Browsing Archive: February, 2010
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, March 25, 2010,
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Artist
ShareThisPosted: Mar 23, 2010 by aimstar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TooFly has long carried the torch for female graffiti artists. But with 10+ years in the game, her legacy means much, much more. Interview: Royce Bannon Photography: © 2010 Jay Maldonado What’s going on in the world of TooFly? Honestly, some big changes. It's still cold in NYC. I've been indoors most of winter hibernating, and getting ready for a busy 2010. This year I ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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News
e EyeWriter costs about as much as an iPod shuffle, about $50. EyeWriter.orgThe EyeWriter costs about as much as an iPod shuffle, about $50. A
group of artists and hackers have crafted a gadget that lets a
paralyzed graffiti artist continue making art using only his eyes. And
it costs about as much as an iPod shuffle. Zach Lieberman of the
Graffiti Research Lab started working on the EyeWriter with one man in
mind: Los Angeles-based graffiti artist Tony Quan. In 2003,... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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Busted
A group of five Bowling Green residents allegedly linked to a string of graffiti vandalism will face charges. A*******
M*****, 19, M******* C*****, 18, M*****l R*******, 22, B********
K******, 18, and T****** H******, 18, face a total of 28 misdemeanor
counts of criminal mischief and two counts of criminal trespassing,
also misdemeanors. The Warren County Attorney’s Office plans to issue criminal summonses to the five people. The
citations follow an investigation by the Bowling Green Police
De... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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Charged
Two men will be charged with being the
graffiti artists who caused about $4,200 in damage at locations
throughout the city, Pittsburgh police said Thursday.
St***** W*****, 22, of Overbrook and P****** W****, 22, of Dormont
are each accused of causing $2,100 in damage to 10 buildings and
properties that were vandalized, police said. The displays include
identifying trademarks such as "CCK," "3311," "DRAMA" and "SLAVE."
"CCK" stands for a group of graffiti vandals known as "Crazy, Crac... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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Street Art
Oh these hands, Buff Diss’s trademark – “Bridging the Gap” in Berlin
All images courtesy of Buff Diss
Melbourne-based graffiti artist Buff Diss is on a mission to find
the perfect place for his graffiti so that it completes and complements
what is already there: A friendly hand lending a match to light a
random pile of wood, the same hand now shattering a brick wall, adding
to the debris below, or in another place, taping shut a historical
gate. And local authorities are not too upse... Continue reading ...
Atlanta painter and tattoo artist Miya Bailey reaches for a photo
album on the floor of his Castleberry Hill studio and opens it to a
random page. The album's full of photographs that Bailey shot in the
early '90s of graffiti pieces layered so dense on wall after wall, they
form a continuous texture, an endless tapestry. There's prototypically
East Coast wild style writing with its sharp angles and indecipherable
lettering, but also 3-D bubble letters and exaggerated, cartoon
characters all i... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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Busted
KING CITY, Calif. -- Two people were arrested in King City late Monday in connection with graffiti vandalism that was done to four businesses.A*** C******, 18, and a 17-year-old were arrested on charges of felony vandalism and possession of graffiti tools.Police
said officers were first called to the area of First and Bassett
streets at 11:10 p.m. after a report that someone was spraying graffiti
in the area. Three businesses were damaged with graffiti in the area.Just minutes later, a witnes... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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WANTED
By Energeticcity.ca staff
The local RCMP is seeking public assistance in its hunt to find an unwelcome fence painter.
It follows a complaint last evening of a suspcious male spray painting
the rear fence of the Shell Canada Upstream office, at the corner of
99th avenue and 87th street.
He's described only as dressed in a dark colored hoody and black down-filled jacket.
However, there's also a report he left the scene heading west on 100th avenue, in a Dark Blue Chevy pickup.
Police are taking... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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News
DALLAS — A former graffiti tagger will join renowned artist and illustrator Lamberto Alvarez at the first District 1 Graffiti Wipeout Conference from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 27, at Hector P. Garcia Middle School Cafeteria, 700 E. Eighth St. in North Oak Cliff.
“The juxtaposition of guests is meant to highlight the event’s
message of encouraging youth to redirect their creative energy from
illegal vandalism to valid artistic expression,” said Councilmember Delia D. Jasso.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, March 12, 2010,
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News
March 09, 2010, 4:04PM
An I-76
interstate sign was doctored on the Web to include Ryu from "Street
Fighter" and Hoboken.
Hoboken Now spotted an item related to the mile square city that was
worth sharing. A digital graffiti artist has contributed quite creatively to the blogosphere news
today in altering this I-76 interstate sign in
Philadelphia so that it includes the image of Ryu from "Street
Fighter" executing a fireball command combo as well as t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, March 12, 2010,
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Charged
A NOTORIOUS graffiti artist whose ‘tags’ could be found across
Birmingham has vowed to put down his pen permanently after he was caught
red-handed on camera, a court heard.
S**** T***** was finally snared by officers last year after CCTV
captured him defacing a wall separating platforms four and five at New
Street train station, it emerged at Birmingham Magistrates Court.
The court also heard how the 22-year-old, who scrawled under various
guises including Data, Dater and Dater Ibs... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, March 12, 2010,
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Charged
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Security guards at Santa Cruz's Red Room bar
early Saturday morning caught a man suspected of spray painting a Santa
Cruz police car; investigators say evidence points to the man as being a
"prolific" vandal.
