Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 20, 2012 In : Street Art
Walk by Arlene’s Grocery on the lower east side or the corner of Mulberry and Kenmare and you’ll find one of Hanksy’s works. The graffiti artist has been posting his mash-ups of Banksy and actor Tom Hanks all over New York and is currently showing a few works at Krause Gallery. Not content to stick to just one actor, he’s branched out with works of others, including one called "Drive-Thru" featuring Ryan Golsing.
“Bouquet,” by Jet Martinez, in Menlo Park, Calif., was influenced by Oaxaqueño floral patterns.
By REYHAN HARMANCI
Published: February 18, 2012
Mr. Martinez was aware that another muralist, David Choe, had also graced the company’s walls, but it was only after “Bouquet” was almost done that he found out that Mr. Choe had accepted payment for his wall work in 2005 in the form of stock options — which are worth around $200 million now. ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 20, 2012 In : Busted
Two alleged graffiti artists, whose tags — "Vomet" and "Beav" — are well-known in Little Five Points, Inman Park and Poncey-Highland, among other neighborhoods, are going to court on vandalism charges.
C********** E*** S****, 29, of northeast Atlanta, who goes by the tag "Vomet," faces several counts of violating the city ordinance on graffiti abatement.
Nineteen-year-old D****** G******* J**** of northeast Atlanta, also known as "Beav," faces is facing multiple counts of violating the city...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 20, 2012 In : Busted
CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) -
Police officers on the hunt for drugs may have busted up the city's largest graffiti rings. The drug warrant went down around 10:00 PM Thursday night at a home on Carlton Street, which is near Horne and Ayers.
There, officers found three guns, one of which was stolen, about two pounds of pot, packed for sale, along with five grams of cocaine and seven grams of meth.
Also seized, a number of graffiti instruments, graffiti documents and other graffiti paraphernalia.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 20, 2012 In : Auction
February 14, 2012|Jill Lawless, Associated Press
Thirty years ago, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat secretly signed one of his paintings in invisible ink, says Sotheby’s auction house, which discovered the hidden autograph as it was preparing the painting for sale.
Sotheby’s experts uncovered the secret this month as they were examining “Orange Sports Figure,’’ which goes on sale Wednesday. The vibrant image of an abstract crowned figure is estimated to be worth between 3 million pounds a...
Courtesy of the artistBrooklyn, N.Y.-based artist KAWS' "Chum (Black)" fiberglass and paint is featured at the High Museum of Art's "KAWS: Down Time" exhibition, opening Saturday.
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 20, 2012 In : Celebrity
Kim Bum, who has recently wrapped the cable drama “Padam Padam,” is set to play a graffiti artist suspected to be a criminal in the film “The Miracle.” Reports from local news agencies confirm the earlier buzz. Kim Kang Woo, likewise reported to have been in talks to play the other lead role, is confirmed as the detective chasing Kim Bum’s character.
“The Miracle” is a fantasy thriller in which Detective Yang Choon Dong is also a water purifier salesman on his off hours. Yang Cho...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 20, 2012 In : Interviews
First Posted: 02/ 9/2012 1:48 pmUpdated: 02/ 9/2012 1:48 pm
Barbara Walters recently took a walk on the wild side, doing graffiti with artist David Choe.
Choe, a famous muralist, painted the walls of Facebook's office in exchange for shares of company stock. That stock is now worth $200 million. He sat down with Barbara Walters for his first interview, where he lamented about news organizations "beating down the door" to hear about his windfall.
Walters also tried her hand at Choe's craft. He ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 20, 2012 In : Busted
Published on Monday 6 February 2012 13:33
Two West Yorkshire graffiti vandals who blighted the rail network with graffiti for 18 months and caused over £30,000 in damages are to be sentenced tomorrow.
D**** A*** B********, 20, of Brook Street, Brighouse, and an 18-year-old from Bradford, admitted a total of 45 criminal damage charges relating to graffiti on trains and the rail network from Bradford to Huddersfield.
At a previous hearing, Judge John Potter told Broadbent to prepare himself for a...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, February 9, 2012 In : Graffiti TV
Legendary Los Angeles street artist Revok recently hit the road with a few friends for a little graffiti tour through Detroit. With photographer/videographer Willie T tagging along and documenting it (via video), Revok takes a tour of Motor City.
The clip follows the artist as he cruises the city over several days. Beginning in the evening, they finally come across an abandoned industrial building and stop to adorn it with a Seventh Letter mural.
They also have a little fun, hitting a water par...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 In : Interviews
Barbara Walters Interviews Graffiti Artist David Choe, Who Painted Facebook Murals
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Choe's impromptu graffito, which contains a plea before sitting down to his interview with ABC News' Barbara Walters. Any tears might be tears of joy; Choe's Facebook stock may be worth as much as $200 million when the company goes public. (Upper Playground/ABC News)
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 6, 2012 In : Charged
A Calgary teen faces more than 100 graffiti charges.
Photograph by: Stuart Franklin, Getty Images
CALGARY — A teenager who had previously been charged committing graffiti has again been busted by police and faces charges in 45 more cases.
