Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 20, 2010,
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A teenage
gang has been locked up for vandalising dozens of Tube trains and
stations with graffiti.
The teenagers daubed the tag “FTS” all
over the trains and filmed themselves on their mobile phones. One of the
gang brazenly declared online: “If I get two years I'll still paint.”
The
youngest gang member was only 14 when took part in the vandalism
between April 2008 and June last year. Now 16, he was se...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 20, 2010,
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MILAN — A judge on Monday acquitted a celebrated graffiti artist of
defacing public property, a case that drew attention because Milan’s
city hall had pressed its legal action at the same time that it had been
sponsoring exhibits featuring his art.
The artist, Daniele Nicolosi, 28, better known as Bros, was acquitted on
a technicality. But the verdict did not cheer his defense team, which
had been hoping for an acquittal that clearly recognized Mr. Nicolosi’s
colorful str...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010,
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Steven Longstaffe with girlfriend Megan
Macauley
A MERSEYSIDE artist was found hanged after watching her boyfriend
plunge to his death two days earlier.
Megan McAuley’s family said the talented 20-year-old and Steven
Longstaffe, her boyfriend of seven months, were together “like they
always wanted to be”.
Megan, who was learning to be a personal trainer, was found in Derby
Park, in Bootle, on Tuesday afternoon.
The former pupil of St John Bosco arts college died ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 30, 2010,
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O***** F******, 32, was sentenced to the
minimum three strokes from a rattan cane and five months in prison after
he pleaded guilty to breaking into a Singapore train depot last month
and spray-painting graphics and the words "McKoy Banos" across two
carriages.
He was accompanied at
the time by with a man identified as L**** D*** A********, a Briton, who
was in Singapore for just three days, according to the prosecution.
Singapore has sought the extradition of
A********, who it said was ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 16, 2010,
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The anonymous graffiti artist Banksy has
popped up again, and this time maybe he's been captured on CCTV.
OMG apparently there's a new Banksy! No, we don't mean another anonymous vaguely
anti-establishment fellow with a spray can and stencils; we mean
Banksy's done another work, this time in the garden of the Princess of Wales in Primrose Hill. It depicts a
lion looking at a girl holding a heart-shaped ballloon – profound as
ever.
A British Graffiti artist is wanted by Singapore to face charges of
vandalism. L**** D*** A********* sprayed his tags on a Singapore tube
train, but fled the country after a warrant for his arrest was issued.
Singapore does not take kindly to graffiti - and if convicted, A********
could face a $1500 fine, three years in jail and three to eight
strokes of a cane.
The caning wouldn't even be the first for a vandalism case - i... Continue reading ...
A GRAFFITI vandal who caused £86,000 of damage by
spraying his signature "Osne" tag on buildings and trains in Bristol
and London
has been jailed for 18 months.
Posted by Tag One on Friday, October 30, 2009,
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Graffiti
artists put the final touches to pieces of work at an urban art event
in Lisbon July 30, 2009. When Lisbon town hall repainted the
graffiti-covered walls of the bohemian Bairro Alto district, the move
was welcomed by most, but graffiti artists say the urban art gallery
they got in compensation is a farce. Ricardo Campos, who wrote a thesis
on "the anthropology of graffiti", said the art form "came late to
Lisbon, some 20 years after its boom in New York, but when it arrived
in the 19... Continue reading ...
