South Wenshin Road Artifical River

Obligatory New Post

I just found a new outdoor gallery of Taichung graffiti art & will get out and get shooting just as soon as time permits. It's a motherlode. Looks like a kilometer of riverbank colored up on two sides.

In the meantime, check out Craig's "Wall Art Korea." Good stuff.

Where da Grammar At?

Some bitty in Milwaukee (warning, Fox News, remove your brain) got her knickers in a twist over graffiti in her neighborhood that read "Where da bitches at?"

Now, I like correct grammar as much as the next English teacher-- unless it's an English teacher in Taiwan, but nevermind--however, I think that, since this has been a recurring nightmare for the last several decades, it's time for the new generation of grammarians to ease off and allow popular usage to help the language evolve. If it wasn't for language evolution, we'd all be talking like Chaucer.

So, if you're out there writing, throw some prepositions UP!

Downtown Taichung

Chung Ming South Road.

Still Here

Four Crew has been more active than me the past few months.

I've seen a couple walls around town that have been brightened up and will get back to that a bit later this week. For now, here's a wall along the canal near WuChuan West Road.

Ximending Graffiti Art Exhibit

Something is going on in Taipei on 12/12 in Ximending. It involves the best graffiti artists in Taiwan, so if you've got free time, get up there and get yer culture on!

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New/Old Graffiti by the Wuer HSR Station

I saw a couple walls painted up right by the Taichung HSR station from the bus the other day and figured on getting back to see if there was anything else nearby. Just across the stream to the south beneath the overpass there is perhaps a .5km long wall that is 98% covered with great stuff from Four Crew and Virus No 6. Most of the stuff along the wall is dated 2007, but there's a ramp tagged 2008 on the south end. It's good to finally find where everyone has been active for the past year.

Graffiti Animation from Buenos Aires

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Graf-wii-ti

Martin Lihs, working on his Master's Thesis at Bauhaus University in Weimar, has developed a modified Wii controller with which one could practice tagging inside on rainy days. As his thesis is not yet complete, full specs have not been made public, but Lihs suggests about the next version that he's

planning to build a new spraycan with more functions and also an advanced software with collaborative spraying option, different caps, different colours…. and maybee different Sprayers make an appointment and create grafitties together: online!

Controllers might be ready for Christmas, but I guess Santa Claus won't bring you one if you've been defacing public property.

Cans Festival, May 2008, London

Bloggage by Tanya » Blog Archive » Cans Festival:
Here's a link to a collection of great shots from London this week.

Tanya sez she "decided to check out the Cans Festival which was publicised just a few days ago.
The location had been kept a secret while Banksy, Bandit, Jef Aerosol and others transformed a
bland tunnel near Waterloo Station, into a street art extravaganza.

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Updated:

Here's a video from Current on the topic of Banksy. I haven't been able to view more than the first ten seconds yet because of my super slow connection where I'm at. I hope you can enjoy it where you're at. When I'm at a different place, I'll see where it's at. And what it's about.

T-T-Tagged

Do I stutter? A little, when I'm excited. But check this out. This bit of self-promotion brought to me by Paint That Shit Gold. Go there. Have fun. Nice is what you are when you're at your grandmother's house.

Four Crew Spring 08

Fast and Same got busy all over a wall in the canal next to Chung Ming S Rd next to the Early Bird.

Spring Update

My students all went out for the day, so I took an early lunch today to go collect some graffiti underneath the highway on the way up to Tunghai off of Taichungkang Rd.

Some of the stuff below dates back to 2006, but some of it is dated 2008. If I'm not mistaken, this stuff is the work of Taichung's "other" graffiti crew. I thought they used to call themselves Stinky Tofu Crew, but I didn't see that tag anywhere today. At any rate, they've gotten real good.