Vandalog – A Street Art Blog

August 24, 2009August 24, 2009

Stay away from taggers

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

Tagger

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…

August 24, 2009August 24, 2009

Judith Supine on the Williamsburg Bridge

Judith Supine has just pulled another crazy stunt, this time climbing up the Williamsburg Bridge to install his newest figure. This awesome piece is called “Above The City In A Summer Night Dream”.

Images via Wooster Collective. Photos by Steve Duncan.

August 23, 2009January 10, 2011

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.

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.

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:

4. Katsu

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

5. Skullphone

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

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:

August 23, 2009

Word to Mother paints at FAME

word-to-mother

Word To Mother is the latest to paint at the FAME Festival. I’m booking my flights today to see this in person. FAME opens in Grottaglie, Italy on September 19th.

word-to-mother-01

August 22, 2009August 22, 2009

Imminent Disaster’s Latest

Imminent Disaster‘s intricate paper cut designs are beautiful enough in the gallery, but when she puts them on the street, you can’t help but be amazed. I don’t even want to think about how much time one of those takes her to make.

August 22, 2009

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.

August 22, 2009

New Work in Chinatown

Up in Chinatown, Block Printed and Hand Painted.

August 21, 2009

New from Ludo

Just a quick post today because I finished an internship today and I’m going out with friends to celebrate.

Ludo has some new work up.

First, this piece on a boat (cue the song):

And what I think is one of my favorite Ludo pieces ever:

August 21, 2009

Green Day meets street art

Green Day and Logan Hicks have teamed up to create a traveling street art exhibition which will be with Green Day on their world tour. Some of the artists involved include Logan Hicks (of course), M-City, Ron English, Broken Crow and Sixten. These artists have created pieces which are inspired by Green Day’s latest album, 21st Century Breakdown.

As a fan of Green Day (don’t lie, you know you like American Idiot as much as I do), I’m excited to see them bringing street art to a new group of fans. Here’s a sample of what will be in the exhibit: