Hush Instillation

Lifted from Boingboing.net

Utah unmasked

At long last Utah has been unmasked. Gothamist recently released a photo of her on its website. Her writer days are certainly behind her now

5 pointz

OHHHHHH Canada, Eh!

Gently lifted from Boing-Boing

Alpha Tango Cocktail

Rockabilly Throwdown

Thanks to boing-boing for setting me straight with this clip. Danny Choo (the sites guest blogger writes

This video, and official release from Peter Bjorn and John, shows a day in the life of a very interesting guy with very big hair, and his dancing comrades. Whether seen as macho to a humorous fault or just so cool we can’t keep up, the dancers in Yoyogi Park have been at this for years.

An icy walk in the neighborhood

There are a few new things that have sprung up around the hood. Enjoy!

This was the first "09" tag that I saw

Taking the train or Papa loves baby

Click here to read "Taking the Train: How graffiti art became an urban crisis in New York." Thanks Google!

Also,I have been spending a little more time in the LES and Lower east side and Papa Loves Baby has been just killing it. Easily the most up tag of the moment. So there ya go...

Guess how happy I am...

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That we have a new President

Respect

Tilt Shift

Here is a photo I tried to make look like it was taken with tilt shift, Ehhh . Maybe you can do better?

2009

Happy 2009 everyone!

I was at the Guggenheim a few days a ago and it was fantastic. Their impressionist section is really small but they had a few pieces that I had always wanted to see. My father had a real thing about French impressionists so I always think of him when I see their work. I also saw the Kandinsky's and Catherine Opie's work. Now as my time off draws to a close and friends return back to their own states I have to settle back in to the hum-drum of everyday life.

Christmas past, New Years beckons

Back from MPLS, where did all the writers go? St. Paul?

Here is a little Christmas present from our friends over at Sucka Pants great blog and Rhymesayers.

This Moment in Black History - Obama the pres is you

Brother Ali - Obama you're the man

The image is from my trip to Bangkok this year. Got to love the penguin with the rainbow mohawk!

Happy Holidays

Here's a clip from Mr. Tom Waits to help us get over our respective holiday hangovers. God bless us everyone!

Merry Christmas

Back here in the middlewest and its cold. Some great new projects and possibiltys on the horizion Merry Christmas everyone!

One night in Bangkok....

Like I said Bangkok has a great graff scene, which in not necessarily evidenced in this picture. Looks like some weird European writers that I don't know.

Also, it creeps me out that the google analytics thinks this site is about cops. I wonder if that becuase I mention them occasionly or becuase of the internet traffic that I get?

Back from the East

I recently spent some time traveling around Thailand and South Korea. While the latter has hardly any public graffiti the former has a vibrant scene. Many of the most prominent are European and American artists. Ojae, UFO, and Gen II, seemed to have traveled there as a crew and really put in a lot of work. There was just something about UFO's octopus/alien character that really fit Bangkok, though I saw it lurking in other Thai cities as well.

More to come soon.

So much all the time

There is always so much to keep up on. Addicted to watching the election and following the situation in Thailand. It feels the the world is moving so fast right now. I thought I would share part of a letter my dad wrote to me

Instead of covering the boring content of the republican's convention yesterday, the media should have covered the rally yesterday and let the voices of dissent be heard. I was at the rally in St Paul in front of the Capitol. It was good and inspiring. Large turnout, mellow crowd. Code Pink was hilarious, the best. Medea Benjamin was there, and led their narrative. All in feminine pink fluffy dress, including a few code pink guys. One young miss wore a sign that said "I still miss fair voting."

And then, the march, one mile to the Excel Energy Center. Things started to look a bit edgy.
Agent provocatuers (I think), posing as "anarchists," and wearing ominous black masks and black clothing, march in their own contingent, grab metal signs and use them to smash the storefront window at Macy's and smash in police car windows, all in a well contrived effort to discredit the large messages of protest. Both the over-done presence of troops and the over-wrought behavior of the anarchists are part of an effort to create an atmosphere of brutality, generating more fear and anxiety; all to tie extremism and violence to the anti-McCain forces. Eh?

The police actions were equally provocative, all to create an atmosphere and generate extreme behavior. To me, it is all shades of Governor Ronald Reagan and the Berkeley protestors ("Free Speech Movement"), a phenomenon of violent confrontation that he used to his great political advantage.
Dad

Oh and in China...

Recently several American's were sentened to 10 days in jail including a member of the Graffiti research Lab. Boing Boing has been providing excellent coverage.

Utah and Ether Clapped up

Utah and Ether were both arrested recently. I did see their work in Paris while I was there recently. We here at With out effort wish them both well.

Tagging Queens Couple Arrested

Destined to be dubbed the Bonnie and Clyde of the graffiti world, Danielle Bremner (tags: Utah, Dani, Erin) and her boyfriend Jim Clay Harper (tag: Ether) were both arrested for causing $100,000 in damages to city transit facilities, Newsday reports.

The Queens couple had reportedly fled to Europe for three months, "where they dined, partied - and tagged their way through 10 or so countries." So their legal problems aren't just in the city, allegedly France seeks to prosecute them. (Back in 2006 there were conflicting views on whether or not most of the city's taggers are domestic or European.) The 26-year-old Bremner was arrested after deboarding a flight from Europe in Chicago, while 23-year-old Harper was arrested at JFK--both on Tuesday night.

When Bremner is extradited back to New York she faces criminal mischief and burglary charges in a Manhattan indictment accusing them of tagging train yards in Inwood and Harlem. Harper was arraigned Wednesday, plead not guilty and was released. He and his lawyer could not be reached for comment.

Sources said both suspects face further charges for a number of other acts of graffiti in all the boroughs, except Staten Island - including tagging 8 subway cars in Manhattan and about 20 acts of vandalism in the Bronx.

Bremner has been arrested before, both in Toronto and in Boston (where she is "wanted"). One source told the paper of Harper: "He's a big player. He just hasn't been caught. Now he has, and his status in the graffiti world will definitely go up."