This website showcases graffiti photos from Scotland (especially Glasgow and Edinburgh graffiti), and anywhere else I can get to. So far that includes Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Bristol, Brussels, London, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Seville and Warsaw. There are also photos other people have sent in, including graffiti from Holland, Canada, Australia and more. I also put some other photos that aren't related to graffiti on here occasionally.
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MPC kick out Cap

Posted on 02 Jun 6:35 PM

The founding members of long-running New York graffiti crew Morris Park Crew (MPC) have kicked out notorious graffiti bomber Cap. Nothing too exciting about that, but they've published their reasons in a 9-page newsletter, packed with lots of photos of Cap and other old school graffiti.

Some select quotes:

“It should be no surprise that in MPC, CAP was considered a talentless writer, though an ambitious one. By evidence of his “art” work in 2009, he hasn’t progressed any in 30 years.”

“He was a toy who wanted fame but couldn’t burn writers like BLADE, COMET, KELL, SKEME, DONDI, MIN and a host of others”

“MPC denounces all that he did and stood for.”

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Aberdeen graffiti gang’s £75,000 rampage

Posted on 23 May 3:04 PM

Train with graffiti at Wick

Story in Aberdeen's Evening Express newspaper about how "a hi-tech graffiti gang ... use the internet to swap ideas about different graffiti styles"

The photo they use is actually from a story last week about a train that was hit in Wick, as reported in the John O'Groat Journal. Twenty-six-year-old Martene Rourke from Manchester was fined £1290 after pleading guilty to one offence and not guilty to several others she was accused of.

The senior fiscal depute David Barclay said "It was explained to me by police officers involved in this case that this was not what you might call a typical form of vandalism. This was very artistic and talented graffiti."

The fine was half of what it apparently cost to clean up that carriage. From this the Evening Express have extrapolated that if there were 30 graffiti offences on trains in Aberdeen, they all cost that, therefore £75,000. I'm sure not all the graffiti going on trains in Aberdeen are as large as that though, and most of it costs much much less to remove. However the figure of £2580 to remove it could be a useful rule of thumb for any future prosecutions, to see how over-inflated the British Transport Police's figures are.

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Graffiti in Scotland - Creative writing

Posted on 14 May 6:33 AM

From Loanhead to Glasgow there’s a rich heritage of graffiti art in Scotland.

Interview with Elph, Derm and Ali Wylie of Recoat in the latest issue of The List. Very brief, could have been much longer in my opinion. One photo of an Elph canvas, but they could have done with a good one showing some graffiti in location. Possibly the article in the magazine might have more photos that the online version; I haven't seen it yet.
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Watchmen graffiti time-lapse video

Posted on 21 Apr 9:33 PM

The above timelapse video is of End of the line doing graffiti for the première of the Watchmen earlier this year. I previously blogged about it at the time. Graffiti by Bleach, Probs, Busk and Zadok.

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Brighton Street Blitz

Posted on 15 Apr 9:14 PM

Brighton Street Blitz flyer

Calling all artists!
Bored with the Brighton festival?
Tired of elitist art galleries selling overpriced crap?
Sick of the powers that be gentrifying the colour and character out of Brighton?
Lets turn Brighton into an open air art gallery.

THE MOTIVATION

The corporate image factory spends a huge amount of money on billboards, posters, flyers or ‘guerrilla’ marketing campaigns masquerading as street art. They fill your lives with an unrelenting barrage of preposterous ideals, numb values and false icons. No one asks for your permission before they push these images in your face so neither should we seek consent in order to leave our own mark on the city.

DEEDS NOT WORDS

We propose a 4 week blitz of street art in Brighton between 1-31 May 2009, timed nicely to coincide with the increasingly elitist and frankly dull Brighton 'festival' . Whether you make murals, stencils, stickers, posters, sculptures, street projections, sign modification/removal/additions, billboard subverting/defacing/destruction etc; whether creative or destructive; whether to convey a message, brighten up a dull spot, rewire some corporate brainwashing tactics; whether to leave your mark, remove a stain, express yourself or simply to show your disgust – it’s all valid and all adds to The Blitz!

THE PROCEDURE

During the proposed 4 weeks we want you to use Brighton as an open gallery. There will be a map of the city primed and ready for Blitzers to post their activities, no matter how big or small, onto a map overlay. Install your art or anything which changes the perspective on our city then get online and post it onto the empty map on the Street Blitz website. You can add a description and any photos of your work. There will also be room for comments on each placemark which can also be used to tell us if the artwork is still there or if the miserly bureaucrats got there first.

THIS IS YOUR CITY

Leave your mark!

www.streetblitz.org/brighton/

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