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No quería tocar esta pieza ni quitarle ni cambiarle nada, pero desafortunadamente me la dañaron esos cabrones de publicidad de cashflow. Pero por mas que me tapen y tapen siempre estaré ahí reclamando lo que me pertenece.

Otra con FG

En estos días de tanto copion y falto de originalidad, que esconde esta falta de todo detrás del típico argumento "Estoy innovando", es bueno demostrar que aunque no se haga lo mas innovador, y extraño, se mantiene un estilo sincero, trabajado, evolucionado con los años, y sacado de la mente, no de revistas o sitios en internet.

Ceroker

Cero pegando duro en el spot de hace un par de años. Una de las mejores piezas que le conozco!

OKC nunca muere...

FREE REVOK!!LIBERTAD A REVOK!!

El conocido rey del estilo de LA una vez más en problemas con la ley. Esta vez fue arrestado cuando se encontraba en el aeropuerto de Los Ángeles a punto de tomar un vuelo a Europa. La sentencia por el momento es de 180 días en prisión y una multa de 320mil dolares. Revok ha estado preso ya dos veces, esta vez la orden de captura decía que el había violado las condiciones de su libertad provisional.

Respeto y apoyo departe de todos los que vivimos el graffiti a nivel mundial. Repudio por la autoridad Norte americana la cual quiere ensuciar a Revok haciéndolo ver como una plaga ante la sociedad.

EWOK (MSK.AWR.HM) en Bogotá

Es muy bueno poder tener tan cerca a personas con un trabajo tan consistente como Ewok msk/hm, aprender al verlo hacer lo suyo en vivo, e indagar muchas cosas. Sin embargo, como siempre me surge la misma pregunta…¿que es lo que pasa a nivel local? Una enfermedad por querer imitar MSK o HEAVY ARTILLERY y la estética de graffiti internacional.

Más allá de mostrar respeto y admiración a este escritor como a cualquier otro sea de donde sea , esto conduce a un estado de oportunismo y de querer establecer relaciones absurdas y patéticas de adolescentes jugando a hacer graffiti.

Bien lo dijo el mismo Ewok ayer en su charla, cuando se le dijo que cual consejo le daría a los escritores locales.

En pocas palabras no textualmente (Ustedes deben tomar los elementos de su ambiente, de su entorno, de su sociedad, de su cultura e identidad para poder en un futuro establecer un estilo propio).

Personalmente creo que el acá vio gente talentosa, gente con una buena técnica, gente muy joven con trabajos muy buenos, pero entrando mas en materia se percató de la cantidad de estilos traídos de muchos rincones del mundo, y del común denominador de muchos escritores con los que compartió muros por una estética para ponerlo en palabras idiotas pero entendibles “californiana”.

¿Que gracia puede tener para este personaje pintar en un muro donde todo mundo intenta hacer los mismos efectos que el y sus colegas hacen en EU?, ¿Acaso lo van a sorprender estas expresiones? Por supuesto no!

También el nos dijo que no tiene gracia volver sobre lo que ya se ha hecho, como pintar un estilo a lo cope2 y ya parar de explorar. Cada escritor debería continuamente tratar de evolucionar su estilo y técnica, hacer cosas diferentes, pero no confundir esta “innovación” con imitación.

Estas visitas deberían ser mejor aprovechadas, dejar de un lado la lamboneria y preocuparse por conocer historia del graffiti mundial. Aprovechar escenarios como la charla en el planetario para hacer preguntas de contenido, no las mismas preguntas que le han hecho en todas las entrevistas que están en internet, hace años.

En lo personal siento mucha admiración por el crew que el representa desde hace muchos años, porque fué el primer crew de graffiti que vi (awr) en revistas y libros, cuando mi mejor amigo me trajo imágenes de baja california y su graffiti en 1999, también porque mi escritor favorito (Saber) es uno de sus más grandes exponentes, y obviamente por el trabajo realizado por todo el grupo llevando el graffiti a un nivel muy profesional. A pesar de esto, esta admiración no me lleva a intentar pintar como ellos lo hacen, o proponer cosas que ellos hacen y ven en su país, y esto no debería ser motivación para nadie acá, ya que tenemos mucho de donde alimentar nuestro estilo, tenemos muchas cosas que podemos mostrar al mundo con nuestra pintura.

