This weekend the BBC had released an article called Graffiti: Free Speech or Vandalism? With all of the recent coverage pertaining to freedom of speech, the right to bare spray paint, and the lawsuit that was filed in NYC this past week….. it is a good read for those that are interested. Link.
The mural is on Mulberry Street in NYC. It’s the new campaign for the upcomming movie ‘ The Da Vinci Code. Catch a flick of this mural before its gone….. and a TATS mural is always something to have in front of a camera!
Nicer TATS Cru
If your just into good BK photos, or you just want to know what’s going on ’round your hood, go check out the OnlyTheBlogKnowsBrooklyn.
The picts without words are my fave.
New York Post - April 27, 2006 — A Brooklyn graffiti vandal,
described as “the worst of the worst,” was nabbed yesterday after years
of spray-painting his signature “Acid” tag, cops said.
XXXXXXX XXXXXX, 24, was arrested at his Bensonhurst apartment
after Citywide Vandals Task Force cops investigated a recent spate of
graffiti in Brooklyn.
“He’s known to us as the worst of the worst vandals, and he
has a lot of newly painted graffiti across the city,” said Sgt. James
Gueric.
XXXXXX has a rap sheet that includes graffiti vandalism, weapons and domestic-violence charges.
The title reads ‘Graffiti Back in Subways’. This is true and has been for quite some time, but this article is uncovering a new awareness… Link
This article was published in the New York Times newspaper, as well as online. Try to get yourself a copy.
The new Billionare Boys Club ‘Board Flip’ sneaker being promoted by Reebok….Link.
Michael Kiefer
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 24, 2006 07:11 PM
PHOENIX - The young man
practically blushed as the “Hollywood filmmaker” praised his artwork:
three-foot-high letters spelling out the word “Gorilla” on a block wall
alongside an SRP canal.
Except the movie mogul was not really making a documentary. He was an
undercover investigator from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office
targeting the erstwhile spray-paint artists who use other peoples’
property as their canvas.
The 60-day sting operation nabbed four Phoenix youths, all juveniles, Maricopa Attorney Andrew Thomas announced Monday.
Among the sites vandalized with the artwork were a construction trailer
and walls at Brophy College Preparatory school on Central Avenue just a
short distance from the phony filmmakers’ office.
Two of the youths, aged 15 and 16, were charged with misdemeanor counts
of damage by graffiti; the other two, aged 16 and 17, were charged with
multiple felony counts of criminal damage.
Thomas hopes to transfer them to adult court.
“There is nothing cultural or artistic about defacing public and
private property,” Thomas read from a prepared statement. “Graffiti
vandalism represents a threat not just to property but to society as
well. The vandals are trying to show that nothing is beyond the reach
of their can of spray paint.”
Then, speaking off the cuff, Thomas added that: “Graffiti challenges
our sense of order and to the extent that you let people graffiti
property, you’re sending a message that other members of the criminal
element can get away with worse.”
According to Barnett Lotstein of the County Attorney’s Office, the
investigators rented several cars and an office in the 1400 block of
North Central Avenue and printed fliers that they distributed in the
neighborhood.
The cost of the sting was $8,000, not counting investigators’ salaries, Lotstein said.
This is really bizarre. Vandal Squad is really going through the measures of the hook, line and sinker. It is amazing how they let them do their thing before the camera and waited to capture all four of the teens. You really have to be careful of who is filming you these days, for any reason! Not to mention the Big Brother security cameras that are constantly fiming us at least ten times a day, it really is amazing how extreme police are surveling with all of these new tactics.
Here is a graffiti campain for a Change. Nicorette’s plan is to reach the inner city youth and give them an option to smoking. See all of their nation-wide murals painted by artists like TOTEM…Link
