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Found on the Houstonist site (HouTube = brilliant ), this is a super video of a mural in action.  Just awesome.

Marc Ecko has been firing away at Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s new law changing the legal age from purchasing and carrying spray paint and broad tipped markers from 21 to 18. A group of art students and design professionals sued NYC saying that the law was making it difficult for them to do their school and [...]

Looks like the local KnittaPlease girls are getting some international blogwide attention.  Pretty snazzy!  They’re even rocking the Platial space to tag their tags online. In other silly graffiti news, I’ve been digging the WeKillYou crew for their simplistic snaggly tooth monster characters and good humor.  They appear to move in packs, so be warned.

Great Graffiti Hackers article in Wired magazine.  Gotta’ love those techi graff artists: FLASHLIGHT BRIGADE Who: PIPS:lab art collectiveWhere: AmsterdamHow: Audience members are asked to draw using a variety of light sources: an aerosol can rigged with a 3-volt bulb for producing skinny lines, a battery pack attached to a handheld 12-volt lamp to make [...]

As a ridiculously enthusiastic fan of graffiti culture, I have more than once raised an eyebrow towards corporate graffiti — just as I’m inclined to be less than impressed by many ‘street marketing’ campaigns in general. That’s why this newsbit about a Sony PSP graffiti ad campaign is just plain annoying (via Popgadget). People all [...]

I found this January BAGnewNotes post about some noted 24th Division Punisher tags.  Very interesting – I’ve seen lots of anti-war graffiti in town and in online photog collections, but have yet to find a place with war sentiments in the actual warzone area. I’m sure that Iraqis have a lot more on their minds [...]

Yet another rather extreme example of governments going over the top to find graffiti kids: In a recent incident a motorcyclist was killed when he was  hit by a police car chasing a graffiti artist. "We’ve got to stop the graffiti hysteria," said Stroebele, a member of parliament for Berlin. "We need prudent measures against [...]