Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, April 24, 2012,
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Diamonds graffiti by Above
A California graffiti artist who goes by the name Above is not ashamed to say it was a lie.
He told an arts organization in Johannesburg, South Africa, he was going to paint for them an enormous mural that would read, and “Diamonds are a woman’s best friend.”
The mural on a wall surrounding the Jewel City complex in Johannesburg actually read, “Diamonds are a woman’s best friend and man’s worst enemy.”
The statement, an allusion to the controversy over Afr...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, April 19, 2012,
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iStockphoto/Thinkstock(JOHANNESBURG, South Africa) -- An artist from California who goes by the name “Above” is boasting about a recent trick he pulled in Johannesburg.
He was commissioned to paint a mural that said “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” in Jewel City, where hundreds of diamond companies operate. Instead, he painted, “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend and a man’s worst enemy.”
In a blog posting he wrote, “I was painting a controversial wordplay about the diamo... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, April 19, 2012,
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Above: from left, INKIE, Point and Pasta
Above: One of INKIE, Point and Pasta's graffiti installations
Published: 13 April, 2012 by PETER GRUNER
WITH the slogan “success is the best revenge”, Czech graffiti artists moved into the Angel this week as a colourful forerunner to the arrival in the borough of the country's Olympic team.
With permission from British Waterways the artists, working on canvases 3m wide by 4.2m tall, took three days to create prominent works along the canal towpath a...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, April 10, 2012,
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Nikita Nomerz transforms window frames into eyes and brickwork into teeth and smiles, creating elaborate graffiti with his signature grinning faces
A street artist has brought life to derelict landscapes across Russia by creating quirky faces to run-down buildings.
Nikita Nomerz transforms window frames into eyes and brickwork into teeth and smiles, creating elaborate graffiti with his signature grinning faces through his project, The Living Wall
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, December 14, 2011,
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Yesterday finally was the big day. Berlin’s famous 1UP crew and the Babylon Cinema presented together the film that the world has been waiting for so long:One United Power! And of course, myself and a couple of friends joined the film premiere…
With an completely sold out screening hall and although everybody knew that certainly also undercover cops have been around, the atmosphere could not have been better and reached the first peak, when the audience was called upon to put on the free 1...
Lebanese graffiti writer Mouallem tags a wall near Souk el-Ahad in Beirut.
BEIRUT: “Oras” Opac is not what most people would expect a graffiti artist to look like. A buttoned-up and slightly stiff young man, he sits behind a desk in his neatly organized office in Jel-El-Dib and speaks carefully in a voice heavily accented with French.
Also a visual and graphic designer, Opac says he knows that he doesn’t fit the mold of the tattooed, pierced vandal, but cl...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 28, 2011,
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GUELPH — A local graffiti artist has had a change of heart, and now the owner of the property they damaged is opening hers.
Not only did the graffiti artist known as “Solar” apologize for tagging a community mural painted by volunteers on the side of an Arthur Street warehouse a week ago, the graffiti artist also gave money to help pay for repairs.
“I made a mistake, one beyond both community and self,” begins the handcrafted letter, delivered Tuesday to the building’s owner.
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, November 26, 2011,
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RCMP now admit they were keeping tabs on a Grand Forks, B.C. graffiti artist.
Dion Nordick found two surveillance cameras hidden in trees near his trailer home in June. He took them down and found pictures of himself and friends coming and going from his home.
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, November 26, 2011,
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Graffiti in Egypt and Tunisia has been used as a popular form of expression during the revolution in the respective countries. (File photo)
Graffiti has been a popular form of expression around the world, and Egypt and Tunisia are no exception as street art has been used as a means to encourage individual thought and encourage the youth to shape the future of their political landscape.
A group that calls itself the “Freedom Painters” has taken to the streets of Cairo’s downtown hub Nasr C...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, November 26, 2011,
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(Photo courtesy of Kosmopolite Art Tour Jakarta 2011)
International artists are eyeing Jakarta as the next hub for graffiti and mural arts. The Kosmopolite Art Tour will be taking place at various hot spots in the capital this December. The six-day graffiti-fest will feature renowned graffiti artists from Europe as well as up-and-coming local players. The event will include a talk with artists, graffiti clinic and classes, collaborative mural productions and exhibitions.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, November 15, 2011,
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The United Nations Office for Human Rights in Colombia, has sent an open letter to the Prosecutor General's Office condemning police responsibility for the death of young graffiti artist in Bogota, August 19, 2011.
"The Office has followed the case, and through its monitoring work found evidence indicating excessive use of force by the public servant who caused the death of the child," the UN office stated in the letter.
Furthermore the High Commissioner and other human rights bodies of the Uni...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 29, 2011,
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Calgary police are looking for the graffiti artist using the tag “AKOR.” He’s considered one of five worst graffiti taggers in the city.
Photograph by: Courtesy, Calgary Police Service
Graffiti in Calgary is down both in terms of the number of complaints and amount seen, according to police and city officials.
