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Graffiti Tracker Put To Use In Montclair, CA

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

In what looks to be the only company profiting from southern California vandals, Graffiti Tracker has yet another contract in southern California. The city of Montclair, CA has spent some dough on graffiti abatement.

The City Council unanimously approved a one-year contract on Monday with a company that will study, analyze and help police reduce graffiti in the city.

The city hired Graffiti Tracker Inc. to supply police with GPS monitors to identify tagging in specific areas of the city.

Police Chief Chester Thompson said the GPS markers will help police direct enforcement toward areas where graffiti has increased or where gang rivalries are found.

“Graffiti is getting out of hand and getting costly,” said Councilwoman Carolyn Raft at Monday night’s meeting.

The council also approved spending $100,000 from a state grant to buy additional police equipment.

The expenditure from State Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Funds provides 12 mobile video recorders, a forensic evidence recovery tool and a mapping tool for the department.

Read More: Montclair approves graffiti tracking

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The Special Kids Think They Can Beat SABER

Monday, November 5th, 2007

HAHAHA! Oh man. If you read anything from me today let it be this!!

So, to sum it up. These kids at a graphic arts technical school are trying to beat an official Guinness World Record titled “Longest Graffiti Scroll”. You can get information about it here.
Anyways, I wonder if they know about SABER’s Unofficial World Record for the World’s Largest Graffiti Piece, measuring a staggering 250′ x 55′ (nearly the size of a football field) and took 125 gallons of latex roller paint to complete. Even though SABER’s piece isn’t in the Guinness World Records it definitely should be mentioned when talking about largest graffiti anything!

In closing, I propose that SABER’s masterpiece be nominated for what it deserves!

Bergen County Technical High School students will continue trying today to break the Guinness world record for the longest graffiti scroll.

The graphic design students from the school’s Paramus campus began spray-painting messages and quotes about safe teenage driving Thursday on paper scrolls. Their goal is to paint the graffiti on at least 2,000 feet of the paper.

A selection of messages has been chosen, including “Trustworthiness — No Drinking and Driving” and “Did you know that car accidents are the leading cause of deaths in our age bracket?”

But by day’s end, the students were still a bit short, reaching 1,500 feet, said teacher Karen Waller.

Disappointment set in when the 18 students thought they’d failed to beat the 1,858-foot-long record set in June by Procter & Gamble Balkans in Bucharest, Romania, she said.

Waller researched the Guinness rules, though, and determined “there’s nothing that says we can’t do it over the course of two days.”

Read More: Graffiti artists go for world record

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Banksy Unmasked??

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

You know. If you dig enough around the net you can find him. Not that hard at all. Or maybe I’m just good at tracking info down on the net. Either way here’s the story.

Hip British graffiti artist Bansky, whose true identity has long remained a mystery, was thrust into the spotlight Wednesday after the publication of a snatched picture allegedly of him at work.

A man believed to be Banksy, whose works sell for tens of thousands of pounds around the world, was caught on camera working on a new picture in an east London street, according to The Times.

His latest work depicts a huge sunflower, formed by diverting the double yellow parking lines from a street gutter across a pavement up onto the side of a house, flanked by a picture of a paint-roller wielding artist.

But the artist himself was believed to have been caught at work for the first time, by a passerby who took a picture on his mobile phone camera, the daily said.

“We never confirm or deny whether any image shows Banksy,” a spokesman for the artist told The Times, which printed the photo of a black-haired man in jeans a camouflage jacket, with a pollution-protecting mask on his head.

Read More: Wall of secrecy: elusive graffiti artist uncovered?

Posted in Artists, Banksy, England, London, News, U.K. | No Comments »

Train Surfing Is All The Rage!

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

I remember finding some videos on YouTube a while back showing this one crazy guy who slides out of the windows while the train is moving and jumps on top and screws around, graffin all the while. I think it was in the Dirty Handz videos. Crazy stuff, I’ll post them if I can find them again. I’m pretty sure this isn’t the guy, but could be related somehow. Anyways, on with the news.

THIS is Perth’s teenage train-surfing graffiti vandal in action.

The boy’s nine-month tagging spree came to an end in July when he was charged with numerous trespass and vandalism offences.

He cannot be identified because he was a juvenile at the time the offences were committed.

But in court yesterday, he admitted to scrawling graffiti on trains and other railway property.

Security video shows the boy clinging to the back of a train while he tags the window.

The teenager was fined more than $6000, which included a $5000 contribution toward cleaning graffiti from the trains and property he had vandalised.

His sentencing coincided with an unrelated police operation which targeted graffiti vandals who were allegedly planning to tag trains and City of Perth property in Halloween damage spree.

Acting on information, Police Rail Unit officers and Perth police arrested 20 people during the two day crackdown across the metropolitan rail network, codenamed Operation Trackside 59.

Read More: Perth’s teenage train-surfing graffiti vandal

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Flicks Update From The Local Yard #3

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Here’s yet another batch of flicks taken by my homie TIPZ at one of the local yards recently. Enjoy.

ENSOE
ENSOE

EPIK
EPIK

EX - MOON - AXION
EX – MOON – AXION

artist unknown
artist unknown

MUSER
MUSER

NEVERINO
NEVERINO

OPT - Whole Car
OPT – Whole Car

PGK - Whole Car
PGK – Whole Car

RERUB - TFK
“AERUB” – TFK – NOK – GL

TRAMP
TRAMP

TRUE
TRUE

YEARS
YEARS

Posted in California, Exclusive, Flicks, Throw-Ups, Trains | 3 Comments »

Flicks Update From The Local Yard #2

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Here’s another batch of flicks taken by my homie TIPZ at one of the local yards. Enjoy.

