News Articles

The SF Bicycle Coalition's Crater Invader stencil campaign got some press over the weekend.

Check out a news video segment here (must watch commercial to get to the segment).

Beyond Chron also covered the campaign.

Unfortunately, I was called in to my volunteer job for an emergency and couldn't volunteer for the stenciling. Did take pics on Sunday and will post them soon!

By CHUCK BENNET
NY Post (Link to Original Article)

No hefty price tag for ignoring S.F. graffiti

Original SF Chronicle Article

Marisa Lagos, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

San Francisco officials have made graffiti cleanup a crusade over the past few years, pushing for the prosecution of vandals and fighting to hold private citizens accountable for tagging on their properties.

But a lack of money to pay city lawyers to go after the property owners has hobbled a much-touted anti-graffiti law, several members of the city's graffiti advisory board say.

March 2, 2008
Heads Up | Berlin
One Wall Down, Thousands to Paint
By ANDREAS TZORTZIS

SPRAY cans clink in Ali’s bag as he walks down a cobblestone street in Berlin’s post-hip neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg. He stops in front of a grocery truck parked near a children’s playground and pulls out a can. With a fluid motion, he strokes his name in bubbly, bright red letters, before leaving his mark on a telephone booth, a dozen doors and a concrete wall next to the train tracks.

"It’s a great feeling doing a piece at night and coming back the day after to look at it,” said Ali, 31, an industrial designer who was dressed in baggy pants and a black hoodie and didn’t want his surname used to avoid prosecution. “I also see it as reclaiming the city and shaping my urban environment.”

Blog Post from WebUrbanist:

What qualifies something as unusually geeky street graffiti? In some cases it is the content but in many instances it is the methods employed in its creation. Here are seven more geek graffiti projects that comment on and employ tools of the digital age to reinterpret traditional street art approaches or convey contemporary messages via new media.

The future of London street art

Original article appears here.

Artists draw attention to Bethlehem

By Brie Schwartz

Krog Street tunnel resonates or repels

By DREW JUBERA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 12/02/07
Original Article

Totem arrived unarmed: no spray can.

KQED's vidcast Gallery Crawl spotlights art that doesn't hang on gallery walls. Some great shots of stencil art, as well as other forms of street art, here in San Francisco.

The Shadow Act: Kara Walker's vision.

by Hilton Als

October 8, 2007

(Original profile appears in the New Yorker and is not online. A treatment of the profile is reprinted below.)

Shades of Meaning (a slide show, including photos of Walker's cut paper pieces).