Éiresol Style - Irish Graffiti

have a good weekend!

It’s a slow news day so just something nicked offa 12oz…

from the auld paper yesterday…

“A recovering drug addict who stole 120 packets of rashers replied “Galtee” when a judge asked him if he did it.

Graham Finlay made the quip in Tallaght District Court, Dublin, after Judge James McDonnell asked him to plea. The court heard Finlay was caught on CCTV stuffing nearly EUR500 worth of bacon into his pockets in three separate Dublin supermarkets.

He said he ate some of his loot and sold the rest so he could fund his drug habit. Finlay, from Knockmore in Tallaght, also pleaded guilty to stealing 24 shower gels worth €104. Judge McDonnell sentenced him to six months in prison.”

Good to see Dublin’s WARP still at it. Been a minute!

Nice upload here on a little site called YouTube. Some old school New York subway action…
Nine parts to watch, here’s the first…

Another video of the All-City jam from Grey, updated with the new ESPO stuff and more bits…

That Danish THEK fella has a new DVD out. Other writers featured on it include Sabe, Soten and Splash 117. The video takes you on the journey from Copenhagen to Italy, via Switzerland.
If you like it buy it! But you can download your trial run here on GraffTorrents .

Also up there to download BOMB IT including the extras. Here’s the blurb…

BOMB IT is the explosive new documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti.

Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on 5 continents, BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru its notorious explosion in New York City during the 70’s and 80’s, then follows the flames as they paint the globe. Featuring old school legends and current favorites such as Taki 183, Cornbread, Stay High 149, T-Kid, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revs, Os Gemeos, KET, Chino, Shepard Fairey, Revok, and Mear One. This cutting edge documentary tracks down today’s most innovative and pervasive street artists as they battle for control over the urban visual landscape. You’ll never look at public space the same way again.

BOMB IT has shot in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tijuana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, Berlin, Cape Town, São Paulo, and Tokyo.

Someone asked me recently about stats for the site… how many people read the blog regularly, where they come from and all that. Here’s a list of terms people typed into search engines like Google this week, which led to them clicking in to eiresol.com. The number represents the amount of times that word was used.

158 eiresol
50 irish graffiti
24 eiresol.com
19 graffiti
12 you tube pikey mikey
8 irish graff
5 mikey the pikey
4 graffiti art
4 rogue one graffiti
4 graffiti steel
3 anneke blennerhassett
3 eiresol com
3 old eiresol.com updates
3 www pikeys style
3 graffiti ireland jor
3 grafftorrents
3 eiresol style
2 iarnrod eireann summons

Yes I’m bored.

Issue 16 of Swindle magazine has a feature on Conor Harrington AKA Mr. Who from Cork. Now although this lot claim to be “at the forefront of the global street art scene” they still make the mistake of calling him a landmark London artist. I suppose he does live there, but still…

Anyway the magazine is in shops now. They don’t have that or the CEPT article online, but you can read the one on EINE.

The BTP really went to town on London’s DPM crew. Here’s the BTP press release.

“Nine vandals have pleaded guilty to one of the largest graffiti conspiracies ever brought to trial.”

Someone’s set up a facebook group to raise awareness of their plight. And an article from The Times.