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Tagging
So obviously we need to dedicate it to TAGGING the gateway graffiti. Normally done in single color with a marker or spray. Faster the better, the more the better. Tag is the signature of a writer so they leave it in as many places as possible to spread their name.
Graffs to make Florence even nicer
HACK THAT BULLET TRAIN!
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Have you ever seen a vandalized train in Japan? The answer is almost never. |
A message on the run
| This time it’s a representation of a prisoner on the run who is climbing down the prison walls with a rope made from bed sheets with a typing machine tied to the end. In this premise, Oscar Wilde was taken in to carry out forced labor as he was convicted for homosexuality. |
Vandalism on trees as a protest?
| This time the green in the Villa Comunale of Naples were the victims. Anonymous individuals drew a sad blue face to protest on one of the banana tress in the Villa’s park. The regular visitors were left bewildered, questioning…but why a blue face? And why so sad? |
One of us
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HACKING AND GRAFFITI’S MARRIAGE
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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
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