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“As was seen in a few posts below the Augor spraycan from Ironlak finally dropped and is selling out quick. For those who can’t afford it a contest has been set up to pay for it with your talent. Send in a colored drawing of the letter R as creative and interesting as your can to Augsdraws@yahoo.com. The 4 best winners will recieve a FREE Augor spraycan signed, and their work featured on www.augsdraws.com.”
Here’s Augor’s attempt:
from : http://www.ironlak.com/
from :Graffiti Writers Captured By Polaroids
For all the photo-filled books exploring graffiti and the secret lives of writers, few, if any, let the artists show and tell their own experience. Like Lipstick Traces, a new book Aurélien Arbet & Jérémie Egry , does just that: 13 graffiti writers from around the world were given a Polaroid camera and 100 shots to picture their life, city, and adventures in getting up.
from AMny
Tats Cru co-founder Nicer Navario works on part of a 188-foot-long mural for a McDonalds in the Bronx. (Photo by Marie Claire Andrea)By Sean Joseph
They work long hours and have to put up with rain, sleet, snow and hail — but unlike postal workers, they have to do it while hanging on the side of a building.
New York’s mural artists are hardly a vanishing breed — this boutique business is still a big draw among companies looking to stand out amid the city’s sea of billboards and hanging mesh ads.
But having good artistic skills isn’t enough. Painting the side of a building requires strength, endurance and speed.
