It's a tradition: heads of state exchange gifts when visiting each
other. So on his recent trip to the USA, Prime Minister Cameron has
given President Obama a piece of graffiti art by British graffiti artist
Ben Eine. In fact it was a swap: in return, Mr. Cameron was given a
litho by the American Ed Ruscha.
What a rise in fame and status for graffiti. It used to be called defacing public property. Then the elusive Banksy b...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, July 22, 2010,
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DENVER -- The hiss of spray paint cans echo in a
southwest Denver neighborhood as three young men decorate a cinder
block wall. This is not an act of vandalism, but rather a mural intended
to prevent tagging."It's looking good so far," said 20-year-old Ratha Sok, a graffiti artist.Sok
understands the lure of a blank urban wall to taggers because not so
long ago, he was part of the problem. Lacking the money to buy art
supplies and canvases, he started tagging at 15 years-old.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 20, 2010,
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By: Sudbury Northern Life Staff
Two
men walking on Lasalle Boulevard were stopped by Greater Sudbury Police
Services on July 11.
After further police investigation, it was
found that one of the men was breaching his curfew. The 18-year-old in
question had been released on bail in June after a number of mischief
and graffiti related incidents.
A search revealed he had large
marker on him, however Greater Sudbury Police Services (GSPS) did not
have sufficient grounds to proceed with any ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010,
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New York-based graffiti artist turned fashion
designer Claw Money has teamed
up with Vans to do a
line of shoes and accessories for their girl’s line.
The shoes (a high-top and low-top pair), socks and tank tops just hit
stores and surprisingly aren't scrawled with the '80s-inspired
graffiti and bright colors the artist uses in her own collection, but
rather dark, animal-print pieces informed by Southern California’s
sun-bleached surfers and thriving punk scene....
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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Nicole O'Reilly The Hamilton Spectator (Jun 28, 2010)
Graffiti is a crime that has
been and will be prosecuted.
That's the message being spread by police, the city and community
leaders as part of an anti-graffiti strategy aimed at deterring and
catching people who commit graffiti vandal...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, May 19, 2010,
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Jason Willcox became fascinated with railway freight train graffiti
as a young boy.
The Daily Gleaner/Ray Bourgeois
Jason Willcox, 24. Heís a local graffiti writer. He designed the
East Side Board Supply sign on its building. Heís the designer of the
giant wave thatís painted on the ìpipeî at the skateboard park as seen
in this picture. Heís also done work on the floor of the NickyZeeís bar.
He suppor...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, May 18, 2010,
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LA Photographer Cleared of Criminal Charges
LA photographer Jonas Lara had his day in court today. The criminal
charges against him were dropped and the judge issued a court order for
the release of his camera equipment, which had been held as evidence
since his arrest on February 2, 2010.
Lara was fighting a charge of aiding and abetting two graffiti
artists whose work he was documenting when the three men were arrested
in South Central Los Angeles. (More on the case here.)
Posted by Tag One on Monday, May 3, 2010,
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Urban Artist Banksy, and apparent rival King Robbo, a founding father
of London’s graffiti scene have been accused of colluding in PR stunt to
boost each other’s profile, by manufacturing an apparent feud.
And, if today’s report in The Guardian is anything to go by, the PR
st...
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,...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 22, 2010,
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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.
...
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...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, March 12, 2010,
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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.
Graffiti: Watch out, young man, you
could end up with a painted bottom
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...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, March 1, 2010,
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Last year, Artnet Magazine’s Charlie Finchpredicted 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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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...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, February 16, 2010,
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COMMERCE, Calif. (CNS) --
A 22-year-old man was locked up today after scratching graffiti on a
glass door of a Commerce building where about 100 law enforcement
officers were attending a class.
J***** V****** of East Los Angeles was booked on suspicion of
felony vandalism and jailed in lieu of $20,000 bail, according to
sheriff's Lt. Mark Richards of the East Los Angeles Station.
The crime at the Commerce Aquatic Center in the 2500 block of Commerce
Way occurred about 4:30 p.m. Friday, D...
It’s official: D******* B******
aka Utah, is finally a free woman, after sitting down for a 6 month bid
on Rikers followed by an additional sixer in Boston. Debt to society
now served and free to admit that she is indeed the infamous daredevil
that has adorned the world’s trains and walls over the last 10 years,
the 27 year old student and artist is ready to take on the internetz
with ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 3, 2010,
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Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010 3:00PM - 7:30 pm
January 26,
2010 - "Hip Hop 4 Haiti" brainchild Queen YoNasda, granddaughter of the
Nation of Islam's Minister Louis Farrakhan along with (32) other cities
will host hip hop fundraiser concerts nationwide for victims of the
January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Activist and Concert Coordinator,
Beautiful SeeAsia and Jessica "Jayda" Jacques (of Haitian descent),
star of NAACP's 2010 Image Award nominated documentary "Brick City",
founder of New... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 3, 2010,
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Graffiti vandals stop smiling — you’ll soon be on candid camera.
