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Changing a Company Mindset by Inspiring Employees Through Graffiti

Last month when our newest client SWAGG/Firethorn asked us to change the "vibe" in their office, I had to reach into my Hip Hop/B-Boy backpack and tap into the world of Graffiti as a solution for their needs. What our client wanted was an attitude change in the form of an art project.READ»

Zachary Lieberman on DIY Gadgets, Making Fonts With Cars, and the Holy F**k Moment

Eye-trackers, devices that use small cameras to measure the motion of eyes, are often used to assist the disabled in digitally highlighting and spelling text. The technology is extremely expensive, with costs ranging anywhere from ...READ»

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Rise of the Graffiti Robots!

A new coding language called GML paves the way for even more robotic taggers.READ»

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Capturing the Choreography of Graffiti Tagging

A high-tech way of archiving the work of graffiti writers.READ»

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Street-Artist Banksy Takes on Global Warming

A succinct piece pegged to the Copenhagen climate summit.READ»

Tagger With ALS Now Makes Virtual Graffiti

New York Graffiti Research Lab unveils a new innovation in tagging, which combines eye-tracking software and an ingenious light-projection system.READ»

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Smell This Tag: Olfactory Street Art

Mitchell Heinrich invents a temporary urban graffiti spreading smells, not spray paint. READ»

The Next Graffiti Fad: Fire-Tagging [UPDATED]

For a split second there, it looked like graffiti's future was purely virtual. There was the Wiispray controller, which simulated tagging down to the paint drips; and before that there were a number of "light ...READ»

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Toys for Rich, Hip Grown-Ups

For the last few years, Phillips de Pury, a hoary auction house, has been running an auction series specifically dedicated to cultivating hip, young collectors with lower priced items, in the hopes that they'll blossom into the ...READ»