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Hi there from PURE EVIL ...


here are the artists. I love them all equally..

M-CITY
HERAKUT
BORIS HOPPEK
EPHAMERON
JOANNA IMRIE
OTHER
VAGABUNDOS
ZOSEN (ok hes been on BC for a while but we have a new print in the pipes)
CALMA
PMH
MR KERN
DEM666

view them on http://www.beautifulcrime.com/public/artists/

here is our plan :

step 1 : set up profiles and galleries.
step 2 : sell original art and objects direct from the artist studios.

NYPD Intel Op Targets Dot-Matrix Graffiti Bike

For WIRED: Ryan Singel 04.10.07

Joshua Kinberg's internet-connected, sidewalk-printing graffiti bike got him a lot of attention ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention; he was Boing Boinged, Slashdotted and featured on CNN and in Popular Science.

Though he didn't know it at the time, his gadget also landed him a spot in secret files being compiled by the New York Police Department's intelligence arm against protest groups across the country.

'El Barto' graffiti vandal sentenced

San Francisco Chronicle Staff Report

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

A Santa Rosa graffiti vandal was sentenced Monday to 1,000 hours of community service and three years of felony probation after he pleaded no contest earlier this year to two counts of felony vandalism, prosecutors said.