I keep seeing comments about how they’re “cheating” by painting in Asia. I don’t know what that means, in any sense of the word. Whether it’s criminalized, whether the people fight you or call the cops, or whether you get prosecuted or you don’t, all street graffiti presents its own set of risks and challenges. [...]
From Occupy Wall Street News, whatever that is, I’m looking for a better source, apparently 20 people have been arrested already this week in Chicago in largely “preemptive” and “unwarranted” arrests. While I have no doubt in my mind that the blueberries will pick you off the street faster than you can say “Miranda”, I was surp…Ok not even this surprises me to be honest. Here’s an excerpt from a story about the CPD breaking into an apartment without a warrant and tying up several of the “conspirators”, until they ultimately took the stash.
“According to witnesses in Bridgeport, police broke down a door to access a 6-unit apartment building near 32nd & Morgan Streets without a search warrant. Police entered an apartment with guns drawn and tackled one of the tenants to the floor in his kitchen. Two tenants were handcuffed for more than 2 hours in their living room while police searched their apartment and a neighboring unit, repeatedly calling one of the tenants a “Commie faggot.” A search warrant produced 4 hours after police broke into the apartment was missing a judge’s signature, according to witnesses. Among items seized by police in the Bridgeport raid were beer-making supplies and at least one cell phone.”
So, not only the one B&E but the neighbors too? Just kickin’ in doors for fun, geeked out on adrenaline. Wooord. I’ll be relaxing most of the weekend then, counting my blessings that I’m into spray paint and not conspiracy, but that doesn’t sound fair to me. LOL fair.
Top 7 Things Graffiti Artists Should Know: Compiled by Canada Real Estate Magazine
And here I was thinking I had jumped the gun the other day with my “increase in graffiti” article. I was scouring the web this morning over a bowl of greens sans dressing for breakfast, and I was about to try and make a funny post out of this article concerning NATO activity this weekend [...]
Marc Jacobs Makes Fun of Graffiti in The News – UPDATE x2
If you haven’t been following the recent shenanigans of Kidult, then let me catch you up to speed – he has been spraying fire-extinguishers filled with paint over the storefronts of various stores and boutiques such as Supreme, Hermes, and most recently, Marc Jacob in NYC. From his various videos, it seems that his “purpose” [...]
I have an idea that could change the world, and you could too.
To understand where I am coming from, let me explain. I am a graffiti “vandal” by all intents and purposes in our modern world – in fact, I embrace the illegal side of graffiti because I believe in it. It has taught me more about how the world works and how to understand people than [...]
Graffiti in The News, an Update
Revok posted a Huffington Post article over on his blog about a piece Sever recently painted in Detroit that I guess we are calling “The Death of Street Art” (some friends have been saying Death TO Street Art, but that’s more personal opinion). I was actually pleasantly surprised to (finally) see some real, insightful things [...]
I Love Tagging!!!
This almost made me cry, I feel exactly the same way. High fives for graffiti! <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/I8TXazJAY0E” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
Graffiti in The News Today
Detroit, 2008 – pre-graffiti renaissance I capitalized The News up there not only for formatting sake but also to reference “mainstream media” as my sources. Now that you know that fun fact, I’ll get to it. I used to be very into scouring the web for stories about graffiti. They were few and far [...]
“i’m on the road that leads to where you are” or “chicago stories” or “long island stories”
the following polaroids were taken between may 2009 and november 2009. they are about finding hope and security in stickers and tagged up overpasses. they are about seeking beauty in places where it’s not expected to be. they are about trying to fit back into a place you once belonged even when you’re not sure [...]
