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#RulesOfVandalism - New Video with MOSES & TAPS™

 

VIDEO DESCRIPTION
Two weeks ago, in The Grifters social media we started a social discussion, as the first stage of a project called #RulesOfVandalism.
Together with the artists MOSES & TAPS™, we asked you what are the rules and the definitions of vandalism. Two weeks and thousand of comments later, we are back - as promised - with the second stage of the project - short film made by the artist Good Guy Boris.
The film idea is the to show the respond of the artists - MOSES & TAPS™ - to the statements and the definitions given on the questions in the social discussion.
“ The main character hears disturbing voices in his head. Voices who command him how to paint graffiti. At the very end of the preparation and right before the execution of his piece, the character decides to ignore the voices and to set himself free.
Nobody can put rules in something that is made to be chaos.” tells Boris.
This film is the occasion to link the social discussion with the last stage of the project - The Exhibition.

 

Full information about the upcoming show available in the exhibition page here.

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MOSES & TAPS - SPLASH - RULES OF VANDALISM - VIDEO BY GOOD GUY BORIS - ONLINE AT THEGRIFTERS.ORG

MOSES & TAPS - SPLASH - RULES OF VANDALISM - VIDEO BY GOOD GUY BORIS - ONLINE AT THEGRIFTERS.ORG

MOSES & TAPS - SPLASH - RULES OF VANDALISM - VIDEO BY GOOD GUY BORIS - ONLINE AT THEGRIFTERS.ORG

MOSES & TAPS - SPLASH - RULES OF VANDALISM - VIDEO BY GOOD GUY BORIS - ONLINE AT THEGRIFTERS.ORG

MOSES & TAPS - SPLASH - RULES OF VANDALISM - VIDEO BY GOOD GUY BORIS - ONLINE AT THEGRIFTERS.ORG

MOSES & TAPS - SPLASH - RULES OF VANDALISM - VIDEO BY GOOD GUY BORIS - ONLINE AT THEGRIFTERS.ORG

PHIL AMERICA: SLUM VACATION
Slum Vacation is a performance project by California artist Phil America where he has a slum house built and lives in Thailand’s largest, most dangerous slum for a month. Bringing awareness to the 1⁄3 of the world’s urban population living in slums, Phil takes the time to get to know locals and deals with daily dangers such as the local mafia, police, disease and lack of fresh water and electricity.

Slum Vacation

 

 

DJ PONE: DIPODAINE feat. DIDAÏ - VIDEO BY THE GRIFTERS x COKNEY

DJ Pone - Dipodaine feat Didaï (THE GRIFTERS x COKNEY)

 

Erratic Impulse is not only the latest album of parisian DJ and producer DJ pone, its also the motto of the newest video from The Grifters. Together with the tattoo and graffiti artist Cokney, equipped with a lot of different paints they found themselves in a train yard somewhere in France. Coloring the trains in many ways and using various techniques, its growing to a incredible artwork. Accompanied by the track Dipodaine  from DJ Pone featuring Didaï, The Grifters and Cockney did a masterpiece that you haven’t seen before...

 

DJ Pone - Dipodaine feat Didaï (THE GRIFTERS x COKNEY) from The Grifters on Vimeo.

 

Screenshots from the video.ERRATIC IMPULSES. THE GRIFTERS X COKNEY. DJ PONE FEAT DEDAI DIPODAINE. GRAFFITI VIDEO. VANDALISM. TRAINBOMBING. RATP. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET ART. GRIFTERS CODE. MUSIC VIDEO. COKNEY. THE GRIFTERS. ED BANGER RECORDS. BLUE MUSIC. ERRATIC IMPULSES EP

 

ERRATIC IMPULSES. THE GRIFTERS X COKNEY. DJ PONE FEAT DEDAI DIPODAINE. GRAFFITI VIDEO. VANDALISM. TRAINBOMBING. RATP. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET ART. GRIFTERS CODE. MUSIC VIDEO. COKNEY. THE GRIFTERS. ED BANGER RECORDS. BLUE MUSIC. ERRATIC IMPULSES EP

