Thousands of notes and messages left on the walls of Juliet’s house by star-crossed lovers are to be removed in a week long £100,000 clean up operation officials have announced The spring clean will mean the house – which is the second most popular tourist attraction in Italy after the Vatican Museums and visited by [...]
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I just found out about an amazing web application somehow related to graffiti. We can now draw over an YouTube video! Here’s how it goes. Select the YouTube video you want to modify the copy the address from your browser. Paste this address on top of the application page, just below the Graffiti VIDAVEE logo [...]
Graffiti Archaeology is a project devoted to the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. The core of the project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of graffiti taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of several years. The photos were taken in San Francisco, New York, [...]
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone is trying his hand at “reverse graffiti” for a shock campaign to reduce teenage deaths and injuries on the roads around Christmas. “Every day a teenager is involved in a road accident in London”, he warns. So his Transport for London authority has launched a Don’t Die Before You’ve Lived [...]
In a bid to increase the quality and quantity of graffiti, The Fakeproject Corporation of America has issued a graffiti coloring book, free of charge, which allows graffiti artists to practice their tags before application in a real world situation. Please, share this link and this book with your tagging colleagues. They also have a [...]
A petition to organize and build a graffiti wall in every town was put up on a government site in UK by a guy named Paul Slater. If the government built a legal graffiti wall in every town, where anyone is aloud to spray graffiti, it would cut down the amount of illegal graffiti in [...]
Every year in December a group of artists display their work at an art show called “Santa’s Ghetto”. Here‘s how they explain it: Santa’s Ghetto is probably the world’s most low-concept art event. Every year we assemble a loose collection of the great unwashed to hawk their artistic wares on the high street amongst the [...]
WebUrbanist has an interesting write up of Matt McCormick‘s film The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal. Although a few years old it can still be found on the Best of Resfest Vol. 3. The short film brings up the interesting concept that one can find art in the painting over of graffiti done by local [...]
A 19-year-old graffiti artist who was arrested in September for spray painting the likeness of Johnny Cash on several Salt Lake City and Sugar House businesses was sentenced Monday. Tyler James Olsen was ordered to pay a $350 fine and $3,200 in restitution and was put on 18 months probation. Judge Randall Skanchy also sentenced [...]
