*sorry had to make that bigger, couldn't help it - K
Saturday, 5 December 2009
Friday, 4 December 2009
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
that was lucky bansky "ikea" was rescued.........Gold Diggers
A turn of events have unfolded over the last month in regards to Banksy’s ‘IKEA Punk’ piece in Croydon, London. Since our initial coverage back in September, it was defaced by vandals in November during a public vote.
This month, two loyal fans , NOT ONE BUT TWO, of the secretive guerilla artist have decided to spend thousands of pounds out of their own pocket to restore the defaced piece, hiring a team of builders to cut out the three-ton section of reinforced concrete wall, lifting it by crane on to a lorry and took it to a secret location where it will be cleaned up.
Nick Loizou, a 30-year-old graphic designer and builder, and Bradley Ridge, a 31-year-old restaurateur, hope to sell the piece once it has been restored to its former glory.
Mr Ridge said: ‘To begin with we thought we would nick the mural,’ he joked. ‘We thought we could cut the Banksy off the wall, flop it on to a mattress and take it away.
‘That wasn’t possible so we thought better of it, and decided to try to save it.’ With the backing of the owners of the wall, concrete company Hanson Premix, Mr Ridge and Mr Loizou drew up their plans to rescue it.... showing true motives now, that makes these 2 worse than those who dogged it in the first place as these two muppetts had the sole intention of financial gain by none other than stealing!!!
The operation was complicated when the team of labourers, carpenters and bricklayers discovered the wall was made of reinforced concrete, not brick as they had assumed.
They spent nine days preparing the wall before it was taken away in a pre-dawn operation on Thursday. During the nine days someone slept by it every night for protection. How nice of them...
ccording to Mr Ridge, Banksy himself has given his blessing to the project through an intermediary, saying: ‘Well done and good luck.’
The future of the mural, once restored, is uncertain. ‘We have a couple of options,’ said Mr Loizou.
‘We really want to sell it to a gallery or a museum so the maximum number of people can enjoy it. But if we can’t do that, there is always eBay.’
And the source "not surprising"
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
P
"Ahead of Man Like Me performing at Jazz Café (Camden), two of North Londons most talented artists come together to celebrate the rewards of self-made success and the gratification of doing it on your own. Both Man Like Me and the graffiti artist Panik, aka Mr P, went to Ackland Burghly school in North London. Here they both began to develop skills that now have them revered and celebrated in their respective art forms across the world."
Monday, 30 November 2009
Article released today
The article has finally gone up as I've seen on a few news websites and surprisingly there are still no tags put on any of the names which is not something you usually see. The BTP claim that they are aware and charged each person with a certain tag but I will not post any of their tags up as I don't know exactly what they were charged for at this time.
I've tried getting answers out of people that were present but they are just idiots to tell you the truth, I've had about 10 different answers to who got sentenced with what, all from people that were present in the court including gf's, family and friends aswel.
The official sentences that were handed out are:
Scott - 18 months
Ben - 6 months
Frazer - 15 months
Stephen - 6 months & 2 years suspended
Adam - 15 months
Jason - 9 months
A few comments from an article:
Howard Collins, Chief Operating Officer of London Underground said:
“The group’s actions cost thousands of pounds and resulted in trains being taken out of service. As well as causing unnecessary delays and distress to our passengers, they also put their own lives in danger.
“Criminal damage creates an intimidating atmosphere which is why we work hard to maintain a clean and pleasant network for our customers. We will be taking civil action to recover the debt that their damage created and will continue to devote significant and growing resources to visible policing across the transport system to make sure passengers feel comfortable and safe.”
Crown Prosecution Service London lawyer Olwen Evans said:
“This was an organised and prolific gang who worked together to plan attacks in order to cause disruption and delays. The estimated cost of these actions may be far higher if you take into account the losses suffered by the train companies as a result of these carriages being out of service.”
“The strength of the evidence which was to be put to the court by the Crown Prosecution Service is what led these defendants to plead guilty.
“Together with the British Transport Police, we gathered together a strong file of evidence which included photographs found on the defendants home computers. These pictured the defendants in the act of vandalising trains. These images allowed us to establish what the defendants ‘tags’ were and meant we could identify what damage they had each caused.”
