A london Graff vid feat. tracksides, streets and panels from 2003 - recent that never got finished but what did get finished (11mins worth) is available to download below.
I strongly recommend you to buy this book, definitely worth it, cheap CUNTS link is below ;)
A look at the art of the graffiti legend, Dondi. It was written by his personal friend Zephyr (himself another graffiti legend) and his brother so it is as precise as possible. The book follows Dondi’s life from his childhood in East New York through his years as New York’s leading subway painter and his career as a fine artist. It’s full of a few hundred colour photographs and you always notice something different in this book each time you open it. It is a revolution for documented grafiti with a balanced combination of graffiti, fine art, biographical writing and statements from many who knew him. This book is a fitting tribute to the late Dondi White, a beloved and highly influential artist.
One Wall Down, Thousands to Paint By ANDREAS TZORTZIS
SPRAY cans clink in Ali’s bag as he walks down a cobblestone street in Berlin’s post-hip neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg. He stops in front of a grocery truck parked near a children’s playground and pulls out a can. With a fluid motion, he strokes his name in bubbly, bright red letters, before leaving his mark on a telephone booth, a dozen doors and a concrete wall next to the train tracks.
"It’s a great feeling doing a piece at night and coming back the day after to look at it,” said Ali, 31, an industrial designer who was dressed in baggy pants and a black hoodie and didn’t want his surname used to avoid prosecution. “I also see it as reclaiming the city and shaping my urban environment.”...
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The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said.
Using updated state-by-state data, the report said 2,319,258 adults were held in U.S. prisons or jails at the start of 2008 -- one out of every 99.1 adults, and more than any other country in the world."
