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Graffiti At Its Finest - Toronto's Style In Progress
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by Mike Wood | July 14, 2008 at 03:02 pm
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Dozens of graffiti artists from all ages and skill, gathered yesterday in Toronto's "Graffiti Alley" for the 2008 Style In Progress, a legal event which spans from Spadina Avenue to Portland Street in the Queen Street West alleys.
Through the distinctive odour of paint and multi-coloured haze which drifted in the breeze, the mostly masked writers lined side by side, with empty cans piled at their feet, quickly transformed bricked and stuccoed walls into a more canvas like appearance, as the unsightly became murals of beauty.
Backed by DJ's spinnin' tunes, and the many B-Boys & Girls throwing down their style of dance on a portable linoleum floor, the 8 hour event was nothing less than an awesome display of great artistic talent, achieved no doubt, by countless hours of spray paint in the
hand, and imagination in the mind.
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at 15:07 on July 14th, 2008
Mike Wood, I like this story. Great photos too!
at 15:10 on July 14th, 2008
Mike Wood, I like this story. It's good stuff. Great photos!
at 15:17 on July 14th, 2008
Very cool, thanks for the coverage. I'm always amazed by what graffiti artists can do. I'd imagine it would be hard to get the proportions right for large murals like that.
at 15:39 on July 14th, 2008
Most of these guys are naturals and seem to work miracles with cans of spray paint. It's a lot of fun to watch the creations come to life. I wish I were that artistic.
Thanks for the GS!
at 15:34 on July 14th, 2008
Mike Wood, I like this story. It's good stuff. graffiti artists are so talented. Great pictures
at 15:44 on July 14th, 2008
Mike Wood, I like this story. Great photos too!
at 15:44 on July 14th, 2008
Thanks for the flags and comments everyone!
at 15:55 on July 14th, 2008
Mike Wood, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Awesome photos!
at 16:05 on July 14th, 2008
Mike Wood, great post, great event -- look forward to seeing more photos.
at 16:09 on July 14th, 2008
Thanks Jarrett!
I'll be trying to make it back there soon to get the completed works. I'll add some more photos then.
at 17:28 on July 14th, 2008
Mike Wood, I really like this story. It's a great piece.
It's so wonderful to watch an artist create from a can, the beauty of an art that's creative, imaginative with the final result most often beyond words.
Free space for these artists is rare and event are becoming more common, thankfully. Phoenix Az. has a few free spaces (walls) for Graffiti artists and no taggers touch the finished piece once done (generally), because they respect the craft and skills of the (individual) artists and not for or of which crew their part of.
Great story. I hope you're able to get some more pics, these are sweet. I'd like to see the final result of the two story high piece - was that only one person doing this one whole piece in eight hour? If so WOW
at 18:43 on July 14th, 2008
Nice! I just added a post about this too... shoulda checked first. I guess I'll just tack in some of my pics :)
at 23:28 on July 14th, 2008
Mike Wood, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Good event and very nice Pictures!
at 04:26 on July 15th, 2008
Thanks!
at 06:14 on July 16th, 2008
Mike Wood, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 06:26 on July 16th, 2008
Thanks for the GS flag Caoimhin1!
at 12:57 on July 16th, 2008
Just stellar.
at 19:07 on July 16th, 2008
Thanks Jordan!
I went back today as a followup for photos of the completed work. I'll post them soon. I'm not sure if I should add them to this or start a new 'thread' or story as a followup.
at 14:08 on July 20th, 2008
There's some nice graffiti over at a public school near the gas station off of Danforth and Gledhill. It's a nice graduation piece for the students. Normally there's just people "signing" their name but no pictures so the kids haven't seen good stuff as they had fun in the playground at recess but now there is something nice but wish it was done during the school the year.
at 14:17 on July 20th, 2008
Thanks for the info. I'll have to get over there sometime and check it out
at 11:03 on July 25th, 2008
EFESEFF
at 11:05 on July 25th, 2008
Mike Wood, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 17:46 on July 25th, 2008
Thank you!
at 14:18 on November 9th, 2008
here is a related video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og3ua2LekX8