Just in...Banksy work destroyed :(

Banksy art of 'Parachuting Rat' gets exterminated in Australia

Workers accidentally destroy outdoor street art of reclusive British artist

 

By Erik Ortiz / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Friday, May 18, 2012, 1:08 AM

ABC TV

At left, Banksy's parachuting rat stencil painting as it originally appeared on a wall in Prahran, Melbourne, Australia, where it was painted approximately 15 years ago. At right, the current state of the artwork, now destroyed by pipes servicing a restaurant.

Reclusive street artist Banksy can’t seem to catch a break Down Under.

 

Contractors in Australia inadvertently destroyed an artwork this week by the acclaimed British graffiti artist, the third time that misfortune has befallen one of his works in suburban Melbourne in recent years.

Workers drilling through a wall smashed through a picture of the “Parachuting Rat” that was painted on the brickwork outside. The workers were laying pipes for a new cafe, ABC News Australia reported.

The work was painted in the late 1990s, depicting a rat carrying a suitcase and wearing a parachute.
Banksy, known for his satirical anti-capitalist and anti-war themes, has used images of rats in his street art from London to New York.

Another rat stencil work in Melbourne was accidentally painted over in 2010 during a government clean-up effort to fight aggresive tagging.

In December 2008, a piece called “The Little Diver” was vandalized with silver paint and tagged with the words, “Banksy woz ere.” A plastic covering for the piece did not deter the vandal.
Some Melbourne residents said the latest loss of a Banksy original is a blow to the art-friendly communtiy.

“They have unconsciously taken a part of Melbourne, taken a part of history which is really important to do with street art, and just destroyed it without even thinking about it,” business owner Tina McKenzie griped to ABC News Australia about the contractors.

“They wouldn’t even know that that’s a $50,000 piece of art they've just sawed through, possibly even more,” she added.

Banksy, known only by his pseudonym, recently sold a collection of 18 pieces for more than $630,000 in London.

He also unveiled a new piece of wall art in North London featuring a boy sewing British flags, Sky News reported Thursday.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/banksy-art-parachuting-rat-exterminated-australia-article-1.1080361#ixzz1veeixxbf

YOUTUBE: Hobart Graffiti Web206

This week the web publishing activity has been optional, (the dawg loves a challenge!) so I dove (like a high dive!! and not a flying bird thingy...) into my image files,, put on the "runners" and.... Trekked out and about around Hobart (lots of sore paws!!!) to find some more great graffiti heritage to publish in digital form. Enjoy, was so much fun making this.. am thinking of making another... let me know what you think.. comment if you would like to see another vid! Gd.

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Music: Grunge (November 4, 2006)

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What happens when: dawg takes to twitter as her nemesis loulounilly!

Hash tags: #graffiti, #socialmedia, #tagging

This week I have been looking into Twitter, how the graffiti community communicate via this form of social media. My first tweet and hash tag for this week’s experiment with social networking has been somewhat successful. Because I consider that graffiti should be defined as social media I used #socialmedia in one of my tweets.  “Is #graffiti #socialmedia? http://graffitidawg.blogspot.com/2011/10/is-graffiti-social-media.html”. The post initiated a response, re-tweet and inclusion in an associated Twitter paper.li web page by Danny Peters http://paper.li/dannypeters_/1310827243 which looks at Social Media 2.0 Trends.

The hash tags #socialmedia #graffiti initiated the incorporation.

VoCKlantreizen Danny Peters

Social Media 2.0 Trends is out! bit.ly/oXQUuM ▸ Top stories today via @admmarioartur @loulounilly

My second tweet utilised another one of my blog posts, this time about the consequences of getting caught tagging along with the link to the GRAFFITIdawg blog: http://graffitidawg.blogspot.com/2011/09/graffitidawg-looks-into-results-of.html. I have the use of a platform called Tweetdeck, combined with a service called Deck.ly (instead of 140 letters Tweetdeck/Deck.ly allows for double that amount) which enables me to write longer tweet posts).

There was disappointment on my part that the tweet “Do you think people should be given a jail sentence if they are caught”, using the hash tags"#tagging" #graffiti? http://bit.ly/n2hYbH” did not generate any responses even after personally re-tweeting the post. To be very frank Twitter is unpredictable with who follows what in which trend, and admittedly, graffiti and associated artistry does not appear to ‘trend’ very well.