The teen, who can’t be named because he was under 18 for some of the most recent taggings, faces over 100 charges for a graffiti spree between July, 2011 and January of this year.
He is now 18 years old.
“He has a history of graffiti vandalism from the pas...
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* As speculated, Facebookfiled an initial public offering yesterday. The social network, which now reports 845 million monthly active users and net income of $1 billion on revenues of $3.7 billion, plans to raise $5 billion. Here's the letter from Mark Zuckerberg included with the S-1 Registration st...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 6, 2012 In : Street Art
Everyone wants to chime in on Google’s privacy polices including, it seems, graffiti artists. In recent weeks, an unflattering version of the company logo has appeared in New York, depicting the double vowel in the company’s name as a pair of surveillance cameras.
Here’s a photo of the logo that I snapped upon encountering it on the Pulaski bridge, a span that connects the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens:
Photo credit: AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee | A tour group walks through the Wynwood Walls gallery as they make their way through Miami's Design District in search of the city's best graffiti art, all while on a Vespa. (Jun. 30, 2011)
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 26, 2012 In : Busted
By Deanese Williams-HarrisTribune reporter
2:38 p.m. CST, January 24, 2012
A 19-year-old man was ordered held on $750,000 bond this afternoon in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Logan Square graffiti artist, prosecutors said.
K*********** K******, 19, of the 2000 block of South Western Avenue, was charged with first-degree murder in the Saturday night stabbing death of Linear Caballero, officials said.
Prosecutors said K****** was walking near his home at the intersection of Western and Ar...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 26, 2012 In : Street Art
Get paid to vandalize! (Getty Images)
Remember the good old days, when Mayor Giuliani would have you arrested just for keeping spray paint cans in your backpack? When “tagging” buildings and underpasses were used to connote different gang areas? Of course, galleries have been promoting graffiti as “outsider art” since the 80s, but it really took Banksy and Bomb the System to turn elevate the expression of juvenile delinquents into haute couture.
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 26, 2012 In : Busted
MURFREESBORO, Tenn.- Three young men were arrested and charged with vandalism and evading arrest after they spray painted Riverdale High School and fled from police Sunday morning.
Police were called out to Riverdale High School Sunday after reports of three teenagers heading towards Riverdale High School with cans of spray paint. When officers arrived at the school they found 18-year-old N******* C**** sitting in car in front of the school. C**** told the officer that his friends, 19-year-ol...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, January 23, 2012 In : News
By KATHIANNE BONIELLO
As a rookie cop in Washington Heights, Steven Weinberg patrolled the streets at night, responding to domestic-violence calls and drug crimes, learning the ropes of the NYPD.
It was the mid-1990s, the height of Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s war on quality-of-life crimes, when squeegee men and graffiti vandals were viewed as symbols of the city’s decline.
But Weinberg never bought into that philosophy. To the young cop, graffiti was not a public nuisance; it was art.
The Gainesville Police Department arrested a suspect in connection with a recent rash of graffiti writing, also known as tagging.
L**** M***** C******, 18, 6223 SW Eighth Place, identified himself to GPD as the graffiti artist Twig. C******was charged with felony criminal mischief. He is accused of spray painting words found on the side of three tour buses.
Officer Jason Rarey said the buses were parked outside American’s Best Value, a motel at 1900 SW 13th St. early Tuesday mo...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, January 23, 2012 In : Busted
AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Two men were arrested Wednesday evening for allegedly vandalizing an apartment building by painting graffiti.
Amarillo Police arrested 25-year-old W****** G****** M*** and 22-year-old Keith Henry Suttles on charges of evading arrest and graffiti over $500.
The original call came in about 5:46 p.m. Wednesday to the 2200 block of South Polk. Upon arrival, officers said they saw two men on the roof. The men ran into an alley but were caught.
Artists say the plan will not only destroy an important hip-hop landmark but the community of Long Island City. Photograph: Karen McVeigh for the Guardian
A group of rappers in puffy jackets and hoodies are being filmed jumping around in unison against a brick canvas of eye-popping red and yellow street art: a giant, leering Jim Carrey as Firemaster Bill winks out at them.
A short distance away, two men admire a portrait of Jam Master Jay – the Run-DMC deejay who was ...
Tattoo artist Jamer Lindsay at Sailor Jerry's Tattoo Shop in Victoria, in August 2009. Lindsay has died at age 38.
Photograph by: Darren Stone, Victoria Times Colonist, Aug. 27, 2009
James Lindsay developed a skateboarding style defined by fluid motion. The longtime Victoria resident, whose friends called him Jamer, was one of the city's earliest street skaters and a pioneer in the advancement of the sport on local turf.
Jamer, who had struggled with depression, died Wednesday of...
When a prolific graffiti writer was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), thus effectively curbing his ability to create art, a group of his friends came together to create a solution. The result was an amazing hands-free device called the EyeWriter.
The EyeWriter employs open source software and hacked eye tracking hardware (for example, the Playstation Eye camera) to allow artists who have lost the use of their hands to continue to create art. You can get the instr...
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First Posted: 02/ 9/2012 1:48 pm Updated: 02/ 9/2012 1:48 pm