San Francisco – Murals & Graffiti
Murals & Graffiti in the streets of San Francisco
Music: Big City Boppers (Phunk Police Mix)
by Gaston & Philips
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Duration : 0:7:46
Categories: Graffiti Murals Tags: aerosol, air, airbrush, art, arte, artists, blackbook, bomb, bombing, brushing, CCDVProductions, community, crew, crime, culture, drawings, freestyle, game, Graffiti, grafite, group, hip, hop, intervenção, king, knight, kunst, Letters, Mural, muralists, murals, paint, painting, pichação, pichador, pixo, pop, Public, queen, radical, SanFrancisco, sketch, sketching, SPRAY, spray-can, sticker, straße, Street, streetart, subculture, tag, Tagging, urban, urbana, vandalism, video, visuais, visual, writer, サンフランシスコ, ユニオンスクエア
Arm Graffiti
First video FTW!
I was really bored in 7th period Geometry today, so I just decided to tag up my arm a little bit. It began as just my name, but then I gradually added material to it throughout the day. One or two of my other friends decided to join in lol. They're all mostly names of people I know, along with a couple of other things, including 4 crosses 
A few of my friends saw it and liked what I could write, so they asked me to write their names, and eventually it just became a sleeve of sharpie lol
Duration : 0:1:23
Categories: Write My Name in Graffiti Tags: arm, art, artist, grafítti, sharpie, skin, tag, tagger, Tagging
Kaws, Former Graffiti (Tag) Artist
This segment profiles the artist known as KAWS, former Graffiti (tag) artist turned painter and designer of limited edition toys and clothing. This segment also features some cool clips of KAWS' art, displayed in Pharrell Williams' Miami Home and Kanye West's latest album cover and billboard.
You can catch his next exhibition,
"KAWS, The Long Way Home," February 21,— April 04, 2009 at the Honor Fraser Gallery in LA
http://www.honorfraser.com/?s=upcoming
or
http://www.honorfraser.com
"I just started simply through graffiti and drawing on my skateboard and painting on walls and getting that small recognition," said KAWS, known to his family as Brian Donnelly.
KAWS graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a BFA in illustration in 1996. After graduation, KAWS briefly worked for Disney as a freelance animator painting backgrounds. He also contributed to the animated series 101 Dalmations, Daria and Doug.
He began his career as a graffiti artist growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Later moving to NYC in the 1990s, KAWS started subverting imagery on billboards, bus shelters and phone booth advertisements. These reworked advertisements were at first left alone, lasting for up to several months, but as KAWS' popularity skyrocketed, the ads became increasingly sought after.
In addition to NY, KAWS has done work in Paris, London, Berlin and Tokyo.
In the late 90s, KAWS began to design and produce limited edition vinyl toys, "an instant hit with the global art toy-collecting community,"especially in Japan, where this genre is well respected and widespread. More toys and later clothing were made for Original Fake, a recent collaborative store with Medicom Toy, in the Aoyama district of Tokyo where an original limited edition product is released each week.
KAWS has also participated in other commercial collaborations with Takahashi for Undercover, snowboard projects with Burton, and sneakers with Nike and Vans.
His most recent collaboration was with Comme des Garçons.
KAWS' acrylic paintings and sculpture have many repeating images, all meant to be universally understood, surpassing languages and cultures.
One of KAWS' early series, Package Paintings, was made in 2000. This series, entitled The Kimpsons, subverted the famous American cartoon, The Simpsons. KAWS explains that he "found it weird how infused a cartoon could become in people's lives; the impact it could have, compared to regular politics."
In addition, KAWS has reworked other familiar icons such as Mickey Mouse, the Michelin Man and the Smurfs.
Through all of his projects, KAWS has successfully blurred the line between fine art and mass-produced merchandise. He uses his products to allow his imagery to infiltrate a larger audience than that of the fine art world.
The artist is currently an active member in both the commercial and fine art communities.
His work is included in the traveling exhibition "Beautiful Losers," which started at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and will be traveling through 2009 throughout the US and Europe.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (forthcoming)
Plastic Culture, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Great Britain
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Album Cover, 808s and Heartbreak, by Kanye West
Also check out:
http://www.original-fake.com
http://www.kawsone.com
Video: © 2009, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved No Infringement is intended
Duration : 0:6:34
Categories: Famous Graffiti Artist Tags: 808s, album, and, art, artist, Billboard, by, Cartoon, characters, city, Cover, Designer, Former, Graffiti, Heartbreak, Home, Jacobs, Jersey, kanye, kaws, Marc, Miami, nike, Painter, Pharrell, skateboard, Sneakers, Star, Storm, tag, tags, Troopers, Vans, Wars, west, Williams
Murals & Graffiti in San Francisco
Some of the many murals & Graffiti displayed through the alleys & streets of San Francisco.
Music: "Convergence" by Alfred R
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Duration : 0:5:14
Categories: Graffiti Murals Tags: aerosol, air, airbrush, art, arte, blackbook, bomb, bombing, brushing, CCDVProductions, community, crew, crime, culture, design, drawings, freestyle, game, Graffiti, grafite, hip, hop, intervenção, king, knight, kunst, Letters, Mural, muralists, murals, paint, performance, pichação, pichador, pixo, pop, Public, queen, radical, SanFrancisco, sketch, sketching, SPRAY, spray-can, sticker, straße, Street, streetart, subculture, tag, Tagging, urban, urbana, vandalism, video, visuais, visual, writer, サンフランシスコ, ユニオンスクエア
“Gangster” Kenny with Bape Hoody
A drawing of Kenny from Southpark
lots of pictures taken in this drawing
song ...
