Browsing Archive: January, 2010
Shepard Fairey, the graffiti artist and illustrator famous for his
Barack Obama “HOPE” poster and “Obey Giant” graffiti campaign, recently
unveiled his latest piece. Titled “Eye Alert,” the print offers a
pretty damn striking yet ambiguous critique of America’s healthcare
situation: an angular faced woman stares at the viewer, the irises of
her eyes a pair of skulls, while she cries tea... Continue reading ...
On the opening day of the Sundance Film Festival, January 21, organizers announced the surprise world premiere of Exit Through the Gift Shop, the first feature film by the infamous British graffiti artist known as Banksy, to take place on January 24.
In
the last few days, mysterious street art has surfaced on buildings in
Park City, Utah, where 17 inches (43 cm) of snow has fallen in the ski
town. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows a Los Angeles-based French filmmaker
who documents the secr... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 26, 2010,
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New Laws
A GROUP of youths was caught breaking into the Merredin Swimming Pool recently. The
youths were spotted jumping over the pool fence by a community member
on the evening of Thursday, January 7, which set off the security
lights. The community member called the police who apprehended the group in the swimming pool. The youths caused significant graffiti damage to the pool deck and in the male and female toilets. They used industrial paint markers to leave their tag. Pool manager Neil Lavers said it ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 26, 2010,
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Busted
On Jan. 13, officers of the Delta Police Department charged a
juvenile female in connection with the graffiti problem Delta is
currently facing. The investigation is ongoing and the department is
following up on new leads for additional suspects.
Department spokesperson Jamie Head says the Delta Police Department
considers this type of vandalism a serious community problem and is
working diligently to correct it. Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 26, 2010,
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Charged
CORPUS CHRISTI —
A graffiti vandal has been sentenced to a year and a half in state jail for vandalism to several buildings including a church.
C**** G*******, 18, pleaded guilty Jan. 6 to felony graffiti and
two misdemeanor graffiti counts. Magistrate Judge Melissa Madrigal
sentenced him to 18 months in state jail on the felony, 40 days in
county jail on the misdemeanors and revoked his probation in a drug
case, according to online court records.
G******* and 23-year-old E*** C****** wer... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 26, 2010,
In :
New Laws
A WODONGA businessman who has spent $30,000 on security is frustrated
with the legal system after his shop continues to be vandalised. Paul
Oberin, from Paul’s Ski Shop, said the law was protecting youths who
had damaged his Thomas-Mitchell Drive business six times in two years. The latest incident saw tags spray-painted on his shop front on December 12. The incident was caught on security cameras and footage was passed on to police but Mr Oberin said no one had been charged. “I used to say t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 21, 2010,
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News
GRAFFITI is about to be blasted out of Parramatta with council’s new graffiti removal unit.
The truck uses environmentally-friendly sodium bicarbonate to blast
graffiti off buildings and walls as quickly as possible after council
has been notified of the vandalism.
Parramatta Council bought the graffiti-blaster after councillors
John Chedid and Michael McDermott campaigned for a better solution to
the city’s growing problem.
Lord Mayor Paul Garrard said graffiti vandalism was cos... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, January 18, 2010,
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Busted
Police say the 28-year-old man has evaded officers for more than three years.
The police's V****** Mdunge says the suspect was wanted for hundreds of
counts of malicious damage to property cases, linked to graffiti in the
Durban area. He says the suspect has been released on warning, but will appear in a Durban court tomorrow.
In 2008, eThekwini Manager Michael Sutcliffe declared war on illegal
graffiti. He appealed to parents not to shelter youngsters known to be
defacing the city, saying th... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, January 18, 2010,
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News
PARRAMATTA Council has stepped up its battle against vandals by
arming its Graffiti Crime Removal Unit with a new quick response
vehicle and soda blaster equipment.
Lord Mayor Paul Garrard said graffiti vandalism had become a
significant concern costing our community money and resources that
could be better used on important projects.
“We are determined to keep our city clean and attractive and the
removal unit is equipped to keep Parramatta graffiti-free,” he said.
“We are now bett... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 14, 2010,
Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - A man who went on a graffiti spree in Syracuse’s Westcott neighborhood will spend the first half of 2010 in jail.
Jordan Wood was sentenced Tuesday morning in Onondaga County court to five years probation, with the first six months to be served in jail.
Wood admitted that he repeatedly spray painted graffiti on several businesses along Westcott Street. Scott Wells, the prosecutor in the case, says it was a very serious and costly crime. “There are some buildings tha... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 10, 2010,
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Charged
LEXINGTON – J***** C**********, 20, appeared in Dawson
County Court Thursday afternoon and pleaded guilty to half of the
counts of graffiti he allegedly committed on or about Oct. 31, 2009.C**********was charged with “knowingly and intentionally applying
graffiti of any type on any building, public or private, or any other
tangible property owned by any person without permission of the owner
or operator of the property,” for the following locations: Strike and
Spare Bowl, Tom Mathies, T... Continue reading ...
Graffiti artists now have another space to play. Self-professed copyright violator and vandal Evan Roth--who also happens to be an artist and co-founder of F.A.T., a Brooklyn-based R&D lab for the public domain, and artist/developer Chris Sugrue created this app that allows graffiti artists to create and database multidimensional tags.
Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 7, 2010,
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Graffiti TV
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 7, 2010,
In :
New Laws
GRAFFITI vandals face up to two years in jail or a $24,000 fine under tough new penalties now in effect.