Fed up with hooligans destroying residential and business property
with graffiti, the city will be installing new technology likely next
month to help catch them in the act.
Bylaw boss Bill Bruce said the cameras, installed at graffiti
trouble spots throughout the city, will be able to detect who is
committing the crime through high resolution photos and aid
investigations.
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 3, 2010,
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Back in October, Fox News host and habitual shit-stirrer, Sean Hannity took L.A. graffiti artist Saber to task (video here) over artwork created as part of Organizing for America’s “Health Care Reform Video Challenge.” In a video titled “Saber Speaks,”
the L.A. graffiti writer used the American flag as a visual focal point
— painting over it in brief time-lapse footage set to the beat of a
hospital heart-rate monitor. (The monitor eventually flatlines, much
like the current ...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 21, 2010,
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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...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, January 18, 2010,
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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.
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, November 17, 2009,
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(AP)
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3 days ago
LOS ANGELES — A 74-year-old man said to be the oldest graffiti
vandal ever captured in Los Angeles County was arrested Friday,
authorities said. Deputies spotted the septuagenarian John Scott
putting stickers on a stairwell at a downtown Metro Center subway
station. The black-and-orange bumper stickers ask, "Who is John Scott?"
and have been seen stuck on buses in Baldwin Hills and areas on the
Westside of the city.
Stickers used in such a way are referred to
as "slap t...
Rising to prominence in the street art scene throughout the early aughts and now bustling inside the mainstream with shoe deals and bewildered news reports, the California artist known as Neckface is
a fascinating subject. For one, much of his art was and remains illegal
via the defacing of billboards and buildings with “Neckface”
spray-painted in a signature, Satan-evoking scrawl.
Young offenders will be taught how to spray graffiti behind bars as part of a £300,000 arts project.
In
a move attacked as "state-sponsored vandalism", leading graffiti artist
Elph is to teach his skills to inmates in Polmont Young Offenders
Institution.
The project is part of the Scottish Arts Council Inspiring Change scheme to take music, drama and visual arts into prisons.
The SAC are set to confirm the £300,000 funding this week.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 2, 2009,
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WHEN high-profile international graphic artist Jason Williams' plans
for a legal graffiti competition in Melbourne failed this month, he
resorted to plan B.
Williams told other graffiti artists on his
Twitter page after finance for his ''Clash of the Titans'' contest
failed: ''F--- this shit. I'm going to paint as much as I can and then
get the f--- out of Dodge.''
The Californian then turned criminal
to hit eight known targets in 13 days from October 13 that included a
rail bridge, a train car...
Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 16, 2009,
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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... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 21, 2009,
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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.
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, August 23, 2009,
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Graffiti gains ground in China
By Marianne Barriaux
(AFP)
–
2 days ago
BEIJING — Clean-cut 23-year-old design graduate Chen Chuang sprayed
a whitewashed wall in central Beijing in broad daylight with big jagged
blue letters -- his clan's signature -- before scurrying away.
"It's not really against the law," said his friend Liu Yuchen.
Chen quickly added: "But once you get caught, it can be very serious."
Chen
and Liu are members of a small but growing group of graffiti artists in
China where...
You're a graffiti artist who takes pride in his work -- your stuff is really unique.
And that's why Tempe police are going to catch you. (Or so cops think, anyway).
Police in the college town plan to launch new computer software that
is slated to help officers in the field identify the "signature" work
of taggers and analyze patterns of graffiti. It doesn't seem likely
that authorities will be able ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, July 25, 2009,
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Darryle Louis Caribou is being remembered as a gentle soul who had a
passion for art and passing his skill as an artist and a person to help
other youths. The 26-year-old artist from the Mathias Colomb Cree
Nation (Pukatawagan) drowned on July 3rd after jumping into the Red
River to try and save his 30-year-old cousin, who had entered the river
to cool off and encountered difficulty with the strong currents
following heavy rains. Darryle Caribou's body was found four days later.
Dash Snow, a promising young New York artist, died Monday night at Lafayette House, a hotel in Lower Manhattan. He was 27 and lived in Manhattan. His death was confirmed by his grandmother, the art collector and philanthropist Christophe de Menil, who said that Mr. Snow had died of a drug overdose.
Mr. Snow gained prominence after being featured in an arti...
Graffiti
artist or malicious property destroyer? Boston authorities simply say
“criminal,” and the talented Frank Shepard Fairey got two years
probation today for a graffiti case from 2000 in Brighton and two
charges this year in Back Bay.
Prosecutors, in return for a guilty plea on the three charges, dropped 11 other defacing property cases against him.
