Browsing Archive: September, 2009
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
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World News
TYNESIDE will become the graffiti capital of the North, if professional graffiti artists get their way.
They are bidding to bring a touch of their work to our streets in the hope that people will open up to it.
In Newcastle alone, council tax payers have to fork out £300,000 a year to rid walls and buildings of ugly scrawl.
But
in Shieldfield, a 500ft fence has been turned over to Trackside, a
company that specialises in graffiti, to display their art.
Trackside
co-owner Graham Sm... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
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Charged
A
NOTORIOUS graffiti vandal turned acclaimed artist has escaped a prison
sentence for his past life defacing trains and private property.
The
Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday heard R****** O**** F***, 23, was
a renowned aerosol artist in the international graffiti "sub-culture"
before police raided his home in June last year.
Police found numerous spray paint cans along with a computer hard
drive containing photos and videos of F*** and others spray painting
trains, walls and ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
In :
Street Art
THE ELUSIVE, international street artist Banksy may have chosen a Tottenham letting agent's wall for his latest canvas.
A distinctive stencilled work of two children playing catch with a "no
ball games" sign is definitely by the world-renowned graffiti artist,
whose original works have sold for more than £100,000 at auction,
according to fans.
The graffiti, which uses Banksy's trademark
stencilled style and sense of humour, appeared over the weekend
opposite the junction of Tottenham High Ro... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, September 29, 2009,
In :
Beef
This is a email that found it's way into alot of mailboxes and we choose to share it you.............
(T KID)
Yo my man cut the shit with your bull shit. I`m going to tell you
something..I didn’t pay that incident any mind till that day we were
painting together with cope in that school yard. I listen very
carefully to what you said that day and your own words led me to
believe what I felt in my gut for the longest.
You came looking for me to get into the yard not the other way
around.PAL!!... Continue reading ...
Leilani Silva, a CSUN business major, received a one of a kind
birthday present when her raffle ticket was selected out of the glass
jar during a CSUN Public Art Club event on Sept. 16.
An original graffiti artwork by Man One was the perfect 19th birthday surprise for Silva, who is a self- admitted “art freak.”
Silva has been studying Mexican-American artists in her Chicano art
class and decided to attend the lecture and demonstration of Los
Angeles graffiti artist Man One last Wednesday.... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 24, 2009,
In :
Street Art
WHILE the majority of people are hoping for an Indian summer
it seems Flintshire’s mystery graffiti artist is already getting into
the festive spirit.
The latest offering from the anonymous artist, dubbed the Flintshire Banksy, appears to be a portrait of Father Christmas.
The intricate painting, which carries the artist’s recognisable
tagline RANDOM, is thought to have appeared overnight Monday, on the
doors of the old B&Q store in Queensferry, next to his previous
picture of a miner.
It... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 24, 2009,
In :
Events
Finally, widely hailed graffiti artists Cope 2 and Chor Boogie will be teaming up for the "Beauty & The Beast" exhibit at the Mid-City Graffiti Art Gallery in Los Angeles.
Considered the graffiti "God of Destruction," the Bronx-bred Cope 2 has been called on to create art for TIME magazine and has been featured on MTV's "Artist Spotlight." Chor Boogie has also created art for MTV, and uses graffiti in a spiritual, therapeutic manner.
The two diverse artists will exhibit their work at the Mid-C... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 24, 2009,
In :
Charged
A VANDAL who caused more than
£8000-worth of graffiti damage to railway property in the West End of
Glasgow has been sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
P****** P*****, 19, of Beith Street, P******, was sentenced at
Glasgow Sheriff Court after earlier pleading guilty to five vandalism
offences.
He is believed to be a member of a notorious graffiti gang called
BTS and his distinctive "ONCE" and "TUNE" tags were daubed on walls in
the Jordanhill and Partick areas of the ci... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 24, 2009,
In :
Busted
A San
Jose man who police say was responsible for a vandalism spree in
downtown Los Altos in June and other acts of vandalism in the South Bay
was arrested last week and charged with 67 counts of vandalism,
including 45 felonies. E**** O****, 19, was arrested Sept. 14 by police at a home on South Tenth Street in San Jose. O****
is being held on $200,000 bail and is scheduled to enter a plea in
Santa Clara County Superior Court today. He faces a maximum possible
sentence of 39 years and 8 mo... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 24, 2009,
In :
Street Art
"It's all so amazing and so artistic," the 17-year-old Old Bridge
resident said. "I don't know what half the drawings are, but they are
all so beautiful. You have your own interpretation of everything that
you see.
