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from BoingBoing: "Reverse Graffiti Confuses Authorities"...!
Paul Curtis aka Moose is no regular graffiti artist. In fact, he’s the reverse-graffiti artist. He created his street art by *cleaning* the dirt and grime off of surfaces!
Authorities are baffled: is selective cleaning a crime?
The tools are simple: A shoe brush, water and elbow grease, he says. British authorities aren’t sure what to make of the artist who is creating graffiti by cleaning the grime of urban life. The Leeds City Council has been considering what to do with Moose. "I’m waiting for the kind of Monty Python court case where exhibit A is a pot of cleaning fluid and exhibit B is a pair of my old socks," he jokes.
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The Graffiti Research Lab just returned from a tour of California
sponsored by the Eyebeam OpenLab and Make Magazine. The G.R.L. met up in San Mateo,
CA to create a geek mural on a 1974 school bus at the Maker Faire. Check out the following link for documentation
of the geek mural, workshops and other faire collaborations. |
Kate Smith and the Chicago Cowboys: Cryptic Aphorisms in Chicago Graffiti
Kate's style is
"Chicago" maybe the South Side? Where all
the Good Blues comes from. Dig it cousin Elmo. This
queen has got the Chicago Graf Scene by the balls, and comes
up with some cool links in her "explore Chicago" initiative,
including the Chicago Police's "Gang Awareness" meditation
group. Go there, and be Aware!
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Mural mistaken
for the Graffiti is was commissioned to prevent! (Toronto: the
"clean & beautiful" city~!!)
 Most
small business owners dread arriving one morning to find the
facade of their establishment splashed with spray paint. But
the owner of DLovely, a clothing boutique in Kensington Market,
was devastated last week to find her walls empty. Diana Krauss
commissioned a graffiti-style mural two years ago as a novel
approach in combating the messy tags that are scrawled on buildings
across the city.
The painting, done by a local graffiti artist, spells out the
name of her store, and remained untouched as the rest of the
neighborhood is regularly defaced. But last weekend her neighbor
painted over the mural. Ms. Krauss's store is set back from Augusta
Avenue, and the mural was painted on the wall of an adjacent
building.
The owner of that property had been issued a notice under The
Clean and Beautiful City Initiative, which, under Bylaw 123-2005,
requires business owners remove spray paint from their property
within six days or face a $500 fine. "He just butchered it. It
looks worse," Ms. Krauss said of her
neighbor's response to the notice.
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A site specializing in Bathroom Graffiti. "Its
All In The Head.com". A very nicely crafted site, in dark rusty
sepia tones. It
contains 8 galleries of frothy and noteworthy sayings, example:
"No matter where you are, there you are." (Buckaroo Bonzi). Why
visit the bathroom in the saloon anymore when you can do the virtual
shithouse tour on the net? A shit on the net is worth two from your
pet. (!! NOTE !! THIS SITE DOES NOT EXIST NOW!) |
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CIA
Website uses Graffiti Tag to spice up their "notices" page
- outlining how they deal with the "privacy" of visitors to their
site. Warning! Your visits, blood-type, jihad-obsession,
and recreational drug habits may be logged as well. The shy
little tag features a heart, the word "Freedom", and a bizarre, disturbed,
"Pinocchio-featured" face in the lower right corner. Pinocchio
is the little wooden puppet whose nose grew longer every time he
told a lie. SEZ1 will NOT make a Freudian commentary; as Pinocchio
might say, "A Long Nose is worth A Thousand Words..." (!! NOTE !! THIS SITE DOES NOT EXIST NOW!)
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Aug 18-24, Toronto. Queens Street - music, breakdancers, back-alley
art. Read reviews at EYE.NET,
(bits of the Toronto Scene's history); the Globe
& Mail's Russell Smith outlines Canada's "decaf" approach
to Graffiti: "the public perception of hip-hop is of a celebration
of violence and misogyny -- and there's no doubt that the most successful
American versions of the genre reflect primarily those values --
but when Canadians do it, it's all about racial harmony and safe
sex and please visit the anti-racism-community-uplift website..." Scene&Heard.ca also
has its own piece: Interviews with Ren, Recka and Bomba.
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Last
Updated Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:28:17 EST
CBC
News
The following press release was issued on CBC's website.
SEZ1 extends sympathy & condolences to all friends & family
of this unfortunate writer.
TORONTO - An 18-year-old man was hit and killed by a train
Tuesday evening as he spray-painted a boxcar in the west end
of Toronto. Police said the man was hit by a passing
train around 9:45 p.m. as he and two friends painted a boxcar
parked on a track near Dupont and Christie streets. The
train that hit him was traveling at about 40 km/h on the track
parallel to the one where the man was painting, police said.
The graffiti artist died in an ambulance en route to hospital.
His name has not been released.
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The
"Heart Of Canada" blog seems to be about boring
social commentaries and non-events themed on "The Little House
On The Prairies". Besides
some luke-warm political soup, there's a piece outlining the author's
"born-again" beliefs about Graffiti being vandalism, etc.
The only interesting things on this website are the pictures of
demented birds, like the "White-Eyed Verio"... read it and weep! (SITE IS DEAD OR PERHAPS REINCARNATED AS A DRUNKEN HUMMINGBIRD!)
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83-year-old's graffiti artwork fetches $8,600 at auction
Last Updated Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:24:08 EST
CBC Arts 
HONG KONG - An 83-year-old Hong Kong man once billed as the world's
oldest living graffiti artist was taken aback when one of his works
sold for more than double its estimate at a Sotheby's auction Sunday. After
the auctioneer opened bidding, Tsang's work – estimated
to sell for $2,440-$3,900 – received 24 bids and was sold
in a matter of minutes, Shu told the Associated Press. Tsang, who
has dubbed himself the "King of Kowloon" and
the "Kowloon Emperor," was shocked at the price paid
for his piece. The Sing Tao Daily reported Tsang's amazed
reaction: "It's
worth that much money?" he asked.
Hong Kong robot sells art for $688,888 and is now eyeing music career! Sophia is a robot of many talents — she speaks, jokes, sings and even makes art. In March, she caused a stir in the art world when a digital work she created as part of a collaboration was sold at an auction for $688,888 in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT).
 The sale highlighted a growing frenzy in the NFT market, where people can buy ownership rights to digital content. NFTs each have a unique digital code saved on blockchain ledgers that allow anyone to verify the authenticity and ownership of items. David Hanson, CEO of Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics and Sophia’s creator, has been developing robots for the past two and a half decades. He believes realistic-looking robots can connect with people and assist in industries such as healthcare and education.
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