Last year a bunch of people covered up around 120 illegal billboard ads around Manhattan, New York City. Twice! A very big undertaking in itself. Then as soon as the paint was dry the same billboards were covered with art, in one form or another. They called it New York Street Advertising Takeover. Here is a few shots from the gallery on Nysat’s page.
Photos from New York Street Advertising Takeover via Vandalog
This is Host18 from Brooklyn NYC. These are some of the cool photos from his website. And a few quotes from an interview BombingScience did with Host18.
BombingScience: I can see through Flickr that you painted at some interesting spots like an abandoned theatre. How do you discover those places, do you keep them secret or do you share them with friends?
Host18: I have painted a few very interesting abandoned locations in the past year or so. The photographer FuzzyLogikz has provided some of these spots and she keeps them super secret.
See the rest of the photos and a short video after the link.
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C. Finley, the woman who likes to wallpaper dumpsters, was featured in a short article on nytimes.com.
a small crowd had gathered on the Bowery, near the New Museum, where three young women were gamely wallpapering a Dumpster in an elegant blue-and-white floral. A second Dumpster, covered in a green William Morris pattern and stuffed with a Christmas tree, had been finished elsewhere and rolled to the curb next to it.
I have found a few cool fire extinguisher photos.
Benny Sieu from jsonline.com
Condition NYC
Luna Park
break.things
If you wanna look at more there is this extinguisher flickr group.
Vandalog has decided to giveaway two copies of the re-released “The Faith of Graffiti.” Read about it on the site.
When it was first published in 1974, The Faith of Graffiti was the first book to take a serious look at graffiti. In 1974, Jon Naar’s photos and Norman Mailer’s essay gave the graffiti movement some mainstream legitimacy, as Mailer was one of the first to call writers artists.
To enter the contest, you can either comment on this post (make sure to include your real email address, otherwise you can’t win because I won’t be able to contact you), or go on twitter and tweet a link to this post along with the hashtag “#vandalog”. But you have to enter before 6pm (GMT) on Wednesday, January 13th. After that, I’ll randomly pick two winners. Good luck.
Photos from Jon Naar.
Psyre på writersbench.dk har skrevet en lille boganmeldelse, der nok vil være interessant hvis du har overvejet at købe den nye bog “All City Writers”.
til min store begejstring/skræk at dette er en bibel udover det sædvanlige i et omfang på lidt over 400 sider og foruden en masse dejligt billedmateriale er den bestående af tætskrevne spalter i skrift størrelse 6, som måske rent visuelt kan virke lidt tørt, men indholdsmæssigt er det rigtig interessant læsning!
Af danske skrivere kan der nævnes Rens, Sek, Sabe, Cmp, Bates.. […]
Det er til dato en af de allermest tilfredstillende graffiti bog køb jeg har gjort mig..
Hvis man er til god læsning og vil bag historien om europæisk graffiti kan jeg i høj grad anbefale denne bog!
410 full color pages, 33cm X 48cm – portrait size, coated and uncoated papers, hard cover, more
than 250 writers involved, 1230 pictures, 620 articles, 50 infographics, fully English language
version and Italian section in mother lang uage limited version.
Læs indlægget her.
Mere info hos allcitywriters.com og den kan købes her ilovecarhartt.com.
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Here is a cool little “one on one” talk courtesy of Liquidteks magazine.
New York Graf residents OVIE & DOSE break down their opinion on the difference of the generations…
After the link take a look at latest Liquidteks issue from 3 months ago.
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