Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression
A new breed of crime-fighter now stalks the urban landscape: the anti-graffiti vigilante. These dedicated blight warriors stop at nothing to rid their neighborhoods and cities of street art, stickers, tags, and posters. Many of these vigilantes have become the very menace they want to eliminate. In their relentless attempt to stamp out graffiti, they’ve turned to illegally and destructively painting other people’s property. VIGILANTE VIGILANTE is the story of two filmmakers who set out to expose these mysterious characters and discover a battle of expression that stretches from the streets to academia.
Director MAX GOOD is a Bay Area filmmaker who has also lived in LA, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Recently, Max worked as assistant producer and distribution manager on the Academy Award®-nominated documentary feature, “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” (2009). Previously, he co-produced “B.I.K.E.” (2006), a documentary feature on the underground culture of mutant bicycle gangs.
Producer NATHAN WOLLMAN is a proud alumni of the San Francisco State University’s Design and Industry dept. He has worked on numerous projects in and around the Bay Area from short films to musical compositions but he is now focused primarily on documentary film production.
Editor JULIEN de BENEDICTIS found the joys of filmmaking at an early age, editing skateboard and music videos. After graduating with his B.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University in May 2010, he was thrown into editing “Vigilante VIgilante.” While this is his feature-editing debut, his recent shorts, “Hair Cuts” (2010) and “The Waiting” (2010), have played in local film festivals (San Francisco State Film Finals and The Three Minute Picture Show, respectively).
Posted in Graffiti
Leave a comment
Tour Home of MOCA co-curator, Roger Gastman
Co-curator of a Museum of Contemporary Art street art show opening this month and co-author of “The History of American Graffiti,” to be released Tuesday, Roger Gastman it can be said is kept busy! But he’s found time to give L.A. Times a tour of his casa. Check out the photos below!
check out more photos and the article here
Egypt celebrates revolution with a street art festival
On Saturday art festivities took place across the country in an initiative entitled ‘Al Fan Midan’ (Art is a Square), organised by the Coalition of Independent Culture.
In Cairo, ‘Al Fan Midan’ was held in Abdin Square, which played host to many artists, from the Hasaballah troupe, to circus performers, musicians, poets and story-tellers. A photography exhibition was displayed, along with cartoons by Nabil El Sonbaty.
There were two stages in Abdin Square, perhaps one of the setbacks of the event, since it became distracting and each performance overshadowed the other.
The large stage hosted several contemporary musicians, including ‘Fok El Sotooh’ (On the Roof) and ‘Transistor’, with satirical songs about the current political and social status in Egypt.
Ramy Essam, well-known in Tahrir Square as the ‘musician of the revolution’, also took the stage and received the most applause. His performance takes the form of chants with ‘The people want to cleanse the regime’ and ‘Where is the Egyptian army? – In Nasr City’ amongst his most popular.
The smaller stage hosted theatre troupes as well as poetry readings. A duet by a boy and girl accompanied by the ‘tabla’ (drum) entitled ‘Abdo and Aziza’, was also about the current political situation.
The performance by the Utopia choir, which consists of amateurs and professionals, had great energy. The puppet theatre put on ‘An Mawdoa El Fool Wel Lahma’ (On beans and meat) by El Sheikh Imam.
Continue reading
Posted in Graffiti
Tagged art festival, cairo, egypt, Egyptian art festival, middle eastern art
Leave a comment
A street-art satire of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, done Shepard Fairey-style
In recent weeks, street-art stickers have been appearing around Los Angeles satirizing Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg. What’s noteworthy about the stickers is that they appear to be created in the style of Shepard Fairey, featuring the artist’s “Obey” logo printed in Facebook’s signature white-on-blue font.
The stickers feature a mug-shot rendering of Zuckerberg, surrounded by the text “Mark Zuckerberg has a posse,” “$6.9 billion” and “500,000,000 friends.”
Continue reading
Posted in Graffiti
Leave a comment
