The graffiti artist Espo was recently featured in the New York Times. Check out the article here.

There’s an article in the LA Times about the arrest of graffiti artist Buket. Check out some updates on the Buket previous from our last post. Check out the newest article.

These two police officers have been accused of beating up a vandalism suspect, according to city officials. The alleged victim was treated for a broken jaw. District Attorney Lynn Abraham issued warrants for Officers Sheldon Fitzgerald and Howard Hill III, charging them with attacking the Logan man last year. Check out the rest of the article here.

The LA police were after the graffiti artist Buket for his graffiti across the state. Deputies said Cyrus Yazdani, who is allegedly known as “Buket,” announced he will turn himself in. Deputies said they found plenty of evidence to use against him, including this YouTube video. Read more about the article here.

As far as the City of Toronto is concerned what looks like graffiti is classified as art in the same city which in the latest Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Fun Guide offers free graffiti classes for kids ages 9 to 15 on the same page as traditional pursuits like ballet, boxersize, yoga and drama. Read more of the article here.

The New York Times has done an article on the popular photography site, Flickr. Flickr was founded by Canadian company Ludicorp in 2004. Four years later, there are more than two billion images that currently circulate on the site. The article discusses some highlights of Flickr and a few negatives for the future of photography. Check out the article here.

A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan, who had founded a Jedi Church. Check out the rest of the article here.

Evan Roth from the Graffiti Research Lab made a presentation in Toronto on Saturday April 19th at FITC. While he was in Toronto they setup their equipment to post some laser graffiti on the Toronto city hall. There was an article in the Toronto star about the display. The police were just concerned with penises being drawn or derogatory phrases being written. While the police were talking to Evan, the police had their backs turned to the city hall wall. The crowd was writing some funny slogans making jokes toward the police. Before displaying the laser graffiti on city hall, they tried to get up on the CN Tower. Unfortunately they were only able to get one tag drawn before getting kicked out.

David Orchard dedicated years to reporting vandals, trespassers, and car thieves. He assisted police with 23 successful prosecutions relating to the unmanned station but he has now been banned from contacting British Transport Police, over claims he called them 50 times in three months. Read the rest of the article here.

Read the article in Time magazine, featuring the guys from GRL (Graffiti Research Lab).