Archive for April 23rd, 2008
Livestock came up with a great plan to collaborate with various artists to design a new set of t-shirts every 45 days. The first collaboration will be with graffiti artist, Ghost. Here we’re showing you some initial sketches and the final product that came out from the process. The final t-shirt comes in 3 colorways: [...]
Photo by Jake Dobkin.
New stats from the NYPD show an 81.5% rise in graffiti-related complaints from 2006 to 2007 (pre-Splasher!), a year that graffiti arrests also went up 28%.
Queens council member Peter Vallone, Jr. notes that, “we did an excellent job turning the tide against graffiti in the ’90s and the beginning part of this [...]
MENOS
We first became interested in MENOS after he went All
City. He was hitting all over the place but didn’t
dabble with the Subway. He was a street bomber and
also did a lot of Amtrak, Metro North, and Long Island
Railroad. We had a lot of connections with cops
covering those trains and they were constantly calling
us to [...]
The days of New Yorkers writing graffiti are fading. Many of the newest crop of writers are Midwestern transplants and art school graduates who have given up the spray can in favor of wheat pasting and sticker-bombing. The old Blade, Dondi, and Zephyr pieces have been buffed or faded in all but a few closely [...]
I recently finished a book with my good friend Sacha Jenkins. It’s called “Piecebook: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers.”
Amazon will begin shipping pre-orders starting next week – Wednesday, April 30th 2008. I received an advance copy of the book
yesterday. The reproduction quality is exceptionally accurate. When compared side by side I found it pretty [...]
