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Browsing Archive: October, 2009

Glens Falls man charged with felonies in connection with spray-painted cows

Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 30, 2009, In : Busted 
By DON LEHMAN dlehman@poststar.com | Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:45 pm | (3) Comments

HUNDREDS of hay bales will make their way to Queensland households soon carrying some unexpected artwork.

Mystery surrounds the graffiti artist or artists who overnight painted smiley faces, love hearts and inspirational words on up to 200 cane mulch bales at a Sunshine Coast farm, The Courier-Mail reports.

It might be graffiti but it put a smile on Bli Bli farmer and hay contrac...


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Local artist moves tattoo shop to E. Brunswick

Posted by Tag One on Sunday, October 25, 2009,
EAST BRUNSWICK — Ed Mildner worked as an accomplished tattoo artists throughout the tristate area, learning to incorporate many different styles of body art to create his own approach. Earlier this month, he moved his shop, Arson Tattoos, to the township.

Mildner first opened Arson Tattoos three years ago in Elizabeth but felt it was not close enough to his roots in Edison.

An artist since he was 7, Mildner would turn anything he saw into a work of art.

He started working as a professional a...


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Vandals sentenced to community service in Forth Valley will now have to clean up graffiti as part of their punishment.

Posted by Tag One on Sunday, October 25, 2009, In : New Laws 

The pilot scheme, which is the first of its kind in the UK, will see offenders carry out the sentence in their local neighbourhood.

The project was launched by Central Scotland Police in Stirling's Raploch area on Thursday.

There were 5,453 instances of vandalism in the area last year.

The scheme will operate with the help of the court and Stirling Council.

Once an instance of vandalism has been reported to police, Stirling Council wardens will seek permission from affected landlords to use t...


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Richmond Police Make an Arrest in Oregon Hill Graffiti

Posted by Tag One on Sunday, October 25, 2009, In : Charged 
RICHMOND - OREGON HILL - Richmond police say they have arrested the person responsible for several acts of graffiti vandalism in the City.

Investigators say 33 year old C*** N**** of Richmond defaced several locations in the Oregon Hill neighborhood along with city parks. They say he used the tag name "Dr. Bastard."

They say they found proof after a search of N****'s Cherry Street residence.

He's been charged with three counts of destruction of property and o...
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2 arrested on shoplifting, graffiti charges

Posted by Tag One on Sunday, October 25, 2009, In : Busted 
Two 19-year-old graffiti vandals were arrested Tuesday night when they were caught shoplifting spray paint from an area discount store, police said.

K***** L. C******, of the 2000 block of Franklin Ave. in Marshallton, and J***** T. P*****, of the 700 block of Dorcaster Drive in the Sherwood Park community, were each charged with shoplifting, possession of graffiti implements and conspiracy.

C******, a convicted high-profile tagger known as SUD and SKUM, and P*****, his associate who tags under...


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Mud Stencils Create Environmentally-Conscious Graffiti

Posted by Tag One on Sunday, October 25, 2009, In : Street Art 
by Ariel Schwartz, 10/20/09

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DIY graffiti doesn’t have to be ugly– it can be thought-provoking, challenging, and perhaps most importantly, temporary. Jesse Graves, an artist based in Milwaukee Wisconsin, has harnessed mud as an artistic medium to take his green graffiti to the streets, and he encourages others to do the same.

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Graves’ graffiti, which includes images of bicycles, bottles of oil, and cows, uses mud stencils to promote messages of social justice. Why mud? According to...


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Graffiti art exhibit opens at Stocker

Posted by Tag One on Sunday, October 18, 2009, In : Events 
When is it legal to graffiti walls? When it's part of school study, which happens to be at Lorain County Community College. For a look at this urban art form, check out "Above and Beyond 2: Art and Installation by Eight Graffiti Artists" at the Beth K. Stocker Art Gallery in the Stocker Center at the college.

Bob Peck has curated the show, which looks at graffiti-inspired themes via fine arts and a large-scale collaborative installation.

The show will continue through Nov. 13.

Stocker Art Galler...
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Graffiti "artist" to serve 5 weeks in prison

Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 16, 2009, In : Charged 
New London – Angry property owners addressed a Superior Court judge this morning upon hearing that Robert V. Guess, accused of vandalizing dozens of downtown buildings with graffiti, would serve only five weeks in prison and two years probation.

Guess, who has been held on $50,000 bond since his Sept. 29 arrest, pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree criminal mischief and admitted to violating his probation from an earlier graffiti case. He agreed to remain in prison until Nov. 3, ...


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Madonna's days as a graffiti artist

Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 16, 2009, In : News 
But having innate stage savvy didn’t mean Madonna grew up a wild child. Though she tells Scaggs about her days as a graffiti artist when she was running with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York City (her tag: Boy Toy), life was tamer before that. “I was a geek in high school. I didn’t really have a drink until I got divorced for the first time [from Sean Penn] when I was 30,” she admits. ” ‘Geek’ is not a word anyone uses to describe me, except perhaps [Confessions...
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Graffiti vandals, meet your new foe

Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, In : News 

By: Mike Aldax
October 9, 2009


Graffiti vandals beware: Before you mark up that storefront, know that police have started using new software to better track where yo...


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Graffiti trio admit spate of train vandalism

Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, In : Charged 
As part of its campaign to nurture a sense of pride in Hounslow the borough is taking steps to massively reduce graffiti

THREE men from Kingston and Richmond were among a group of six vandals who pleaded guilty to causing £270,000 of damage to trains.

