Obama Graffiti - Under Investigation

This news form whbc.com - Vandals with a political message have struck in Canton Township. Stark County Sheriff Tim Swanson says early Friday morning, someone spray-painted a message reading "Obama Rules" on the garage door of the home's Republican owner.

Swanson believes it's the work of some juveniles who think they're being funny or smart. Homeowner Georgianna Gaskins, a former Canton Township clerk and school board candidate, calls the incident a hate crime.

She says the vandals also stole a political sign for a Republican candidate for Stark County Commissioner. Swanson says such activity is common in the period leading up an election. The matter is under investigation. Deputies have no suspects.

Light Graffiti Ideas

One of the coolest ideas is to make sweet light graffiti with the camera. This video show you about how to do a cool form of art called light graffiti.

Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they'd never be able to with spraypaint. Very cool!

Romanian Graffiti Artists

The RCI flew in three early-twenties graffiti artists to team up with Wooster Collective co-founders Sara and Marc Schiller and cover the gallery walls in brightly colored religious icons, serpents, spies, manimals, slogans, and symbols.

Schiller who spends his days collaborating with street artists wanted to give these artists the opportunity to interact with New York. "As much as technology and the Web connect everything, you can't replicate the experience of being together."

The opening also merged street and multimedia art with screenings and interactive installations from Simultan, Romania's largest video and media-arts festival. It's still a relatively small festival, but Cristian Neagoe, the young new communications director largely responsible for bringing these artists here, says it's easier to get an authentic experience that way. "Here it's a bit more controlled," he says. "An artist becomes trendy and the media latch on. In Romania they're starting from scratch, nobody watches or gives a damn, and that way, they have the freedom to innovate."

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New/Old Graffiti by the Wuer HSR Station

I saw a couple walls painted up right by the Taichung HSR station from the bus the other day and figured on getting back to see if there was anything else nearby. Just across the stream to the south beneath the overpass there is perhaps a .5km long wall that is 98% covered with great stuff from Four Crew and Virus No 6. Most of the stuff along the wall is dated 2007, but there's a ramp tagged 2008 on the south end. It's good to finally find where everyone has been active for the past year.

Graffiti Animation from Buenos Aires

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

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Martin Lihs, working on his Master's Thesis at Bauhaus University in Weimar, has developed a modified Wii controller with which one could practice tagging inside on rainy days. As his thesis is not yet complete, full specs have not been made public, but Lihs suggests about the next version that he's

planning to build a new spraycan with more functions and also an advanced software with collaborative spraying option, different caps, different colours…. and maybee different Sprayers make an appointment and create grafitties together: online!

Controllers might be ready for Christmas, but I guess Santa Claus won't bring you one if you've been defacing public property.