Populer Grafiti: pixacao

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Luz Câmera.. PACHAÇAO!!

New documentary on Pichaçaos coming out in 2010

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Monday, October 5, 2009

Got this e-mail the other day...

Hi.

I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where we have a very strong repression by the city administration against any kind of street art. In a city fulled with misery, heavy car traffic, hunger, people living in the streets, gray and dirt all around, millions of dollars are being spent yearly to erase or paint in gray any kind of public artistic manifestation on walls, not only on public places but also on private walls.

On sunday, september 13, about 200 people took over a very popular avenue, called 23 de maio, with a very wide range of public artistic intervention: grafffiti, pixaçao, sticker, posters, stencils, photo, videoart, street poetry, etc., as a way of protesting against the policy of erasing all the city walls. 9 of the artists were taken to jail (as you can see in the video linked below) and some hours later were released with no charges, only beacuse there was some press covering the action. All the art seen on the video, which is only a part of the whole intervention, was painted/done in about 5 hours that morning. At night on the same day the works were being erased, and there are no works left today.

Here's the video:
http://vimeo.com/6656179

Some more pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%2223%20de%20maio%22%2013%20de%20setembro&w=all

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Graffiti News 5-23-09

France 24 TV has an article on pixasaos in Brazil with great photos and videos called Living on the edge in Sao Paulo

Here is a Flikr with photos of the graffiti scene in Guatemala

Here is the most bombed subway sation in Spain according to a local newspaper: La estación más sucia de España

32 out of 45 graffiti writers in Badalona (Barcelona, Spain) are sentenced to pay fines and do community service for writing on walls in the last 2 years. 32 grafiteros de Badalona pagaran con trabajo social - El Periodico 21-5-09