from BoingBoing: "Reverse Graffiti Confuses Authorities"...!

Paul Curtis aka Moose is no regular graffiti artist. In fact, he’s the reverse-graffiti artist. He created his street art by *cleaning* the dirt and grime off of surfaces!

Authorities are baffled: is selective cleaning a crime?

The tools are simple: A shoe brush, water and elbow grease, he says. British authorities aren’t sure what to make of the artist who is creating graffiti by cleaning the grime of urban life. The Leeds City Council has been considering what to do with Moose. "I’m waiting for the kind of Monty Python court case where exhibit A is a pot of cleaning fluid and exhibit B is a pair of my old socks," he jokes.

CIA Website uses Graffiti Tag to spice up their "notices" page - outlining how they deal with the "privacy" of visitors to their site.  Warning!  Your visits, blood-type, jihad-obsession, and recreational drug habits may be logged as well.  The shy little tag features a heart, the word "Freedom", and a bizarre, disturbed, "Pinocchio-featured" face in the lower right corner.  Pinocchio is the little wooden puppet whose nose grew longer every time he told a lie.  SEZ1 will NOT make a Freudian commentary; as Pinocchio might say, "A Long Nose is worth A Thousand Words..."

The Breaking@416 Graffiti Expo - Aug 18-24, Toronto. Queens Street - music, breakdancers, back-alley art.  Read reviews at EYE.NET, (bits of the Toronto Scene's history); the Globe & Mail's Russell Smith outlines Canada's "decaf" approach to Graffiti: "the public perception of hip-hop is of a celebration of violence and misogyny -- and there's no doubt that the most successful American versions of the genre reflect primarily those values -- but when Canadians do it, it's all about racial harmony and safe sex and please visit the anti-racism-community-uplift website..." Scene&Heard.ca also has its own piece: Interviews with Ren, Recka and Bomba.

Train kills man painting graffiti on boxcar
Last Updated Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:28:17 EST CBC News

The "Heart Of Canada" blog seems to be about boring social commentaries and non-events themed on "The Little House On The Prairies".  Besides some luke-warm political soup, there's a piece outlining the author's "born-again" beliefs about Graffiti being vandalism, etc.

The only interesting things on this website are the pictures of demented birds, like the "White-Eyed Verio"... read it and weep!

83-year-old's graffiti artwork fetches $8,600 at auction
Last Updated Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:24:08 EST
CBC Arts

HONG KONG - An 83-year-old Hong Kong man once billed as the world's oldest living graffiti artist was taken aback when one of his works sold for more than double its estimate at a Sotheby's auction Sunday. After the auctioneer opened bidding, Tsang's work – estimated to sell for $2,440-$3,900 – received 24 bids and was sold in a matter of minutes, Shu told the Associated Press. Tsang, who has dubbed himself the "King of Kowloon" and the "Kowloon Emperor," was shocked at the price paid for his piece.  The Sing Tao Daily reported Tsang's amazed reaction: "It's worth that much money?" he asked.