Bill Bruce, chief bylaw officer for Calgary, said complaints about graffiti on public property are down 14 per cent and on private property are down about 17 per cent compared with ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 29, 2011,
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The mystery surrounding the recent killing of a 16-year-old graffiti artist by police officers in Bogota has caught national attention, including that of Vice President Angelino Garzon.
Commander of the Bogota Police General Francisco Patiño provided his official version of the event, which contradicts reports from the minor's relatives, W Radio reported.
According to Patiño, the police responded to a call about "a robbery on a bus. [The call] spoke of three men and one woman, one of them wit...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, May 15, 2011,
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Graffiti thought to be by street artist Banksy. Picture: David Bebber
FAMOUS graffiti artist Banksy has surprised critics with his latest work on a London wall, which they argue is an attempt to regain his gritty image.
The work, which features the words "If graffiti changed anything - it would be illegal" and one of Banksy's trademark rats, appeared on a wall in a central London.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, April 27, 2011,
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Hong Kong - Hong Kong police were on Thursday looking for a graffiti artist who has spray-painted an image of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei on several pavements and footbridges in the city centre.
The series of stenciled images, which also include the words: 'Who's afraid of Ai Weiwei?' in English, were discovered by patrol officers Wednesday.
Police said the case has been classified as criminal damage.
Artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei has been held at an undisclosed location by Ch...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, December 23, 2010,
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For Thaer Fahmawi, 19, hip hop is more than just a style of music. “ I breathe hip hop. I eat hip hop. I wake up, I start beatboxing before I do anything.”
Fahmawi is a member of 962 Street (or Share3 962), known as “Jordan’s official hip-hop movement,” a crew made up of MCs, producers, break dancers, beatboxers and a graffiti artist. Right now, his plans for the future are few and, if he decides to continue working toward his high school diploma, he won’t have the opportunity...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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An Australian man learned the hard way not to urinate on a transformer when he was electrocuted and almost died.
The unnamed man, a Gold Coast graffiti vandal, ended up with severe burns on almost half his body after he and three associates snuck into the Coomera railway power station.
At some point he received a potentially lethal shock of 22,000 volts that has left him hospitalised for the foreseeable future.
Despite signs reading 'Danger: High Voltage', the Australian man cut through fences a...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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Woodstock police are looking for the vandals who spray-painted graffiti on two police cars parked in a neighborhood off Ga. 92, along with several nearby businesses.
Sometime between 6:15 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, the vandals painted epithets on a Cobb County police Dodge Charger and a Roswell police Crown Victoria that were parked at the homes of officers on Weatherstone Drive, police.
Woodstock police Sgt. Paul Brown said the vandals also targeted one of the officer's personal vehicle, a pick...
Taking exhibition art to a new level, 2011 TED Prize
winner, the anonymous JR, is now making Shanghai his canvas by etching
huge black and white photographs on the facades of crumbling or
dilapidated buildings. His previous work follows the same style, using a
team of volunteers to mount a collection of expressions onto various
places in poverty stricken zones, spanning the globe from Rio to Kenya,
while taking care to operate ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, September 26, 2010,
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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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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 Tuesday, July 20, 2010,
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Federal & State Prisons Call (888) 728-2726 to save today!
A teenage
gang has been locked up for vandalising dozens of Tube trains and
stations with graffiti.
The teenagers daubed the tag “FTS” all
over the trains and filmed themselves on their mobile phones. One of the
gang brazenly declared online: “If I get two years I'll still paint.”
The
youngest gang member was only 14 when took part in the vandalism
between April 2008 and June last year. Now 16, he was se...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 20, 2010,
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MILAN — A judge on Monday acquitted a celebrated graffiti artist of
defacing public property, a case that drew attention because Milan’s
city hall had pressed its legal action at the same time that it had been
sponsoring exhibits featuring his art.
The artist, Daniele Nicolosi, 28, better known as Bros, was acquitted on
a technicality. But the verdict did not cheer his defense team, which
had been hoping for an acquittal that clearly recognized Mr. Nicolosi’s
colorful str...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010,
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Steven Longstaffe with girlfriend Megan
Macauley
A MERSEYSIDE artist was found hanged after watching her boyfriend
plunge to his death two days earlier.
Megan McAuley’s family said the talented 20-year-old and Steven
Longstaffe, her boyfriend of seven months, were together “like they
always wanted to be”.
Megan, who was learning to be a personal trainer, was found in Derby
Park, in Bootle, on Tuesday afternoon.
The former pupil of St John Bosco arts college died ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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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 16, 2010,
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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 ...
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 Friday, October 30, 2009,
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Graffiti
artists put the final touches to pieces of work at an urban art event
in Lisbon July 30, 2009. When Lisbon town hall repainted the
graffiti-covered walls of the bohemian Bairro Alto district, the move
was welcomed by most, but graffiti artists say the urban art gallery
they got in compensation is a farce. Ricardo Campos, who wrote a thesis
on "the anthropology of graffiti", said the art form "came late to
Lisbon, some 20 years after its boom in New York, but when it arrived
in the 19... Continue reading ...
