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The Art Fix - an electronic venue of free and alternative promotion and distribution of art and literature for the sake of sanity, happiness and art itself.
Android Blues, a 3D gallery by digital artist Steven Stahlberg. As well as providing a showcase for his own work, the site's links section provides a compendium of many other websites about digital, comic book and fantasy art.
Venice Public Art Walls - the official website for the Venice Public Art Walls in Los Angeles, managed by graffiti arts advocacy group ICU (In Creative Unity) Art. Please note that all paintings in that designated area are subject to an Artist Agreement.
5 Pointz: Graffiti Mecca and Home to Artists - graffitiphile tourists visiting Queen's, New York will not want to miss the Institute of Higher Burnin', a living collage of graffiti art covering a converted warehouse full of artist studios.
BCNGraffiti.com - a site celebrating Barcelona's street art and graffiti culture.
The Dive: Seoul, South Korea - photographer Tom Chambers discovers a graffiti-decorated student bar in the South Korean capital.
Graffiti Against The System (G.A.T.S.) is the site of an L.A.-based "revolutionary graffiti" group that argues for the importance of graffiti as a means of fighting against political and judicial injustice.1
Art of the State - a collection of urban photography including cityscapes, graffiti, underground bands and more.
neckcns.com - Graffiti art and graphic design by Neck of the CNSkillz crew from Germany.
An extract from a book by William Upski Wimsatt highlights potential health risks associated with spray-painting.1 Please note that, according to internet sources, both the spray paints themselves and many of the products used to remove them can produce toxic fumes of the potentially cancer-causing substance methylene chloride (one of a class of chemicals known as Volatile Organic Compounds).
This is not to say that inconsiderate graffiti is not a major problem. In the U.K., a 1971 law prohibits the creation of graffiti outside an area designated for it, and recent legislation has given the police extra powers to impose fines on those who create graffiti, those who sell spray paint to children, and on businesses which fail to clean up graffiti on their property out of their own pocket. An American education program called Graffiti Hurts, which campaigns against graffiti vandalism, highlights evidence of the detrimental impact of graffiti on the local community, and offers guidance on graffiti removal. It also advises that the cost of graffiti removal is a heavy financial burden on local authorities. On the other hand, it also states that community-approved murals enhance the local environment and have tended to be respected by graffiti practitioners in a way that bare walls have not; it also appears to have no objection in principle to the creation of legally designated graffiti walls, although it does not consider them to have been a success in the past. This may point to a compromise solution, or it may not.
On a lighter note, J. Scott Armstrong's satirical article "The Graffiti Problem" will be of no help whatsoever to those engaged in combatting graffiti, but it is quite funny.
Muslim women and blog photos - an interesting posting from Koonj: the seagull, the blog of Shabana (a Pakistani woman living in America), on the subject of Muslim attitudes to women publicly displaying photos of themselves.
Alex Breure's Osama bin Laden gallery. This link is dedicated to the inhabitants of Islamabad, Riyadh, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Mombasa, New York, Bali, Istanbul, Madrid, London, Birmingham, Sharm el-Sheik and all other innocent people who have suffered at the hands of pseudo-Islamic terrorism.
Back to contents page. 1I shouldn't feel the need to add this, but for the record I do not, of course, advocate the use of graffiti to cause criminal damage to other people's property.
It is possible, though I would hope unlikely, that you may deem some material linked to by this website to be unsuitable for young children. Basically, I assume that anyone using this website is allowed to do so because they are deemed to have a sensible and responsible attitude to any content they access. I promise not to be gratuitously offensive, since I have no wish to offend anyone, but in the event that I may include material of a potentially objectionable nature I make no apologies for doing so. I AM NOT YOUR BABY-SITTER.
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