immortal technique - the point of no return
Duration : 0:4:9
Categories: Draw Pictures in Graffiti Tags: bape, Bubbles, color, coloring, drawing, from, Graff, Graffiti, hoody, kenny, Letters, painting, park, sketch, south, tag
fotolog.com/val_n3pcrewCategories: Graffiti Tags: black, bomb, book, desenho, draw, drawing, graf, graffite, Graffiti, letras, paper, tag, thow-up, vandal, wildstyle, writing
Jaone / BL truck in L.I.C. Queens- NYC graffiti
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Graffiti also became associated with the anti-establishment punk rock movement beginning in the 1970s. Bands such as Black Flag and Crass (and their followers) widely stenciled their names and logos, while many punk night clubs, squats and hangouts are famous for their graffiti. In the late 1980s the upside down Martini glass that was the tag for punk band Missing Foundation was the most ubiquitous graffito in lower Manhattan, and copied by hard core punk fans throughout the U.S. and West Germany blah blah blah This was probably the most violent era in graffiti history—artists who chose to go out alone were often beaten and robbed of their supplies. Some of the mentionable Graffiti artists from this era were Blade, Dondi, Min 1,Quik,Seen and Skeme. This was stated to be the end for the casual NYC subway graffiti artists, and the years to follow would be populated by only what some consider the most "die hard" artists. People often found that making graffiti around their local areas was an easy way to get caught so they traveled to different areas.By mid-1986 the MTA and the CTA were winning their "war on graffiti," and the population of active graffiti artists diminished. As the population of artists lowered so did the violence associated with graffiti crews and "bombing." Roof tops also were being the new billboards for some 80's writers. Some notable graffiti artists of this era were Cope2, Jaone, Sane Smith, Zephyr and T Kid.
The culmination of all of these influences can be seen clearly in the graffiti meets video games infused with graffiti illustrations, and even dubbed voice overs from such graffiti artists as ESPO aka Steve Powers (artist), KAWS, STASH, MQ,KR, & Futura 2000.Many graffiti artists believe that doing blockbusters or even complex wildstyles involves too great an investment of time to justify the practice. This was exemplified by the writer "CAP" in the documentary Style Wars, who, other writers complain, ruins pieces with his quick throw ups. Graffiti artists constantly have the looming threat of facing consequences for displaying their graffiti. Banksy is the worlds most notorious and popular street artist who continues to remain faceless in todays society Modern graffiti art often incorporates additional arts and technologies. For example, Wooster Group and Graffiti Research Lab has encouraged the use of projected images and magnetic light-emitting diodes as new media for graffiti writers. Another form is the "throw-up," also known as a "fill-in," which is normally painted very quickly with two or three colors, sacrificing aesthetics for speed. Throw-ups can also be outlined on a surface with one color. A "piece" is a more elaborate representation of the artist's name, incorporating more stylized "block" or "bubble" letters, using three or more colors. This of course is more time consuming and increases the likelihood of the artist getting caught. A "blockbuster" is a large piece done simply to cover a large area solidly with two contrasting colours, sometimes with the whole purpose of blocking other "writers" from painting on the same wall. A more complex style is "wildstyle. A "roller" is a "fill-in" that intentionally takes up an entire wall, sometimes with the whole purpose of blocking other "writers" from painting on the same wall. Some artists also use stickers as a quick way to "get-up". While critics from within graffiti culture consider this lazy and a form of cheating, stickers can be quite detailed in their own right, and are often used in conjunction with other materials Many graffiti artists believe that doing blockbusters or even complex wildstyles involves too great an investment of time to justify the practice.. Another graffiti artist can go over that piece in a matter of minutes with a bubble fill-in. This was exemplified by the writer "CAP" in the documentary Style Wars, who, other writers complain, ruins pieces with his quick throw ups. This became known as "capping" and is often done when there is "beef", conflict between writers. An example of stencil graffiti, a very common modern graffiti style More important here was Charlie Ahearn's independently released fiction film Wild Style (Wild Style, 1982), and the early PBS documentary Style Wars (1983). woe1.Style Wars depicted not only Famous Graffiti Artists such as Skeme, Dondi, MinOne and Zephyr, but also reinforced graffiti's role within New York's emerging hip hop culture by incorporating famous early break dancing groups such as Rock Steady Crew into the film which also features a solely rap soundtrack
Duration : 0:0:8
Categories: Famous Graffiti Artist Tags: action, art, BL, black, blackbook, bomb, bombing, book, bronx, brooklyn, cap, city, crew, crime, fat, freights, Graff, Graffiti, JA, jaone, krink, Krylon, mad, manhattan, Montana, mop, mta, new, nyc, old, oldschool, original, outline, paint, piece, pilot, posse, queens, rooftop, school, skills, SPRAY, spraycan, squad, stencil, sticker, Street, style, subway, tag, Tagging, throw, Throwup, train, transit, Truck, tunnel, up, uptown, vandal, vandalism, vandals, Woe1, writer, writers, writing, XTC, York
The Reverse Graffiti Project
Reverse Graffiti artist Moose makes a big statement about clean in San Francisco's Broadway Tunnel. Shot by documentarian Doug Pray. For most information visit www.reversegraffitiproject.com
Duration : 0:3:33
Categories: Graffiti Tags: broadway, Curtis, Doug, environment, francisco, Graffiti, green, Moose, Paul, Pray, project, reverse, san, tag, tunnel, urban, works
I draw Categories: Draw Pictures in Graffiti Tags: draw, drawing, fix, Graffiti, nedakonice, pen, picture, tag
Getting Up (Graffiti doc part 3/3)
A documentary about graffiti, featuring some of most famous Graffiti artist's in the world.
Duration : 0:8:14
Categories: Famous Graffiti Artist Tags: ??, art, cope, cope2, getting, Graffiti, JA, jaone, kez, piece, style, tag, throw, up, vfr