All paste No paint

(photos used with permission from Ghostie)

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Martha Cooper has released a new book titled NAME TAGGING. Best known for documenting New York Graffiti in the 70's and 80's Martha has continued to snap shots of sticker art and compiled her best photos together for the book. With the 25th anniversary of her book SUBWAY ART recently and the rise of the Digital camera it's good to see the pioneers still making an impression.

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Berlin based artist Sweza is using QR (or Quick Response) barcodes on spots the authorities buff. Hooked blog explain that if you have a QR barcode reader on your phone you can scan the code and the images will load letting you view what was there before the buff got to it. Pretty nifty idea!

Hooked Blog

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While we're on the subject, The buff squad in Lisbon, Portugal are removing any graffiti that appears along the route that The Pope's procession will take on his next visit. Somehow I think the graf will re-appear just as quickly as it's buffed.

Aerosol Fiends

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Bits and Bobs

Went for a wander to a few spots I used to frequent but hadn't been to in a while. Not alot has changed since my last visit but took the op to get some of the throwies up on the second and third floors of what appears to be an abandoned building near Te Papa National Museum.

Found some new PNTR pastey's. Not sure if the third picture has already been posted before??

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We've been sent a few links to some rather interesting happenings around the world.

''Los Angeles-based photographer Jonas Lara faces up to a year in prison if convicted of aiding and abetting two graffiti artists whose work he was documenting when the three men were arrested on February 2, 2010 in South Central Los Angeles''

''Lara has declined two plea deals and has pleaded not guilty to the charge, believing that he was within his rights as a photographer to be at the scene documenting the work of the artists. However Lara says his public defender, David Gottesmann, has so far refused to consider his rights as a photographer as part of the defense. “Every time I bring [photographer’s rights or First Amendment rights] up, he just laughs at me,” Lara says.

''When he was arrested, Lara was working on a long-term project for which he has documented the work and creative processes of 30 visual artists. Lara met the two graffiti artists at an abandoned building in South Central Los Angeles to photograph the pair as they worked on the illegal mural''

''Once he got to the police station, however, Lara’s situation became much more precarious. The police held Lara for eight hours before telling him he was being charged with felony vandalism. He was held for 26 hours in total''

''Two weeks after being bailed out by his wife, Lara was arraigned and the charge of felony vandalism was downgraded to a misdemeanor. At a pretrial hearing Gottesman told Lara that rather than vandalism, he was now being charged with damaging a fence at the scene. Then the charge was later switched again, this time to the misdemeanor of aiding and abetting. Prosecutors now claim Lara was acting as a lookout for the two graffiti artists''

(article excerpts taken from PDNPulse)

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Hawaiian writer Estria asks other writers what it takes to become a King/Queen in Graffiti on FatLace.com

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FacadePrinter, a robot with digital imaging software fires 1000's of Paint Balls, like a long distance printer.

Check out the awesome time lapse video of it in action.

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