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Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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Old Skool
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Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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Charged
One of Britain's most notorious graffiti vandals who attacked railways and even a funeral home has been jailed for 27 months. D***** H*****, 24, was arrested byBritish Transport Police after his tags, including Tox, were identified in London,Glasgow, Bristol, Leicester, Market Harborough, Kettering, Chippenham, and the funeral home in Bath. He sprayed graffiti on buses in Brixton, and rail property in Southfields as well as in Scotland between 2007 and last year. But H******, an unemployed stud... Continue reading ...
A Brooklyn artist who grew up doing graffiti now embraces the fine art world without leaving the streets too far behind. NY1's Arts reporter Stephanie Simon filed the following report.You can take the artist out of Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn out of the art. Michael "Mr. Kaves" McLeer was once a graffiti artist on the streets of Brooklyn, but now that he is having his first solo gallery show in TriBeCa, his work brings the neighborhood with him. "I'm always inspired by Brooklyn, abou... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
 Kid Acne at work
Published on Friday 15 July 2011 03:21
He started out as a graffiti artist, but now Kid Acne tells Sarah Freemanwhy he’s drawing a line under the past. To describe Kid Acne simply as a graffiti artist doesn’t come close to doing his career justice. Following an appearance on Rolf’s Cartoon Club at the age of 12, he took his art to the streets, and in the intervening 20 years, the Sheffield-based artist has had a go at most things. There’s the comic books, the record sleeve...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
Bronx Flavor campaign provides Bronx residents with healthy choices and activities to keep them moving this summerPURCHASE, N.Y., July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pepsi-Cola North America Beverages (PCNAB) knows there's more to theBronx than baseball and botanical gardens. This summer, PCNAB is celebrating the Bronx community by providing residents with activities and education to help them make healthy lifestyle decisions. Today, PCNAB's zero calorie beverage line-up is teaming up with Bronx c... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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Street Art
The man who considers Banksy his mentor has been tagging Los Angeles with a series of Red Hot Chili Pepper-themed street art. Mr. Brainwash, made famous by the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop in which several street artists (including Banksy) show their disdain for him, says that he was hired by the band to promote their new album via the artwork
MBW, real name Thierry Guetta, has been tagging each of the pieces with the date 8/30/11, which is the release dare for the album. He says tha... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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Charged
A teenager from Midsomer Norton who caused thousands of pounds worth of damage by spray painting his graffiti 'tag' on shops, homes and buildings across Bath and North East Somerset over a number of years has been caught. The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, faced magistrates at Bath's Youth Court who ordered him to carry out community service and see for himself just how difficult and costly it is to remove spray paint from Bath stone. He will have to join the council's ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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Busted
A prolific street artist known as “Evero” has pleaded guilty to two counts of graffiti vandalism, and his fellow criminal artists may be tagging neighborhoods with “Free Evero” signs for a little while longer. D***** E******* “Evero” W**** will serve six months in jail. W****, 20, on Friday pleaded guilty to two counts of creating graffiti with damages under $20,000. He was sentenced to five years of deferred adjudication probation and three months in jail on each count. “I apolog... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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Street Art
A piece of graffiti art on the wall of Clarks headquarters in Street has tongues wagging that the company flew in guerrilla artist Banksy to add a splash of colour to the building. The striking stencilled piece features a man and woman watching as a child writes “consumers rule” in red paint.  The graffiti at Clarks
But while some believe the work bears all the hallmarks of Bristol’s cutting-edge graffiti artist, Banksy, a committee set up to authenticate his work says it is simpl... Continue reading ...
Jimmy Lugo got in trouble for scrawling graffiti,… (Mark Bonifacio/News) BY ERIN DURKIN DAILY NEWS WRITER Thursday, June 30, 2011 Brooklyn teens took their tags from walls and subway cars to a Fort Greene art gallery Wednesday. Ten kids arrested for graffiti had their work on display after finishing Paint Straight - a city Probation Department program that teaches young vandals legal ways to hone their art. The program had its first gallery show at Shop Talk and Art Gallery on Lafeyette Ave. "Thi...
 FORD ADMINISTRATION SAYS NEW GRAFFITI PLAN WILL PRESERVE PUBLIC ART, BUT IS IT JUST LIP SERVICE? BY BEN SPURR To hear Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker tell it, the mayor’s graffiti strategy will turn Toronto into an urban artist’s paradise. Business leaders will work hand-in-hand with disadvantaged youth to create public murals, while tags and gang signs will be buffed away before the spray paint dries. “I didn’t think this was going to come out this well. I thought at the beginning of th...
(Allen McDuffee - Washington Post)When Google puts on a conference, it’s a show. For people who typically attend academic or policy conferences (or even most other professional conferences), it was apparent that the Summit Against Violent Extremism was being led and produced by a technology leader. From the video productions on the dual large screens to the colored lighting to the thumping musical interludes, the conference was meant to dazzle.
All of this carried out into t...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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Busted
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:42 AMYou've no doubt noticed his signature, the word "Moustache" written in curly cursive letters with a felt-tip marker on the upper lips of people in subway platform billboards, but it might be a while before Moustache Man, aka 26-year-old J***** W****, draws his next 'stache. The Daily Newsreports that W**** was arrested a week ago in Midtown and admitted to having written one of his trademark tags on a billboard at the Third Avenue L tr...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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War on Graff
Nick Ralston CrimeJune 29, 2011 Spray it again ... RailCorp's Sean McQuarrie, left, and Kevin Rowe get to work cleaning Hornsby station. In the 2009-2010 financial year, the clean-up bill was $55 million. Photo: Kate Geraghty THE graffiti crews that deface carriages and cause extensive delays on Sydney's rail network battle on two fronts. The first war is with each other, as they try to outdo rival gangs for bragging rights. What motivates many crews, made up primarily of teenage boys and young m...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
In April, notorious French street artist Space Invader visited Highland Park, making his mark on York Boulevard and N. Figueroa Street. Three months later, Los Angeles based graffiti artist Sand-One has left a striking visual statement of her own. A Sand-One “Sand Chick” now adorns the wall ofMi Vida Boutique on 5159 York Blvd. Highland Park-Mount Washington Patch has contacted Sand-One through her blog, and we’ll update the story with her thoughts about working in the area when we hear ba... Continue reading ...
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