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One of us

Not every knows that Czech Sampdoria’s midfielder Jakub Jankto is also an artist, who dedicates a big part of his time on his passion: “Ever since I was a boy I always played with a pen and paper. When I was 14 I painted graffiti, and I was a bit of a rebel. Me and some my friends would go around and draw on the walls in Prague. Then I was bixch-slapped by the police, my parents and my coaches. So my graffiti career practically ended there”. Jakub Jankto is one of us!

HACKING AND GRAFFITI’S MARRIAGE

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!

Hacking and graffiti come together as website defacement, when a website is hacked and its appearance is altered illegally. Graffiti’s home city’s main transportation portal and mobile app were GRAFFITI HACKED! For a short period of time both platforms displayed a graffiti of a hacker/writer.

The new age of vandalism is at dawn.

Sources: https://www.spraydaily.com/defacement-graffiti-hacking/

A TRIBUTE TO PURE GRAFFITI

Graffiti is not dead.
When the world is going frenzy over installations and mural art in galleries and other legal public spaces funded by the government, these guys still go for the kick of tagging and graffiti: WCA. The abbreviation for We Can All, this Milan Italy based crew used to tagged across Europe. But after a thorough investigation by law enforcement of over 2 years two of the WCA’s crew gets busted for vandalism (2016).

At the begging of 2020, a follow up announcement was released and 11 members are at the verge of facing various criminal offense charges…

Sources:
https://www.vice.com/it/article/9bep77/arresto-wca-we-can-all-graffiti-milano
https://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/cronaca/writer-wca-droga-1.4974103

BANKSY VS KING ROBBO

While auction houses, museums and galleries are chasing after Banksy’s pieces does anybody remember the legendary Turf War between him and King Robbo?
Started off back in 2009 when King Robbo’s graffiti was adapted by Banksy. It went on even after it got buffed!

Banksy showcased a piece as a tribute to King Robbo in his Dismaland Theme Park Exhibition in 2015.

Source: LDN Graffiti

HELLO MY NAME IS…

Back in 1959 who would have ever imagined that these so-called “pressure sensitive stickers” HELLO MY NAME IS… stickers would be a must in the world of tagging?
Surely not the creators from C-line!

Source: C-L ine

WHERE EVERYTHING STARTED…

Check out the documentary WHO IS TAKI 183 directed by Jim Prigoff and Cedric Godin featuring Taki 183, the Greek-American writer based in New York and other figures like Cornbread from Philadelphia.
Taki 183 started tagging his neighborhood in the 1960s and you can definitely say that he is one of the guys who started all this.

You can still see the adrenaline bursting in his eyes in retrospect.

TOILET SWEET TOILET

Tags and stickers filled bathrooms in Berlin! So crammed that there is no blank space what so ever!.
Now these are my dream bathrooms!
If I were to do this my girlfriend will probably kick me out of the house though…

Source: Magic Berlin’s instagram page