Police arrest two graffiti vandals

Great Falls Police have arrested two men wanted for allegedly vandalizing nearly 30 downtown businesses with graffiti.

18-year-old Tyler Valley and 21-year-old Christopher Ritter, both of Great Falls, were arrested downtown around 10 Saturday night.
They have been charged with felony criminal mischief.

Police believe Valley and Ritter are responsible for the graffiti vandalism that has been

Graffiti vandal who caused £45,000 damage is jailed

A graffiti vandal who was caught after filming himself spray painting trains in Essex has been jailed for a year, British Transport Police (BTP) said.


Robert Martin, 23, was caught with mobile phone footage from the railway line and pictures which showed him posing with giant cannabis plants he had grown in his back garden.


Southend Crown Court heard he caused more than £45,000 worth of

Saint Louis Park public works employee uses web to catch graffiti taggers.

He doesn't want the spotlight but a Saint Louis Park Public Works employee has made it his mission to help apprehend graffiti taggers.



Saint Louis Park created a software program called GraffitiNet. It allows cities to catalog one tagger's work across city lines. The program not only helps catch taggers, but can helps make them responsible for damage done in more than one location. Member

Banksy's Opening For "The Simpsons"

In what has to be one of the most closely guarded secrets in TV history, the "couch gag" opening of tonight's episode of The Simpsons was storyboarded and directed by none other than Banksy.

In your opinion...is it "ironic" or simply "self-criticism" ?









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SAI 2010: Street Art Festival in Istanbul

Between the 26th August and the 16th September German artists from Munich such as Loomit, Kiam77, Satone, One2, Rosanna Schumacher, Skore 183, Neon, Squaredynamic and Blash have been painting several spots in Istanbul and working in the Nayah and Rodin cafe building in Taksim. Locals have been representing too... Asu Ceren, Cuneyt Çelik, Cooper, Dünya Atay, Eskreyn, Fiberoptik, Fu, Funk, Goksu

Graffiti artists get creative in West Oakland 'battle'

OAKLAND -- The California Penal Code classifies unauthorized graffiti as "vandalism" -- a crime that can cost the offender a sizable fine or even jail time.
But Estria Miyashiro, of Oakland, a veteran of the graffiti art movement for more than two decades, hopes to change skeptics' minds about graffiti and those who practice it.Three years ago, he launched the "Estria Invitational Graffiti Battle

Chocolate Kills: Street Art video in Rome (IT) made by UNO

Mirror Stencil made by UNO.

Via degli Ausoni (San Lorenzo), Rome, IT, 2010.




http://www.flickr.com/photos/b_uno/

http://www.myspace.com/idontcareaboutuno

Amaze Paris Fondation Cartier Graffiti

Amaze graffiti in Paris for the Fondation Cartier.
The piece is so big, i couldn't get enough space on the back to film it in one shot...
DEFINATLY A.M.A.Z.E ME!




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Banos and Mckoy graffiti on train

A train graffiti by Banos and Mckoy filmed in Nuremberg (Germany).




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Graffiti: the unseen beautiful hand of hip hop culture

The name graffiti is an Italian word, derived from graffito, which means scrapping or tagging on the walls.For years when hip hop culture came to life, graffiti came to be a sub culture or element of hip hop, which has contributed significantly to the whole movement of the music genre.Graffiti evolved into a cultural existence, which penetrated hip hop music adding to other elements, such as

Affiliation with Street Art Attack!

It's a pleasure for us to introduce a new affiliated site: Street Art Attack!One of the best blog about the Italian Street Art!

Police make arrest in hunt for 'Soak' graffiti artist

POLICE have arrested a man in connection with hundreds of graffiti tags daubed across Oxford and last night warned more arrests could follow.Officers have been trying to catch the vandal responsible for daubing the word ‘Soak’ across buildings, bus stops and bins for the past two months. Last night, they admitted there were probably copy-cat taggers operating too, and revealed a new tag ‘

Graffiti art gains ground in Echo Park

A new Echo Park paint supply store and graffiti art hub opened last week in Echo Park, stoking excitement and concern in the community. Montana Cans, a designer spray-paint brand from Germany markets itself as “from the artist scene to the artist scene,” opened an East-side store minutes from Dodger Stadium.

A party last Friday announced the stores arrival to the neighborhood with live

Cops nab longtime Bronx graffiti artist Fernando (Cope2) Carlo after he tags subway car

A longtime Bronx graffiti artist who claimed to have gone mainstream returned to his roots by tagging a subway car uptown, police said.


Fernando Carlo - whose graffiti has covered trains, walls, and trucks since the late '70s - was busted this week. Police said Carlo, better known as Cope or Cope2, slipped into a subway yard at 207th St., using a train as his personal canvas.


"It was a

Graffiti arrests highlight growing problem, police say

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Police say four people suspected of spraying graffiti across town were arrested Tuesday night. The accused taggers’ arrests come after a dramatic increase in graffiti seen in Anchorage.
The word “Zombie” was spray-painted throughout Lynn Ary Park near Foraker Drive, where the four were arrested. The designs are similar to those seen throughout the city, starting about two