WAR 42

Last year, a group of artists got on the road with the only goal – to transform gray sterile cities into colorful works of art. Organized by Peter Brauch and Peter Krsko The Concrete Alchemy Tour was a collaborative work of Cern, Chor Boogie, Col, Crol, Demer, Eric Kennedy, Kasso, Mike Ciccotello, Mr. Maxx Moses, Plan, Rain, Ricardo Barros, Veng, Vyal and Werc.

The La Entrada project is a group of artists who also participated in Concrete Alchemy Tour, and are now working on a large-scale installation in San Diego. They also run workshops for younger artists and folks who live in the residential complex and surrounding area. Great talent, great heart. We love that combination.

For more information about the tour, visit albuscav.us/concretealchemy
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Check this video with the building in it.

Pablo Escobar’s family still owns this building as well as the neighborhoods around it and pays child soldiers to guard it from goverment officials, squatters,tourist and vandals.

L.A.-based artist Shepard Fairey created the now-ubiquitous graphic of Obama, who wrote to him, ?Your images have a profound effect on people.?
Associated Press
10:42 AM PST, February 7, 2009

BOSTON — A street artist famous for his red, white and blue “Hope” posters of President Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagging property with graffiti, police said today.

Shepard Fairey, 38, was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called “Supply and Demand.”

‘Supply and Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey’
Two warrants were issued for Fairey on Jan. 24 after police determined he’d tagged property in two locations with graffiti based on the Andre the Giant street art campaign from his early career, police Officer James Kenneally said Saturday.

Fairey, 38, of Los Angeles, is scheduled to be arraigned on the misdemeanor charges Monday in Brighton District Court, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney. Wark said Fairey would also be arraigned on a default warrant related to a separate graffiti case in the Roxbury section of Boston.

Fairey has spent the last two weeks in the Boston area installing the ICA exhibit and creating outdoor art, including a 20-by-50 foot banner on the side of City Hall, according to a statement issued Saturday by the museum.

The museum said Fairey was released a few hours after his arrest, but authorities did not immediately confirm that.

Fairey’s Obama image has been sold on hundreds of thousands of stickers and posters, and was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington before Obama’s inauguration.

The image is the subject of a copyright dispute with The Associated Press. Fairey argues his use of the AP photo is protected by “fair use,” which allows exceptions to copyright laws based on, among other factors, how much of the original is used, what the new work is used for and how the original is affected by the new work.

A California lawyer who has represented Fairey in the copyright case didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on the arrest.

I told you not to fuck around on one on them reality show high on pills! Fuck it though WAR42 still got your back girl. Hook it up with that bitch Gia!!!

LOS ANGELES – Evol One

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