Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 26, 2012,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 17, 2012,
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New York graffiti artist replicates Banksy artworks but with key addition – the face of Tom Hanks
The tables have been turned on street artist Banksy, as the graffiti satirist gets spoofed by one of his own. A rival street artist, calling himself ‘Hanksy’, has been recreating Banksy artworks across New York’s Lower East Side but with one addition – the face of Tom Hanks!
And so, Banksy's famous stencil of a rioter preparing to throw a bunch of flowers becomes Tom Hanks preparing to ...
One of Australia's most celebrated graffiti artists describes 'tagging' - spraying signatures on train tunnels and buildings - as a "rite of passage" and an important piece of self-expression for teenagers.
"It's affirming that they are somebody and that their lives matter," said Stormie Mills, who graduated from spraying his signature around the streets of Perth to gallery shows and painting murals across Greece for the Athens Olympics.
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 12, 2012,
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“Hello, My Name is” busted.
Waukegan police ran into a man acting suspicious near a fire hydrant around Jackson Street and Grand Avenue on Tuesday and found he had placed a sticker on the hydrant.
New graffiti users wield stickers and felt-tipped pens to deface property.
J**** A*******, 23, of the 1700 block of Runyard Place was found to have a backpack full of stickers and large felt-tipped markers.
All stickers were similar to those which state “Hello My Name is...” and were filled in w...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 12, 2012,
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D***** T******, 26, a graffiti artist who caused £1million worth of damage across Bristol has been jailed for a year. He admitted to have sprayed the tag "Dotcom" (pictured) onto buildings, cars, signs and trains, and also pleaded guilty for assaulting a policeman, possessing cannabis, failing to surrender to court and breaching an Asbo.
Before having to face jail, D***** T*******, of Dove Street in Kingsdown, was considered a street art talent who already exhibited at galleries and was offer...
A teenage boy is dead after being hit by a train between Lewisham and Petersham Railway Stations. It is believed he may have been applying g Show MoreSource: The Daily Telegraph
Celebrated graffiti artist David Choe has once again tagged Facebook.
Choe became infamous in Silicon Valley for allegedly being commissioned to spray-paint sexual graphics on the walls of Facebook's first Palo Alto office in 2005 by the company's founding president, Sean Parker. (If that really happened, though, it has been airbrushed out of the official Facebook history). Choe painted less -- ahem -- colorful murals for Facebook's next digs in 2007, this time at the request of Chief Executiv...
Second Saturday Artwalk, January 14th To Feature Max Wiedemann & Cope2 at the Wynwood Gallery Space 173 NW 23rd Street, Miami
Miguel Paredes, a local and internationally celebrated artist, has announced plans for his space in Wynwood to be curated by UNIX Fine Art, a leading London based group of art dealers. Over the next several months, Alex Cesaria of UNIX will showcase a rotating series of artists, in addition to curating and representing Paredes’ new ve...
Musicians Bow Wow and Chris Brown visit “Art in the Streets,” the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, on May 26, 2011, in Los Angeles, Calif. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
It was the first major museum exhibit in the United States to focus solely on graffiti and street art. The exhibit, “Art in the Streets,” was on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) from April to August of 2011.
The machine-gun themed sidewalk stencils of graffiti artist TMNK (“The Me Nobody Knows”) are popping up all across the Lower East Side. Each piece of spray-art carries the same empowering message – “Art is my weapon.” Now a plastic cutout of same has hijacked the Elizabeth Street canvas of Rag & Bone.
Already without a token mural for the better part of the last month, the space has been surprisingly clear of errant graffiti. That is, until just a few days ago when a mock machine g...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn’t want to wait decades for his work to appear in museums. So he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one of his paintings in a major Polish gallery.
By Wednesday, the young artist was getting plenty of attention after a nationwide TV channel reported on his stunt at the National Museum in the southwestern city of Wroclaw. He told reporters he hoped galleries would give more exhibition space to young artists as a result.
The Woodward Gallery on the Lower East Side is presenting a series of paintings in Rather Unique, an exhibition curated by Harlem-based street artist Royce Bannon. The participants are trendsetting street and graffiti artists. Although each artist has a completely unique approach to their work, hence the title, they share a commonality, and that is that each piece shows no limitations or constraints to creativity.
Bannon has selected these artists for this particular show due to their original...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 3, 2012,
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Former NY painter and graffiti artist Loren Munk used a video camera to transform his career. With a handheld Canon Elph digital camera, he creates videos with solid commentary of art shows at galleries and museums all over the city. Munk (whose alias is James Kalm) told the New York Times that serious art reporting is fading from the mainstream press. “So I’m trying to use alternative media to fill the void,” he said.
His YouTube channels—the James Kalm Report and James Kalm Rough Cut...
Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 3, 2012,
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In a promo video for Ironlak, the Australian spraypaint company that's currently dominating the street art scene, Dutch artist Does absolutely demolishes any preconceived notions you might have about what can and can't be done with markers and paper.
I don't know about you, but I'd love to see some kind of face-off between a tagger and an industrial designer. Or maybe designers should start tagging walls with life-size renderings... but we're not encouraging that! Anyways, Does's walls are equ...
Those who dislike graffiti and Gauls, this one's for you. Lawmakers here and in Boston this month are happily tossing around a 25-year-old French graffiti artist named M***** B**** (aka "RASK") after he allegedly tagged up train cars in both cities. "He’s not leaving the country any time soon," a source crowed to the Newsyesterday.
After getting tipped off he was visiting a girlfriend in New Jersey, authorities arrested B**** at Newark airport e...
The graffiti vandal known as "Sodapop" has been tagged himself and soon will be in family court in Newburgh. Should he be found guilty of scrawling his name across many walls and doors in the city, there can be only one appropriate punishment. He should have to clean up not only the signs of his that remain but also a substantial number of other signs as well.
Any other punishment would fail to send the very important message that defacing the city is not something Newburgh will tolerate. Even...
