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New technology catches vandals

Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, March 21, 2012, In : Apps 
One of the 277 vandalism sites, caused by juveniles, from in the past few weeks. | MCT Campus

One of the 277 vandalism sites, caused by juveniles, from in the past few weeks. | MCT Campus

During the past few weeks, five juveniles were charged for $25,000 in damages relating to 277 individual tagging crimes covering 3,580 square feet of Metropolitan Transit System property.

The accused vandals were located via Graffiti Tracker, a regional tracking system, in which pictures of tagged crimes are introduced to the database by GPS-enabled cameras to help identify matching types of graffiti. ...


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GrafRank, An Easy Way To Track The World's Top Taggers

Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 12, 2012, In : Apps 
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RETNA's Houston Street mural is so hot right now (Scoboco).

Twitter has trends, why can't everything? For those of you who ever wished there was an easy way to find out what graffiti artists are trending in a particular city (or worldwide), well, Gothamist's fearless publisher Jake Dobkin has come up with a site just for you. Using a variety of data sources GrafRank "ranks important graffiti artists around the world." It even maps the data!

The site is still in its infancy (here's the New York ...


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‘Sideway: New York’ Hands-on Preview (PSN) – A Graffiti Artist & Hipster’s Dream Game

Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, October 26, 2011, In : Apps 

By Bags H

 Recently, we had the chance to play Sideway: New York, a 2D graffiti platformer set in a 3D world, developed by Playbrains for the PS3′s Playstation Network (PSN) and PC.
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Sideway: New York is a stylized platformer that will make graffiti artists and hipsters cream their pants. I enjoyed it too. The game features Nox, a graffiti artist who is suddenly zapped by a villain named Spray and turned into a piece of graffiti art. Now, Nox is totally flat and can only move along the walls a...


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Street Tag For iPhone: Tag Up Walls Without Getting Arrested

Posted by Tag One on Thursday, August 25, 2011, In : Apps 

When I was young I associated graffiti with gangs and crime. Now that I’m older, it’s probably my favorite form of art. I don’t know my way around a can but I do know my iPhone. And with Street Tag, I can use my iPhone as a can of spray paint. SO FUN.

What’s it do?

It’s an augmented reality app that turns your iPhone into a can of spray paint. You can set the color, width, and wetness of your paint and because it uses AR, you can tag graffiti ...


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