TAG: graffiti

Feb27

Foxy Fuzz

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Weird things are always coming out of Florida (including the kid who posted rave-rap is sooo last week, crazy news keeps popping up like hanging chads on amateur night in the Everglades. (I don't even know what that means.) Yesterday, flanked by the Rev. Al Sharpton and other supporters, Foxy Brown told the media that her most recent run-in with a beauty shop owner and subsequent dispute with the Pembroke Pines po'lice of Florida was the fault of a “money hungry” businessman and the “overzealous” authorities. “The only crime I'm guilty of committing is being a young black female celebrity in Broward Country,” Foxy told reporters, according to allhiphop.com. As absurd as the whole thing sounds, the incident stems from an …

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Feb20

Shoe Bombers

What do Run-DMC and tennis legend Stan Smith have in common? Both have had their Adidas signature shoes updated. Following the DMC Cadillac re-issues, Adidas has commissioned graffiti artist-entrepreneurs to tag-up Smith’s all-white perennial favorites.

While everybody and their urban marketing consultants have used graffiti to give their products flavor, it makes sense that Adidas, whose shell-toe Superstar remains an icon from hip-hop’s early '80s transition into a global culture, would re-visit one of their shoes—the perennial favorite, Stan Smith, with a graffiti treatment. Efforts to contact the retired Mr. Smith in his Hilton Head, South Carolina home have been unsuccessful this Saturday afternoon, but we’ll post our conversation with him about his shoes being bombed, …

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Jan08

R.I.P. KOS

R.I.P. KOS

As year-end statistics point toward a significant jump in vandalized trains, graffiti arrests and budgetary spending on cleanup, the first week of 007 has tallied a single grim statistic which reminds us of the real risks faced by writers of all stripes from every neighborhood.

13 year-old Ari Kraft, aka KOS, from Rego Park, Queens lost his young life on Friday afternoon when a Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) commuter train struck him as he ran across the tracks. Reportedly, KOS had just tagged a box containing signal equipment and was heading home.

Generally, the LIRR trains come on a very fixed schedule, and are detectable from longer distances, because they run on a mostly outdoor stretch of track. But LIRR trains also travel at much faster speeds than city subway lines, and are also much quieter, and …

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