Graffiti is a tough medium to chat about via social media without getting into a ‘degenerate youth’ conversation with some interesting characters. After some in-depth research across twitter trending hash tags, my favourite subject does not appear to be popular (who knew!).

As a prolific Internet user, and a fan of social networking, I tend to have Twitter/Tweetdeck quietly humming in the background of my computer/iPhone; this allows that inter-connective-ness across the twitterati to multiple personalities who deem it interesting to connect right back.

GRAFFITIdawg has joined the FatCap community

FatCap is an interestingly GLOBAL group of artists, photographers, commentators that have joined together to share their interest in all forms of GRAFFITI.  Just recently GRAFFITIdawg joined the throng to share the love. I am a novice in their group so the dawg has joined as a photographer (which is what dawg does, happy snapping all the graffiti, paste ups, throw ups, walls.... etc, spray spray spray).

dawg has joined their blogging throng, and asked a pertinent question.. (WHAT ABOUT US HOBART!) ................................well not so bluntly put and with a few more big words thrown in... as the FatCap community is a "closed" blog, you may not be able to see the post....and if you can - IGNORE the photo because realistically online 'nobody knows your a dog', yup.. one of those photos.. if not,, keep reading because...TA DAAAAAAA.... their blog and mine..

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THE FATCAP BLOG POST by Lindsay T

It’s been a while since we posted on the FatCap blog, so we decided to give you an update on the changes that have been going on over on our side. Since we launched the new FatCap, we have been managing both English and French content. With the addition of a few key players in the US we’re going to be better able to bring you content from the French site in English and visa versa. If you didn’t catch them, we’ve published a whole bunch of articles that were both originally written in French, now published in English for you to read.

• Bonom
• Village Doel
• Rock India
• The Veil and Street Art

Actually being in America has made a difference for our site, but do not fret, we keep our focus on covering artists and crews worldwide.  In addition to expanding in the US, we have also reached out to writers from Latin America to start bringing us more than stories on Chilean Miners. Not that those men didn’t give us all an epic tale to recount, but we preferred El Mural Ferroviario that Denegro1 reported on from Santiago.

The FatCap team has also been hard at work forming key partnerships with teams of photographers and artists that are making paramount contributions to the graffiti and street-art scenes. This means more coverage, shared news and exclusive content. For instance, you may have noticed that we ran an article from The Street Spot, the home to photographer’s Becki Fuller and Luna Park.

And so I can tell you a story about how this all came about. Our first encounter with Becki was for an afternoon as she gave us a tour of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Syd was in New York from Barcelona, and I trained up from Philly to meet this dedicated, quirky and prolific package of a person. On a rainy, but perfectly NY fall afternoon, we walked the streets, past abandoned buildings, art galleries, and workshops. Though the entire FatCap team has been in NY plenty of times, it was exciting to see her pages and pages of photos on Flickr coming alive. We even happened upon Julius from Laid Back. After that choice afternoon, the ladies of The Street Spot have lent us their photos for our article on The Underbelly Project and for Community Serviced, and put us in contact with Sina from Papergirl NYC. If you haven’t checked out these articles, you’re really missing out.

The team is also hard at work to bring more artist interviews to your eyes and ears. We listen to our readers, and those of you that have reached out have told us that these interviews are what you like the most. This fall we’ve given you the juice on M-City, Mark Bode, Mr Puppet, Sea and Roa. We couldn’t have asked for a better lineup, but you’ll want to stay tuned through the winter, because we got it!
Things did not slow down from there because, if you didn’t catch it, we were let in to a world of artist residencies by following AM & DCAP on their own in Paris. Documenting the real experience of American and French artists as they collide, and from a female perspective, brought a whole new twist to what FatCap is trying to bring to you on the daily. This is a community that we’re all a part of if you haven’t noticed, and it seemed to come full circle that AM would sync up with Banga, and eventually Vince when he returned to Paris from Casablanca.
We’re on the move, but always thinking of you dear. Promise to keep you posted more often.

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dawgs words..

