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We Moved to Los Angeles!

Graff Guy — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:19:22 +0000

Uh huh, you read that right! We’re now living, commuting, breathing smog, in the Los Angeles area. We’re going to make it a major point of our mission here to really start making Street Bombing the premier street resource online for budding artists.

One of our first missions: check out the “Art In The Streets” exhibit at MOCA.

Stay tuned!

Extra: be-at.tv!! MUST!!

MTA Goes Down In A Blaze Of Glory

Graff Guy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:10:30 +0000

This past Wednesday, authorities said they finally had arrested the MTA crew, including “Smear.” In a series of raids conducted Wednesday morning, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials arrested Cristian Gheorghiu (32), aka “Smear”, at his home in the east Hollywood area. They also arrested Shaun Alexander, 27; Sergio Ayala, 25; Eduin Miramontes, 23; Nicholas Rem, 28; Juan Rocha, 22; and Ryan Swenson, 27, also at their homes in the Los Angeles area.

According to the Los Angeles County Sherrif’s office MTA is responsible for some of the city’s most notorious acts of vandalism, most notably L.A.’s largest tag: the giant, half-mile-long “MTA” scrawl that appeared last year along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River near downtown. (See figure 1.1)

Figure 1.1

More information will surely follow.

Source: 7 alleged members of L.A. tagging crew arrested

“JEL” – TKO; Featured on America’s Most Wanted

Graff Guy — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:18:29 +0000

I can’t believe this is the first time I heard about this story as it’s been on AMW’s website since February and was also aired on local network TV last week on the infamous television show.

Here’s the details:

Cops say Candy Ellen Srichandr is bad news: a graffiti artist and a stripper, they say she’s gone from defacing public property with her spray paint to taking part in a heinous murder. When gunfire erupted at a SoCal art show, a family man who Srichandr considered a rival was dead, and Candy was nowhere to be found. Now, police have put this Valley Girl where she belongs: in a cage.

That’s a direct quote from the America’s Most Wanted website.

The story will be airing within the next half hour on FOX 11 (channel 11 on basic cable) in southern California.

More quotes:

In the middle on the night on February 8, 2008, cops say Candy Srichandr was nabbed in Long Beach, Calif. Investigators were tracking her journey with the assistance of your leads, and they knew for sure she was hiding out in St. Louis and parts of Colorado.

It wasn’t until an anonymous tipster contacted a U.S. Marshal in Los Angeles to tell him that Srichandr may be hiding out at a residence in Long Beach. Our investigator and his team headed out to the location — but not expecting to find Srichandr.

They honestly thought she was still in Colorado. To their surprise, she was inside the residence, arrested her immediately, and shipped her off to the Van Nuys station in the San Fernando Valley. She’s locked behind bars, and awaiting her hearing with a judge.

More to come!

UPDATE:
I’ve been getting loads of feedback about this post and you guys need to calm down.
About posting images of graff when I find them: If you don’t want certain people to know where you are and where you’re getting up then maybe you shouldn’t get up at all? Don’t blame me for your own stupidity, you shouldn’t even be graffing in illegal spots to begin with.
About “name dropping”: I post the names of the writers where it’s already legible! If I can’t read it or don’t recognize the writer myself I won’t post a name. And isn’t having a handle enough to hide behind anyways? I mean, that’s what they’re used for, right? So, please, stop blaming others for your own stupidity. Pzz.

AUGOR Makes National News (Fox)

Graff Guy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:04:41 +0000

AUGOR’s There Will Be Blood billboard was just featured on the Fox 11 nightly news here in southern California. The image below is the only one I could find at the moment. Enjoy.

A House Abandoned on the Hollywood Freeway Is Causing Mad Publicity

Graff Guy — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:08:36 +0000

There’s an odd sight on the Hollywood freeway recently that I’m sure you’ve either noticed in your commute or seen news stories about it. It’s a house! As of today though (Sept. 24) it’s been getting hit with graffiti because of all the publicity it’s been causing. MSK is tagged on the side facing traffic, an undecipherable throw-up is on the side facing traffic horizontally, and a few nasty tags in various places. Peep the article:

Motorists traveling Southern California highways are used to seeing all sorts of debris, from mattresses to luggage to clothing. But the ultimate in freeway flotsam has landed along the Hollywood Freeway: a house.

UPDATE: The house has been moved to a storage yard in Santa Clarita.
New tags on it: META, TRIGZ, ICR, J4F (Just 4 Fun), MENSO

Bulletproof Talking Cameras Being Installed In Various Spots In Los Angeles County

Graff Guy — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:09:42 +0000

More to come later once I’ve studied this thing for a bit.

City officials want to fight graffiti and other forms of vandalism with bullet proof cameras about the size of a lunch box.

Watch Video: Bullet Proof Cams to Fight Vandalism