Bubble Letters X In The Year 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
COCO 144. STENCIL FROM 1971
I'd read somewhere recently about an NYC writer named COCO 144 who was using a stencil to spray his tag as far back as 1971, after a bit of research, I managed to track down an original image of his tag. COCO 144 was getting up with the likes of Topcat 126, Tracey 168, C.A.T 87 & Taki 183 as far back as the late 60's.
We all know Banksy popularised it, but there's been a lot of background chatter on when the stencil was first introduced to the culture of Street Art (oh, and how it's not REAL graffiti). Was it Blek, John Fekner maybe, Christy Rupp's rat's.. actually, it seems it was a writer from 144th and Broadway.
Ok, That's todays little history lesson over.. tune in next week to waste more time procrastinating when you should be doing something else. Including myself in that.
NEW FROM HERAKUT
From Dailydujour
German street art power duo Herakut spent the better part of Tuesday and Wednesday creating two new murals on adjacent sides of a large building on the corner of Washington and National in Culver City. Arranged by LeBasse Projects and Branded Art, the murals are part of LeBasse’s dual city Outside/In show, which began with an opening in LA last weekend and will open at the Portsmouth Museum in New Hampshire on the 12th.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
SWEZA
Lichtraum III – an urban showcase from sweza on Vimeo.
Liking this idea from Sweza.
"LICHTRAUM 3"
It is a short Video about a light-box i installed in a public space in Kreuzberg Berlin last winter. Inside the box there is a micro Sweza-style (approx. 19mm x 9mm) behind a lens, but see for yourself...
Sweza.com
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Mixture urbaine 2011
Eh quoi, pas de mixture urbaine en 2011 ?
A défaut pourquoi pas un week-end méditatif sur le thème "Réfléchir nuit gravement au système" ?
A défaut pourquoi pas un week-end méditatif sur le thème "Réfléchir nuit gravement au système" ?
urban graffiti alphabet letter
ESCIF, PARTIAL BUFF !
Just received this interesting mail from Escif regarding a couple of his earlier pieces that have been partially buffed, very odd.
From Escif
Hello all,
I was walking in Valencian historic center when I found some walls I´ve painted in last weeks. But I found my pieces partially covered. I don´t know who does it, but it´s strange that only sentences where buffed!
Local elections in Valencia will be next month, so I suppose that politicians are afraid that people can think a little about. Incredible that they doesn´t covered completely, because they make a clear censorship. Beautiful drawings can remain, but strange words must been buffed.
Silence contains all languages!
Graffiti art foot ball
Monday, April 25, 2011
NEW BANKSY RAT
New Banksy in Fitzrovia, London.
"As the spraypaint on the wall says, if voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal"
1m 55s in.
Quote from activist Emma Goldman
Classic Banksy!
Source
Graffiti Fonts - Tagging Zher
Graffiti Alphabet Letters and Fonts. Tagging Zher by Zher Graffiti Productions. See more at dafont,com
SWOON IN LA
Beautiful new Swoon piece created for Lahoda's Free walls project in LA.
Thanks to unurth for the link.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
BANKSY'S NOT SO MILD MILD WEST
Life imitates Banksy's art in Stokes Croft Bristol, check out the "Mild Mild West" piece top right of the first image.
To understand the backstory behind this recent mini riot..check out this site
www.tescopoly.org
Mild Mild image via artofthestate. A site well worth checking out if interested in early Banksy
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