DRAMA - DE - 2002
DRAMA – DE – 2002

ASER - SFR
ASER – SFR

ATAK - NSF
ATAK – NSF

BASE
BASE – N (for NETWORK)

CHEK - RFM
CHEK – RFM

CPOEU?
CPOEU?

CROW - TKO
CROW – TKO

DAMSEL
DAMSEL

DROOL
DROOL

Posted in California, Exclusive, Flicks, General, Throw-Ups, Trains | 1 Comment »

Australia Finally Seeing Graffiti Problems With Their Train System

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Only about 30 years late, Australia is finally realizing that there are graffiti problems with their trains. Gee, didn’t see this one coming.

GRAFFITI vandals are costing Connex $11 million a year in train damage and delays.
More than 280 trains were delayed in the past week because of vandals, many coming from interstate.
In contrast, attacks on Connex trains delayed 270 services for the whole of September.
Transit Police say Melbourne has become “the place to be” for those wanting to vandalise trains and trams.
Connex said there had been 48 separate attacks on trains since last Wednesday, including 17 involving graffiti on windscreens.
Vandals from New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland are regularly coming for a weekend of tagging public transport.
Many of those caught are found with video equipment so they can post “brag videos” on the internet.
But Chief Inspector Brian Jennings from transit police said the footage makes vandals easier to identify and catch.
“There is an intelligence exchange between the various units who police the transport system in the different states,” he said.

Read More: Graffiti vandals causing havoc with trains

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Yet, More Cracking Down In La Habra

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

Orange County is one of the very few counties in the world where you can go spraying at and go to jail for over a year if caught doing it illegally. And it’s getting worse…much worse.

The city is looking to increase penalties for graffiti offenders to stop tagging before it starts.

The city’s graffiti removal efforts have been increasingly aggressive and now the city is considering implementing a civil citation process as a harsher punishment for taggers.

As of now, offenders are only fined if the case makes it to court and the judge finds the suspect guilty. A civil citation gives the police the power to fine the criminals.

The crime currently warrants a misdemeanor, according to the city code, and taggers are expected to pay for property damages. However if the damage is more than $400, taggers could be charged with a felony, according to Police Chief Dennis Kies.

Mayor Jim Gomez has also been working with city staff and the Police Department to outline how offenders would be punished.

Gomez is looking to hold parents accountable for their children’s actions and incorporate strict fines.

On a first offense, taggers would be fined $250, $500 for the second offense and $1,000 for the third offense. If the fines are not paid, the tagger could face up to 60 days in jail.

Read More: Graffiti could bring stiffer penalties

Posted in California, Cracking Down, La Habra, News, U.S. | No Comments »

Southern California is Burning Down! Fire EVERYWHERE!

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

If you haven’t heard about all of the fires in California by now then you’re just blind and can’t hear! Most are suspected arson. The following is a bit of data and info that I’ve gathered about the fires, I’ll try and keep this updated:

Community Little Book has put together a nice list of resource links about the various fires.
Fox11 LIVE News Coverage.
NASA images of the many fires in Southern California.
Google’s Interactive fire map.
The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

Latest Statistics:
500,000+ People Evacuated.
1,300 Homes Lost.
10 People Dead.
640 Square Miles Burned.
50,000 San Diego Residents Returned Home.

Posted in California, Exclusive, News, Special Stories, U.S. | 1 Comment »

Delaware Seriously Cracking Down

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

They really aren’t playin’ at all in Delaware. But this guy got a bit too crazy and hit a church…consequences.

In the past month, graffiti tags such as SON and MAG scrawled in orange, silver, yellow or gold spray paint have been turning up on the sides of numerous businesses in Prices Corner, Belvedere and Christiana Hundred.

Investigators probing these acts of vandalism Thursday arrested the alleged vandal — a 21-year-old Newport man — and charged him with defacing more than a dozen area properties.

Following a raid at his home, state police charged Joseph T. Marro Jr. of the 500 block of Augustine St. with 10 counts of graffiti, one count of possession of graffiti tools, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of prescription drugs not in their original container.

Marro was released after posting $7,000 bail, state police Cpl. Jeff Whitmarsh said.

During the search of his home, detectives confiscated a large bag of magnum markers, Sharpies and other markers in various colors commonly used to produce graffiti work, 13 grams of marijuana and a marijuana pipe.

Investigators also seized Marro’s computer and art work.

During questioning, Marro waived his rights, police said, and acknowledged that he was responsible for spray painting his tags, including SON, at these businesses:

•Cash Advance, 2000 Newport-Gap Pike.

•Boston Market, 3130 Kirkwood Highway.

•Jersey barrier, Del. 100 south of Del. 2.

•Celestial Church of Christ, 1110 Newport-Gap Pike, Belvedere. (WTF were you thinking?!!)

•McDonald’s in Midway Plaza, 4625 Kirkwood Highway.

•Ted’s Liquors, 1202 Newport-Gap Pike, Belvedere.

•7-Eleven, 298 S. Maryland Ave., north of Boxwood Road, Christiana Hundred.

•Deer Head Hot Dogs, 620 S. Maryland Ave., north of Boxwood Road, Christiana Hundred.

•The Centerville Road underpass at Del. 141 near Prices Corner.

•Pep Boys on Kirkwood Highway, Prices Corner.

•A billboard sign at Citgo, 3927 Kirkwood Highway.

Read More: Alleged vandal, 21, arrested for graffiti

Posted in Busted, Consequences, Cracking Down, Delaware, News, U.S., Vandals | No Comments »

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