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  • September 2008

    • Mich. Letters Taunt Obama; Racist Vandals Strike Sign

      Associated Press  |  Sep 17, 08 3:53 PM CDT

      Mich. Letters Taunt Obama; Racist Vandals Strike Sign

      (Newser) - The Secret Service is investigating anti-Obama letters sent to a local Democratic office and a business in south-central Michigan, the AP reports, even as authorities in Pittsfield Township, about 40 miles west of Detroit, say an Obama billboard was defaced with swastikas and Klan symbols overnight. One letter declares a wish Obama “gets a bullet,” while the other threatens a business supporting the campaign. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Obama 2008  • Michigan  • racism  • Ku Klux Klan  • vandalism  • graffiti  • KKK

  • July 2008

    • Tab Claims It's ID'd Graffiti Artist Banksy

      Mail on Sunday (UK)  |  Jul 14, 08 10:56 AM CDT

      Tab Claims It's ID'd Graffiti Artist Banksy

      (Newser) - An exhaustive investigation has uncovered the carefully guarded identity of guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy, the Mail on Sunda y claims. The man whose works are coveted by celebrities and sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars is Robin Gunningham, now 35, who attended a posh private school as the son of middle-class parents in Bristol, in the west of England. More »

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      United Kingdom  • art  • anonymous  • graffiti

  • May 2008

    • LA Cops Bust Tagger— With Help From YouTube

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 28, 08 2:18 PM CDT

      LA Cops Bust Tagger— With Help From YouTube

      (Newser) - LA cops have finally busted a tagger they say is one of California's most prolific graffiti artists—with the help of videos of him posted on YouTube, the Los Angeles Times reports. The 24-year-old art-degree grad who goes by the moniker "Buket" is accused of causing $150,000 in damage. He became a YouTube sensation, particularly after a video featuring him in a daredevil tag high above a freeway. More »

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      California  • Los Angeles  • YouTube  • vandalism  • graffiti  • tag

  • April 2008

    • Scrawled Threats Shut Down Chicago College

      Chicago Tribune  |  Apr 12, 08 8:32 AM CDT

      Scrawled Threats Shut Down Chicago College

      (Newser) - In the wake of campus shootings at Virginia Tech and NIU, threats in a bathroom stall at Chicago’s St. Xavier University prompted an indefinite campus shutdown last night. After graffiti appeared for the second time Thursday, this time reading “Be prepared to die 4/14,” school authorities told students to leave campus and suspended operations, the Chicago Tribune reports. More »

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      Chicago  • school shooting  • Virginia Tech shootings  • threats  • graffiti

  • February 2008

    • Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy

      Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 3, 08 6:50 PM CST

      Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy

      (Newser) - Most blog posts, Flickr pics, and YouTube vids are junk, a Los Angeles Times blogger laments, but Facebook has drummed up a cyberspace winner called Graffiti. The online painting tool has had more than 8 million users and sparked fine submissions in Dell’s “ReGeneration Contest," which asks artists to "explain what green means to you." More »

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      Facebook  • YouTube  • art  • Dell  • Flickr  • graffiti

  • November 2007

    • You'd Better Silence That Spray Paint

      Los Angeles Times  |  Nov 16, 07 9:11 AM CST

      You'd Better Silence That Spray Paint

      (Newser) - If you’re going out to tag in Montebello, Calif., consider using a paintbrush. The Los Angeles neighborhood has spent $1 million on an anti-graffiti system that can hear aerosol cans up to 80 feet away. The 25 “tagger traps” employ sound sensors to catch graffiti artists red-(or blue- or green-) handed the moment they deface public spaces, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      crime  • Los Angeles  • police  • graffiti  • aerosol  • sensors

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