 

ERRATIC IMPULSES. THE GRIFTERS X COKNEY. DJ PONE FEAT DEDAI DIPODAINE. GRAFFITI VIDEO. VANDALISM. TRAINBOMBING. RATP. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET ART. GRIFTERS CODE. MUSIC VIDEO. COKNEY. THE GRIFTERS. ED BANGER RECORDS. BLUE MUSIC. ERRATIC IMPULSES EP

 

ERRATIC IMPULSES. THE GRIFTERS X COKNEY. DJ PONE FEAT DEDAI DIPODAINE. GRAFFITI VIDEO. VANDALISM. TRAINBOMBING. RATP. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET ART. GRIFTERS CODE. MUSIC VIDEO. COKNEY. THE GRIFTERS. ED BANGER RECORDS. BLUE MUSIC. ERRATIC IMPULSES EP

 

ERRATIC IMPULSES. THE GRIFTERS X COKNEY. DJ PONE FEAT DEDAI DIPODAINE. GRAFFITI VIDEO. VANDALISM. TRAINBOMBING. RATP. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET ART. GRIFTERS CODE. MUSIC VIDEO. COKNEY. THE GRIFTERS. ED BANGER RECORDS. BLUE MUSIC. ERRATIC IMPULSES EP

 

ERRATIC IMPULSES. THE GRIFTERS X COKNEY. DJ PONE FEAT DEDAI DIPODAINE. GRAFFITI VIDEO. VANDALISM. TRAINBOMBING. RATP. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET ART. GRIFTERS CODE. MUSIC VIDEO. COKNEY. THE GRIFTERS. ED BANGER RECORDS. BLUE MUSIC. ERRATIC IMPULSES EP

 

ERRATIC IMPULSES. THE GRIFTERS X COKNEY. DJ PONE FEAT DEDAI DIPODAINE. GRAFFITI VIDEO. VANDALISM. TRAINBOMBING. RATP. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET ART. GRIFTERS CODE. MUSIC VIDEO. COKNEY. THE GRIFTERS. ED BANGER RECORDS. BLUE MUSIC. ERRATIC IMPULSES EP

 

ERRATIC IMPULSES. THE GRIFTERS X COKNEY. DJ PONE FEAT DEDAI DIPODAINE. GRAFFITI VIDEO. VANDALISM. TRAINBOMBING. RATP. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET ART. GRIFTERS CODE. MUSIC VIDEO. COKNEY. THE GRIFTERS. ED BANGER RECORDS. BLUE MUSIC. ERRATIC IMPULSES EP

 

ERRATIC IMPULSES. THE GRIFTERS X COKNEY. DJ PONE FEAT DEDAI DIPODAINE. GRAFFITI VIDEO. VANDALISM. TRAINBOMBING. RATP. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET ART. GRIFTERS CODE. MUSIC VIDEO. COKNEY. THE GRIFTERS. ED BANGER RECORDS. BLUE MUSIC. ERRATIC IMPULSES EP
SAME SAME™ - THE BOOK WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 21 APRIL
THE BOOK WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM 21 APRIL HERE Same Same™. Book by Taps Moses. Top Sprayer. The Grifters. Wholecar video.

 ©Photo: Hannoverliebt

 

Video trailer is available here

 

SAME SAME™

 

MOSES & TAPS™ are without a doubt two of the most active and creative writers on earth. Although their avant-garde works often leave traditional paths there is always a clear reference to graffiti. Their debut book INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER™ became one of the most read graffiti books worldwide and the number of sold copies has meanwhile reached a five-digit number. With that work they demonstrated the spectrum of their artistic ability as well as they presented an essential work of reference.

