Graffiti

Posted: **18 Jul 2005, 5:25pm**

to check out some nice street art check the new section in this week's twenty4 seven called...............

Visualz

Posted: **18 Jul 2005, 5:49pm**

Thnaks Cob

will have to check it out for sure

Posted: **3 Aug 2005, 6:07pm**

For all those who appreciated graffiti and street art, as 'art'

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Silver Grey at Downtown ARTSPACE, part of SALA Festival..
233 Waymouth St Adelaide
Installation and paintings by KAB101.

Street writing since the early eighties KAB101 has developed a marking style reflective of his personality. His work is based on calligraphic signature markings, mechanical lettering styles and nocturnal creatures that inhabit the darkest places. His studio paintings consist of these same styles that also indicate his awareness of the smaller details of society that sometimes go unnoticed. They tell stories of identity, his emotions and experiences related to his past and present affinity with writing his name and taking space.

Kab101 likes to explore unseen territories, abandoned spaces, tunnels and
doesn't mind leaving his work to be discovered as opposed to always hitting high profile places. His inspiration comes from subway graffiti , type, packaging, handwriting and a balance of nature and technology.

These explorations have a significant impact on his studio work.

>> >AREA101
>> >Shop 3 Ebenezer place
>> >Adelaide 5000
>> >South Australia
>> >
>> >Tel/Fax: 618 8223 4383
>> >Www.area101.com.au

Posted: **3 Aug 2005, 6:59pm**

john doe wrote:

to check out some nice street art check the new section in this week's twenty4 seven called...............

Visualz

I picked up a copy 2day......

Nice!

Posted: **6 Aug 2005, 9:46am**

Art prankster sprays Israeli wall

Secretive "guerrilla" artist Banksy has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side.

The nine paintings were created on the Palestinian side of the barrier.

One depicts a hole in the wall with an idyllic beach, while another shows a mountain landscape on the other side.

Banksy's spokeswoman Jo Brooks said: "The Israeli security forces did shoot in the air threateningly and there were quite a few guns pointed at him."

Another picture shows the head of a white horse appearing to poke through, while he has also painted a ladder going over the wall.

The 425-mile (680-kilometre) long barrier, made of concrete walls and razor-wire fences, is still being erected by Israeli authorities.

Israel says the structure is necessary to protect the country from suicide bombers, but the International Court of Justice has said it breaches international law.

Banksy, who hails from the UK city of Bristol, never allows himself to be photographed and created the images last week.

He condemned the wall but described it as "the ultimate activity holiday destination for graffiti writers".

His previous creations, which critics condemn as stunts, have included a bronze spoof of the statue of Justice from the Old Bailey, London, wearing thigh-high boots and a suspender belt

He also embarrassed the British Museum by planting a hoax cave painting of a man pushing a supermarket trolley, which he said went unnoticed for three days.

He has also smuggled and hung works in galleries including the Tate Britain in London and the Metropolitan and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

Posted: **6 Aug 2005, 10:00am**

banksy is the man

Posted: **7 Aug 2005, 12:09am**

here is the rest of them... (scuse the double ups)

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Posted: **12 Sep 2005, 1:13am**

real graf art is art, but tags are just a nuisance! peeps shouldn't tag on places where its not wanted.

but if i had a nice big front fence i'd let someone with talent do a nice big mural

Posted: **13 Sep 2005, 5:21pm**

okae okae graffiti

toy means -they are very crap at doing what theydont understand the game and are not respectd by any one

if ur house, fence,wall,truck buisness has been trashed nd u would like it painted for free any design bakround u wish ,,pm me i kan organise it

and in adelaide u have to look for the graffit there are pieces in the city in alley ways

and about tags , tags are what pieces are with out that tag u wouldnt see c that colourful mural aka piecethere and some of these people who tag and do piece are in there 30's if u didnt knoe itgraffiti has been around in adelaide since the 80's and bit earlyr belive it or not

Posted: **13 Sep 2005, 5:57pm**

you would find more culture in yoghurt then a "street artist"

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design for "destino" (1947)

salvador dali

Posted: **4 Dec 2005, 2:01pm**

man, thats a bit harsh outsider!! i am sure dali and van gogh were received by mega critical people, and took some hard knocks before being accepted into the art establishment..just u wait, street art will get there!!!

checkit, at least melbourne ctiy council has some taste and some forward thinkers

http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/our-colourful-underbelly/2005/12/03 /1133422148230.html

Our colourful underbelly

Stencil artist Vexta with her diving woman, on the walls of the St Kilda junction underpass. "I don't want to live in a city that's really bland and covered in grey and brown and advertising."

Stencil artist Vexta with her diving woman, on the walls of the St Kilda junction underpass. "I don't want to live in a city that's really bland and covered in grey and brown and advertising."

AS IF Melbourne wasn't labouring enough under the weight of labels and the burden of trying to live up to them: the world's most liveable city, Australia's sporting mecca, and arts capital to boot. Another has just been thrown into the mix, and it's the kind of tag to chill the establishment's heart as the city barrels towards the Commonwealth Games with the grand ambition of presenting itself to the world as tidy-town.

The latest claim to greatness? Stencil graffiti capital. No, not of the nation. Of the world. So say the authors of a new book, Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne, which documents the city's vibrant stencil art scene and profiles some of its leading players — the likes of Ha-Ha, Psalm, Meggs, DLux, Meek, Vexta, Civilian. The city's commuters, shoppers and roamers may well recognise these names, having stumbled upon the signatures and their adjacent handiwork in secluded laneways and underpasses, on tucked-away walls and along railway corridors — sprawling tracts of lively images and text that break the monotony of brick-and-mortar canyons.

