Forget Banksy - Meet Bainsey! http://paulbaines.co.uk/... Amazing selection of graffiti art by renowned UK art bully and conceptual artist Paul Baines. Move over Banksy and meet Bainsey!
The Writing Is On The Wall: Bathroom Graffiti Artists http://www.sloshspot.com/blog/10-17-2008/The-... Usually humorous, sometimes sad, but almost always entertaining. These are a few examples of the eclectic types of graffiti that you can find in bathrooms across the globe, and some of our presuppositions about the person and the motives behind the scrawling.
Graffiti vandals kill to protect their work http://hiphopsdeepestdays.weebly.com/2/post/2... Artist Dartagnan Curiel, 31, said he used to scrawl graffiti in his Los Angeles neighborhood, but grew sick of the violence associated with the activity. He now paints murals with positive messages to encourage graffiti vandals and gang members to lay down their arms. “Why would you want to put spray paint on a kid’s face?”¯ he says. “We live in the same community. We are all in this hellhole together.”¯
Banksy Art Posters http://banksyprint.com/banksy-posters... BanksyPrint shows the latest Banksy graffiti, stencil art, posters and prints for sale on eBay now - Balloons, Bomb-huggers, Rats, Kissing Policemen and all Banksy's classic street art images
Graffiti Art History http://www.history-of-graffiti-art.com/graffi... Article about the History Of New York Graffiti Art.
The article includes a FREE Graffiti Art History Report.
Street World http://fashion-week.net/?p=3415... The new project from Roger Gastman, Caleb Neelon and Anthony Smyrski, road World: Urban trade and agri from Five Continents, clocks in at approximately 400 pages of full-color images of all the road agri we knew we loved (graffiti, fashion, skateboarding, and so on) attending fulness of more esoteric global happenings. Think pigeon custody, protests, activism, tympanum lines, urban examination, signage and fulness of stuff that you’ll have to see the book to create sense of it. attending contributions from Estevan Oriol, Adam Wallacavage, WK Interact, We Are Supervision, Blu, Shepard Fairey and dozens and dozens more, road World hits a accurate equipoise, introducing newcomers to urban agri time giving the cognoscenti fulness to look at.
Dumbo: Acts of Vandalism and Stories of Love http://fashion-week.net/?p=2776... Word on the street is that the prolific graffiti artist Dumbo had to leave Milan for Brooklyn at the risk of arrest. The writer’s tag dots lower Manhattan, around Canal on West Broadway, but in Milan it seems like he hit every single building. His recent book documents his life as a vandal, including his tags, art, actions and the like, featuring an intro penned by his fan, Barry McGee. Why a book? Dumbo says “because I’m completely egocentric. Because there are so many things to learn from the experience of vandalism, so why not do a little propaganda for it? Because, unlike those (usually writers) who tout graffiti as the newest high art form, I want to tell the grimy truth, the most indefensible side, which will undoubtedly get me in the most trouble.
