Year: 2009

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New Imminent Disaster… Over and Over Again

Imminent Diaster just put up this new piece out in Williamsburg. This spot has had quite a history with this wonderful and consistent artist. Throughout the months, Imminent Disaster’s piece, which was recently featured in the Street/Studio exhibition, has ben dissed, repainted, and redissed by the writer Omar. After this exhausting back and forth it seems as if Disaster has finally made an entirely new addition to the wall. I do love how the old narrative peaks through the new design. Here is a little overview of this spot.Photos by Jake Dobkin and Over Under

Follow this link to partake in the discussion about street art’s photo documentation following.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluejake/3857938320/

How’s this blog post for voyuerism ?

Repainted but dissed again. A little challenge on the side that retorts, “Start Piecin and stop Hatin”

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Hear No Evil, See No Evil

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These are very cool. They are the ceramic sculptures Ericailcane has made specially for FAME Fest. (Check out his cool prints here.)

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And this is very uncool. The people who control the wall above had given Ericailcane permission to paint a mural on it. Soon after he began, they changed their minds. As Angelo so eloquently puts it, “We were pissed as never before.” Me too.

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The London Police at Carmichael Gallery

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The London Police have been making a comeback this year, and their next stop is Carmichael Gallery in Los Angeles. I don’t know if The London Police getting better or I’m just warming up to their style, but their work in Amsterdam and some of these works-in-progress for a show at Carmichael Gallery are looking pretty cool.

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“Brothers In Arms,” The London Police’s solo exhibition at Carmichael Gallery opens September 10th, and Dan Baldwin has a solo show opening in Carmichael Gallery on the 10th as well.

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New from Banksy: Zorro

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Looks like this could be the latest Banksy piece, captured by Romanywg in Westbourne Park, London. It hasn’t been confirmed as a Banksy yet by his own website or anything, but street art authorities are calling a Banksy, the style fits and there is a similar sketch in his show at The Bristol Museum, so I think it’s a safe bet.

Zorro is an interesting subject for Banksy to paint, as NoLionsInEngland has noted on WallKandy: “Zorro defended peasants from the tyrannical authority of officials and aristocrats, as ‘does’ Banksy; Zorro was the alter-ego of a knight or some kind of aristocrat, and certain newspapers seem convinced that Banksy is/was a mild-mannered public school poshie.”

Banksy Zorro

Banksy Zorro

Photos by Romanywg

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Stay away from taggers

I just came across this hilarious graphic from the City of Santa Ana’s anti-graffiti website.

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It is meant to help parents decided if their child might be a tagger. Further down on that same page is this comment:

GRAFFITI REWARD PROGRAM
The City of Santa Ana also offers a Graffiti Reward Program in the amount of $500 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of suspects for tagging or graffiti related vandalism.

I wonder if any parents have ever called in for the reward…

On a related note, Los Angeles is trying to stop people from even associating with known taggers and writers.

From Street Level:

To many, tagging is more of an art form than a crime, but if the Los Angeles city attorney has his way, even being seen with taggers will be enough to get you arrested. According to the Los Angeles Times, L.A. city attorney Carmen Trutanich is proposing a series of injunctions that would give the police the authority to arrest taggers and graffiti artists simply for hanging out together — they do not have to be caught in the act.

Continued on Street Level…

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5 artists with skull logos

Street artists love skulls almost as much as Dick Cheney enjoys shooting people in the face (God, that’s a really dated pop culture reference, isn’t it). Here are five pieces by artists who use some form of a skull as their logo:

1. Kaws

Maybe an ad disruption would be a ‘better’ piece by Kaws, I love the way somebody spray painted around this sticker. Very few stickers get that much respect.

Photo by Jake Dobkin
Photo by Jake Dobkin

2. Cyclops

You can’t mention London street art or graffiti right now without a nod to Burning Candy, and Cyclop’s skulls are in many of their best collaborative pieces.

Photo by bixentro
Photo by bixentro

3. Booker

Booker/Reader/Readmorebooks/Boans… This writer gets up under too many names to keep track of, but one of his many trademarks are these skulls:

Photo by funkandjazz
Photo by funkandjazz

4. Katsu

No discussion of skulls on the street would be complete without Katsu.

Photo by dreamsjung
Photo by dreamsjung

5. Skullphone

Don’t really know what Skullphone is trying to say with this image, but he’s said it all over the world.

Photo by Laughing Squid
Photo by Laughing Squid

So that’s five street artists and graffiti writers who use skulls as logos. Now the reason I started thinking about this post. This is a new piece by Elbowtoe that I’m really liking:

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Street Spot is up

Street Spot, which is run by the omnipresent street photographers Rebecca Fuller and Luna Park, is finally up and running!

http://www.robotswillkill.com/streetspot/

Look, this is fantastic news, but also really bad at the same time. Because now that the Street Spot Blog is here, there is no real reason why you would have to check on any of my own posts about what is going on in the New York street scene! If you’ve followed their extensive flickr photostreams, you know that they are always consistent and on point with their documentation. This is such a tremendous problem though since you may have noticed almost every time I’ve posted new street work from the City, I cite the photo credits to these two lovely individuals. So I’m basically screwed, or I’ll just be linking the blog more often!

But in all seriousness, I am so glad that they have a site now because it will serve as THE comprehensive resource for what’s happening on the streets of New York.