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News: 5Pointz Redevelopment

The owner of the Long Island City building known as 5Pointz, Jerry Wolkoff, has started discussing plans to redevelop the area. Wolkoff, who has owned the Davis Street warehouse for 40 years, said the time has come to repurpose the block which the 5-story, 20,000 square-foot building currently stands, to a group of city planning officials.  The...

12oz Prophet Photo of the Day

This is our 12oz Prophet photo of the day which we got at Finok’s blog. Check out the link, there’s a lot of good stuff there.

The 5Pointz Vs. Developers

5Pointz which lies in Long Island City, is a haven for any New York graffiti enthusiast. A large complex of legal walls curated by Meres One. Theres been talk for a while about 5Pointz closing down. While the date is unknown it seems more evident that 5Pointz days will soon be numbered

Graffiti in Senegal

Interesting article about Street art in Senegal, west Africa. Dakar the capital city of Senegal, socially accepts graffiti as a means for a young generation to speak. Docta a graffiti pioneer artist who explains, that in the beginning his work puzzled admirers of his pieces. His work was stylized and the message was lost. Recently a 88 foot...

Eno By Night

Infiltrating the very organization that removes his art. Mikaere Gardiner works for the city council of New Plymouth by day. By night he is Eno a street artist, who has been exposed by a supposedly anonymous interview. This is putting his Job at risk, being that vandalism is a breach of conduct. In Enos defense he exclaims that his pieces are...

Photographer Check Out: Stephen Mallon

New Yorkers have a pretty good idea of where each of their different subways can get them. Stephen Mallon’s site popped into our view based on his work with train cars entitled “Next Stop Atlantic.” For this project, he followed expired train cars bound for the coast, the last place your average subway rider would ever expect. Intended to rebuild...

Weekend Tunnel Breaches

Two separate NYC subway breaches occurred over the weekend.  One in the Path tunnels where Reymundo Rodriguez, 20, of Bayonne, NJ, snuck down onto the tracks in a Manhattan PATH tunnel located at World Trade. The station was being patrolled by two Port Authority cops that missed Rodriguez slipping by.  Rodriguez claimed to have planted a bomb in...

Graffiti of Chernobyl

Just about 25 years ago, one of the worst nuclear disasters in human history occurred at the Chernobyl Power Station in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat. The radioactive conditions in the vicinity were deadly and deteriorating further, forcing a complete evacuation of the city. Over two decades later, pretty much all that remains are the barely...

City Not Providing Paint to Cover Graffiti

According to the “New York Post”, community groups in Pelham Parkway are finding it more difficult to get painting supplies to clean up new graffiti in the area. Does this mean the vandals have won, the opposition is crushed, and spending millions of dollars a year on cleaning up graffiti as not really the best use of funds? Well… Not quite.

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Revok: 6 Months in Jail

A quick news flash to update you on Monday’s post about Revok’s arrest...

He has been sentenced to six months in jail according to CBS Los Angeles. Apparently he violated his probation by not paying restitution to his victims. No doubt this is being seen as a victory for the prosecution, but it does make me curious as to what the tax payer cost...

Bring the Hate:  No Way for MoCa Event at Brooklyn Museum

By now, most people have heard of MoCA in Los Angeles’  current exhibition, “Art In The Streets”; The first museum backed graffiti and street art retrospect featuring over 50 of the most influential artists in that genre. I’d assume to most of the 12ozProphet readership, a retrospect exhibition of this type sounds amazing, if not long overdue....

Katsu. Again!

Katsu strikes again! This past weekend Katsu blasted an unsanctioned and certainly unauthorized fire extinguisher tag in broad daylight across the front facade of the MoCA in Los Angeles. Some sketchy shit, even considering they same venue is playing host to the “Art In The Streets” graffiti and street art retrospect. You can imagine that place...