http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/graffiti http://io9.com/tag/graffiti

This is So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi's "Senseless Drawing Robot," a vandalism machine that uses programming and its own momentum of spray the heck out of clean walls. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5860225&view=rss&microfeed=true

The 1973 study "Graffiti: Some Observations and Speculations" by Dr. Harvey Lomas included this colorful chart matching bawdy vandalism from First Century Pompeii with its thematic descendants in Sixties Los Angeles. As you can see here, we've had our mind in the gutter for approximately two millennia. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5856858&view=rss&microfeed=true

When graffiti meets Star Wars, the whole street is turned into a massive showroom of crazy fandom and impressive artistry. In honor of May the Fourth, check out 32 photos of Star Wars graffiti from every corner of the world. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5798671&view=rss&microfeed=true

It's been 25 years today since the Chernobyl disaster, but that doesn't mean people don't drop by the ghost town of Pripyat. One sign of human visitation is the graffiti street artists leave behind. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5795983&view=rss&microfeed=true

For much of the 20th century, New York's "Freedom Tunnel" was an unused rail tunnel that housed a homeless community and the occasional graffiti tagger. Trains run through the tunnel nowadays, but metro-spelunkers still venture down into this underground cathedral. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5581659&view=rss&microfeed=true

We've praised street artist Blu's mutant take over Buenos Aires in 08, but the latest piece of work really sets our world on fire. Watch the beginning and end of our planet, painted across buildings, fences, trash cans and more. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5580099&view=rss&microfeed=true

You might not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a city by its front door — and the metropolis behind this tagged behemoth has gotta be a hoot. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5506249&view=rss&microfeed=true

Bender Bending Rodriguez insults human meatbags in his native Spanish in this Futurama-inspired graffiti spotted in Barcelona, from artists Guan, Sagüe and Foner. Apparently, he's gotten a bit more grizzled since the last Futurama film. [via Reddit] More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5366574&view=rss&microfeed=true

Artist Anthony Lister uses spray paint and channels street art to explore the imagery associated with heroes and villains. The results include a gender-bending Robin, a crucified Captain America, and Batmen and Wonder Women of unusual shapes and sizes. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5335466&view=rss&microfeed=true

A video-game creature in London warns us that spy cameras are everywhere in public spaces. It's almost as if the proliferation of CCTV cameras were the real "Space Invaders," intruding into our lives whenever we go outside and subjecting us to intense scrutiny that might as well be a rain of laser blasts. The Space Invaders graffiti, using tiles to simulate 8-bit video game pixels, has been a constant in London since 1999, but it seems to have started featuring the CCTV warning only recently. Click through for a couple more images. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023480&view=rss&microfeed=true