Careful trompe l’oeil is hardly an artist’s technique you expect a tagger to employ in his graffiti work. But these often miscalculated and misunderstood artists have a lot to teach the world about style and artful urban transformation with a message. D.O.C.S
(Doing Only Crooked Shit) is the graffiti...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 8, 2010,
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Maria Popova on June 4, 2010, 5:07 PM
What happens when an artist loses his or her creative
currency – the capacity for self-expression? That's exactly what
happened to legendary Los Angeles graffiti artist Tony Quan, a.k.a.
Tempt One, when he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. As he began to lose use of
his a...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 8, 2010,
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A sticker, like
the one above, was found on an airport trashcan, raising concern among
security officials. (Photo courtesy Rene Gagnon)
A sticker found on a trash can at a Washington, D.C., airport last
week depicting what appeared to be a suicide bomber is actually the logo
of a popular graffiti artist. His fans have plastered his stickers
around the world since around 2005.
The sticker caused a bit of stir among Department of Homeland
Secur...
Shepard Fairey hasn't always been considered the street
artist's Street Artist (in the way Burt Reynolds is a Man's Man). The
meld between Fairey's multi-million dollar clothing company and the
propagandist graffiti he does irks the hell out of many "true" graffiti
artists (it could also have something to do with this ad
campaign he did for Saks last year). Which leads us to the subject
of this post: Since...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, June 1, 2010,
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Written by Administrator
Friday, 28 May 2010 10:51
On 7 June, FNCC goes to the streets with its
latest exhibition called Urban Decay, the exhibition will showcast
graffiti art by G*** R*** aka Real. Born in 1982 in London, Real has had
a passion for graffiti all his life. He started out like most graffiti
artists by spraying his tag on walls but soon got fed up with spraying
on walls and cars for the sake of it. The desire to have his works
regonised prompted him to...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, May 18, 2010,
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May 11th, 2010
Shadi caught one of New Yorks top bombers in action last winter.
I decided to go out and take photos at 5am during the
snow storm and I noticed a shadowy figure in the darkness was doing his
thing. I noticed him one second and the next he was gone. A few days
later I noticed what he finished what he started.
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, November 5, 2009,
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October 29, 2009 | 4:01pm
Shepard Fairey
has had a roller-coaster year. The Echo Park-based street artist
reached a career apex when his Obama “Hope” poster was inducted in the
Smithsonian, followed by a survey of his work at Boston’s Institute of
Contemporary Art, but lately Fairey has been dealing with the fallout
over a public battle with the Associated Press regarding propriety of
the “Hope” image.
Overshadowed by all the hoopla, Fairey has headed a clothing lab...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, September 12, 2009,
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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...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, August 17, 2009,
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By eastbayexpress
Dick Blick Art, Montana Cans and East Bay Express hosted a great mix
of Bay Area old school graffiti legends and up and coming talent!
Estria Miyashiro, Max Ehrman Eon 75, Jared Roses, and Mel Waters all
came through and hit up giant 4-sided canvas “cubes” with their own
unique styles.
At the Montana Gold table, party people could stop by and drop their
name in our Montana “guestbooks” using Montana Hardcore markers and
Sharpies.
Teddy Ferrer, 28, is a graffiti writer and a tattoo artist who works at Tuff City,
a Bronx shop that combines graffiti, tattooing and a music studio under
one roof. Mr. Ferrer uses the nickname — or the a k a, as aliases are
termed — PACK in his graffiti, while his older brother, Smokey Ferrer,
calls himself N. B.
On the secret handshake:
If I meet another graffiti artist, I say, “Do y...
On 7 June, FNCC goes to the streets with its
latest exhibition called Urban Decay, the exhibition will showcast
graffiti art by G*** R*** aka Real. Born in 1982 in London, Real has had
a passion for graffiti all his life. He started out like most graffiti
artists by spraying his tag on walls but soon got fed up with spraying
on walls and cars for the sake of it.