But on Saturday afternoon, with a paintbrush in her hand, she said she stood corrected — and in awe.
"It's all so amazing and so artistic," the 17-year-old Old Bridge
resident said. "I don't know what half the drawings are, but they are
all so beautiful. You have you... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 23, 2009,
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Events
In the context of popular culture the history of Hip-Hop has been
recited and mythologized many times over. Born in the 1970's South
Bronx, from a foundation of Jamaican DJ techniques and verbal delivery,
African-American soul music, Brazilian capoeira inspired
breakdance moves, and technicolor aerosol paint, grew the international
phenomena known as Hip-Hop. The one element of Hip-Hop that has never
been fully acknowledged is the role of women in the spotlight and
behind the scenes.
In 197... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 23, 2009,
In :
Charged
September 18, 2009 08:30am
A
ROCKINGHAM teenager is facing 74 charges after allegedly going on a
graffiti spree, which police say will cost about $20,000 to clean up.
Rockingham
police are targeting graffiti offences and have charged 15 people with
more than 500 counts of causing criminal damage during the past two
months.
The latest alleged vandal to be arrested is a
19-year-old man who was yesterday charged with spraying his ta... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 23, 2009,
In :
Street Art
By: Jeff Chu
 For
the Use the City Festival in Kosice, a steelmaking hub that is
Slovakia's second-biggest city, Curtis erased years of industrial
grime. | Photographs by Franco Pagetti
Enlarge Working
in Slovakia "was a bit more interesting than I would have liked," says
Curtis. For one thing, there were the homemade ladders the locals
provided. They also equipped him with firehoses that sprayed sand along
with the water, m... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 23, 2009,
In :
Old Skool
COST, REVS early 1990s COST, REVS early 1990s
Eric Felisbret may be better
known to some people as DEAL CIA, his tag from his graffiti writing
days. For the past ten years, he's been running the old school graffiti
site at 149St and now, after thirty years of documenting New York City's graffiti scene, he's put together Graffiti New York,
which features over 1,000 images. We spoke to Felisbret about his start
in graffiti writing, t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 23, 2009,
In :
Charged
One suspect in the Petoskey graffiti vandalism case is scheduled for sentencing later this month. After
pleading guilty Aug. 26 to malicious destruction of personal property
between $200 and $1,000 — a one-year misdemeanor — which is one of the
two original charges against him, 18-year-old A******** C**********
Iuni — hometown unknown — was able to have a five-year felony charge —
malicious destruction of a building between $1,000 and $20,000 —
against him dropped. In August, Iuni w... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 21, 2009,
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WANTED
Astonishing. Graffiti artists are still doing the ol' "sneak into a
museum and hang unsolicited work" trick. The latest, Mat Benote,
fancies himself a "Fine Art Graffiti Artist" and has actually already
pulled this stunt at the Guggenheim.
His latest conquest was the walls of the Brooklyn Museum, and one of
his minions wrote to tell us this is "the Cloak & Dagger style of
graffiti art that he has become known for." So controversial! So... 2005!
We've contacted the Brookl... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 21, 2009,
In :
Busted
September 21, 2009
John Burman
Police have busted three graffiti painters in one day with the help of citizens who called 911 to complain.
Sergeant
Terri-Lynn Collings says police are pleased with the phone calls – all
in a five-hour period Saturday – bec... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 21, 2009,
In :
Busted
By NICK BONHAM
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
Writings on a couple of Downtown walls landed a group of out-of-town visitors in jail early Sunday. At least six people were arrested on suspicion of contributing to the deliquency of a minor and criminal mischief. Booked
into Pueblo County jail were Antonio Chavez, 22; Joseph Moses Jimenez,
19; Matthew Paul Medina, 22; Lorenzo Daniel Rivera, 22; and Raul
Rodriguez, 18, all of Colorado Springs. Puebloan Mariah Lynn Espinoza, 18, of the 0-100 blo... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 21, 2009,
In :
WANTED
Police, City Council hope to stiffen lawsBy LISA BEISEL, Staff WriterPublished 09/21/09
They strike at night, over the weekend, and work in the shadow of darkness. Their weapon: spray paint. Annapolis police are trying to stop these vandals from leaving their marks on buildings in the city. Over
the past month, police have found six instances of graffiti in the
downtown area. The markings generally appear after 9 p.m. and are found
on back alleys and the sides of buildin... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 21, 2009,
In :
News
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities deployed
more than 1,000 additional police officers to reinforce security at the
capital's 175 subway stations on Saturday, a day after a shooting
inside a station left two people dead and eight injured at the height
of evening rush hour.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 16, 2009,
In :
Busted
What started out as a routine traffic stop turned into some serious time behind bars for a Canyon Country woman last week.
