David Sharp In our long-awaited sixth issue of Global Graffiti Magazine, we are excited to present an array of features (by artists, poets, and authors) which broadly consider the theme of street art and graffiti throughout the world. While many of the pieces presented in this issue directly consider tangible public zones perceivable to any… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012
Gregory Linton Graffiti has long dominated the mean streets of Los Angeles, but more recently, Hollywood has become a globally recognized hotbed for street art. There are only a certain amount of spots in any city, even one as big as LA, and the arrival of street art led to major fighting over spots and… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012
PDF download available here: Beautification Proposal Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He’s also taught writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012
PDF download available here: Ache of the Real* Mariette Papic is a writer and photographer based in New York City. As a writer on the topic of graffiti, she has interviewed Swoon, Elph, Leon Reid IV and photographed many others. She is the author of Electric Bathtub Psalms and an upcoming collection of poetry-prose, Letters for Flying.… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012
Alissa Guzman On a recent vacation to South America, I accidently became lost in the middle of Buenos Aires. Separated from my partner who had the maps, money, hotel name and address, not to mention a command of the native language, I panicked. Should I ask to use someone’s internet or phone? Instead I wandered… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012
The following short film showcases the work that went into getting the studio and gallery space of New Zealand graffiti artist Owen Dippie ready for its opening in September 2011. Owen Dippie is an acclaimed graffiti artist based in the sunny city of Tauranga, New Zealand. His photo-realistic style has taken the graffiti world by storm,… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012
Dose DV started vandalising walls and trains at the tender age of 14 following the explosion of the graffiti scene in the UK brought about by the cutting edge documentary Style Wars and Henry’s book Subway Art. He says, “Suddenly everything made sense. I had to paint, it was my destiny and my fate to paint and get caught.”… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012
by Inés Fernández Moreno translated by Andrea G. Labinger By the sea she still feels young. She doesn’t exactly run, but rather trots briskly, at a pace she’ll be able to maintain without too much effort, covering the entire beach to its northernmost tip, where the rocks begin and it becomes more and more deserted,… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012
Noelia Díaz This is not a job anyone ever thinks about doing. A fireman is on the top of the list for little boys, even a garbage collector is ahead of what I do. I suppose big, loud trucks, are the common denominator for young lads, although I myself never cared much for the noise… [Read more…]
February 15, 2012
James Nikopoulos The first time I read Samuel Beckett’s play Happy Days I was bothered to no end by a seemingly minor detail in the stage directions, the first instance of which comes just after the play’s heroine has brushed her teeth and spit out the results behind the mound that has her swallowed up… [Read more…]
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