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Seen in a subway station.
Remember, it just takes one pen. Send us yours.
Seen in a subway station.
Should Outdoor Advertising Companies Be Subject To The Same Penalties Grafitti Writers Face?
BC Biermann, a PhD Assistant Professor of Film/Media Studies California Baptist University – Riverside has recently published a paper on “Spatial Distributions of Power: Illegal Billboards as Graffiti in Los Angeles.” In it he argues…
“While graffiti has regularly been prosecuted as form of [...]
So the question is… is this a twix advertisement? or was it just that cool to paint a Twix logo on the back of your white portable radio in the heyday of 80’s graffiti-cool?
Picture via Mariasa Olson’s flickr set IMG_FAN
Here are stills of the stencil I put up on the ads that went up on wall outside Eyebeam. And two images from people who answered the call!
Ironworkers spray paint names of young cancer patients onto the beams of the Yawkey Center going up at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The building’s steel skeleton is now a brightly colored, seven-story monument to scores of children receiving treatment at the clinic.
from Boston.com, photo by David Ryan
Reporting from Paris — Over the centuries, the French have cultivated the fine art of rebellion. The list of targets encompasses tyrants, wars, colonialism and, above all, capitalism in its many manifestations. The latest enemy may seem unlikely: billboards.
The Dismantlers, as a nationwide group of anti-ad crusaders call themselves, aren’t violent or loud or [...]
via TomorrowMusuem via via Cinema Blend
This is graffiti:
it’s spray paint it’s done without permission on someone else’s property it’s illegal politicians hate it
It’s the expression of a citizen (or small group of citizens) in public space speaking to fellow citizens. Anyone, willing to take the legal [...]
Within the first minute of this interview with Jon Reiss about his new documentary “Bomb It” Reiss cuts to the heart, talking about the battle for public space between graffiti writers and advertising. If you don’t “get” graffiti or what the big deal about public space is, this might be the movie for you. [...]
“delete your facebook its the cool fucking thing to do” & “kill your TV” written in sharpie on the wall of a Dunkin Donuts in Spring Creek on the New Jersey shore. Oh Facebook, the rebel tweens are turning on you already.
Introducing the first transmission from long-time AAA friend Evan Roth, now in Hong Kong…
Mission #1 – Learn how to say “paint roller” in Cantonese and write ‘ANTI’ on the top of that building. Stay tuned for updates!
Arresting 3,786 graffiti writers last year, The Citywide Vandals Task Force is back in the news. The squad of 75 (!) officers has received press before. Even an 8 minute segment on This American Life. I think it’s because journalists love to ask the vandal squad if they think graffiti is art [...]