At 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, a deputy pulled over a female driver who
failed to stop at a stop sign at Newhall Avenue and 16th Street.. The
driver seemed suspiciously nervous. A search of the woman's vehicle
yielded a paint pen, a Sharpie, and some papers with the word "Karma"
in what appeared to be a tagging style of writing.
The deputy arrested the driver, C****** B****... Continue reading ...
Culture | September 13, 2009, Sunday
Sprite Graffiti Fest 2009 took place in the Bulgarian capital Sofia Sunday. Photo by BGNES
The
annual Sprite Graffiti Fest 2009 took place Sunday in the Bulgarian
capital Sofia bringing together the seventy best Bulgarian graffiti
artists.
For the first time, the event was opened by Bulgaria's Education
Minister, Yordanka Fandakova, who also took part in the painting.
"It is important for us that you feel well. Talent must be ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 16, 2009,
By Tim Castle
LONDON (Reuters) - Authorities in the home city of British urban
artist Banksy plan to become the first to allow a regular public vote
on whether popular works of street graffiti should stay or be removed.
The move by Bristol council in the west of England follows a
sell-out Banksy exhibition in the city that attracted 300,000 visitors
and boosted the local economy by an estimated 10 million pounds ($17
million).
Councilors are expected to formally adopt the po... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 16, 2009,
In :
New Laws
By Jeff Stebbins Newschannel 10 Amarillo - Business owners may get some relief this year if they fall victim to vandalism. All it takes is a can of spray paint and a pair of idle hands to inflict unsightly damage on your business. The
Khiva Shriners Temple was vandalized last year, and recorder Wilton
Manley could find no sense of reason behind the actions, saying, "I
think it's a disgrace that someone has to express themselves in that
way, and deface the building or whatever they put i... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 16, 2009,
BASILDON Council is to target graffiti on private property across the district.
The council has laid out plans to remove tags and other graffiti daubed on homes and businesses on private land.
It said there are a number of hot spots for graffiti vandals and it wants to make sure the illegal activity is stamped out.
Strategies include free cleaning kits, free graffiti removal,
education programmes touring schools in the district and community
clean-up days.
Malcolm Buckley, Basi... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, September 12, 2009,
In :
Artist
By Paul Mitchell
10 September 2009 Over 300,000 people
saw the exhibition of works by “guerilla” graffiti artist Banksy at
Bristol museum and art gallery this summer. The number of visitors,
queuing for up to six hours, approached the total population of the
city in the west of England. Banksy
has undergone a meteoric rise to fame. His unknown identity and
nocturnal spray-painting activities have all added to the mystique
surroundin... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, September 12, 2009,
In :
Charged
By Robert Mackey
 Still frame from a video posted on YouTube showing a graffiti artist painting his tag on a highway overpass in Los Angeles.Climbing onto an overpass above the Hollywood Freeway in broad daylight to paint his tag in letters six feet high while a video camera captured it all on tape
must have seemed like a good idea at the time, but now that a graffiti
artist named Cyrus Yazdani has been sentenced to three years and eight
months in state prison in Californ... Continue reading ...
I'll always take time out to praise the New York Public Library,
that national treasure, that amazing resource for writers, scholars,
researchers, and everyone else. But the library can be a source of
inspiration as well as research. Take this upcoming program: Art and the Subway: New York Underground... Program at the Mid-Manhattan Library. Monday, Sept 14 @ 6:30 PM. NYPL blogger Cynthia Chaldekas, in writing about the show, remembers: Artists
have long used the NYC subway system as a wells... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, September 11, 2009,
In :
WANTED
By Joe Johnson | joe.johnson@onlineathens.com | Story updated at 11:46 pm on 9/9/2009Athens-Clarke
police are tracking down a group of men who apparently have spent the
past month vandalizing buildings and property throughout the county.
