TAG: graffiti

Feb25

Rock The School Bells 6th Annual Conference & Concert Announced (Win Free Tickets Inside)

For the 6th year running, Rock The School Bells has been educating and empowering youth through Hip Hop culture.  This year RTSB returns to the Bay Area on March 9th.

The event provides interactive workshops that cover topics and activities such as lyric writing, graffiti writing, dance styles, DJ fundamentals, entrepreneurship, art and business, social justice, community building, and health.  The workshops are led by a varied group of facilitators who ‘incorporate Hip Hop culture in their own careers and lives’.  Some of the illustrious facilitators for this years event include: Bboy Machine of Killafornia/Rock Steady Crew/SYTYCD, Zulu Gremlin, Rock Steady Crew, Beats, Rhymes, and Life Academy, Skratchpad DJ’s, Funkanometry SF, and the Low End Theory Collaborative.

Aside from the conference, the organization is throwing a concert, which will feature Dibia$e, Rock …

Nov22

URB Exclusive Graffiti Feature: “Pushing The Trojan Iron Horse: The Making Of Whole Train” by Director Florian Gaag (Video)

It’s Spring 2000, I’ve just graduated from film school. I’m sitting in front of my computer and I open a screenplay that I’d started working on just before graduation: Wholetrain. I didn’t really have time to work on it then, now I want to finish it and turn it into my first feature film. Reading the first scene, I pause and think to myself:  ‘What a stupid idea, a fictional feature film about writing graffiti on trains. How the hell do you plan to get trains that you can paint on and have them rolling through the city? How do you plan to get shooting permission? Who will back this up in these times of strict anti-graffiti laws and zero tolerance strategies? And – most importantly – how will you pull this off without a significant budget?’ Thus begins this first-person account by director Florian Gaag, on how his film Whole Train got financed, produced and brought to the screen.

PLUS: Watch the trailer and enter to win one of five Whole Train DVDs + Soundtrack and a Sprayground backpack!

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Mar04

Banksy Vs. Robbo – The Battle Has Begun and Why You Should Pay Attention

We might be headed into some new found territory in the street art world.  You may have read in the last two months about a little tit for tat going on in London involving these two and a 25 year graf piece hidden away under London streets on a canal wall in Camden. We are used to graf artists battling over sides of town, trains, and great mural spots everywhere in the world.  Hell you can even find the battles splashed across the pages of magazines in your local shop these days.

This is different though.

On one hand you have the humble well established graf artist from way back in the day.  The other hand holds the political stencil writer cum gallery artist who, as it just so happens, has a bit more credit to his name and not just on …

Feb24

COCO144 Gallery Opening RESCHEDULED to Wednesday 3/3

Rescheduled Exhibition Opening: Scientifically Correct: Molecular Structures, Arrows and Pathways by Coco 144 at

Bard College, Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Due to the severe weather conditions the Opening has been rescheduled to Wednesday, March 3, 2010. 7pm-9pm.

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Feb24

Tonight, Bard College: NYC Graffiti Original Schooler COCO144′s Gallery Show

There’s Old School and there’s Original School. The interest in public writing, aka tagging, the organic self-expression which preceded the never-ending mutations of Graffiti has been on the rise over the past few years (as has tagging) and it’s nice to see COCO 144 with another U.S. show. I’ll  be posting his on-cam oral history soon enough, but most importantly, here are details for TONIGHT’S EVENT which is eminently reachable by train from NYC’s Pennsylvania Station. So GO to this, if you really, really, care to learn some history. …MORE

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