Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, December 30, 2009,
In :
Legal Graffiti Art
Artist
Mike Ballard has been given free rein to transform an entire gallery
into one giant installation - because the space is to be demolished for
Crossrail.
Every surface of the Arts Gallery in Davies Street,
Mayfair, has been covered with images, including of ancient Egyptian
rulers, comic book superheroes and prehistoric cave art. The floors,
walls and ceiling merge into one work.
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, December 20, 2009,
In :
Charged
A 17-year-old Reno juvenile has been arrested by Reno police on
felony graffiti charges after he allegedly admitted to carrying out 271
graffiti vandalism incidents throughout the city, police said Thursday.
Police
detectives say the suspect was also arrested in August after witnesses
identified him as the individual responsible for graffiti vandalism
under the bridge at Booth Street and Idlewild Drive for which he is
currently on probation, police said.
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, December 20, 2009,
In :
Busted
Yesterday, subway graffiti artist Poster Boy
pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal mischief and got handed a
sentence of 210 hours of community service -- a punishment that seems a
little extreme.
Poster Boy, also known by his significantly less cool real name H**** M*********, admitted he was the masked bandit in a YouTube video
making deviant art by vandalizing subway advertisements, and now he's
got a whoooooole lot of garbage to pick up from roadways. We're not the
only ones who think... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, December 20, 2009,
In :
Charged
By Dennis Romero
The graffiti artist known as Revok was charged today after he was arrested last month at a show of his work in Mid-City.
The 32-year-old whose real name is REVOK was charged with
one misdemeanor count of possessing graffiti tolls and and three
misdemeanor counts of possessing stolen property. A sheriff's
department Special Problems Team along with California Highway Patrol
officers and the Los Angeles Police Department's graffi...
Late
last month, San Jose cops made an announcement that reverberated like a
shock wave through the ranks of local graffiti fans. Police in the
South Bay metropolis believed they had unmasked
the prominent artist-vandal known as "Girafa," a graffiti "writer" --
as such auteurs prefer to be called -- who has left an opus of charming
giraffes on innumerable stret...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, December 14, 2009,
In :
Street Art
This graffiti in New Brunswick features bright colors and curvy designs.
By Lauren Runza
Graffiti has been considered a blight to the cities that find their
buildings and transit systems marked by copious amounts of paint. Laws
are becoming more stringent in regards to graffiti. For example,
Chicago recently passed a ban on the purchase or possession of spray
paint by young adults.
Not everyone, however, sees graffiti in such a negative light. To
many, it’s a form of public art. These diffe...
BREAKING BEARRIERS:
Ladd House residents arranged for graffiti artist Tim Clorious, known
as ‘Subone,’ to repaint the Ladd basement with a Bowdoin-relevant polar
bear.
In the week after the raucous,
fire-alarm-filled, basement-soaking Inappropriate Party, the Ladd House
basement underwent an artistic transformation in the hands of
Portland-based graffiti artist Tim Clorious. ...
GRAFFITI
vandals from Feltham, Kingston and Twickenham who caused an estimated
£270,000 worth of damage to trains have been jailed for a total of six
years.
The gang of six men admitted daubing their 'tags' on
more than 125 trains and tube carriages over a two-year period from
February 2006 to November 2007.
They would mainly go out at
night, breaking into train depots across west London and further
afield, but as their crimes went unpunished ...