Police
don't know if the group that is spray-painting the name "DBK" around
town is a gang, but the case has been assigned to an Athens-Clarke
police gang investigator.
DBK first appeared Aug. 8
on a traffic light contro... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, September 11, 2009,
NEW YORK — Artists usually crave light. Robert, 25, chose the dead of night. "It's safer that way," he said. Working on a rough Brooklyn street, he had only 10 minutes to paint before he fled, mistaking an approaching car for the police. Left behind him on a brick wall: two large, dainty seahorses. "I think it's actually rather beautiful," Robert said. Despite
efforts by New York's gentrifying mayor, Michael Bloomberg, graffiti
has not only survived, but is reinventing itself in the city that
c... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 7, 2009,
In :
Busted
ONE hundred people have been arrested and thousands of charges laid during a nine-month police crackdown on graffiti vandals.
The
crackdown in Kingston council, in Melbourne’s south has also resulted
in $98,000 being paid to victims of graffiti through restitution claims
in court.
Insp Neil Paterson said the majority of offenders
arrested were teenage males who police then discovered were wanted for
other crimes including theft, assault and robbery. The crackdown came after graffiti offenc... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 7, 2009,
In :
Busted
A FORMER University of Plymouth student who sprayed
graffiti in 34 places around the city causing damage of nearly £1,500
has been warned that he could be sent to jail.
K*** A******, aged 21, left his tag of 'Roam' all around the city centre, Mutley and Greenbank in a four-month spree.
District
judge Paul Farmer said that the graffiti was an 'absolute nightmare'
and warned that he faced a possible custodial sentence.
Police
said after the hearing that they... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 7, 2009,
In :
Busted
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has charged and arrested three more
teenagers for recent vandalism in Estero and San Carlos Park. T****
S****** and M****** R** A*******, both 18 and San Carlos Park
residents, were charged with one count of felony burglary to a
structure (more than $1,000 in damage), one count of felony criminal
mischief (more than $1,000 in damage) and five counts of misdemeanor
criminal mischief. An additional count of misdemeanor criminal mischief
was enhanced to a third-d... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 7, 2009,
In :
Charged
ESTERO: Deputies have arrested a teenager in connection with one of a string of recent vandalisms in the Estero area. B*******
S****, 17, on Wednesday gave deputies a statement indicating her
involvement with the graffiti, specifically to the vandalism at the
Estero Community Park. "It was in the street, on the sidewalk,
on the lightpoles, benches and picnic tables," said Ron Alexander of
Lee County Facilities Management. County officials estimate it will cost between $3,000 $6,000 to cle... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, September 3, 2009,
In :
Busted
(AP)
NEW YORK — Japanese pop artist Yoshitomo Nara has something to smile about. Nara
was arrested in New York City in February for scrawling a smiley face
with a marker on a subway station wall. He was charged with making
graffiti and criminal mischief and even spent a night in jail. The charges against Nara were dropped Thursday. The incident occurred just before an exhibit of Nara's work opened at a gallery in the city's Chelsea neighborhood. Nara's works of doe-eyed, cartoon-like children... Continue reading ...
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Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 2, 2009,
In :
Street Art
September 01, 2009
A mysterious graffiti artist has struck again, this time creating a mural at a Wokingham town centre pub.
The Redan in Peach Street has been given a piece of garden artwork
to be proud of, thanks to Pistol, the Banksy-esque graffiti artist
whose work has been springing up around the town over the last six
months.
Pistol’s identity remains a mystery, however The Wokingham Times understands he is a local family man.
Andy Rog...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 2, 2009,
In :
Old Skool
Graffiti
is any sort of words or drawings, scribbled or painted on awall or
other surface… without permission. That's why most peopleconsider it
vandalism. But to others, including photographers HenryChalfant and
Martha Cooper, it's a form of art. A 1984 book featuringmore than 200
of their images of the graffiti on New York City subwaycars documented
this urban subculture. Now, a 25th anniversary editionof Subway Art is
out with additional photographs. Photographer Henry Chalfant
says he ... Continue reading ...
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