We see it everywhere: alleys, trains, billboards, street signs. It
gets hard to notice after a while. Graffiti in some form has been around
since ancient times and views on it are getting more and more divided.
Graffiti’s critics see it as a symbol of crime and urban decay while
its ...
S*** M. K***'s SEED tag is spray-painted
on the exterior of Cazuela's Grill at 2247 N. High St. After he
completes his jail time, K*** is expected to scrub his graffiti off
walls.
S*** M. K*** spread his
SEED tag over countless buildings in Clintonville, Northland and the University
District.
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A GRAFFITI artist armed with
five knives went on a 28-hour rampage across New York city, fatally
stabbing his stepfather, ex-girlfriend and her mother, killing a
pedestrian and wounding four other people before being arrested in Times
Square.
Maksim
Gelman, 23, was armed with a bloodied kitchen knife when he was taken
into custody on Saturday morning after an all-night hunt from Brooklyn
into Manhattan.
"It's so horrendous and bizarre. We have no reason to know why... Continue reading ...
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Old Skool
Fab 5 Freddy is a former graffiti artist, a cultural icon and a key
architect for bringing hip hop music to a mainstream audience.
Born Fred Brathwaite in 1959 in Bedford Stuyvesant, Fab 5 Freddy
began his journey as a young visual artist, executing graffiti pieces
throughout New York City. His 1980 homage to Andy Warhol, a subway car
covered in Campbell’s soup cans, is considered one of the all-time
classics of subway graffiti.
Fab began exhibiting his paintings on canvas in major ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 14, 2011,
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Busted
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members of the notorious group known as BDS or “Big Dog’s Crew” were
arrested on Wednesday, bringing an end to a 6 month investigation. The
group was named as one of the crews causing major damage to MTA
(Metropolitan Transportation Authority) property throughout Los Angeles
County in July 2010. The arrests were made in 9 different areas: East
Los Angeles, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, Los Angeles,
Palmdale, South Gate, and South Los Angeles, according t...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 14, 2011,
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Artist
“What’s
to be done with this Banksy character?” is the question of the day
among the bluebloods milling about Oscar headquarters. Wherever that is.
For those who aren’t familiar, Banksy is a street/graffiti artist who wound up directing, through a humorous turn of events, Exit Through the Gift Shop,
a nominated documentary ostensibly about himself that stands a good
chance of winning the statue for its category. Nothing terribly ...
The
reason we do murals is it reduces the graffiti in the neighborhood. I
say, 'You want to come in and help me color this in?' Automatically, the
kid ties into the mural." GRASP program assistant Johnny Santos
(RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post
)
The
exterior walls of a one-time Denver lumberyard have become a legal
canvas for graffiti artists to spray-paint their creations with the
owners' blessing.
LG are funking up their new flagship phone the LG Optimus Black
by giving it a graffiti makeover. Special editions of the phone will
feature drawings by Keith Haring on the back of the cases.
Keith is a graffiti artist who did stick men, animals and weird
surreal landscapes on the walls of New York before his death in 1990
from AiDs. His art grew a cult following and it's bee...
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Charged
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An 18-year-old Watsonville man who was tied
to 160 acts of graffiti around Santa Cruz County pleaded guilty in
Santa Cruz County Superior Court Tuesday to three felony counts and
seven misdemeanor counts of vandalism.
A****** R****** J***** will be sentenced March 9. District Attorney
Bob Lee's office says it expects J***** will receive a county jail
sentence and perform one year of cleaning up graffiti. He will also have
to pay back more than $25,000 of ...
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Busted
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- On Friday, police made an arrest in connection with the defacing of an ATM at Dennys' among other places.
H***** P***** C**** was arrested and charged with 14 counts of misdemeanor graffiti and one count of felony graffiti.
The St. Augustine police department responded to a call at Denny's
restaurant and found an ATM machine there vandalized with graffiti and
the word "DURU."
"Prior to this incident there were 14 locations where vandalisms were
also reported, and t...
"I've always wanted to paint it," graffiti artist Trevor Peters said of the vast south wall of McElheran's furniture store. Businessman Jeff McElheran says he plans to regularly change the graffiti splayed across the 17-by-five-metre brick wall.
Photograph by: Chris Schwarz, The Journal, Edmonton Journal
Some might think him a victim of vandalism. Jeff McElheran is really more of a patron of the arts.
In a classic tale of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," the local businessman t...
Photographer Ozkar Gorgias is also a graffiti artist, and the man has spent the past 12 years painting and photographing his associates as they bomb the rooftops, tunnels, and alleyways of Europe. Ozkar documented the shoes he wore through it all, click on the thumbnails above to check them out, and then head to Ozkar's personal siteto see the artist's work. Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, February 6, 2011,
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Street Art
Who would have thought that in the world of graffiti artists and wall taggers, innovations in technology could also help these people spread their messages around?
Take for example a Vimeo contributor by the name of mudlevel. He has created a portable robotic device capable of quickly painting a rainbow on just about any unsuspecting wall.
The robo-rainbow, as it is called, takes only a few minutes to setup and is attached to a bicycle for mobility. Then when the target wall is found, the bike ...
CUBA is the name of one of the city's earliest known graffiti artists, still operating today. The 46-year-old Baltimore transplant moved to the Mission in 1985, when he was 21 years old, "with full intent of getting a scene brewin'," he said.
Inspired by the Mission's colorful flair for expression through street murals, CUBA set out to make a name for himself in the neighborhood's alleyways and derelict buildings. Earning a reputation as a prolific graffiti talent...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, February 6, 2011,
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Events
Gallery assistant Alison Brind looks at Banksy's screen print 'Virgin Mary', part of the touring exhibition at The Civic, Barnsley. Pictures: Chris Lawton.
Published Date: 01 February 2011
By Martin Slack
Reclusive graffiti artist Banksy is among a group of painters who are represented in a new exhibition which recently opened in Barnsley.
The show, called Street Art: Contemporary Prints from the V&A, is a touring exhibition which organisers say aims to bring modern work off the street and into ...
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Artist
Courtesy Utah Valley University UVU art student Nicolas Solis works on graffiti painting during a session in October in Pleasant Grove. The work is part of "Hidden Voices," an exhibit on display at at UVU"s Woodbury Art Museum through March 5.
BY BRIAN MAFFLY
The Salt Lake Tribune
First published Jan 31 2011 06:53PM Updated Feb 2, 2011 01:27PM
When police caught Albert Anzar with big marking pens while violating curfew last year, he found himself locked in detention for a few weeks in part because...
