Cop gets up

Here at ILG we love to see graffiti go new ways. So the following video was received with great joy at our HQ, it turns out that even police officers in the UK are doing murals these days.

Now we are waiting for the first police wholecar to roll out of a yard...

Banksy rat raises house price

Steadily fucking up the way society works and paving new ways, Banksy is at it again.
This time its a old pub in Liverpool that has reportly doubled in value because Banksy painted a commision on it in 2004. The whole story here.

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...

How to sell more cars

In Southern Nevada they decided that a little graffiti was a good idea to sell more Ford Focus cars. Check out their website with a video and artist profile...

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.

Max Payne graffiti campaign.

Looks like the new Max Payne movie , featuring Mark Wahlberg as a vigilante cop and rapper Ludacris among others, has a graffiti promotion campaign to go with it. Writers are doing billboards on both coast in America to promote the new film. Here is a NYC billboard done by Ces.
And here is a nice little video about a few billboards getting done in California by Toons, Tazrock and Cre8.

Max Payne Graffiti Street Art in LA
Uploaded by StacyLinLA

We finish of with a fresh trailer done in graphicnovel style for the movie...

Max Payne Live-Action Comic http://teaser-trailer.com
Uploaded by angels-and-demons-trailer

Irish police allows graffiti

In Dublin, Ireland, the local police called Garda, have given permission for people to paint around the building site of a new policestation. More info here.

Obama graffiti support

Little photocollection of graffiti and streetart supporting Barack Obamas run for the presidency of the United States of America 2008!

Graffiti on the news in Chicago

Chicago has been under strict antigraffiti laws for many years. Here is a live news broadcast about recent mural for the Chicago Cubs baseball team, and its not as negative as you might think...

Graffiti is the best medicin

Medical giant Pfizer shows the world what a positive influence graffiti can be in the life of everyday people...

... or something.

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

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.