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Urban Legends Public Art Exhibition – Los Angeles

Our good friends at estria.org is at it again.  They are making moves and doing big things.  This weekend, in Los Angeles, they are holding an exhibition titled “Urban Legends“, an auction celebrating public art from around the globe. They have brought the heavy hitters out to play.  The line-up includes: ABCNT, Chor Boogie, Codak, Cryptik, [...]

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Untitled by Vogue Days go by and it still trips me out when I realize I’m not looking at a photo. This is his only print of this design measuring 30″ x 40″ and it’s exactly to scale of his original artwork, of course entirely executed exclusively in spraypaint… One of the many dope pieces [...]

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Vogue: From BMX to TDK

With his current solo exhibition at 1AM running until May 1, Vogue’s history comes to life through his amazing spraycan art.  To get a little more in depth on some of his amazing SPRAYCAN ONLY BMX pieces, we caught up with the man himself. “I started riding bikes at an early age with my friends. [...]

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Wand, the west coast Larry Bird?

It was winter of 2009 and I remember being shocked to see Larry Bird come through 1AM gallery.  What was he doing here?  Was he into street art, or coming to grab some colors?  Being a huge Boston Celtics fan, but Warriors fan first, I dashed over to get an autograph.  As I approached Larry [...]

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1:AM INTERVIEWS VOGUE, REIGNING CHAMPION OF ESTRIA’S GRAFFITI BATTLE

On the eve of Estria’s 4th Annual Invitational Graffiti Battle, 1:AM had a chance to chat with the reigning champion, Vogue TDK.  Vogue is a talented graffiti artist that has earned street cred since the ’80s and still remains active to this day.  He has also taken the gallery scene by a storm recently and [...]

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ESTRIA’S CAN FILM FESTIVAL @ 1:AM TOMORROW!

Estria is kicking off his 4th Annual Invitational Graffiti Battle tomorrow night at 1:AM Gallery.  “The Can Film Festival” will start at 6 and run through 10:30pm.  We will be playing the renegade film, Dirty Hands, the Art and Life of David Choe and an ’80s classic, Beat Street.  As a special treat, Harry Kim, [...]

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ARE YOU READY? ESTRIA’S “COME TO CONQUER” KICKS OFF IN 2 WEEKS!

Here is the official press release… Make it happen, peeps.  Support the urban arts and people who are trying to make a difference! The 4th Annual Estria Invitational Graffiti Battle and “Come to Conquer” Graffiti Series Features the West Coast’s Top Graffiti Artists in One Day Competition September 13, 2010 (OAKLAND, CA) – Graffiti living legend [...]

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EN VOGUE

Coming off of  his win in Estria’s Invitational Graffiti Battle, Vogue is showcasing his latest work in our anniversary show “Eternal Sleep”.  He was being very hard on himself and felt that his piece was not up to his standards.  We disagree.  At first, you look at his painting and think that it looks like [...]

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THE WINNER CIRCLE

As we have been pluggin’ all month, Estria Invitational Graffiti Battle finals were this past Saturday.  Dan brought the new Graffiti New York and the collector book Graffiti LA to the event to sell at our booth.  Jim Prigoff and Steve Grody were on hand signing the books and sharing their knowledge on the evolution [...]

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1:AM MAKIN’ IT HAPPEN

Early Saturday morning, team 1:AM split up… Dan was off to Estria’s Invitational Graffiti Battle in Oakland to rub elbows with other aerosol like-minded people, Roman was off to the ‘loin to do muralistic things, while the ladies held down the fort at the gallery.  Here are some pix from that day (no pix  of [...]

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