Como siempre creo que la imagen que se deja al exterior es ambigua...gente muy querida muy todo bien y lo que sea, pero poco seria..o más que eso, gente (no todo el mundo) pero si mucha gente, que está estancada en la etapa de ser las super estrellas, ojala al crecer estas etapas se quemen y sea superadas.

Gracias a los que hacen posible que vengan estos escritores al país y ojala vengan muchisisimos mas de los que tanto admiramos, pero que cuando esto pase, se saque provecho verdadero.

Una foto de un grato recuerdo..Un buen tipo sencillo y callado en lo poco que lo traté.

Capellania 2010

Retomando un spot de hace un par de años.

Festivales 2010

Muchos eventos recientes, que deben ser reconocidos a sus organizadores, por dar ese espacio para todos los que quieren poner en practica o demostrar sus habilidades. Tercer mundo 3 versión y The best writters.

El sin sabor es el mismo de siempre...estilos voladores de la nada, bitters, exceso de influencias, pero el mas fuerte creo que es la elección de jurados poco centrados para evaluar la presentación de los participantes. No todos, y no en ambos eventos, hablo exactamente del Best writters , y creo que es exactamente el porque muchos no nos vemos motivados a participar, no por ganar o perder, sino por estar expuestos al veredicto poco o nada objetivo de personajes que pueden estar en dicha posición de jurados mas por amistad que por cualquier otra cosa. Digo que no todos los jurados, ya que reconozco y llamaría personas como Beek a ser jurado de cualquier evento, no por ser amigo o conocido, porque no lo es, sino por su criterio, constancia, conocimiento y objetividad. Ademas de esto, reconozco el nivel tan competitivo y fuerte en otros países, pero considero que no es necesario o no era necesario por lo menos en este festival que escritores internacionales sirvieran como jueces, acá hay suficientes personas que pueden dar un veredicto, serio, sincero, objetivo y sin factores pasionales.

Volviendo a lo de antes, no se puede determinar quien gana un evento, una competencia, por aspectos como, ser amigos, como haber pintando juntos, etc...

Sin embargo como dije al comienzo estos eventos deben ser reconocidos porque son hechos con esfuerzo, hechos por colegas escritores para todos nosotros los escritores colombianos. Es grato ir a ver el progreso de muchos, las locuras de otros, los descaches de muchos, y la aparición de nuevas caras talentosas.

IN LOVING MEMORY SIGI VON KOEDING aka “DARE” 09.16.1968 † 03.06.2010

Muere uno de los mas grandes escritores de graffiti de todos los tiempos. DARE enseñando estilo verdadero desde 1986, influencia para escritores en Europa y el resto del mundo.

Las leyendas no mueren.

SIGI VON KOEDING aka “DARE” 09.16.1968 † 03.06.2010

Rest in Peace Dare † 06.03.2010 from I Love Graffiti on Vimeo.

RISK TSL WCA

Los Angeles graff legend website.

http://riskrock.com/

MTA LA river piece news

County, City and Army Gang Up on "MTA" Tag from blogdowntown on Vimeo.

SABER L A RIVER PIECE

On September 1, 2009 federal stimulus money was used by the Army Corps of Engineers to buff the Los Angeles River of graffiti. In doing so, they white washed an important part of L.A.’s artistic history. Key among the pieces that were destroyed was a work by the artist SABER; artwork recognized by many worldwide as the largest graffiti masterpiece. Created in 1997 on the sloping concrete banks off the 5 freeway, the piece measured 250’ x 55’ – nearly the size of an NFL football field – and took 97 gallons of paint. Most large-scale graffiti in the L.A. River, such as the MTA roller (also recently buffed) are straightforward two color blocks. What made Saber’s piece world famous (beyond it’s impressive scale and staying power) was that it was a complex full color piece. Few beyond the graffiti scene truly appreciate the dangerous logistics of getting the artist and his supplies to that site, much less the technical and artistic skill required to create such a large piece on an angled surface. This historic artwork has become such a landmark on the LA River that SABER has been featured in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s exhibition.

