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-Thanks JHURT

-I have a whole new level of respect for writers who paint in NY and other parts of the world that experience a “real winter”… That shit is for the birds.

In typical fashion i showed up 3 hours late to the wall(Sorry guys) BIO, HOW/NOSM, NICER and BG were already well into their pieces…Since we were doing a wall in Manhattan i took the opportunity to do a piece for my fallen friend Dash SACE Snow. Ironically it actually started snowing mid way through painting and i found my hands and ears burning as if dipped in molten lava. I have no intention of spending more than 20 minutes on anything until the temperature raises to above a freezing level.

-Big thanks to the TATS crew for making the wall happen and coming out to RETNA’s show to support.

HAZE is THE MAN. And his studio is like a museum of super-cool shit.

-HAZE

-KNOWNGALLERY

-Thanks ZIO.

-THESEDELIGHTS

To celebrate the release of their dvd box Beats & Drips 2, Sofarida has invited Graphic Surgery to Celal Gallery for their first solo exhibition in France.

We are pleased to invite you to attend the opening of “Between the Lines” at Celal Gallery in Paris.
The opening starts at 4pm on Saturday the 26th of February.
For further details please read the attached invitation.

Galerie Celal
45, rue Saint-Honoré
75001 Paris, France

We look forward to meet you at the gallery.
Kind regards,

Graphic Surgery
Erris Huigens
Gysbert Zijlstra

http://www.galeriecelal.com

http://www.graphicsurgery.nl

http://www.sofarida.blogspot.com

http://www.graffitiartmagazine.com

-KPCC is reporting that LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is disbanding five anti-gang units in Highland Park and South Los Angeles. To counter the loss of these units, which have access to special databases and classified information on gang activities, the Chief will place more rank-and-file officers on the streets in those areas, although he declined to say how many.

From the outside it’s difficult to know what this loss will mean, how effective these specialized units are, and what the impact on the street will actually be. The intriguing part of the story is why these units are being disbanded. It’s not because the gang problem is getting any better. It’s not because the city is trying new tactics to help neighborhoods plagued by gang violence from a different direction that doesn’t involve the court system and the police. It’s not because of budget cuts.

The reason the city is losing five units assigned to organized crime is because the officers involved don’t want to let the LAPD peek inside their bank accounts. Narcotics and gang officers in the city of LA are now required to disclose financial information, a method used to root out corruption in two of the most notoriously corrupt wings of the LAPD. So far all of the Narcotics officers have signed onto the new rules, something the Chief attributes to job security in the narcotics division and KPCC says has to do with those officers already being used to intense scrutiny. Gang unit officers see their position as a stepping stone to better jobs within the force, although that still doesn’t explain why so many of them (up to 25% of the city’s 300 gang specialists) are quitting the units rather then disclose their finances.

I thought it funny I can’t find coverage about this on any of the major LA news outlets…

-Via LATACO