 

SAME SAME™ is the title of a photobook which focuses on MOSES & TAPS™ throw ups and their surroundings. “As to form graffiti is redundant due to a repetitive personal style. As to content graffiti is redundant due to a repeating name. Therefore, the most exciting moment - the symbiosis of graffiti and its surrounding - can only be achieved if the individuality of the painted steps in the background,” TM™ explain the idea behind their project. Thus, SAME SAME™ is not supposed to continue INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER™ but it is to solve the dilemma between ‘perfect piece’ and ‘perfect photograph’. Again MOSES & TAPS™ take the viewer on their probably never-ending journeys travelling the continents: tunnels in Berlin, the Trans-Siberian Railway, or NATO military training areas; blue and yellow Easter eggs do not only travel the world on thousands of freight cars any longer.

 

SAME SAME™ is not a mass product but a collector’s item. That is why it is strictly limited to only 500 copies. All copies are serially numbered and the title will be stenciled on each hardcover by MOSES & TAPS™ - every copy will be unique. The book won’t be available in shops. The worldwide release will be on Easter Monday, 21st April, 10:00 a.m. CEST. It will be sold exclusively at www.grafters.org only.

 

500 copies, numbered; hardcover (handmade); 15cm x 21cm; 154 pages (150g/m², 100% recycled paper); offset print (printed and bound in the EU); introduction: English / German;

 

Price 35€

 

 

 

SAME SAME

 

MOSES & TAPS™ gehören ohne Zweifel zu den aktivsten und kreativsten Writern dieses Planeten. Obwohl ihre avantgardistischen Arbeiten oft den Pfad des traditionellen Writings verlassen, bleibt der Bezug zu Graffiti doch stets erkennbar. Mit ihrem ersten Buch INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER™, das mittlerweile in fünfstelliger Auflage zu den meistverkauften Graffitibüchern überhaupt gehört, haben sie die Bandbreite ihres künstlerischen Schaffens eindrucksvoll unter Beweis gestellt und DAS Referenzwerk geschaffen.

 

SAME SAME™ lautet nun der Titel eines Fotobuches, das sich ausschliesslich mit MOSES & TAPS™´ Throw-Ups und deren Umgebung beschäftigt. 

»Graffiti ist formal redundant, da sich der persönliche Style wiederholt und Graffiti ist inhaltlich redundant, weil sich der dargestellte Name wiederholt. Gleichzeitig aber rückt der wirklich spannende Moment, nämlich das Zusammenspiel von Graffiti und dessen Umgebung nur dann in den Fokus, wenn das Gemalte in seiner Individualität zurücktritt und keine Aufmerksamkeit einfordert«, erklären TM™ den Gedanken hinter SAME SAME™.

SAME SAME™ ist kein Nachfolgewerk von INTERNATIONAL TOPSPRAYER™ sondern die Dokumentation einer Lösung des Dilemmas zwischen dem „perfekten Piece“ und dem „perfekten Foto“. 

Nichtsdestotrotz nehmen MOSES & TAPS™ den Betrachter auch diesmal mit auf ihre wohl niemals endenden Reisen über die Kontinente: Berliner Schächte, die Transsibirische Eisenbahn oder NATO-Truppenübungsplätze; gelb-blaue Ostereier rollen mittlerweile nicht nur auf tausenden Güterwaggons um die Welt.

 

SAME SAME™ ist kein Massenprodukt sondern ein Liebhaberstück. Das Hardcover aus unbehandeltem Karton wird von MOSES & TAPS™ mittels SAME-Schablone individuell besprüht und so um den Titel ergänzt – somit ist jedes Exemplar ein Unikat. Das Buch ist auf 500 Exemplare limitiert und nummeriert. Es wird nicht in Shops verkauft. Der Vertrieb findet ab Ostermontag, den 21. April, 10 Uhr exklusiv über www.grifters.org statt. 

 

Auflage: 500 Exemplare, nummeriert; Hardcover (handgefertigt); 15 cm x 21 cm; 154 Seiten (150 g/m², hochwertiges 100% Recyclingpapier,); Offsetdruck (gedruckt und gebunden in der EU); Intro: deutsch/englisch;

Preis 35€