For those residents who embrace street art as a reflection of the city's witty, creative and socially aware underbelly, here finally will be a label worth subscribing to, an attribute that sets Melbourne apart in an idiosyncratic, non-conformist way.

Then again, there will be plenty of graffiti-loathers ready to condemn a book that celebrates such illegal activity and has the gall to rate Melbourne as the world's top destination for stencil art.

When it comes to graffiti, it seems the world is divided into those who see it as a menace to society, a sure trigger of escalating crime and falling property values, and those who view it as a vital element of a city's urban fabric and consider the best examples of it as an exciting part of contemporary art practice.

Should Melbourne care that it's pronounced stencil graffiti capital?

(more pages)

Posted: **4 Dec 2005, 4:25pm**

Oh yeah im diggin all the stencils over here, makes for a never boring walk round the hood thats for sure.

Posted: **4 Dec 2005, 5:40pm**

Outsider wrote:

you would find more culture in yoghurt then a "street artist"

Pfft

Posted: **8 Dec 2005, 7:24am**

Brass Monkey 1983 wrote:

Outsider wrote:

you would find more culture in yoghurt then a "street artist"

Pfft

Posted: **14 Dec 2005, 9:35am**

some young punks done some "graf" on the deli near me ouse on weekend and tried to draw some tough hornet thing but i mistook it for a butterfly.

luckily a mate of myne who is down wiv da street culture told me nah dave it a hornet

Posted: **14 Dec 2005, 2:14pm**

TUFF!

Posted: **14 Dec 2005, 2:22pm**

Graf Art Yes- Crappy Tags a big no no.

I think that if Graf artists want us to respect their art they should respect our property.

In the same stead as Area 101, J2K does some wicked art in a Graf/manga style. I have a great deal of respect for his work. He painted on canvas a manga portrait of me years ago for my 18th birthday and it is something I will treasure forever

Posted: **31 Dec 2005, 12:39am**

everybody start slashing any "film" tags you see, or even better if you find him, punch him in the head for me. the boy bombed my son's daycare, it costed them $600 to get it buffed, that money could've been spent on buying more bikes, so now my little man has to fight the other kids for bikes, or play with other shit, like prams, picked him up the other day and he was pushing a doll's pram around for fuck sake, cos there wasnt enough bikes to go round, if he grows up with a thing for prams, it will be "film"'s fault. that muthafucka is dead when i see him

Posted: **31 Dec 2005, 12:42am**

Some punk called graffed our wall near our garage door & on our front fence, gonna shove the can of paint up his arse if I ever catch him!

Posted: **31 Dec 2005, 12:44am**

I hear ya mate... I have the upmost respect for graff as a legit artform but godamn these lil shits that plaster their pathetic tags all over the place just to get their 'name' out there...very sad, especially given a story like the one you just told...

Posted: **31 Dec 2005, 1:07am**

we have a fantastic collection peices ajoining our street here...might have to take sk's camera for a wonder....

Posted: **5 Jan 2006, 4:45pm**

http://www.teknoscape.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11062& d=1136216438
http://www.teknoscape.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11059& d=1136216255

Posted: **5 Jan 2006, 5:02pm**

solace wrote:

we have a fantastic collection peices ajoining our street here...might have to take sk's camera for a wonder....

brompton/bowden is wikkidness for graffiti art, i think it says a lot that the council was keen for people to commit some decent art to the walls and brighten up the place a bit. really suits the area, give it a proper inner city urban vibe

without looking trashy!

i love the decorated street poles round my area too, i think more councils should do it

Posted: **9 Jan 2006, 12:37pm**

Oh yeah, for the art/culture afficianados out there, remember to grab tickets for Rash , a film bout graffiti/stencil culture in melbourne!!

RASH - 4 March at 5pm

Rating: 18+, Directed by: Nicholas Hansen

Graffiti: derived from the Italian graffiare, 'to scratch'. Ancient graffiti artists scratched their work into walls before the advent of spray paint.

Enter Melbourne, a world-Mecca of street art, where speed equals stealth, and tagging, sloganeering, stencilling, and paste-ups are the language.

RASH is a documentary that considers graffiti as a sophisticated art. With messages that range from political comment on the media, to satirising graffiti itself, the street-smart characters interviewed here are unified by their desire to make art for the public and to be seen as serious artists and commentators. Though as one player says: "Destruction is a beautiful thing...and a lot of fun!"

Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with graffiti artists KAB101 and Kano.

www.rashfilm.com

Posted: **9 Jan 2006, 1:05pm**

Yea went to Melbourne on the weekend and there is some wicked stuff around the place, lots of tags which im not overly down with but some really good peices

Posted: **9 Jan 2006, 1:31pm**

i just realised i never voted in this poll, but maybe cos there isnt enough options

i think tags are fucked but some genuine 'street art' is awesome!

i wish there were more opened minded people that would allow genuine art to be put up, but i dont blame them with all the crap you see plastered everywhere

Posted: **28 Jan 2006, 12:08am**

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Posted: **28 Jan 2006, 12:38am**

naughty naughty

Posted: **28 Jan 2006, 1:10am**

Khem wrote:

naughty naughty

Sorry to break it to you Khem & AM but Its not real............

http://www.letterjames.de/motive/editMotiv.html?motivid=60

You can type your own messages to say what ever.

And theres heaps of other styles to chose from....

Like..............

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Posted: **28 Jan 2006, 1:14am**