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1UP (One United Power) is a graffiti crew from Berlin, Kreuzberg. [1] They have been active since 2003. [2]1UP have been described as "one of the most well-known graffiti crews in the world" [3] and are known for their bombing (large amount of tags put up in one night), rooftop paintings, and wholecar, wholetrains .
The Legend of Cool "Disco" Dan examines the life of mythical graffiti artist Cool "Disco" Dan, while juxtaposing his life against many of the historical events from the 1970s and 1980s that shaped the culture of Washington, D.C. Cool "Disco" Dan (real name Danny Hogg) was born on December 31, 1969, on the very last day of the 1960s.
The graffiti is on the Palestinian side of the wall and primarily expresses anti-wall sentiments. [3] The graffiti, written in both English and Arabic, includes "flags and fists, slogans and insults, statements of pain and loss", serving as a "visual testimony" to the suffering of Palestinians under the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. [6]
Graffiti has played an important role within the street art scene in the Middle East and North Africa , especially following the events of the Arab Spring of 2011 or the Sudanese Revolution of 2018/19. [42] Graffiti is a tool of expression in the context of conflict in the region, allowing people to raise their voices politically and socially.
Infamy (2007) – a feature-length documentary about graffiti culture as told through the experiences of six well-known graffiti writers and a graffiti buffer. New York, New York (1976) – an episode of the BBC documentary series Omnibus, telling the story of graffiti in New York, as told by New Yorkers themselves.
Reverse graffiti [note 1] is a method of creating temporary or semi-permanent images on walls or other surfaces by removing dirt from a surface. It can also be done by simply removing dirt with the fingertip from windows or other dirty surfaces, such as writing "wash me" on a dirty vehicle.
To mark surfaces with graffiti throughout the entirety of a given city, usually with aerosol paint, and to be widely recognized for these efforts. [3] [4] autorack Type of freight rail car that is tall, long, low, and flat. back-to-back Graffiti that covers a wall from end-to-end, as seen on some parts of the West-Berlin side of the Berlin Wall.
A piece using the letters EKOM. Pieces, short for masterpieces, are a form of graffiti that involves large, elaborate and detailed letter forms. They are one of the main forms of modern graffiti, along with tags and throw ups, and are the least controversial of the three [1] and least likely to be seen as vandalism.