Graffiti Vandalism: Line Between Art & Crime

Imagine a guy setting up his camera and starting to paint a German train. And now, imagine two cleaners coming round a corner, bumping directly into the poorly covert writer! The resulting hit and run is pretty to watch if you’re a fan of schadenfreude like me… As was written on Ektopia, this is “the best little graffiti video, from start to finish, that I’ve seen for a while.” Watch the entire train graffiti story, including a brilliant finish, and let us thank this one minute hero, who had the class to publish this video! ...

Tags and throws (short for throw ups) are still the fundamental basics of graffiti writing around the world. That’s not just a sentence, that’s a fact and although there are several more or less interesting graffiti websites in the interwebs, I just stumbled upon a new, quality blog focusing just on tags and throws! Under the motto We love Bombing, the aim of tagsandthrows.com is to capture the bombing scene of the world today - one artist at a time… ...

3D is in and trendy, Hollywood is showing is that with almost every new movie they throw on the market and although the 3D technique is not yet as convincing as is probably could be, I really like the idea of the new Taken By A Vandal graffiti documentary, bringing graffiti action three dimensions into our living rooms! Graffiti as seen through the eyes of the artist While watching this action-loaded documentary, we’re following the happenings as seen through the eyes of the 18 graffiti artist, who filmed themselves using head camera. This, and the fact that they decided to add a certain stereoscopic 3D effect, makes Taken By A Vandal become somehow confusing but also unique and very interesting. All in all you could say, this graffiti documentary shows train-graffiti action as just a minority has seen it before… ...

When you stick a camera in the front of a graffiti artist you will maybe try and establish a conflict between what politicians and media say about this art and what the actual artist thinks it is, which maybe makes an interesting film, maybe makes an interesting debate for media - it’s not an interesting debate for art… Filmed in Norway at Stavanger’s Nuart Festival 2008 by Saft Film, the recently released Eloquent Vandals documentary including interviews with some of the major urban artists of our time, including D*Face, Nick Walker, Know Hope, Herakut, Dotmasters, Graffiti Research Lab and many others and is available for download in full HD! ...

It seems to be quite popular at the moment to release great graffiti documentaries. After the public release of the entire Unlike U train-writing documentary and the announced release of the 1UP documentary, also Russian CHO crew got their own film! A month ago I told you about that phenomenal upcoming graffiti video documentary of, with and by one of the most sportive and diverse Russian crews, now the film was finally published! ...

Tags, throw-ups, extinguisher paintings - In his latest video, German Rigol documents a crew of Spanish graffiti vandals in the usually clean and tidy city of Barcelona and shows us in that way, what good behavior in an urban, graffiti context really means… The topic of tagging, bombing and street action is not new to German Rigol, who already got the world’s attention for his tag tools photo-series called Marker Fetish. ...

Magnus Gustafsson aka Nug is a Swedish graffiti artist and has been called one of the worst graffiti vandals in Sweden. His latest project (the concept is fuck you, yes you) for the Fame Festival 2011 in Italy, which recently became famous being mentioned on vandalog.com, doobybrain.com, theworldsbestever.com, crackajack.de, juxtapoz.com, electru.de and rebelart.net (just to name a few), explains why… Together with some dressed in black friends (a few trained vandals, the others just good guys and girls), Nug hit different spots in the old city of Grottaglie and totally fucked up the walls with black spray-paint! ...

Marker Photo-Series | Yes, I love markers - I have to confess this! Especially my squeezers and also the biggest marker worldwide are super dope. A marker pen, marking pen, felt-tip pen, or marker, is a pen which has its own ink-source, and usually a tip made of a porous, pressed fibres; such as felt or nylon. (Wikipedia) Spanish photographer German Rigol recently extended his beautiful to look at marker photo-series for what reason there are round about 60 portraits of different, used and unique markers in his album now! It’s a must to see for all the marker enthusiasts or people who just like the used, dirty look of everyday objects. ...