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Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, March 19, 2013,
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Friends and family gathered yesterday to remember a graffiti artist who fell to his death whilst spray painting his tag. 22-year-old
Andre Petkov from North Highlands near Sacramento fell off an overpass
along Interstate 80 overpass while daubing graffiti on the bridge. Investigators say his body had been there for a couple of days before it was found by a street sweeper.
Remembered: Friends gathered to remember Andrey Petvov who fell to his death from a freeway overpass
Memorial: And... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, January 23, 2013,
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A graffiti tag close to the tunnel at Lewisham appeared to show the word "Ontre". Photo: Nick Moir
A young graffiti artist says he will never go onto railway tracks again after seeing his friend cut in two by a train.
Tre Toman, an 18-year-old ,
was killed by a train in a railway underpass on West Street, between
Lewisham and Petersham in Sydney's inner west, while tagging with two
friends on the n... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, January 9, 2013,
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Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, December 5, 2012,
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An anonymous graffiti artist or group of artists has spray-painted an
extensive and colorful tribute to the Buffalo-born... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, June 13, 2012,
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 Jon Naar Wayne Roberts at work. Wayne Roberts was a pioneering 1970s graffiti writer known as “Stay High 149” who borrowed the haloed stick figure from the title sequence of the 1960s television series “The Saint,” put a joint in its mouth and turned it around. His “Smoker” tag, or signature, turned the heads of legions of imitators and admirers, including the anonymous teenagers who slipped into train yards at night to paint whole cars, as well as Norman Mailer, w...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, May 24, 2012,
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Posted by Tag One on Tuesday, January 17, 2012,
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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, 2009James 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...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, January 12, 2012,
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Teen graffiti artist killed by trainPolice say a teenager killed by a train in Sydney's inner west may have been spraying graffiti. 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 More Source: The Daily Telegraph A TEENAGE graffiti artist was killed inside a tunnel last night after being hit by a train in Sydney's inner west. A train...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, November 30, 2011,
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29 November 2011 Last updated at 17:14 ETHelp Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Wednesday, October 26, 2011,
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by CHRIS HAWES Bio | Email | Follow: @WFAA Posted on October 17, 2011 at 10:48 PM DALLAS — Dallas lost an artist this weekend. His work wasn't in museums. It's unlikely his pictures are framed in anyone's home. But hundreds of people are now remembering the man who called himself "Minus Won" — many with artwork of their own. "Even before graffiti came into the picture, I was that kid in elementary school," said A...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, September 12, 2011,
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The body of a graffiti artist is recovered from Christies Creek at Morphett Vale. Picture: Chris Mangan Source: AdelaideNow A YOUNG teenage boy attempting to graffiti a Southern Expressway bridge in Adelaide's south-west has fallen to his death early this morning. It is understood the youth slipped from a narrow ledge on the side of the bridge, falling on rocks in Christies Creek below. The body was discovered by a pedestrian walking along the Morphett Vale creek about 8am (CST). Police say a bac... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, June 6, 2011,
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An unidentified graffiti artist was killed around 5 a.m. this morning by a D train at the N/R station at 59th Street in Brooklyn. Police have not yet released the 20-year-old victim's name, but sources tell the Daily News he was walking on the tracks when he was hit by the Manhattan-bound train. According to transit officials, the motorman saw the man walking on the tracks but wasn't able to stop in time. Cans of spray paint were found near his body, but WPIX reports tha... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Saturday, March 26, 2011,
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Chico Garcia painted a mural featuring officers of District 2 to honor the tragic death of Cpl. Mike Roberts.
A mural honoring fallen Cpl. Mike Roberts and other members of the Tampa Police Department District 2 Headquarters was unveiled Tuesday afternoon during a ceremony led by Mayor Pam Iorio. Roberts was killed in the line of duty after stopping a suspicious person. He left behind a wife and young son. The artist, Chico...
Posted by Tag One on Thursday, December 23, 2010,
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For long, freeways in California and other cities across the nation have been turned into blighted messes by rampant graffiti spraying. But it turns out that tagging can be a deadly hobby. .Raul Garcia Jr. of Lynwood and two other men had been tagging on the Long Beach Freeway in Compton when they were struck around 4 a.m. Saturday, the California Highway Patrol told the Times. Garcia was struck by a Nissan Maxima that had just merged into the far left lane. He wa... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 22, 2010,
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At Dylan Ford's wake Tuesday, he was described as "always concerned about the welfare of others."Photograph by: John Mahoney, The GazetteFuneral services are to be held today in Notre Dame de Grâce for Dylan James Ford, one of three teenagers killed by a train Oct. 31, in the Turcot Yards. At sombre visitation services yesterday in Lachine, a black-and-white photo of Ford, wearing earphones and a T-shirt emblazoned with the word FUNK, sat next to a small wooden urn with a plaque bearing his ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, November 8, 2010,
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Spot where teens died is a tagging 'hall of fame,' says graffiti artistLast Updated: Monday, November 1, 2010 | 2:57 PM ET Comments0Recommend0Police haven't released the names of the three teens killed by a Via Rail passenger train on Sunday morning, but people in Montreal's graffiti community say they knew them and are mourning the deaths. A video paying tribute to one of the dead graffiti artists has been posted on YouTube. He went by the name Jays and the two-minute video shows some ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, October 18, 2010,
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DAVIE —
The driver of the SUV that struck and killed graffitist Jonathan Corso on his
21st birthday told police, "They tried to rob me so I ran him over,"
according to a search warrant filed in Broward Circuit Court.
The warrant identifies Reynaldo Rodriguez, 32, as the driver of the Cadillac
Escalade that ran over and killed Corso outside of Club Eden Cabaret on
University Drive on July 28.
Rodriguez, of Deerfield Beach, has not been charged in the case. He could not
be reache... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Sunday, July 11, 2010,
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Rammellzee, an early graffiti writer, hip-hop pioneer and
performance artist whose style influenced the Beastie
Boys and Cypress Hill,
died Sunday in Far Rockaway, Queens, where he was raised. He lived in
Battery Park City in Manhattan.
He was 49 and died after a long illness, said his wife, Carmela
Zagari Rammellzee.
He became known in graffiti circles in the late 1970s and early 1980s
for hitting the A train and other subway lines around Queens with his
spiky-lettered work. He ap... Continue reading ...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, May 3, 2010,
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Montreal graffiti artist Brian
Kachur's body was pulled from the St. Lawrence River on Nov. 15, 2009.Photograph by: Courtesy of the Kachur family,
The GazetteMONTREAL – Two
teenage males – aged 15 and 16 – appeared in Youth Court Tuesday
afternoon to face one charge each of second-degree murder in the violent
death last fall of graffiti vandal Brian Kachur. Kachur’s body
was discovered floating several metres off the shore in the St. Lawrence
River, by the city...
Posted by Tag One on Monday, February 22, 2010,
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Mike "The Dream" Francisco was an Oakland graffiti artist who was shot and killed 10 years ago...  Marty
Aranaydo said the rage he felt over the murder of his friend and fellow
street graffiti artist Mike "Dream" Francisco was almost overwhelming. Francisco was killed 10 years ago today during a West Oakland robbery. He was 30 at the time and left behind a 1-year-old son. But in the end, Aranaydo's rage didn't win. "I
had this crazy idea to memorialize the 10...
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