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I just found a new outdoor gallery of Taichung graffiti art & will get out and get shooting just as soon as time permits. It's a motherlode. Looks like a kilometer of riverbank colored up on two sides.

In the meantime, check out Craig's "Wall Art Korea." Good stuff.

There are a couple walls that I've seen in Taichung in the past two or three months that have been marvelously painted, and I do see new stuff popping up from time to time here and there. I'm running ragged 6 days a week, though, and in getting from point A to B I have no time budgeted to stop and capture what I see to share here. I have a week's holiday or two coming to me in January, I think. I'll see what I can scrape together then.

In the meantime, check out this green graffitti in Brooklyn. It's not going to grow on me anytime soon, but I'll bet it would do well here.

Here's a cool bit of graff from Belgium. It took a long time, but the painter animated an animal running alongside a train track. Very cool.

Again, not necessarily in keeping with the blog title, this is a guy called Daisuke Yamamoto painting and repainting a wall somewhere in Japan. Groovy tunes, as well.

"BNE." Not sure what it stands for. "Banksy's New Elephant?" He's all over San Francisco and is possibly on a world tour now. Same tells me that he just plastered Ximending with stickers the week before last. The link goes to CNN's story, including an interview with undercover officer Christopher Putz. I wonder if that's his real name.

At first I thought this was just going to be a collection of photos of all the celebs who showed up at the opening, but you can scroll past all that (check out Perry Ferrel's wife though, Zoiks!) It's nice to see what a graffiti artist does when he can bring his work into three dimensions. Again, is it "Street Art"? I dunno. Hey, I may not know street art, but I know..., well, you know.....

In London, Paul Curtis, aka Moose, uses soap and water to create art out of the grime left by progress. He's taking a bit of heat from critics who say he's selling out by throwing up logos for X-Box and TV shows. Maybe he is.

Listen to the NPR story here. There's more at Moose's website here.

And there's actual moose graffiti at this site from Sweden. Believe it.

Plenty of dirt in Taiwan.

" This is a great vid of a graffiti machine - used I guess to ease the work load on the vandals! Although I can't see the kids taking to this contraption any time soon. "

I didn't see any vandals in the video, unless it was the white guy with his baseball cap on backwards, but he was just holding a video camera. Maybe the vandal was the guy who pressed Enter on the laptop. I find, sometimes, that I just don't know what people are talking about. I mean, for an act of vandalism, one would have to be very stupid, indeed, to put in all the time to set up this contraption, and to sit around and watch is do it's thing. I can't imagine it would be all that easy making a fast getaway when some "Good Citizen" notifies the fuzz that there's vandals about.

Anway, nice video over there. Groovy tool.

The folks at MIT have come up with a tool that resembles one of those old shaving brushes which can scan colors & motion to be reproduced on a large computer screen. Check out this Quicktime video. Could be the next big thing in next big things.

“Graffiti is on the rise. It's becoming glorified again. We don't have the police we used to and those we have are concentrating on terrorism,” he said.

Yeah, so the folks up there are banning the sale of spray paint and thick markers to people under the age of 21.

As for Taichung, you can have my spray paint when you pry it from my cold, dead hand. That is, if I painted, which I don't. When paint is outlawed only outlaws will have paint.

When I was in high school, I grew a beard and bought beer and booze every weekend for my friends. I predict a trend towards more facial hair in NYC.

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Not grafitti, but I haven't been getting out much lately. Found this on BoingBoing. 3D Painted Rooms - 2Loop.com

Here's a link LED Throwies to a website that teaches you how to make grafitti with light for less than a dollar per light. The Quicktime movie shows you the application.