K*** A******** H***, 24, of San Francisco, was stopped by security
guards just after midnight Friday; a bar customer told the guards a man
had just painted graffiti on the wall of a hotel on Locust Street,
police report. A police car parked nearby was found to... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, March 12, 2010,
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Charged
A man is facing dozens of mischief charges after a number of Old
Strathcona buildings were defaced with graffiti.
Graffiti tags were found on homes and businesses in southwest
Edmonton between Aug. 17 and Dec. 1 of last year.
Cops say the charges come after an “extensive” investigation.
“I would suggest this is probably our single biggest instance where
we’re laying so many charges in relation to graffiti,” said Const.
Gerald Jorgenson, graffiti project co-ordinator with EP... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, March 12, 2010,
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News
It's a central principle of most
justice systems that 'the punishment should fit the crime' - but you
probably shouldn't follow the example of one Mexican official, who
punished a teenage graffiti artist by spray painting his buttocks.
The mayor of
San Juan del Rio in Queretaro state, central Mexico, says he has fired
the official for spray-painting the buttocks of a teenage boy as
punishment fo... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, March 12, 2010,
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Busted
An Illinois man was charged Wednesday with defacing several
buildings in downtown St. Charles, said St. Charles police Lt. Mike
Akers.
A***** J*** M****, 28, of Swansea, Ill., faces two charges
of first-degree property damage.
He allegedly either spray
painted buildings or etched into glass windows the letters "SUR5L,"
according to police reports.
The letters appeared in 40 different
locations in November between the first and fifth blocks of North Main
Stre... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, March 12, 2010,
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Busted
PROVO — Provo police closed the file on 31 graffiti cases after a
traffic stop led to the arrest of a prolific street sketcher, they said.
An officer who had stopped a car for a
traffic violation Feb. 19 found the driver dressed all in black and
extremely nervous, according to a news release. The officer noticed
several... Continue reading ...
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
 Priscilla Vazquez Lee Quiñones will be responding to readers’ questions about his life and work. This week, Lee Quiñones,
an artist who emerged from the subway art movement of the 1970s, will
be responding to readers’ questions about his life, work and the
evolution of graffiti as art in New York City.
To ask Mr. Quiñones a question, please use the comments box below. His first set of answers will appear in City Room on Wednesday.
Mr. Quiñones painted hi... Continue reading ...
Renowned
graffiti and tattoo artist Mister Cartoon and two East Coast graffiti
artists, Cope2 and Sen2, recently bombed three MetroPCS stores in
Harlem and the Bronx in New York, to promote the partnership between
Sanctioned by Mister Cartoon and MetroPCS.
We have footage and photos of the three artists brainstorming,
marking their territory on the stores with their signature art, briefly
speaking with the police who paid them a visit during their creative
session, and gracefully ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010,
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Busted
CLIFTON – Alleged graffiti artist D***** B******** was arraigned in the
city municipal court Friday morning on 18 charges of criminal mischief.
B******** replied with simple "yes" when asked if he understood the
charges by Judge Scott Bennon. He was charged with spray painting the tag NARK on walls, buildings
and highway barriers, Bennon stated. B******** allegedly painted the
graffiti from July 2007 to December 2009, totaling about $25,500 in
damage.
... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010,
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Busted
Friday, 26 Feb 2010 05:14am
A man has been charged with 16 offences relating to the graffiti and malicious damage of 14 RailCorp trains.
The 38-year-old Croydon Park man was arrested and charged yesterday
afternoon (Thursday 25 February) following a five-month investigation
by the Rail Vandalism Task Force.
It is alleged the man caused more than $10,000 damage to 14 trains and various RailCorp property over the past 10 years.
He has been charged with 15 offences of malicious damage an... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010,
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News
Last year, Artnet Magazine’s Charlie Finch predicted that the High Line
would lead to rising rents, sounding the death knell for the Chelsea
gallery scene. While this has not yet happened, the well-liked aerial
greenway is arguably having an antiseptic effect on the arts
neighborhood, with Exhibit A being the recent destruction of a storied
graffiti mural on West 23rd Street, in keeping with a city program to
spiff up the buildings around the successful park. The prominent
"REVS/COST" mura... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010,
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News
THE cheeky Worle artist who managed to sneak one of his paintings into
a Banksy exhibition last year is back with some wacky cat inspired
paintings. Adam Mclevey, aged 33, has painted three large-scale pieces depicting some of Bristol's key landmarks.
The 6ft by 4ft paintings have been such a success that they have been
leased through local arts company Upfest to the University of Bristol. The huge canvas pictures will now hang in the Hiatt Baker student halls of residence.
The pieces re... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010,
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News
By MATTHEW NEWTON
 In March 2009, graffiti artist HERT was arrested in Pittsburgh on 69 misdemeanors and four felony counts of criminal mischief. For the last several months, I’ve been working on an article about
the increasing number of graffiti prosecutions in recent years. In the
past, graffiti artists arrested for tags, pieces, and throw-ups were,
moreover, fined and sentenced to court-ordered community service. But
in recent years, astronomical restitution and prison time h... Continue reading ...
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