http://saberone.com/blog Graffiti Artist Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:27:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Eviction night at City Hall. Occupy LA was forced out by a small army of heavily armed para-militarized local police force. In this image a young man and his little doggy fearfully await the inevitable of being shot by a police officer using a shotgun at a lethal close range. ... http://saberone.com/blog/2011/12/31/compelling-image-of-2011-occupy-la/ It’s that time of year: the time when everyone is dropping their two cents on what they liked and didn’t like this year. Of course, we have some opinions–especially when it comes to what’s happening in the art world. Today through Wednesday (our last working day of ... http://saberone.com/blog/2011/12/24/year-in-review-2011-in-art/ It's time for year in review posts, and while there are certainly more than a few everywhere on the web... Read more: LAist http://saberone.com/blog/2011/12/24/2011-in-l-a-mural-art-politics/ For a city with a moratorium on murals, the art form managed to be in the public eye in 2011. Street art took its place alongside traditional works, vintage works were restored, policy and enforcement were being questioned--all while ordinances that stopped new mural works ... http://saberone.com/blog/2011/12/24/a-year-end-list-for-los-angeles-murals/ Yes, year-end lists. Not even street art is exempt. But hey, 2011 was a banner year for the Los Angeles street art and graffiti communities, as they enjoyed plenty of worldwide attention. LA Weekly put together the ten L.A.-related street art and graffiti stories that we think ... http://saberone.com/blog/2011/12/24/top-10-street-art-and-graffiti-stories-of-2011/ L.A.'s murals are believed to outnumber those in every other city in the world with numbers ranging in thousands. With influence from the punk, hip hop, and skate scene a new street culture was born that fueled a new generation of artists. Artists like SABER, SWOON, KID ... http://saberone.com/blog/2011/12/24/free-expression-returns-to-the-walls-of-downtown-l-a/ A proposed new ordinance would allow artists to create murals legally on private property across Los Angeles as long as the property owners agree. If approved, the ordinance would end a controversial prohibition on murals that has left city officials and artists grappling over what is ... http://saberone.com/blog/2011/12/07/new-ordinance-would-end-artistic-mural-ban-in-l-a-by-richard-winton/ For months, the L.A. Department of City Planning has been teasing street artists with announcements of a new ordinance that would lift the current ban on all pre-approved murals on private property in Los Angeles. And it's about time: Our urban sprawl was once considered by many -- including local celebrity ... http://saberone.com/blog/2011/12/07/l-a-mural-ordinance-hopes-to-lift-ban-on-street-art-public-comment-draft-in-full/ Opening under cover of night somewhere in Paris, four stories beneath la rue, a secret subterranean gallery in a sealed tunnel appears suddenly. While activity on the street overhead is hectic and dense with cars, trucks and pedestrians, the dry dust is ankle-high here in this ... http://saberone.com/blog/2011/12/05/the-paris-underbelly-surfaces-a-new-gallery-beneath-the-city/ By Radley Balko In February of last year, video surfaced of a marijuana raid in Columbia, Mo. During the raid on Jonathan Whitworth and his family, police took down the door with a battering ram, then within seconds shot and killed one of Whitworth's dogs and wounded the ... http://saberone.com/blog/2011/12/05/swat-raids-stun-guns-and-pepper-spray-why-the-government-is-ramping-up-the-use-of-force/