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Famous Showcase For Graffiti Artists Reopens In Brooklyn

Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010, In : Old Skool 



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After being dormant for almost a decade, the Phun Phactory, the city's largest showcase for graffiti artists, opened in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Saturday.

More than 60 artists, including some premiere aerosol artists, filtered through the group's new permanent space on North 15th Street and Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg.

The Phun Phactory, w...


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Scarface Spray: Brooklyn’s Graffiti Invasion of Chicago

Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 22, 2010, In : Old Skool 


The thick Brooklyn accent resonates through the cell phone. Almost immediately, graffiti artist Mike “Mr. Kaves” McLeer begins illustrating a place only a few have known.

“It’s like being inducted into a secret society of juvenile delinquents,” his raspy voice dictates. “You pay your dues and learn before you ever set foot in a tunnel. It’s 10 and 11 year old kids training each other how to be vandals and outlaws.”

It was the early 1980’s, when rap was in its ...


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Eric Felisbret, aka DEAL CIA, Graffiti Artist (gothamist.com)

Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, In : Old Skool 

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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...


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Graffiti On New York City's Subway Trains Remembered

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 ...
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SOMETHING WE LIKE ...........

Posted by FACE on Monday, May 18, 2009, In : Old Skool 

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