Banksy speaks

As recently reported here at ILG, the Banksy mural in central London is possibly up for removal. Now Banksy speaks about the mural here, and Times Magazine has a long article here about the whole case. Here at ILG we think its great that one single wall start stirr so much controversy, go Banksy!
P.S: To give a hint of how popular this mural is, just see how many pages of photos of the mural comes up on a Google Image search here...

Wondering about a video

This video made me wonder about two things.
1. Do the West Midlands Police in the UK really think that this video will help prevent graffiti?
2. What sell-out writers did the graffiti at the very end of this video?
Answers welcomed in the comments section.

Bye Banksy

Banksy's latest big hit, the One Nation Under CCTV mural in central London will be painted over soon... More information here.

More debate in Australia

Here is your chance to voice your opinion about graffiti. In Melbourne, Australia the debate about graffiti is on after the recent suggestion to ban spraycans and the counter move from the graffiti writers, a pro graffiti event called "Dont ban the can". CoreTV1 is looking for video submissions or your opinion and has a nice little blog with articles about graffiti.

Dangerous colors

Mainly for our Scandinavian audience, here is a Norweigan TV documentary, in Norweigan language, from a few years ago called Farlige Farger (Dangerous Colors) featuring oldschooler Sean, railwayworkers and liveactions...

Graffiti against graffiti

Smalltown controversy over new legal graffiti wall in England. Graffiti against graffiti, reported by The Sun.

NYC commercial wholecars

The NYC train cars that for many years were kept almost clean in order to satisfy the customers and strengthen the image of the city will now be smeared in advertisings so the MTA can make more dollars. More here and found here.

Buffing, databases and pigs

Suisse news broadcast featuring liveactions, buffing, graffiti databases, vandalsquads and more...

Fichés, scannés, digitalisés, les taggeurs sont cernés
Uploaded by franrick

Aussies gone bad

This new "undercover" newsreport about graffiti from Perth, Australia is pretty bad. It contains no good graffiti what so ever, interviews with a lot of policeofficers and some writers that gives the worst, retarded impressions to the average tv-watching Joe Sixpack. Lots of bad actionsclips and even what looks to be some sort of set-up raid at a yard.

Only good thing is you can spot the faces of a few vandalsquad officers.

Fuck the buff!

This is Leah D'emilio

Leah's life long dream is to buff graffiti...

Graffiti, Tagging, and Removal in L.A. County
Uploaded by mahalodaily

According to Yvette Neal from Pacific Graffiti Solutions, the United States of America spends 7 billion dollars, thats 7.000.000.000 $, each year on graffiti buffing. No wonder their economy is going to hell...
Lets all give Leah more stuff to buff!!

Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do ?

What you gonna do when the Harrogate Police Graffiti Patrol come for you on their bikes with their helmets and shorts?

Alphabeta NYC

Alphabeta, a new gallery and paintstore in Brooklyn gives space to graffiti and comes under immediate fire from narrowminded politicians. Check out the interesting article, with cool 4-minute audio clip featuring interviews and background story here.“As far as I know, people have been writing graffiti since the dawn of mankind.”
Alphabeta founder, Charlie Halsey

Melbourne politicians in denial

One of the coolest things I saw while visiting Melbourne last year was the flourishing streetart and colourfull graffiti burners found in the little lanes next to the big mainstreets all over the city. These lanes are also appreciated by loads of tourists, and openminded people in general, but there is now a big controversy in Australia after the lanes with graffiti where reproduced in a mini-version of the city at Disneyland in Florida. Local politicians are outraged because the reproduction was supported by tourist organisations and in the little secluded world of politicians, it brings blight on the city. Read more here. Here at ILG we can only support more free spaces for art and appeal to politicians to open their eyes and get with the times...

The Utah madness continue

In the babylonian case against Utah in NYC, antigraffiti witch Anne Swanson was quoted yesterday: "The terrorist taggers the city and private citizens mop up after are young people who think it’s a cool thing to do and just don’t think about the rest of us. They have no developed social conscience,” said Swanson, who has a degree in fine art. Read the rest here.

Girls against graffiti

A bunch of crazy chicks from Bruxelles added me on Myspace. You know you wanna be their friend too, remember they dont hate graffiti, just YOUR graffiti :) Hahahaha...

Aussie trainsurfing

In recent Australian news, a story about trainsurfing, graffiti, internetmovies and death.
Check out the article with video here and a photogallery from same videoclip here

The article mentions a video from the internet, you watch that below.

Boston Vandal Squad on the news

Want to know how the two most prolific Vandal Squad cops in Boston look like?
Well, you are in luck, as both donutlovers have gone on national TV shows and shown their faces.
Here we have the most active at the moment, Detective Bill KelleyAnd here we have old Nancy O'Loughlin

And here you can check out a recent Greater Boston TV show, featuring Kelley and anti-graffiti witch Anne Swanson talking on the case against Utah here.

Don't ban the can!

Australian authorities are trying to get tough on graffiti, even considering a total ban on spraycans in some states. This upcoming Saturday there is a chance to show your opposition against this madness and see some great artwork at the same time at the Don't Ban the Can jam in Melbourne.

Fight the power in Finland!

27 persons arrested by confrontative police in Helsinki, Finland at a Pro-Graffiti demonstration. While the city hosts an anti-graffiti convention, closed off for the public and the press, its good to see more than 500 people demonstrating against this mad policy and figthing the power. More info here and here.

No STOP in New Zealand

After the recent news of new tough laws against graffiti in New Zealand, here is a brighter note.
A big bridge on the North Island between Napier and Hastings have now been turned into a legal area for graffiti, turning graffiti vandals into graffiti artist as this newsreport and TV report tells us.
Bonus TV report with an interview of Minister of Justice Annette King. Does she know New Zealand just won the graffiti world championsship Write 4 Gold?