LED Throwies at Astor Place cube
March 21, 2006
Last weekend, a few of us ventured up to the Chelsea headquarters of the infamous Graffiti Research Lab and helped build 600 or so LED throwies. GRL agents Q and…
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Street Art & Graffiti
Many of us have done it, some continue to, and we all love seeing what people all over the world are posting on the street. More from Graffiti Research Labs
February 24, 2006
From Q-Branch comes word of another geek graffiti project from the Graffiti Research Labs — Electro-Graf: An electro-graf is a graffiti piece or throw-up that uses conductive and magnetic paint…
Get ’em While They’re Young!
February 16, 2006
Michael De Feo aka the flower guy is teaching a class called “the tools of street art” for kids age 7-10 at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield,…
The geek shall inherit the earth
February 16, 2006
Artist, graffiti analyst and bad ass mother fucker fi5e sends word of a new geek graffiti project developed deep in an underground laboratory on 21st St: LED Throwies are an…
Ghost Bikes for Argentina’s Disappeared
February 7, 2006
In Argentina, ghost bike installations have a purpose other than honoring the memories of fallen bikers. The 380 stencils of bicycles painted throughout the city of Rosario represent the 380…
Cut & Paint: free stencil designs
February 6, 2006
Josh MacPhee’s excellent stencil template zine Cut & Paint has finally gone digital, thanks to John Emerson of Social Design Notes. Click over to CutAndPaint.org and you’ll find over 40…
Ghost bikes go worldwide
February 5, 2006
In the past few weeks, ghost bikes have appeared in at least three new cities across the world. Chicago, Illinois The Chicago Ghost Bike project created a memorial at the…
Vallone Subway Ads
February 2, 2006
Don’t know how we missed this one, but NY1 had a funny story about some parody subway ads that take a shot at Peter Vallone: They look like the real…
Unexpected Graffiti Archivist!
January 31, 2006
Ed Hay may spend most of his time cleaning up graffiti from the railway cars for the CN. But, for the past six years during his “break time” he has…
Chilean Stencils and Politics
January 20, 2006
A while back, I asked my friend Salvador to take some pictures of political graffiti during his trip to Chile. Salvador is back and he has brought 26 pictures of…
Tony Blair’s grandma was a vandal
January 17, 2006
Submitted without comment: If Tony Blair wants to know what drives young vandals to cover walls with graffiti, he won’t have far to look. His own grandmother would have been…
Overpass graffiti arrest in Toledo
January 3, 2006
Speaking of things I wish New York City councilmembers would do: Mike Ferner, a former Toledo councilman and one-time mayoral candidate, was arrested yesterday with his brother for spray-painting anti-war…
Bloomberg to sign new anti-graffiti laws
December 29, 2005
The New York City Council has passed three new anti-graffiti bills which Bloomberg is no doubt itching to sign into law. Intro. No. 663-A amends existing law to mandate community…
Arresting Graffiti
December 23, 2005
In what was an extensive and coordinated effort yesterday morning, at least 30 Dallas police officers attempted to round up 10 persons with arrest warrants. In the operation, six graffiti…
Ellis G.’s chalk shadows in the NY Times
December 12, 2005
Brooklyn artist Ellis Gallagher got a nice writeup this weekend in the New York Times for his chalk shadow tracings: Mr. Gallagher heads out on foot or on his bike…
Judith Supine wheatpastes at recruitment center
December 6, 2005
Political collage artist Judith Supine sent word of an impressive postering job at the Times Square recruitment office. You can check out a short video here. We asked about the…
Another fake graffiti ad campaign
December 3, 2005
Seems every other month another ad agency hires another street artist to push another useless product on behalf another billionaire corporation. And each time, this causes an online controversy about…
Ghost Bikes for Liz Byrne and Angel Quizphi
November 29, 2005
In the past several weeks members of VisualResistance have installed two more Ghost Bikes. Thus far this year has witnessed 21 deaths in the NYC bicycling community. Each loss profoundly…
Murals & Graffiti in Los Angeles
October 13, 2005
Just found an article from the LA Times that gives an example of how cities are criminalizing graffiti — not as vandalism, but as a style. Even commissioned murals will…
Vallone Jr.’s “vendetta”
October 12, 2005
Legacy Queens councilman and Giuliani-wannabe Peter Vallone Jr. is once again dragging his favorite scapegoat around the city’s newsrooms: The scourge who has been defacing buildings, vehicles and trees across…