Twitter has trends, why can't everything? For those of you who ever wished there was an easy way to find out what graffiti artists are trending in a particular city (or worldwide), well, Gothamist's fearless publisher Jake Dobkin has come up with a site just for you. Using a variety of data sources GrafRank "ranks important graffiti artists around the world." It even maps the data!
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GrafRank, An Easy Way To Track The World's Top Taggers
Clever Artist Is Literally Tagging New York
In the world of street art there is tagging, in which a person marks a surface with their name, and then there is tagging. The latter is what the clever soul behind aes-tags is currently doing around town. Instead of permanently changing their environment, this tagger is writing on and then hanging up actual tags.
It's A Mad Mad Mad Men World: More Fantastic Mad Men Ad Mash-Ups
This week, we asked you how you would tag the blank Mad Men posters that have come to dominate the walls of several subway platforms across the city. And after an initial rush of submissions yesterday, we've received even more inspired photoshop mash-ups. From Dancing Dick Whitman to Pepper Sprayed Draper, we've picked some more of our favorites from the dozens and dozens of photos we received.
Your Best Mad Men Ad Mash-Ups
When we asked you how you would tag the blank Mad Men posters currently gracing subway platforms across the city we expected a couple submissions. Instead we got dozens of quick mock-ups from aspiring taggers and ad men around town. Good work everybody! Here are some of our favorites, from Breakdancing Don to Daredevil Draper!
How Would You Tag The Mad Men Subway Poster?
AMC's beloved (if not highly rated) advertising soap opera Mad Men returns March 25. But you probably already knew that, since the cable network has plastered our subway system with almost entirely blank ads for the show—the perfect canvas for aspiring subway ad men to work on, right?
Graffiti-Tagging "Cripple" Cop Gets "Paint Straight" Probation
Retired NYPD patrolman Steven Weinberg (a.k.a. tagger "Neo") will not be doing any hard time for his extracurricular graffiti. But the cane-wielding former-cop will be on probation for three years, owes $700 in fines, has to participate in the "Paint Straight" program, will never own a gun in NY again, and had to suffer through a lecture on values from a Queens judge. So he isn't exactly scot-free. "Its time for you to put your family in front of those friends you talk to," Justice Salvatore Modica told Weinberg in court today.
Will You Join The Cult Of Jim Joe?
Along with "Peru Ana Ana Peru," one of the most omnipresent taggers in Lower Manhattan and Northern Brooklyn is easily the mysterious "Jim Joe," who seems to have put his chicken scratch on nearly every thing in town from wood sticks to trucks, plywood to fire hydrants. So of course somebody has finally made a website, Cult of Joe, devoted to monitoring his prolific pen.
French Graffiti Artist "Rask" Faces Time For Tagging Trains
Those who dislike graffiti and Gauls, this one's for you. Lawmakers here and in Boston this month are happily tossing around a 25-year-old French graffiti artist named Maxime Bezat (aka "RASK") after he allegedly tagged up train cars in both cities. "He’s not leaving the country any time soon," a source crowed to the News yesterday.
Flashback: Subway Graffiti In The Early 1970s
These photos were all taken in 1973 and 1974, documenting the graffiti-marked subway system of New York City. This was years before the Vandal Squad formed, in 1980, and was tasked with defending the subway system from defacement. By the end of that decade, over 15 years after these photos were taken, they "effectively solved the problem of graffiti in the subway system." Of course, there's still tagging happening today, but for the most part the inside of train cars are only filled with Dr. Zizmor ads.
Moustache Man "Sorry" For Tagging Subway Ads
More details are emerging about internationally renowned street artist guy who scribbles "Moustache" on subway advertisements, 26-year-old Joseph Patrick Waldo, after he was arrested last night on charges of felony criminal mischief. He's from Virginia! He doesn't have a moustache! His aunt thinks "he's a great kid!" And in the complaint against him Waldo even apologizes, saying, "I'm sorry for my actions and have agreed to fully cooperate and never do it again." So much for drawing moustaches "for f*cking ever!"
