Austin Graffiti

ANFO Stencils

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:15:30 +0000

You’ve probably already seen these clever stencils around town lake. Huge thanks to Reese for sending in these photos. It’s nice to see something quasi-political.

John’s graff pics pt. 1

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:25:39 +0000

Abels, Sayer, Cyst, Rodeo Pieces

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:37:23 +0000

Writers really love these white delivery trucks. The Berg face is an Austin icon these days.

Thanks to Carly for the above 4 shots. HABITS has been up around West Campus lately. There was an enormous hollow over the front of an abandoned storefront, but the building was taken apart a few days ago.

This colorful CYST piece was sent in anonymously.

Abels and Sayer have some of the most elaborate pieces in Austin. This piece was sent in by a local photographer, but I’m not sure if he wants to be identified by name.

Anonymously submitted pics

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:37:26 +0000

Someone with a cell phone camera sent the first four in. The rest were taken by Carly.

Reader-submitted Graffiti Pics

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:46:25 +0000

Big thanks goes out to Winnie for these excellent pictures of the East 5th permission wall. Thanks to the C.C.C. for the non-permission wall pictures from south Austin.

If you’ve got graff pics send them in and you’ll get your very own shoutout, complete with a link to your blog or website.

Local Crews Fight the Buff

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:06:12 +0000

Carly is a graff fiend. Here are photos from many of the big local crews:

I’m living downtown again so expect more pictures soon. If you have any graff pictures of your own, send them in to mitnicksimon@yahoo.com.

KUDOS Arrested

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:17:33 +0000

Austin police claim to have arrested KUDOS.

Detective Kevin Bartles said in the warrant that police were able to match Fitzgerald to the graffiti because of his tag, “KUDOS,” and the distinctive handwriting he used. Bartles said he used samples from Fitzgerald’s MySpace page photos, samples on local structures, and the evidence left on the wall and mirror of his cell in the Travis County Jail.

KUDOS has been featured previously on Austin Graffiti in May.

Graffiti in Local Media

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:09:55 +0000

Last week Austin’s KXAN published a surprisingly levelheaded article covering local graffiti. It’s a welcome change from the traditional fearmongering tone adopted by most local media outlets. The reporters did their homework, interviewing the director of the Art Seen Alliance, an APD detective, and yours truly:

Participation in graffiti has expanded to include ATXgraffiti , a blog that serves as a fan site to document Austin graffiti.

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“It’s a shame when the city buffs over a beautiful mural that a writer clearly put work into,” he said. “Having the state pay to incarcerate young nonviolent artists is just bad public policy.”

Anyone interested in relevant graffiti law should check out the writing of Scott Henson, author of Grits For Breakfast. His pragmatic advocacy recognizes the importance of private property rights without throwing the inherent aesthetic value of graffiti out the window.

Here’s some more tunnel graffiti.

That last face tag on the side of the Mellow Mushroom was sent in by Tilde. Thanks!

Street Graff (Pt. 1)

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:18:01 +0000

We’ve seen a lot of professionally painted commissioned pieces these last few weeks. It’s about time we posted some illegal stuff. It’s not as polished and a little rough around the edges, but it has that underground flavor. Check it out:

Throw-ups from a few different crews.

Mostly Commissioned Graffiti

admin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:11:12 +0000

Austin has its very own urban knitting gang.

This appears to be some sort of safe sex graffiti PSA. Funny stuff.

I just didn’t understand why I should use a condom until it was explained to me by this hip urban art.

Legit

RFK? Help me out here.

Legal piece with sweet 3D.

Wildstyle

I assume this piece was commissioned by East End Ink.