In just six days, the “Safest Show on Earth” will open at the The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, offering what should be an incomplete and thoroughly sanitized “history of graffiti and street art.” So, KATSU decided to pay a visit early and offer his unsanctioned critique by way of a paint-filled fire extinguisher on the museum’s exterior walls.
Morrissey circa mid-90s finds himself endorsing Nike in KATSU’s latest series of faux-ads. This one just popped up on Avenue A and 12th Street. There’s a doughnut-grubbing Chief Wiggum in Chinatown on Allen Street too, but the Moz had more passerby doing a WTF double-take. Read more »
As the saying goes, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Art Primo took down their first video of KATSU’s “World’s First” fire extinguisher fill-in, replacing it with a new, Jay-Z soundtracked edit. Besides speeding up the drippy action footage, the graffiti supplier also included a finished shot of the wholly illegible piece, illustrating why nobody ordinarily uses fire extinguishers to paint anything but sloppy drips and monster tags. Read more »
In an advertisement billed as the “decline of civilization,” KATSU paints a “fire extinguisher fill-in,” the “first ever in graffiti history.” Despite the historical nature of this event, graffiti supplier Art Primo doesn’t bother showing off the finished fill-in, likely as drippy and sloppy as one would expect from the notoriously messy medium. Jump for the video destruction below. Read more »
KATSU continues putting fire extinguishers to unintended use following his starring role in Red Bucket Films’ tagging tribute to “Powers of 10.” In this newly released video, the prolific paint sprayer is joined by fellow vandal MORAL as they bomb the boroughs’ walls, highways and bridges with fire extinguisher tags. High-pressure destruction footage comes after the jump. Read more »
Red Bucket Films reworks Charles and Ray Eames’ 1977 film “Powers of 10,” featuring graffiti writer KATSU’s exponentially bigger tags covering everything from a grain of rice to a Chelsea rooftop. |Wooster Collective|
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