Peter Vallone's Next Target: Spraycan "Fat Caps"
Do you know where your children are right now? They could be doing their homework, or petting a pit bull, or tethering lil' Scraps to a post for more than three hours, or doing a bunch of other stuff that Queens councilman Peter Vallone hates. But did you know that your children could ALSO be using "fat caps" to take their noxious graffiti to new, chubbier heights? Not if—you guessed it—Peter Vallone has anything to say about it! A bill proposed by Vallone would ban a device that graffiti artists put on spray paint cans to "tag wider areas in less time," The Daily News reports.
Bronx Teens Overturn Van After Night Of Graffiting
Three Bronx teens got into a car accident on the Bruckner Expressway early yesterday morning after an apparent evening of tagging. One of the trio, 16-year-old Shaadieq Hicks, is in a coma after he was thrown from the backseat and through the windshield when the van overturned; the driver may be facing manslaughter charges if Hicks dies. "They're saying my baby might not pull out. His heart stopped twice today. They said he won't be the same," Hicks' distraught mother, 31-year-old Shinkikwah Burke, told the News.
Tats Cru's Subway Car Tribute To Slain Bronx Man
Last July, Bleu Nazario was fatally shot during a Bronx barbecue when a dispute became violent. His father founded the graffiti mural group Tats Cru, which became famous for creating murals of murder victims during the 1990s and Hector "Nicer" Nazario told the Daily News, "I have seen so much tragedy like that, and I lost my son to a senseless act of violence. I never thought it would happen to him." Now, it's looks like the Tats Cru tagged a subway car in tribute to Bleu.
Teen Loses Leg While Tagging Subway
A 16-year-old graffiti tagger was hit by a train in a Brooklyn subway tunnel Saturday night, tagging with two friends. As of yesterday the NY Times reports that Jose Juarez, of Sunset Park, is in critical but stable condition—however, his right leg was severed.
Tagger UTAH Is Free, Talks Jail Time
Infamous graffiti gal Danielle Bremner (aka UTAH) is a free woman after serving out 6 months on Rikers. She was busted after a Bonnie & Clyde-esque 3-month tagging spree in Europe with her boyfriend in 2008.
The 27-year-old admits to tagging surfaces worldwide for the past 10 years, and now she's taggin' up the world wide web! (Sorry.) Bremner was recently interviewed over at Blogue, where she announced her new project: a blog. Her first post last month simply read: "I’m a free bitch baby!!!"
Heretofore Graffiti-Free Sculpture Jinxed By Daily News
This seems like one of those instances when it's best to keep your mouth shut. Brooklyn sculptor Diego Medina's "14-foot-tall tagger's dream" has remained graffiti-free in front of the Bronx River Arts Center since the unpainted plywood sculpture was installed in July — a fact so astounding to the Daily News that the tabloid decided to jinx celebrate the artwork by dedicating an entire article to the shocking lack of tagging.
Extreme Graffiti: Fire Tagging!
Looks like Ellis Gallagher, aka Ellis G, has made a giant leap from the fairly safe medium of chalk art, to the highly dangerous looking medium of fire art! Nylon Mag received a photo of the flammable tagging in progress, and their tipster noted that it's "a new obsession" of the artist's. Allegedly "the idea is to paint a tag and light it quickly before it dries," and we'd imagine a goal is to not set oneself or one's surroundings on fire. And people, let's keep a close eye on Natalie Shea, this chalk art thing could be a gateway to arson.
Fire Extinguisher Street Art
Razor Apple has some photos of street artist MORAL's work. He's been bombing the city with fire extinguisher tags, one of a few taggers who uses that medium -- where the fire extinguisher is loaded up with paint. Just one of the many contributing to the rise of graffiti in town!
NYC Graffiti Nearly Doubled in '07. Or Did It?
According to new NYPD statistics, graffiti complaints in Brooklyn rose 96% last year, with arrests in the borough increasing by 33%. Citywide, complaints almost doubled from 4,886 in 2006 to 8,866 in 2007, and total arrests rose from 2,962 to 3,786. Williamsburg leads the tagging trend with a total of 186 complaints.
Eagle Team: NYC Transit's Anti-Graffiti Squad
The NYPD may have the anti-graffiti task force, but with many graffiti crimes perpetrated in the subway tunnels, the NYC Transit Authority has created its own anti-graffiti team. The Daily News tagged along with the Eagle Team, a "surveillance squad quietly formed three months ago."
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