WAR 42

War 2 – True Story – Trailer 2003 from War Forty Two on Vimeo.

War 2 – True Story – Trailer 2003
edited by: Austin

Four G’s Magazine – Issue Release Party
November 7th – Club 6, 60 Sixth St., SF (directions)

Celebrating the release of Issue Three with graffiti and tattoo artwork, dj’s and a live performance by Bored Stiff featuring Equipto and Live painting by Nate Van Dyke.
(…more info after jump)

Live Art by: Nate Van Dyke

dark room:

Bored Stiff
Language Arts Crew
Gigio and Dren Doh
Lerek and Roso
Real Talk aka Since da Prince

white room:

DJ BESET
BOO BOO DANGER
DJ BSOUZA

showing art by:
NATRL – RSN GL
SWYPE – OSH PT LORDS
SWORNE – UM
TAWL – LORDS AIDS
IAN HARPER – BUDDHAS PALM TATTOO

Featuring Four G’s models:
Tiffany & Hollywood

Exclusive Limited Poster release and signing by:
APEX

$5 before 10pm with RSVP
$7 10-11pm
$10 after 11pm

RSVP at going.com/4gs
21+

WAR – Fuck The System 2001 from War Forty Two on Vimeo.

The beginning of the War 42 Graffiti DVD series.
edited by Plek WAI

I uploaded Baer’s part from War 4.

The elusive San Francisco tagger obsessed with giraffes and falsely rumored to be the founder of a gang has allegedly been arrested in San Jose.
The man who goes by tag “Girafa” and is famous for painting giraffes everywhere may have been arrested but then again maybe not, because no one is sure who he really is.
Steven Free, 30, was arrested Tuesday after police from San Jose and San Francisco searched his home on Cabrillo Street in the City’s Outer Richmond neighborhood.
The San Jose police graffiti enforcement unit says it linked Free to 10 felony tagging cases in San Francisco. How do they know the work was done by Girafa? Each one features a cartoon of a giraffe and the tag Girafa.
Girafa explained his love for giraffes in a rare interview with the magazine “I Hate Graffiti.”
“”I paint giraffes to bring awareness that wild animals don’t belong in…zoos. Just like a painted giraffe doesn’t belong on a rooftop, a city wall, or a delivery truck, right?” he told the magazine, according to whatimseeing.com.
In the article, Girafa goes on to explain his connection to San Jose, saying he was raised there.
“I was a deformed baby and placed for sale because the San Francisco Zoo had no place for half-breeds,” he said. “My owners from San Jose purchased me and I grew up away from my giraffe mother and zookeeper father.”

Police said the 10 pieces attributed to Girafa cost San Jose $40,000 in damages.
Police linked the ironically named Free to the paintings because they found pictures similar to Girafa’s graffiti in his house.

***VANDAL VACATION*** from WWW.REVOK1.COM on Vimeo.

Graffiti writer Revok was recently arrested in Melbourne for a streak of vandalism in the city, all tracked by his twitter updates. The news video above offers insight into the arrest with comical commentary by the Seventh Letter Crew member.

October 29, 2009
Article from: Australian Associated Press

AN American who graffitied Melbourne buildings and posted pictures of his work on his webpage has been handed a suspended jail sentence.

Jason Steven Williams, known by his tag Revok promised on his Twitter page to “paint as much as I can” while in Melbourne.

During his two-week spree Williams tagged several inner Melbourne buildings, including St Vincent’s Hospital, the Melbourne Magistrates Court heard.

He also sprayed a train and train overpasses.

Williams’ decision to post the graffiti on his website and Twitter page proved to be his downfall.

Police seized his camera, mobile phone and laptop when they arrested him at Melbourne Airport as he tried to go home to the United States.

He spent last night and much of today in custody.

In court later, Williams, 32, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to nine counts of criminal damage.

The court heard Williams came to Australia on October 13 to participate in a legal graffiti event that was cancelled because the promoter encountered financial troubles.

Following the cancellation he wrote: “F*** this shit. I am going to paint as much as I can and then get the f*** out of here.”

As he left the Melbourne Custody Centre, Williams said he was sorry for what he had done.

“I feel very remorseful, very remorseful,” he said.

Asked if he knew what he was doing was illegal he replied: “Shit happens, what are you going to do?”

“I just do what I do. I came here, I did some stuff, maybe I did some things I shouldn’t have done, I apologise,” he said.

Williams said it would not be wise for him to comment on whether he thought he had improved Melbourne.

Magistrate Ian von Einem was told Williams had no prior convictions.

Sentencing Williams, Mr von Einem said he had done a disservice to those pushing for greater acceptance of graffiti’s legitimacy.

The court was told Williams had legitimate exhibitions coming up in Los Angeles and Miami.

Mr von Einem sentenced Williams to nine months prison, wholly suspended for two years.

He also ordered Williams pay $15,340 in damages.

Leaving court, Williams joked that the currency exchange wasn’t good and he couldn’t have picked a worse time to have to pay a fine.