Corporate vandals not welcome: a followup
September 29, 2005
A few weeks back we wrote about a new sticker campaign called Corporate Vandals Not Welcome. The stickers target advertisers who use techniques cribbed from street art in order to…
New issue of Left Turn
September 28, 2005
The new issue of Left Turn is hot off the presses, with a beautiful cover by one of our favorite artists, Cristy Road. Left Turn is probably the best radical…
Ojeda lives on!
September 27, 2005
September 23rd marked the 137th anniversary of the insurgency of Lares in Puerto Rico, the attempt to gain independence from Spain in 1868. While the pro-independence movement celebrated, FBI assassins…
Jen Shao’s ghost bike memorial removed
September 22, 2005
The ghost bike we created this weekend for Jen Shao, a 65-year old grandmother killed last Friday morning by a hit-and-run bus has been removed. A few of us went…
Reminder: Reproduce & Revolt call
September 22, 2005
A quick reminder to all you artists out there about the Reproduce & Revolt project: Josh MacPhee is now working with Favianna Rodriguez as co-editor of what promises to be…
Crimethinc re-releases DIY guides
September 21, 2005
Crimethinc, those dreamy utopian anarcho-poets, have reprinted two excellent zines full of tips and information on graffiti and a whole lot more: The Walls Are Alive: A concise and masterfully…
Ghost Bike for Jen Shao
September 19, 2005
On Sunday, September 18, members of Visual Resistance created and installed a ghost bike memorial for Jen Shao, a 65-year old grandmother killed by a hit-and-run driver in the financial…
Action!
September 16, 2005
In the last few days we’ve posted two series of photos of street artists at work in our photolog. The first is of two folks working together to wheatpaste in…
Artists’ cooperatives
September 15, 2005
Designer and all-around good guy John Emerson has an article in the latest issue of Communication Arts about designers who use collective or cooperative structures to collaborate and make a…
Corporate vandals not welcome
September 14, 2005
Following up on previous entries about corporate incursions into the street art world, there’s a new sticker campaign we’ve been noticing around downtown NYC. The stickers, reading “corporate vandals not…
Benefit poster for Katrina victims
September 12, 2005
From the Northland Poster Collective: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina we have produced a poster (by Northland artist Ricardo Levins Morales) that seeks to capture the sadness and the…
Ghost Cycles in Seattle
September 8, 2005
Upon returning home to Seattle, our friend came across two ghost bicycles on her ride home from the airport. It turns out there is an amazing group called GhostCycle.org which…
Media “Blackout” in New Orleans
September 7, 2005
With the recent destruction of New Orleans, and the lawless aftermath there now exists an exetremely volatile circumstance. While the mayor declares a final evacuation to “forcibly remove” those that…
The end of “graffiti news” in Gaza
September 2, 2005
The Israeli pullout from Gaza has mostly been shown in the American media through dramatic images of Israelis being evacuated from the settlements. As usual there is much less media…
Pure Horror
September 1, 2005
The scenes from New Orleans are heartbreaking and bring back horrible memories of New York on September 11. But where that tragedy was an instant shock, the full toll from…