The new laws, introduced last week, will effectively double the maximum
penalties for graffiti as part of the State Government’s crackdown on
antisocial behaviour in Western Australia. Attorney General Christian Porter said graffiti increased by more than 30 per cent in WA in the past six years. “Graffiti is just one type of antisocial behaviour the people of this State are fed up wit... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 7, 2010,
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WANTED
Germantown Police want to hear from anyone who has information
about recent vandalism in Germantown parks. A Crime Stoppers reward is
being offered to anyone supplying information that leads to an arrest.
On
Friday morning, December 18, officers found a wooden fence completely
torn down and cut and the initials “GK” spray painted on the park
playground and skate park at Houston Levee Park, 9755 Wolf River
Boulevard.
On Saturday morning, December 19, officers found
graffiti painted on and ar... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 7, 2010,
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Busted
CORPUS CHRISTI —
Police believe twin brothers arrested Monday related to graffiti at
South Bluff Park are part of a crew of vandals to blame for other
neighborhood destruction.
An officer responding to a disturbance call about 5:40 a.m. spotted
three teens walking in the 1100 block Mary Street. One had paint
splatter on his shoes and a permanent marker in his pocket.
Another had paint on his hands, a spray-paint can in his pocket and
five more cans in his backpack. The pink and orange pai... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 7, 2010,
In :
Street Art
Wynwood is now famous for its outdoor murals — unlike many of the artists who created them
 Over the past few years, Wynwood has become ground zero for inspired graffiti art. BT photo by Silvia Ros What
was happening out there on the streets of Wynwood, on a Wednesday
afternoon in the middle of December? The Art Basel crowds had gone
home, so why all these people milling about, taking photographs in
front of murals throughout the neighborhood? Wynwood, the art center of
Miami, may be filled w... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
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Busted
A Dade County couple has been charged with spray painting graffiti along a stretch in Wildwood, including a church.
Authorities said the husband is on active duty with the U.S. Army and was home on leave.
Dade County authorities early Wednesday began receiving multiple
reports of vandalism in the Back Valley Road area. There had been
numerous things that had been spray painted, including street signs,
mailboxes, residences, stacked stone work, and a church.
Throughout the day ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
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Charged
Graffiti vandals in Western Australia will face two years in jail or
a $24,000 fine under tough new laws to come into effect on January 1.
The new legislation will double the maximum penalty for vandalism.
Retailers
will also be slapped with a $6000 fine for selling implements such as
spray cans or non-water soluble marker pens, with a tip over 6mm wide,
to people under the age of 18.
WA Attorney General
Christian Porter on Thursday said the new laws were d... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
By
Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:48 AM on 29th December 2009
Graffiti artist Banksy was today
embroiled in a tit-for-tat row with another street artist after
deliberately spraying over a 24-year-old work. The
elusive aerosol painter has caused outrage by covering up a piece of
graffiti that had remained untouched since it was painted in 1985. Its
creator, Robbo, a hugely respected graffiti artist, immediately
retaliated by spraying his name... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
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Busted
Same location, same offence, same suspect, different day.
It was déjà vu for London police Christmas Eve when they arrested
the same suspect at the same location for the same offence - spraying
graffiti on a Richmond St. bank.
Police said officers on patrol spotted a man on the roof of the
Scotiabank, 750 Richmond St., just before midnight Wednesday spraying
graffiti.
Damage was estimated at $500.
The suspect, police said, used a ladder to get to the roof and had nine cans of spray ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
In :
Street Art
hursday, Dec 24, 2009 @06:39pm EST
HAGERSTOWN, MD
- While some people were enjoying the warmth of their homes following
this past weekend's storm, a young man in Washington County decided to
put a personal touch on the shoveled snow.
Philip Tosten painted a graffiti mural on the shoveled banks of snow in front of a home on Virginia Avenue.
Tosten and his friends decided to create the artwork after shoveling the driv... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
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Busted
AN END to a graffiti artist’s damage was spelled by persistent inquiries by a neighbourhood policeman.
The 15-year-old had even taunted the authorities by writing "Catch me, if you can..."
PC Martin Rogers, of the Ryde Town Safer Neighbourhoods team,
investigated numerous reports of graffiti in the area during October
and November.
The youth — who cannot be named for legal reasons — was arrested and charged with criminal damage.
He appeared before the youth court, where he was made th... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
In :
Street Art
Famous graffiti artist Banksy creates a mural that sinks in global warming denial. Wed, Dec 23 2009 at 6:19 PM EST
The
Copenhagen climate talks closed with the sinking hopes of many
enviro-groups who called the summit a failure — and with a “sinking”
mural by world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy.
“I don’t believe... Continue reading ...
By Rahman Dukes
If you ask iconic New York City graffiti artist Phade (better known
as Shirt King Phade from the legendary Shirt Kingz) about the current
state of hip-hop, he'd more than likely tell you it's alive and
breathing and resides in the Bronx, New York.
Whether you agree or disagree, Phade has been around the culture for
decades and just like any other passionate hip hop fan is entitled to
his opinion. But the difference between Phade and your average fan is
Phade has lived the... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, January 3, 2010,
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Busted
The two were arrested Tuesday after they were found spraying graffiti
on a railroad bridge. The 18 year old is considered an adult. He was
identified as Pablo Jimenez of Seeley. The 17 year old, a juvenile, was
identified only as a Heber resident. Both were booked into County Jail.
Jimenez was charged with vandalism and contributing to the delinquency
of a minor. The 17 year old was charged with vandalism, possessing a
knife and giving authorities a false name. Continue reading ...
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