Graffiti News & Blog

Fresh out of the LA Times, here’s an article about holding parents responsible for the children’s tagging.  Fine … but I don’t think this will work.  Taggers are not tagging as a rebellion against parental oppression.  Nothing even remotely like that.  More often than not, tagging is associated with street gangs.  Handle street gang crimes like crimes [...]

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I caught this article out of the San Jose, California Mercury News.  The part that caught my attention is that there is a group of folks from local Elks Lodges (you know it’s on when the Elks are on the case) that have taken to calling themselves the “Groundwerx Crew”.  Wha?  Why?  Groundwerx???  That sounds [...]

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I took out the picture of this guy out of the article out of respect for him … but I’ve always wondered about the artists that put their work on the web.  I guess if you’re going to do that, be careful about it.  Although I’m no legal expert it seems if you post illegal [...]

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The article below comes from the Denver post (here).  This is an interesting story and a fresh look at how some city is trying to keep graffiti “under control”.  At least the professor mentioned in the article seems to understand something about graff (i.e. differences between tagging/ graffiti art).  Anyways, interesting read. Oh yeah … [...]

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Interesting story out of Queens where some people are fighting a “War on graffiti” … which sounds like they’re really just cleaning up graffiti and giving some kids a mural to help work on.  It’s not clear whether they’re fighting a “war” on tagging or graffiti art … but I gotta think the approach would [...]

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