At 9:10 a.m. yesterday, a 17-year-old who uses the tag "dtect" was
arrested at his Third Street home. At 12:36 p.m., cops caught up with
two 15-year-olds, one from 12th Stre... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 13, 2010,
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Busted
PHOENIX - He's called the worst graffiti
vandal in Phoenix, and he's finally been arrested, accused of tagging
more than 300 sites in Phoenix.
27-year-old J*** D****** has been
indicted on one count of criminal damage and one count of aggravated
criminal damage, for more than 300 graffiti sites over 20 months.
D******
was tracked and investigated using new technology that allowed
authorities to observe all the places he tagged, which provided clues
leading to his arrest.
The Thousands by Burning Candy Crew. Photo: RomanyWG
Ever seen a big set of teeth gnarling on a canal? Or how about a
giant monkey with a shiny gold chain chilling on a shop shutter? These
iconic images are the work of Burning Candy
(BC), an ingeniously creative street art graffiti crew. Now a
groundbreaking documentary is in the process of being made about them –
directed by an elusive member of the crew who is know simply as The
Baron.
The other members of the collective go by the n...
Much
more than a cinematic time capsule of New York City in the outlaw days
of the early 1980s, the 1983 documentary "Style Wars" was a work of art
that reflected the vivid nature of its subject: the streetwise graffiti
artists who, for a few years, turned the city's subway cars into mobile
canvases of spray-painted invention.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 13, 2010,
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Charged
(Media-Newswire.com) - Police Minister Neil Roberts has today
congratulated officers from the Queensland Police Service State Crime
Operations Command’s Taskforce Against Graffiti who, assisted by members
of the Railway Squad and Metropolitan North Region, arrested a
16-year-old male on 200 charges of wilful damage by graffiti.
Mr
Roberts said information from the public led police to launch an
investigation into a graffiti tag recorded across Brisbane’s northside
suburbs.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 13, 2010,
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Charged
For the second time in two years, one of Pittsburgh's notorious graffiti vandals is heading to state prison.
Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning on Tuesday
tagged I** d* B***, 23, with a one- to three-year prison sentence; five
years of probation; and orders to repay the more than $45,000 worth of
damage he caused by spray-painting properties from Mt. Washington to
Lawrenceville.
"When you do damage to someone's property, it's the same as theft,"
Manning told ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 13, 2010,
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Busted
Community Press
Trent Hills — Three male youths are facing charges in connection with several incidents of vandalism here.
OPP
Const. Chris Dewsbury said the teens face 20 counts each of mischief
under $5,000 after a number of buildings in Campbellford were spray
painted with graffiti.
The charges are the result of an ongoing
investigation into incidents of vandalism in the Campbellford area.
Dewsbury said the graffiti was sprayed over a period of time at
different locations all over Ca...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 2, 2010,
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Events
September 1, 2010 | 4:16pm
"Machete," the grindhouse homage starring Danny Trejo, is the type of
movie designed to appeal to connoisseurs of the low-brow, the vulgar
and the cheerfully obscene. So when it came time to hire an artist to
create poster artwork for the movie, it only made sense to seek out a
rebel artist with unimpeachable street cred.
David Choe, the L.A.-based graffiti artist, was recently hired to
create a poster for "Machete," which opens this week i...
New York based artist Jas Charanjiva is a collector of designer vinyl
toys, painting walls with graffiti artistes and amassing underground art
magazines. She is in town to promote street art in the city.
“My interest expanded to art found on the streets in the form of graffiti, Tokyo pop art,
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 2, 2010,
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Busted
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – A suspected vandal has been caught in the act with the tools used to paint graffiti on several signs and poles in Franklin.
Police said an alert sergeant patrolling
downtown Franklin in an unmarked car spotted 28-year-old J**** S******
in the alley at Main and Fourth around 4:30 a.m. Friday.
S****** had several cans of spray paint in
his possession and the cardboard stencil police said he used to
vandalize more than a half dozen signs and poles, as well as a
...
A mysterious graffiti artist has turned a busy bike lane in Portland into a track from Mario Kart.
According to KATU news the bike track in North Williams Avenue in
North Portland features a boost pad, mushrooms, the invincible star as
well as a few tricky bananas to manoeuvre around.
Unfortunately bikers won't be boosting past fellow cyclists or
spinning out into the traffic after passing a banana but props to the
mystery graffiti artist who has brought some fun to the chore that is
cyc...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 2, 2010,
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Street Art
Cult graffiti artist Banksy has confirmed that a mural on a beach wall is his latest creation.
Speaking to The Argus, the street artist, whose identity is still
unknown, said the image of a boy playing in a sandcastle emblazoned with
the Tesco logo is the genuine article.
The mural, appeared last weekend on the beach in St Leonards at the
same time as Banksy, is rumoured to have attend...