Behind the scenes: What an amazing journey you are undertaking within the world of graffiti, through the brightly sprayed spaces of France to the techno coloured iconic imagery of America. The intertextuality/hypertextuality of your post has allowed my Internet graffiti journey to be all that more exciting and allows others and myself to feel included within an online community. 

I am interested to know if you will be relating a few more of your blog posts to the graffiti communities within the boundaries of Oceania and in particular Australia?  I live within a little melting pot island, Tasmania (known as the Apple Isle) but still considered a state of Australia, isolated and unique with our own versions of graffiti, highly prolific with our urge to be known for our own take on the side of art.

I am also interested in photographing the work of others, there are many nooks and crannies where I am that seem to be prolific in paint, and documenting that work is of great interest to me, I blog.. I am a student; I am a blogging student interested in your work. 

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HEY READERS..yeah you.. dawg-blog readers.. if you have any comments.. photos etc.. places for the GRAFFITIdawg to visit to photograph, events and stuff..COMMENT ...email me.. ALWAYS interested, need fodder for blog and I will always give credit where credit is due.. leave a comment and don't forget to tick ✓  the email box

Schoolhouse Gallery Rosny Farm

On advice from an illustrator acquaintance , this GRAFFITIdawg took a heady drive over the Tasman Bridge to the Schoolhouse Gallery Rosny Farm, run by Clarence City Council, where they have been holding an exhibition of works by art students interested in graffiti and associated stencil work. The following photos have been taken by the dawg for this blog and reproduced with kind permission from the gallery. For further photos and information check out Rosny Farm on Facebook.

AMAZING WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO WITH SPRAY CANS AND STENCILS

INTERESTING SPRAYING

WORKSHOPS ARE BEING RUN ONCE A MONTH FOR THE REMAINDER OF 2011 AND 2012 FOR INTERESTED PARTIES

Graffiti &Tagging: an easy introduction

There are predominantly two main styles of art on the streets today. GRAFFITIdawg will explain the difference between tagging, and graffiti.

• Tagging (sprayed initials) and its concept, has become the rushed act of leaving your name or pseudonym quickly, anonymously while...

• Graffiti (street art) may be considered by some: the aerosol, brush painted endeavour of an adventurously talented person who wishes to ‘share’ their elaborate artistry with an appreciative audience, even when uploading anonymously to services like YouTube.

While graffiti might be considered art,  practiced mainly on disused buildings and walls, tagging is predominantly considered by authorities vandalism (even historically), simply for the fact that spray scrawled initials are being left everywhere. There is a quasi war out there and that war is tagging.

As humans have progressed and graffiti has evolved, (well since we have the urge to leave any mark), people cover just – about - everything that they can get around, in and on. For some it is the act of leaving their own personal mark like a beacon for others to acknowledge and appreciate. Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania is one such place that has experienced an increase in both legitimate and illegal graffiti and tagging.

This is an image of an abandoned education facility, the ‘Hobart Tepid Baths’.

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People have found the abandoned site interesting enough to post videos on YouTube that show the work of graffiti artists.

Situated just on the edge of the central business district of Hobart.

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Peering into the shady recesses it was easy to see what had been tagged, and what had been graffiti-ed.

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This image is just one example of a quick tag on the outside of the building. By the looks of the flow of the writing, it might have taken less than 10 seconds for the tagger to spray on the public access wall then simply walk away unnoticed.

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As a spectator, you might consider this image - street art, an example of graffiti, imaginative art.

Hobart and surrounding areas are dotted with examples of both graffiti and tagging.

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In 2008, Street Art- Graffiti was presented as a 'legitimate' exhibition at the prestigious Tate Gallery in London, England. YouTube's ability to share with a widening audience has enabled anybody to experience that event while not actually attending in person.

Graffiti - after all - has become art in the eye of the beholder. Some may consider the spray-painting of walls vigilante vandalism, while others have a different perspective, a possible consideration that the outpouring of artistic displays avails creative open air galleries that are 'free' for viewing by young and old, rich or poor. Whatever artistic perspective a person has concerning the use of spray cans, paintbrushes and stencil cut-outs this web-blog aims to explore the inter meshing lines and colour of graffiti/tagging alongside the social bi-effects they generate