THE LOST AND FOUND

MURS: CAN IT BE

Chill sunday afternoon painting.. 20 feet in the air on an aladdin lift, by one of Vancouver’s graffiti forefathers: Dedos, of AA Crew.

Sorry, I didn’t get an interview or anything. I’m not an investigative journalist—I just blog! I mean, I got some photos, what else do you want from me?? Just playin’ … I probably would have made the effort to chat with him and ask a few questions but as you can see, he was busy.. and high up in the air. He couldn’t even really hear me the first two times I asked him if it was cool that I took the photo above. Check out the rest of the photos from today after the jump…

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Take a minute, click on ‘archives’ or a category, and explore the site.

Coming soon, a Southern Comfort follow-up: Murder Music, California.

I think this is fresh… new Moka Only video, shot with stills. The song is off Airport which came out 2007. Get it direct off his myspace or here.

- Oren

Head down to the Ayden Gallery tonight, some time between 7:00 PM and 11:00 PM, and buy this guy’s shit. One of the most prominent artists featured, among a slew of other equally talented individuals, Tim Barnard’s work will be hard to miss. As he puts it, his “focus on the infinite extremities inherent in the possibilities of high contrast black and white automatic drawing,” has given him a very distinct and original style. Equipped with nothing but a black marker a lot of the time and filling up entire eight foot canvases, the dude definitely has some skills.

(Tim working on ‘The Immaculate Hope Grenade,’ Private residence, 2007)

See more and read up, after the jump…

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Rap music about graffiti, lost due to obscurity and years of musical evolution, but then found again and assembled before you in an easy-to-click format. In honor of Pack FM’s ‘Click Clack and Spray’ video (below), this is Lost Rap Volume 1: The Graffiti Edition.

(Via: NahRight)

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A lot has been written about Daim’s 3-D Graffiti, now some Media Arts and Design students are teaming together to transform a Nintendo Wii console into a spraycan. Wiispray, a prototype which remains under heavy development, is part of a final thesis design project by Martin Lihns at Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany.

Wiispray aims to bring its gamers all the thrills of a real-life spraycan without the limitations. It simulates real-life spraycan characteristics and comes with a range of different caps and colours. No word yet on who the sponsor is, but I bet Montana wants the entire pie.

I think Marc Ecko just got schooled.

- jnn

Street art is like whatever to me and I’d much rather post graffiti, but this roller is on a large-scale destruction tip so… I deem it worthy. It’s good to see that Banksy isn’t too busy with art shows and book sales to go out and catch wreck.

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“Amongst the most well known street artists today, Banksy has struck again in perhaps his most ironic piece of work yet. Seen painted on the side of a post office, his slogan “One Nation Under CCTV” was conducted behind a large fence with CCTV (surveillance camera) coverage. The job required the construction of three stories of scaffolding to complete the job and represents one of Banksy’s boldest attempts and the irony is brought on by the fact this was all happening under the “eye in the sky” surveillance cameras. However, with the surging popularity of Banksy, increased publicity and large sums his works command (however this was done on a post office), maybe somebody willingly turned the blind eye?”

(Courtesy of Hypebeast.com (Yeah, I’m admitting I actually check it once in a while. I was sort of surprised to find this on there though.))

“Laser tagging, projection throw-ups, photoshopped murals; the next generation of open-source light-based writing, recoding the city bulb by bulb.

The NeoGraf project will transform the city with nondestructive laser graffiti technologies. Through the use of image and light projection, graffiti artists will ‘paint’and tag buildings in realtime without violating the property. In order to present the diversity and evolution of graffiti, the project will work with different writers and artists from around Vancouver, and invite the collaboration of NomIg and Graffiti Research Lab to propagate this open-source technology.

Check back on the day of the event for location and times.”

“Laser Tagging” in Holland:

Virus (2003):

More Info:
http://2007.newformsfestival.com (Event Info)
http://graffitiresearchlab.com (Video Included)
http://muonics.net/blog (Do It Yourself Guide)

I’m a bit late on this and I hear the good folks behind ICBC’s Bait Car program re-applied their stencil after this happened, but this is cool to see nonetheless. [Update: As of March 1st the Bait Car stencil is still gone and in its place is a stencil of 2 small black hearts] Although I can’t confirm with complete certainty that The Dark did this, I’m 95% sure.

To summarize, basically there’s a parking lot near Stadium station where they put this Banksy imitation up to intimidate car thieves, and a local “street” artist called The Dark decided to go over it. Not because he supports car theft obviously - here’s a brief explanation he provided:

”The Vancouver Police Department has been using graffiti inspired stencils in a fear-mongering campaign against car theft. Given the aggressive graffiti paint out program run by the City and the VPD it seemed like a bit of a contradiction to use “crime” (graffiti) to fight crime. The only thing left was to follow their outstanding example.” - The Dark

Some of The Dark’s work for those who aren’t familiar:

Big thanks to Jenn Chang for the heads up on this story!
Stay tuned, more info coming soon.