Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 29, 2010
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Busted
CRANSTON, R.I. -- An abandoned backpack, a strong odor of spray-paint
vapor and a rustling in the woods led police to a suspect hiding in
bushes with white spray paint on his hands.
The man, D**** S******, 20, was charged with vandalism and is being
investigated for graffiti at 15 other locations in the city, Police
Major Robert W. Ryan said Friday.
Ryan said that at 11:15 p.m. Thursday, Sgt. Joshua Dygon was patrolling the bike path under the Crawford Street Bridge in the Arlington se... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 22, 2010
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 22, 2010
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Events
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 22, 2010
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Events
Graffiti NYC: Artists of the Third Rail features photographs, works on
paper, paintings, sculptures, murals and live presentations by Martha
Cooper, John Naar, Richard Hambleton, Snake1, Noc167, Jamestop,
Stayhigh149, PNUT, Cap1, Tracy168, Futura2000, Dondi, Keith Haring,
Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Phetus, among other legends of the third rail.
Benrimon
Contemporary is pleased to announce a group exhibition that
demonstrates the trajectory of the history of graffiti in New Yor...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 22, 2010
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News
Image from einesigns
It's a tradition: heads of state exchange gifts when visiting each
other. So on his recent trip to the USA, Prime Minister Cameron has
given President Obama a piece of graffiti art by British graffiti artist
Ben Eine. In fact it was a swap: in return, Mr. Cameron was given a
litho by the American Ed Ruscha.
What a rise in fame and status for graffiti. It used to be called defacing public property. Then the elusive Banksy b... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 22, 2010
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Charged
A 4ft 3in graffiti vandal from London caused £40,000 of damage in
areas including the capital on a "tagging" spree - using a stepladder. M*******
M******* was jailed for daubing his personalised signature on buildings
and trains in 11 London boroughs, as well as Hertfordshire, Sussex and
Kent. The 27-year-old, who admitted causing criminal damage at an
earlier hearing, had carried out a campaign of vandalism over two years,
British Transport Police said. M******, of Castleton Road, ******... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 22, 2010
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News
DENVER -- The hiss of spray paint cans echo in a
southwest Denver neighborhood as three young men decorate a cinder
block wall. This is not an act of vandalism, but rather a mural intended
to prevent tagging."It's looking good so far," said 20-year-old Ratha Sok, a graffiti artist.Sok
understands the lure of a blank urban wall to taggers because not so
long ago, he was part of the problem. Lacking the money to buy art
supplies and canvases, he started tagging at 15 years-old. Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 22, 2010
HOUSTON - When you’re confident the girl will say “yes,” you can use the side of an auto parts store to pop the big question. On
Friday, Shannon Reiswig of Houston carried out his plan to ask his
girlfriend, Jessica, to take his hand in marriage. It involved paint, an
artist, and a filmmaker. “Both me and Jessica like street art a
lot,” said Reiswig. “We are both photographers, and we follow street
artists in town. I thought I would get a hold of a couple friends and
see if ... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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World News
All
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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World News
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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News
By: Sudbury Northern Life Staff Two
men walking on Lasalle Boulevard were stopped by Greater Sudbury Police
Services on July 11.
After further police investigation, it was
found that one of the men was breaching his curfew. The 18-year-old in
question had been released on bail in June after a number of mischief
and graffiti related incidents.
A search revealed he had large
marker on him, however Greater Sudbury Police Services (GSPS) did not
have sufficient grounds to proceed with any ... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010
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World News
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 ... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010
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World News
Berlin - One person died when a German high-speed train drove into a
group of graffiti sprayers early Friday, rail operator Deutsche Bahn
announced.
The young graffiti artists were spraying freight wagons when the
high-speed ICE train approached.
The accident occurred 80 kilometres west of Berlin, where the train was
en route to Switzerland. - Sapa-dpa Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010
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News
New York-based graffiti artist turned fashion
designer Claw Money has teamed
up with Vans to do a
line of shoes and accessories for their girl’s line.
The shoes (a high-top and low-top pair), socks and tank tops just hit
stores and surprisingly aren't scrawled with the  '80s-inspired
graffiti and bright colors the artist uses in her own collection, but
rather dark, animal-print pieces informed by Southern California’s
sun-bleached surfers and thriving punk scene.... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010
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Busted
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A graffiti artist has been told to pay £4000 to a council -
after walking into a police station with spray paint and photos of the
"art" he had done.
Daniel Carlin had sprayed his "tag" on several road signs on the A9 near
Gleneagles before walking into the local police station to report his
friends missing.
Officers had already heard about the graffiti and decided to search
Carlin. They discovered a number of aerosol paint cans and a phone
featuring photos of his work... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010
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Street Art
By
Samantha Page, Special to the Los Angeles Times
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Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010
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Events
FOR THE JERSEY JOURNAL
It was 97 degrees in Ridgefield, Conn. Sunday afternoon
when friends of KAWS arrived at the Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum.
They disembarked a bus chartered by the artist - Jersey
City native Brian Donnelly - waving pink and green fans in
the shape of his iconic skull design. Marching down the hot
pavement of a parking lot already at capacity, the
artist's acquaintances entered galleries packed with
dedicated fans armed with vinyl toys, stuffed animals and
unblemis... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010
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RIP
Rammellzee, an early graffiti writer, hip-hop pioneer and
performance artist whose style influenced the Beastie
Boys and Cypress Hill,
died Sunday in Far Rockaway, Queens, where he was raised. He lived in
Battery Park City in Manhattan.
He was 49 and died after a long illness, said his wife, Carmela
Zagari Rammellzee.
He became known in graffiti circles in the late 1970s and early 1980s
for hitting the A train and other subway lines around Queens with his
spiky-lettered work. He ap... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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Events
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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Street Art
Posted By Rosemary Ponnekanti on June 29,
2010 at 5:51 pm
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 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... Continue reading...
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... Continue reading...
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. It's the tag of Brian Donnelly, arguably... Continue reading...
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 ... Continue reading...
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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Busted
By WENDY RUDERMAN
Philadelphia Daily News
rudermw@phillynews.com
215-854-2860
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... Continue reading...
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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Legal Graffiti Art
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. The Phun Phactory, w... Continue reading...
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Careful trompe l’oeil is hardly an artist’s technique you expect a tagger to employ in his graffiti work. But these often miscalculated and misunderstood artists have a lot to teach the world about style and artful urban transformation with a message. D.O.C.S
(Doing Only Crooked Shit) is the graffiti...