LA legend SABER

Lee Quinones: Tribute to the late Iz the Wiz

Legendary graffiti artist Lee Quinones recites a tribute he wrote for the late Masterblaster Iz the Wiz @ the Hellenbeck Gallery in NYC on June 18.

Lee Quinones: Tribute to the late Iz the Wiz from Raquel Cepeda on Vimeo.

IZ THE WIZ REST IN PARADISE

Graffiti writing pioneer IZ THE WIZ (Michael Martin) died last night from heart failure. The legendary vandal, president of The Master Blasters crew, has been described as the “longest reigning all-city king in NYC history” for his prolific work on several subway lines during the 70s and 80s. IZ was one of the main characters profiled in graffiti cult classic, Style Wars (9:38 mark) and is widely regarded as an influential figure in the movement. He was also a great guy and one of the humblest writers I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting, so here’s a toast in honor of IZ THE WIZ: To a graffiti writer whose name will never fade.

Evidence reppin AWR since 89

Evidence+AWR= la combinacion perfecta

http://www.knowngallery.com/blog/post/evidence-reppin-awr-since-1989

HOW&NOSM

Página recomendadisima que acaba de ser relanzada.

http://www.hownosm.org

NZ man jailed for killing teenage graffiti artist

A New Zealand man who killed a teenage graffiti artist he caught spray-painting his home has been sentenced to more than four years in jail in a case that has gripped the country.

Fifty-year-old Bruce Emery grabbed a knife and chased Pihema Cameron after he caught the 15-year-old spray-painting graffiti on the garage of his South Auckland home just over a year ago.

The teenager died from a stab-wound to the chest. The businessman told police he was defending himself.

Emery was found not guilty of murder and convicted of manslaughter.

The teenagers mother, Leanne Cameron, is outraged.

“Did any of you fellows see his face? It’s painless, he looked at us an put his head down,” she said.

Emery’s lawyer, Chris Comesky, says both sides involved have suffered, and the victim’s family must move on.

“Family members of the deceased saying they’d love to rip his eye-balls out, they are filled with hate,” he said.

Emery was sentenced to four years and three months in prison.

[Via:www.abc.net.au]

MTA MEMEBERS GET BUSTED!

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies today arrested at least eight alleged members of the notorious Metro Transit Assassins tagging crew, some of whom are believed to be responsible for a several-blocks-long “MTA” tag in the concrete Los Angeles River bed that authorities say will cost millions of dollars to remove.
The arrests occurred during a series of early-morning raids centered in the Hollywood area. Among those detained for a parole violations is a famous tagger whose work “SMEAR” has has won acclaim in the art community.
Those arrested were booked on suspicion of vandalism, drug possession, narcotics for sales, weapons possession and other parole violations, officials said
“These individuals are responsible for tags not only in Los Angeles but Las Vegas and San Francisco,” said Sheriff’s Cmdr. Dan Finkelstein, who is chief of the Metropolitan Transit Authority police. “The Army Corps of Engineers estimates that removing the “MTA” tag from the riverbed alone will cost $3.7 million.

Cleaning graffiti from the river is far more expensive than cleaning other areas. Officials use high-pressure water spray to remove the toxic paint.
But hazardous-materials crews must then dam and capture all the paint and water runoff to prevent it from getting into the river. The crew did an additional $20,000 worth of damage to transit vehicles and facilities. Finkelstein said the Los Angeles River “MTA” tag, in a vast industrial district east of downtown between two rail yards, took about 400 gallons of paint — 300 gallons white and 100 gallons black. “It took them four nights to do it,” he said.
The three block letters cover a three-story-high wall and run the length of several blocks between the 4th Street and 1st Street bridges. The tagging crew, which is also known as “Melting Toys Away” and “Must Take All,” began about the time the transportation agency began using the MTA letters. Investigators say they have statements, including some on video, that implicate some of the crew MTA members get busted!

members in the enormous tag.
“Some of this group could face federal charges,” Finkelstein said. During the raids, Finkelstein said, investigators found customized high-pressure fire extinguishers that, when filled with paint, allow the tagger to hang upside down on the underside of a freeway and quickly scrawl massive graffiti. These taggers are not kids, he said.
Most those detained are in their 20s; one of them drives a $60,000 BMW, and another member possesses a diamond-and-ruby-encrusted Metro logo pendant with paperwork suggesting it’s worth $29,000, Finkelstein said.
– Richard Winton
Photo: Police car shows scale of the giant “MTA” tag in the Los Angeles River in May 2008. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times

SOURCE: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/01/sheriffs-deputi.html

Is graffiti worse than prostitution?