F***** H****, 23, of Ailsa Road, Twickenham, S**** O*****, 21, of Jillian Close, Hampton and S***** B****, 20, of Cardinal Avenue, Kingston admitted more than 125 graffiti offences on trains across the country at Isleworth Crown Court on October 7.

About 40 of their offences were o...


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Taggers arrested in sweep

Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 12, 2009, In : Busted 
By Jessica Selva
Signal Staff Writer
jselva@the-signal.com

Authorities arrested two adults and six teenagers Tuesday morning after recovering weapons, drugs and graffiti tools in a probation sweep of known taggers in the Santa Clarita Valley, sheriff's deputies said.

"The message should be clear that if you're participating in this kind of illegal activity and marking up our schools, then there's a good chance we'll come knocking on your door," Los Angeles County sh...

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Two weekend events take different stances on graffiti

Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 12, 2009, In : Busted 
Some city residents celebrated graffiti as fine art while others whitewashed the "vandalism" away within hours of each other this past weekend in downtown Terre Haute.

"Heartland Graffiti: Writers from the Midwest," an exhibition of graffiti artists connected to Indiana, opened Friday evening at the Swope Art Museum. Hours later, the "Terre Haute Wipes out Graffiti" pilot event asked volunteers to paint over graffiti throughout the city Saturday morning.

"If it's in the right spots, like in a ...
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Teens charged with Chino graffiti spree

Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 12, 2009, In : Busted 
Three teenage suspects were arrested this week for allegedly causing thousands of dollars in graffiti damage.

Chino police officers arrested two juveniles Wednesday and a third Thursday after linking the teens to six graffiti incidents near 7th and D streets on September 27, according to a news release.

The graffiti damage, which was etched into several vehicle windows and buildings in the city's downtown, is estimated at $14,000, police said.

Two of the teenagers live in Chino and the third...


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Harbor Springs graffiti vandal sentenced

Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 12, 2009, In : Charged 
A Petoskey man, who recently admitted to spray painting several buildings in Harbor Springs, including Nub’s Nob, was sentenced to probation and jail time Wednesday in 90th District Court.

M****** A****** M**F****** 20, was arrested July 23 by deputies from the Emmet County Sheriff’s Department for spray painting the words “fresh” and “dope” in red and black spray paint on the walls of the Harbor Springs Sewage Authority substation, Hideaway Valley’s well house, as well as a vari...
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Graffiti artist receives rare jail sentence

Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 12, 2009, In : Charged 

  A 27-year-old New York graffiti artist was sentenced today to six months in jail for spray-painting graffiti in the Back Bay and at the MBTA's Orient Heights rail yard.

  D******* B****** was also ordered to serve five years of probation that will be supervised by New York officials; to stay out of Boston for that period; to undergo a mental health evaluation and treatment, if necessary; and to pay restitution, with the amount to be determined at a Dec. 15...

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Wordplay magazine! Competition is open worldwide

Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 9, 2009, In : Events 
We have 'Dephect clothing' goodies to give away, and the winner will be
printed full page in the next issue of Wordplay magazine! Competition
is open worldwide and all will be displayed in our gallery here:
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Competition



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Banksy painting sprayed over by envious graffiti artists

Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 9, 2009, In : Beef 

8:54am Friday 9th October 2009


The world’s most famous street artist’s contribution to make Sutton a more colourful place ...


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Late artist's graffiti sells for stunning sum

Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 9, 2009, In : Legal Graffiti Art 
A piece of graffiti by Hong Kong's self-proclaimed "King of Kowloon" has sold for a record 500 000 Hong Kong dollars (R480 954), auction house Sotheby's confirmed on Wednesday.

The piece by the late Tsang Tsou-choi, featuring rows of Chinese calligraphy on canvas, attracted fierce bidding in Sotheby's Asian art auction Tuesday.

It finally went to an unknown telephone bidder for more than seven times its predicted sale amount of 70 000 Hong Kong dollars.

The amount was more than double that...
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'Graffiti Battle' to see which artist is best

Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 9, 2009, In : Battle 

In the slang of the street, there are "toys" and there are "writers."

Toys are the spray-can painters who are just starting out, fumbling around with a can of paint and oblivious to the difference between standing 2 inches from a wall and working from a foot away.

Then there are the writers, those artists who have learn...


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Huntington Police Nabs Two Graffiti Artists

Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 2, 2009, In : Busted 
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
 
Huntington, WV (HNN) – You’ve seen all the dull multi-colored signs and gibberish scribbled with spray paint on the sides of buildings, sidewalks and other structures. It’s not an art form or a game to avoid detection, the so-called artists are destroying and defacing property.
 
Often, the crimes are considered misdemeanors , unless property damage exceeds $2,500.
 
Two suspected graffiti artists, J***** S***********, 29, a...
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Top graffiti artists to paint the city ‘red’

Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 2, 2009, In : Events 
Monday, 28 September 2009 09:46

SOME of the top graffiti artists from across Europe are heading to Limerick on October 3, and plan to paint the town ‘red’. Organisers of Limerick’s first international graffiti jam expect a carnival atmosphere at the festival in Steamboat Quay,

The JUST WRITING MY NAME festival will welcome 23 professional graffiti artists to the banks of the Shannon.

Local artist and musician Nick Bromfield, told the Limerick Post what to expect: “We’ll be kic...


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