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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Chrome and Black are organising a UK graff crew battle, "The Battle of Waterloo" with a £500 cash prize. It'll be held on Sunday 22nd August. To get involved you have until 15th July to send them production photos. More details on their blog.
Recently Amuk KYS, aka Thomas Stanley, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment after a three day jury trial at Maidstone Crown Court. This was for 12 charges of graffiti on trains.
Confusingly the news articles give his age as variously 20, 24 and 25.
There are a couple of support groups setup already, on Facebook (Support Tom Stanley) and Flickr (Free Amuk). The description on the Flickr group I think sums up what's wrong with this lengthy sentence:
"As a first offence and with no previous criminal record, I believe the length of sentence was unjustified and his case is one of many recent examples of the criminal justice system giving out harsh sentences in an attempt to discourage further activity among graffiti writers."
For twelve offences causing £52,000 of damage, the average cost must have been £4,333 - which seems a bit of an excessive estimate, as is typical with this sort of court case.
The Book of Tags presents the personal signatures of 150 writers coming from 20 different countries throughout the world. This selection includes some of the most influential tags belonging to pioneers in the graffiti world as well as others that represent innovative and experimental calligraphic styles. The tags collected are displayed in alphabetical order, one per page correlated with a caption to facilitate the deciphering of the different calligraphic styles and with the sole purpose to create a 1980's style graffiti 'blackbook' object, simple and essential in the layout and rich in content.
The Book of Tags also consists of short introductory essays by five prestigious individuals: BURO DESTRUCT, BARRY MCGEE, OLIVIER STAK, HASSAN MASSOUDY and STEFANO BOERI. The publication ends with a black and white action photo gallery compiled and edited by DROPDROP [the publishers] in an effort to show the beauty and energy of the act of tagging in its original context.