By RICK CASEY

http://www.chron.com

If four eighth-grade girls at a Cy-Fair middle school had been found with a couple of ounces of marijuana, or had stolen $1,400 from a house near the school, or had engaged in prostitution, they would have committed a misdemeanor.

But they did none of these things. They wrote on the girls' bathroom wall.

So they face felony charges.

In Texas, graffiti with a Sharpie on a school wall is a more serious crime than carrying a switchblade, making a terroristic threat, burglarizing a vehicle, committing a second DWI, stalking, or assault causing bodily harm.

It's part of our efforts to criminalize childhood.

Handcuffed, hauled off

The mothers of two of the girls, with whom I spoke, agree that their daughters did wrong and should be punished.

But arrested on campus, handcuffed and taken in a squad car to be booked, photographed and fingerprinted?

Both mothers, Noelle Jackson and Christie Mathieu, said their daughters are A and B students who are not troublemakers.

In fact, they are literally choir girls. The trouble began Dec. 1 when the choir teacher failed to show for after-school practice. While waiting for the late bus home, the girls went into the bathroom where, they told their mothers, graffiti was already scrawled on the walls and ceiling. They decided to add their own.

Stronger than 'I love Alex'

Jackson's daughter told her mother she wrote, "We run this sh--."

She said two other girls wrote, "Hi ladies," and "Wipe before you leave."

The worst, said Jackson, was one that wrote, "(Girl's first name and last initial) is a big-azz ho."

Mathieu said her daughter wrote in pencil on the toilet roll holder. This is not a felony because it's not in permanent ink, but Mathieu said she was told her daughter is being charged because she was with the other girls "and didn't rat on them."

A spokeswoman for the school district said federal school privacy law prevents them from discussing details, but the amount of graffiti was worse than the mothers described, and the content was "much stronger" than a similar incident in the Katy ISD last year.

In that case a 12-year-old wrote "I love Alex" on a gym wall. The DA declined to prosecute, but the district sentenced her to four months in the district's alternative center.

After a public outcry, Katy officials lowered her punishment to writing an apology to the maintenance director and thanking him for cleaning the wall, and making posters promoting clean schools.

But the mothers of the Cy-Fair 8th graders said school officials apparently based their punishment on assuming the girls were lying about what little they had written.

Matthieu said she obtained an e-mail a 7th-grader wrote to a friend admitting she and two others had already defaced the walls and gloating that the 8th-graders were taking the rap.

The message read in part: "well we found out today that we didnt get caught. (: they said they cught the ppl who did and they said that it these four eighth graders. bahha but it was really us three. yeahh they also said that those four girls got arrested and sent to juvii."

Matthieu said she showed the e-mail to the principal, not to get the other girls punished but in hopes of getting a more reasonable punishment for her daughter and her friends.

Instead, she says, she understands that the 7th graders are now also facing felony charges. I was unable to confirm that.

State law also requires that any student charged with a felony be sent to the district's alternative learning center. The 8th graders will be there for six weeks.

Matthieu and Jackson are worried about the effect on their daughters' grades and their performance on the upcoming TAKS test.

"My daughter has been there two weeks and she hasn't come home with a book yet," Matthieu said.

I don't know the full extent of the graffiti or who wrote what, but there is no rational reason for the Legislature to make all graffiti in a school a felony.

The punishment should not be administered by the criminal justice system, but by the school.

The law should provide that school punishment be designed to further educate children, not hurt their education.

The amount and tone of the graffiti should determine just how many Saturdays the girls spend cleaning restrooms. That would, at the least, teach the girls appreciation for the noble work of janitors.

Making graffiti in a school a felony is a dumb law. But the principal is not required to call the cops. And the DA is not required to accept the case.

Such outlandish punishment is not teaching the girls responsibility. It's teaching them to distrust authority.

You can write to Rick Casey at P.O. Box 4260, Houston, TX 77210, or e-mail him at rick.casey@chron.com

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De vuelta con lo clásico. Cero okc