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Knockturnal Kniggins, Chief Operating Officer at GraffLondon said:
I wish them all the best. How can we take this authority seriously when there are non violent young men being sent into prison with murderers and vicious other criminals. Their crimes were non violent and victim-less yet they are being sent to prison longer than rapists, pedophiles, people carrying knives and all other sorts of scum that are a disease to this once great city.
Painting graffiti on trains is wrong, and should be illegal, however, prison does not work and thats a fact. A criminal collage which is not the place for these gents.
Have they forgotten about the young graffiti artist who took his life while inside not so long ago?
The justice system continues to be a joke.
I hope all responsible individuals involved in this have as much trouble sleeping as the 6 will in their new homes.
I've tried getting answers out of people that were present but they are just idiots to tell you the truth, I've had about 10 different answers to who got sentenced with what, all from people that were present in the court including gf's, family and friends aswel.
The official sentences that were handed out are:
Scott - 18 months
Ben - 6 months
Frazer - 15 months
Stephen - 6 months & 2 years suspended
Adam - 15 months
Jason - 9 months
A few comments from an article:
Howard Collins, Chief Operating Officer of London Underground said:
“The group’s actions cost thousands of pounds and resulted in trains being taken out of service. As well as causing unnecessary delays and distress to our passengers, they also put their own lives in danger.
“Criminal damage creates an intimidating atmosphere which is why we work hard to maintain a clean and pleasant network for our customers. We will be taking civil action to recover the debt that their damage created and will continue to devote significant and growing resources to visible policing across the transport system to make sure passengers feel comfortable and safe.”
Crown Prosecution Service London lawyer Olwen Evans said:
“This was an organised and prolific gang who worked together to plan attacks in order to cause disruption and delays. The estimated cost of these actions may be far higher if you take into account the losses suffered by the train companies as a result of these carriages being out of service.”
“The strength of the evidence which was to be put to the court by the Crown Prosecution Service is what led these defendants to plead guilty.
“Together with the British Transport Police, we gathered together a strong file of evidence which included photographs found on the defendants home computers. These pictured the defendants in the act of vandalising trains. These images allowed us to establish what the defendants ‘tags’ were and meant we could identify what damage they had each caused.”
-----------
Knockturnal Kniggins, Chief Operating Officer at GraffLondon said:
I wish them all the best. How can we take this authority seriously when there are non violent young men being sent into prison with murderers and vicious other criminals. Their crimes were non violent and victim-less yet they are being sent to prison longer than rapists, pedophiles, people carrying knives and all other sorts of scum that are a disease to this once great city.
Painting graffiti on trains is wrong, and should be illegal, however, prison does not work and thats a fact. A criminal collage which is not the place for these gents.
Have they forgotten about the young graffiti artist who took his life while inside not so long ago?
The justice system continues to be a joke.
I hope all responsible individuals involved in this have as much trouble sleeping as the 6 will in their new homes.
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Shades of things to come
I made it down for the opening night of this exhibition to a welcoming of free drink and familiar faces....
BTP yard footage
They caused 270 thousand pounds worth of damage to trains and tonight the same gang of vandals is behind bars.
The six men - all in their early twenties - have been sentenced to spend a total of nearly six years in prison.
The judge at Isleworth Crown Court described their offences as 'vandalism on an industrial scale'
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Scotty 2 hotty!
& the full ITV news vid here.
Please do not post up names on the comments. And all the bullshit gossiping is not needed, think about it....
The six men - all in their early twenties - have been sentenced to spend a total of nearly six years in prison.
The judge at Isleworth Crown Court described their offences as 'vandalism on an industrial scale'
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Scotty 2 hotty!
& the full ITV news vid here.
Please do not post up names on the comments. And all the bullshit gossiping is not needed, think about it....
Saturday, 28 November 2009
Sentenced
Mixture of sentences handed out yesterday.
