Rob Ford Launches Graffiti Street Art Initiative and mobile app
The city of Toronto officially announced their new plan for how to deal with Toronto’s “graffiti problem” on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012. Mayor Rob Ford first declared to the crowd of City staff, politicians and other on-lookers that the...
Elicser’s book launch at LE Gallery by Well and Good
One of Toronto’s most well known street artist Elicser had his book launch last night. Part of a Pre-Valentine’s Day celebration around the theme of love, the LE Gallery at 1183 Dundas St West quickly filled as the night went on...
Graffiti Tagging and Handstyles in Toronto 1
Besides murals, Toronto also has it’s own expression of tagging & handstyles. What is tagging? Tagging is the simplest form of graffiti, usually done with one color in high contrast to the surface. The origins of tagging can be...
SKAM Live at Dundas Square for Yahoo!
Yahoo! was looking to launch its new OMG service in Canada and Toronto Graffiti was there to give it the flare it deserved. Live at Dundas Square on Sept 8th, 2011, Toronto’s most famous graffiti artist, SKAM , painted Yahoo!’s signature...
Toronto Mayor inspired Graffiti
Here is a collection of the various artworks which have been inspired by our Mayor (Rob Ford) in regards to the heavy laws against graffiti.
Our city’s street art through streetview
Sponsored by Red Bull, they have created “Street Art View” which you can pick your city from around the world and check out their urban art! This is a great idea to have this as an integral part of Google Streetview which we all know and love. This of course isn’t up to date so most of these murals probably don’t exist anymore, however it’s great to get this snapshot to begin with.
You can even get specific links to those target areas: http://streetartview.com/v/NDM0
Worldwide link: http://www.streetartview.com/
Read more at BlogTO: http://www.blogto.com/arts/2011/02/toronto_graffiti_documented_via_street_art_view_/
Red Bull Street Art via Google Streetview
Red Bull Street Art via Google Streetview
Mayor Ford’s portrait art
In a back alley just off of Earlscourt Ave at St.Clair West here in Toronto, was the scene a few months ago of our Mayor Rob Ford taking action against graffiti. Here he posed for some media photos doing the grimy work of scrubbing off the graffiti. Afterwards the wall was commissioned by the city by a ‘real’ artist to beautify it. Although yes it is much a cleaner look as before and I personally believe that any commission art by the city is a step in the right direction, another graffiti artist didn’t think so. This unknown artist took the liberty at making a new portrait of our dear Mayor.
http://torontoist.com/2011/06/spotted_rob_ford_returns_to_graffit_wallas_graffiti.php
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/06/26/graffiti-artist-targets-ford
