http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/ Updates on DuncanCumming.co.uk en-gb Fri, 09 May 2008 20:54:55 GMT This follows on from last week's story about the Free Daze campaign posters infuriating Glasgow City Council. Two teenagers have been arrested for allegedly painting Free Daze graffiti on a train at Yoker, as reported in the Evening Times Thu, 08 May 2008 23:19:32 GMT http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=983 http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=983 Article in today's Evening Times about a flyposting campaign to get Daze's 28 month sentence reduced. As they usually do when writing about graffiti, they've got reactionary quotes from Councillor James Coleman. They've also used one of my photos without permission or letting me know in advance. I'll be invoicing them of course! Evening Times article Fri, 02 May 2008 18:23:53 GMT http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=982 http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=982 New book review added: Graffiti Planet, a carefully compiled collection by Ket. Read The Review Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:38:43 GMT http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=981 http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=981 Graffiti writer Daze ER was jailed on Wednesday for 28 months at Ayr Sheriff Court for eight offences that supposedly caused £270,000 worth of damage. The papers are reporting this as the longest sentence for vandalism in Scotland. However, the same Sheriff gave a 33 month sentence to someone for spraying anti Semitic graffiti on the war memorial in Troon, just last December. Sheriff Colin B. Miller (61), who's hobbies includ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:13:39 GMT http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=980 http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=980 Some more positive graffiti news articles than normal recently: "Spraying Power" in the Sunday Herald talking about scottish graffiti. The author, Vicky Allan, was trawling around on the forums here looking for information a while ago. She refers to my site without actually naming it. "Graffiti artists show off their style" in Birmingham. "Rewritten graffiti law too heavy handed"; a (Canadian) newspaper making Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:51:49 GMT http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=979 http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=979 The book "Los Angeles Graffiti" is essentially a photo album of aerosol art from you guessed it Los Angeles. And the bare bones photo album approach works, but up to a point, says Perspicacious Critic. Read The Review Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:03:26 GMT http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=978 http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=978 Following on from their successful Insa exhibition, Recoat's next will be Elph's show called "Spirits and Bitumen". You are all invited to come along between 7 10pm, sip on some rum, and enjoy the work of one of our favourite artists, ELPH. It is a solo exhibition that will include massive paintings, mural work in the space, beautiful drawings, screen prints, a full size sculpture of one of his characters, and the launch of his lat Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:59:53 GMT http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=977 http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=977 New book review of The Birth of Graffiti. I actually wrote this months ago, when the book was first released, and just never got round to finishing it off and posting it up on the website. So it's about time... If you've not heard of this book before, it's basically photos that were originally published in the very first real graffiti book, The Faith of Graffiti, back in 1974. Read my The Birth of Graffiti review. Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:12:44 GMT http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=976 http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=976 Right, because I missed out on seeing a lot of these, I'm going to stick up all the ones I missed here: Saber, February 2008 Augor, January 2008; a series of illegals Barcelona, December 2007. Not really like the rest of the films, this is more like a quick travelogue showing various random clips from around Barcelona, with a little bit of graffiti thrown in. Probably my least favourite so far. Ceaze and Steel, Barcelona, November 2007 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:18:58 GMT http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=975 http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=975 I've not really been keeping up to date with the 7th Letter films recently. I'm going to go back and check out all the ones I've missed. Here's the latest one, featuring Ewok. Seems good, but the Django Reinhardt music seems out of place: www.knowngallery.com/blog/post/the seventh day project ewok Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:20:36 GMT http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=974 http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=974