22 months
15 months
9
7
6
community service
Not putting any names up as I'm not 100% sure who went down for what words... Addresses up when I get hold of them, names up when I see what gets published. Free all involved
Report from a few days ago:
PROLIFIC TUBE GRAFFITI GANG TO BE SENTENCED
Graffiti vandals who caused £270,000 damage to Tube and train carriages will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on 27/11/09.
The group of six men, all aged 20-23 from the West London area pleaded guilty in October to more than 125 criminal damage offences over a two-year period from February 2006 to November 2007.
The prolific offenders would go out mainly at night and break into train depots and stations to commit crimes.
About 40 of the offences were on the Tube and the rest were on southern train operators.
The investigation began after a car was pulled over in Twickenham by police responding to an ANPR alert which linked the car to a theft of champagne. In the boot of the red Fiat Punto, police found an assortment of spray cans, bolt cutters, gloves and several photos of sprayed trains.
BTP Detective Chief Inspector Kevin Shanahan said:
“Cameras at stations and depots filmed their brazen acts of vandalism and we used this footage to get clear facial images of them.
“They were intent on criminality and went to great lengths to plan their attacks on trains.
“They did not commit random acts of vandalism but conspired together to go out and commit crime.
“During one house search we found more than 400 photographs of the damage they had caused to trains.”
Howard Collins, Chief Operating Officer of London Underground said:
“The group’s actions cost thousands of pounds and resulted in trains being taken out of service. As well as causing unnecessary delays and distress to our passengers, they also put their own lives in danger.
“Criminal damage creates an intimidating atmosphere which is why we work hard to maintain a clean and pleasant network for our customers. We will be taking civil action to recover the debt that their damage created and will continue to devote significant and growing resources to visible policing across the transport system to make sure passengers feel comfortable and safe.”
Crown Prosecution Service London lawyer Olwen Evans said:
“This was an organised and prolific gang who worked together to plan attacks in order to cause disruption and delays. The estimated cost of these actions may be far higher if you take into account the losses suffered by the train companies as a result of these carriages being out of service.”
“The strength of the evidence which was to be put to the court by the Crown Prosecution Service is what led these defendants to plead guilty.
“Together with the British Transport Police, we gathered together a strong file of evidence which included photographs found on the defendants home computers. These pictured the defendants in the act of vandalising trains. These images allowed us to establish what the defendants ‘tags’ were and meant we could identify what damage they had each caused.”
22 months
15 months
9
7
6
community service
Not putting any names up as I'm not 100% sure who went down for what words... Addresses up when I get hold of them, names up when I see what gets published. Free all involved
Report from a few days ago:
PROLIFIC TUBE GRAFFITI GANG TO BE SENTENCED
Graffiti vandals who caused £270,000 damage to Tube and train carriages will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on 27/11/09.
The group of six men, all aged 20-23 from the West London area pleaded guilty in October to more than 125 criminal damage offences over a two-year period from February 2006 to November 2007.
The prolific offenders would go out mainly at night and break into train depots and stations to commit crimes.
About 40 of the offences were on the Tube and the rest were on southern train operators.
The investigation began after a car was pulled over in Twickenham by police responding to an ANPR alert which linked the car to a theft of champagne. In the boot of the red Fiat Punto, police found an assortment of spray cans, bolt cutters, gloves and several photos of sprayed trains.
BTP Detective Chief Inspector Kevin Shanahan said:
“Cameras at stations and depots filmed their brazen acts of vandalism and we used this footage to get clear facial images of them.
“They were intent on criminality and went to great lengths to plan their attacks on trains.
“They did not commit random acts of vandalism but conspired together to go out and commit crime.
“During one house search we found more than 400 photographs of the damage they had caused to trains.”
Howard Collins, Chief Operating Officer of London Underground said:
“The group’s actions cost thousands of pounds and resulted in trains being taken out of service. As well as causing unnecessary delays and distress to our passengers, they also put their own lives in danger.
“Criminal damage creates an intimidating atmosphere which is why we work hard to maintain a clean and pleasant network for our customers. We will be taking civil action to recover the debt that their damage created and will continue to devote significant and growing resources to visible policing across the transport system to make sure passengers feel comfortable and safe.”