Posted by The News Man on Friday, June 19, 2009,
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Graffiti task force makes progress
The News Journal
• June 16, 2009
The
New Castle County Anti-Graffiti Task Force, formed last month to
address ongoing graffiti vandalism throughout the county, has made an
impact.
June 9, 2009
An "out of control'' teenager has indicated he is likely to plead guilty to attacking a veteran police dog.
Salem,
a 10-year-old German shepherd, was in pursuit of four men suspected of
daubing graffiti on trains when he was allegedly kicked and hit with a
baseball bat at Williamstown rail yards, in Melbourne's west, this
morning.
Posted by V 4 VANDAL on Thursday, June 4, 2009,
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More than a dozen charges dropped in Shepard Fairey case
June 2, 2009 06:02 PM
By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff, and Matt Collette, Globe Correspondent
Prosecutors announced today that they had dropped 14 vandalism
charges against Shepard Fairey, the 39-year-old artist best known for
creating the "Hope" poster associated with Barack Obama's presidential
campaign.
Posted by Eric Genaro on Sunday, May 31, 2009,
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Graffiti Artist Annoying Community
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Police in Georgetown want to talk to a graffiti artist who's making a
name for himself, all over town. Someone's been spraying "Lil Mike" on
local businesses, now the city wants it to stop. Whoever Lil Mike is,
he certainly wants people to see his... Continue reading ...
A
graffiti vandal responsible for an estimated £1 million of damage in
Bristol who was warned he would be imprisoned if he continued to breach
community punishment breached it for a FOURTH time – but still avoided
jail.
Posted by V 4 VANDAL on Saturday, May 23, 2009,
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San Bernardino Graffiti Crack Down Nets Dozens Of Arrests
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
By Chris Levister --
Waterman Avenue is arguably one of San Bernardino’s
busiest and highest revenue generating corridors. Take a stroll along the north
south route and something is amiss.
“Its frustrating. It’s one of the most complained about
crime issues in the city,” says Cheryl Brown...
Posted by TAG on Saturday, May 16, 2009,
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Levee officer whose vehicle struck and killed vandal won't be charged
by Mary Sparacello, The Times-Picayune
Friday May 15, 2009, 5:18 PM
Prosecutors have finally decided not to file charges against an East Jefferson Levee District police officer whose vehicle hit and killed a teen-aged vandal in Kenner almost two years ago.
The Jefferson Parish district attorney's office
made the decision after receiving results last week of forensics tests
showing that the officer, Raymond Zabala, was not ...
The city is experimenting with a device called the Mosquito as
a means to control graffiti. The electronic gizmo emits a
high-frequency sound that people older than 25 reportedly can't hear
because of natural hearing loss.
Posted by Rice Enarog on Tuesday, May 12, 2009,
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Prince William jokes: I am Banksy
1 day ago
LONDON (AP) — Prince William has a confession to make.
The
prince, second in line to the British throne, jokingly told art lovers
Monday he was the mysterious graffiti artist Banksy. The reclusive
artist, who has covered London buildings with his artwork, avoids being
photographed and has not confirmed his real name.
Prince William
got laughs for the line Monday during an appearance at London's
century-old Whitechapel Gallery, which recently complet...
Posted by TAGWON on Saturday, May 9, 2009,
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Pelham Bay graffiti faces the brush
Klein to attack vandalism
by amanda marinaccio Friday, May 8, 2009 10:54 AM EDT
A VANDAL has been sentenced to 240 hours' community service after causing thousands of pounds worth of graffiti damage.
S**** M*****, 20, of Millburn Road, Dumbarton, had earlier pleaded
guilty to fifteen vandalism offences at the town's Sheriff Court.
Earlier this week M*****, also known as S******, was sentenced to
community service for daubing graffiti in West Dunbartonshire and the
West End of Glasgow.
As a member of the notorious BTS graffiti gang his distinctiv...
Posted by Eric Genaro on Wednesday, April 8, 2009,
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Another Graffiti Vandal Busted
Burlington, Vermont - April 1, 2009
Another
graffiti vandal is in jail, after being busted in Burlington. Police
say 19-year-old M****** L**** of South Burlington will be arraigned
Thursday on 12 charges of unlawful mischief.
They
say over the last few months Loyer did thousands of dollars in damage
to Burlington buildings with his tag, "MKU," accompanied by a cartoon
of a man smoking marijuana. Police say ... Continue reading ...
Posted by TAGONE on Wednesday, April 8, 2009,
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Graffiti tagger charged in Queens case BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA | rocco.parascandola@newsday.com 9:43 PM EDT, April 1, 2009
The
city's most notorious female graffiti tagger was charged Wednesday with
vandalizing subways cars in Queens, authorities said.
D*******
B******, 27, of Woodside, is accused of spray-painting her tags -
"Erin" and "Dani" - on six different subway cars at various times
between September 2005 and last April.
When
B****** and her boyfriend, J** C*** H*****, were arrested last A... Continue reading ...
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