Crown Prosecution Service London lawyer Olwen Evans said:
“This was an organised and prolific gang who worked together to plan attacks in order to cause disruption and delays. The estimated cost of these actions may be far higher if you take into account the losses suffered by the train companies as a result of these carriages being out of service.”
“The strength of the evidence which was to be put to the court by the Crown Prosecution Service is what led these defendants to plead guilty.
“Together with the British Transport Police, we gathered together a strong file of evidence which included photographs found on the defendants home computers. These pictured the defendants in the act of vandalising trains. These images allowed us to establish what the defendants ‘tags’ were and meant we could identify what damage they had each caused.”
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Updates, Runners, Sentencing
....and everything else
Yard Ravers
Not been on the site much this week, with the small time I've been online its been spent sorting out photo's for the update. A nice selection already sent in, and just to make it aware, we have had a few random photo's and some nice yard shots being sent in. Please feel free to send them over aswel.
There is still no official date for it yet, (reguardless of the facebook event) confirmation on this soon.
2 Runners in 2 days
I've been out and about abit this week, and for the first time in 4 YEARS I have seen a tube panel running!
I caught something else aswel yesterday, and I've heard theres also a couple more things running around which is good news. I used to bench twice a week a few good years ago, but its definently worth keeping an eye out if you're out and about of late. I see some unfinished stuff on a southwest last week and something else the week before on southern.
Heads up
There are 6 young gentlemen being sentenced on friday and I am hoping to make it down there but if I can't, then expect info to be up here friday evening or possibly saturday as friday could be a busy one. Please keep your comments to yourselves until after, and if anyone gets any address of anyone that doesn't get posted up on here then pease email me in the coming weeks.
Books
Was ment to have these reviews up for you on sunday just gone but ended up down the toby calvary for about 4 hours. Will try and do it this sunday cos like I said not had the time this week, will also be adding a new section within the index featuring any books/mags we have reviewed.
Flick of the day
Yard Ravers
Not been on the site much this week, with the small time I've been online its been spent sorting out photo's for the update. A nice selection already sent in, and just to make it aware, we have had a few random photo's and some nice yard shots being sent in. Please feel free to send them over aswel.
There is still no official date for it yet, (reguardless of the facebook event) confirmation on this soon.
2 Runners in 2 days
I've been out and about abit this week, and for the first time in 4 YEARS I have seen a tube panel running!
I caught something else aswel yesterday, and I've heard theres also a couple more things running around which is good news. I used to bench twice a week a few good years ago, but its definently worth keeping an eye out if you're out and about of late. I see some unfinished stuff on a southwest last week and something else the week before on southern.
Heads up
There are 6 young gentlemen being sentenced on friday and I am hoping to make it down there but if I can't, then expect info to be up here friday evening or possibly saturday as friday could be a busy one. Please keep your comments to yourselves until after, and if anyone gets any address of anyone that doesn't get posted up on here then pease email me in the coming weeks.
Books
Was ment to have these reviews up for you on sunday just gone but ended up down the toby calvary for about 4 hours. Will try and do it this sunday cos like I said not had the time this week, will also be adding a new section within the index featuring any books/mags we have reviewed.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Krink X Leader Fixed gear
One for the Bike riders.....having a fixed gear bike myself, i iant really a fan of these bike.......
Monday, 23 November 2009
Shades of Things To Come
End of The Line presents ‘Shades of Things To Come’
25TH – 29TH of November 2009
Aryz / Biser / Bom.k / Does / Nychos / Probs / Rabodiga / Tizer
Maverik Showroom
68-72 Redchurch Street
Shoreditch, E2 7DP
Late night opening Thursday 26th November 2009
rsvp@theendoftheline.net
3D Graffiti Animation Outside Serge Gainsbourg’s Home
Serge Gainsbourg - animation des graffitis sur 5 ans du mur rue de Verneuil from Arnaud Jourdain on Vimeo.
interesting image piece done outside Parisian musician Serge Gainsbourg’s home. The short film shows graffiti that was painted continuously between a five year span on one wall in the street of Verneuil, Paris. The footage took thousands of photographs to create and was transformed into 3D effect seen in this video.
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