Watch the Complete 1st Season Trailer here.

GRL: The Complete First Season screens this Sunday, May 4th @ 8PM at the MoMA. After the flick, talk with artists featured in the film, including Mark Jenkins, Leon Reid, Steve Lambert, the GRL and special guests + party to the music of Javelin. BYOPS! (Bring your own purple stuff).

Get your tickets here!

SORRY! We sold-out. But the Complete First Season will be showing at BAM on Saturday, May 31st at midnight. Cost = Free!

Here’s the moment none of you have been waiting for…

GRL: The Complete First Season will make its NYC premiere for PopRally at the Museum of Modern Art on May 4th @ 8PM + PARTY after the flick with Javelin and special, special guests.

Get your tickets here before they sell-out.

SORRY! We sold-out. But the Complete First Season will be showing at BAM on Saturday, May 31st at midnight. Cost = Free!

Or download the torrent of the unofficial DVD here before we sell-out (our DVD is coming soon!).

Read the official press release for the movie here ( redacted by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Graffiti ):

From their origins in the trash room of a non-profit in Manhattan to their emergence as the instigators of an international art movement, Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season documents the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their day jobs to develop high-tech tools for the art underground. The film follows the GRL and their network of graffiti artist collaborators (and commercial imitators) across four continents as they write on skyscrapers with lasers, mock advertisers with homemade tools, get in trouble with The Department of Homeland Security and make activism fun again. Primarily using video footage from point-and-shoot digital cameras (“The Pocket School”) and found-content on the web, the movie’s visual style draws as much from the art of the power point presentation and viral media as conventional documentary cinema. Narrated by GRL co-founders, Roth and Powderly, The Complete First Season makes a humorous and insightful argument for free speech in public, open source in pop culture, the hacker spirit in graffiti and not asking for permission in general. The film was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008. Available 24/7 on The Pirate Bay.

- For more GRL @ the MoMA with NYC’s finest look here, leap there and go thither.

Thanks to Hobby Boulihan for the best movie poster art eva!

Over 25 of New York City’s best writers crew-up with the GRL to glorify graffiti at the Museum of Modern Art. Click here to watch the vid and make Peter Vallone Jr. cry.

Reporting live from nowherre: Graffiti Research Lab: the Complete First Season (coming soon to a torrent near you) screened yesterday and set a new Sundance record for the most copyright violations per minute.

In other history-making news, Palestinian rappers DAM and DR of PR performed with New York’s Boldest: 2ESAE and SKI, and all the Slingshot Hip Hop crew outside the Eccles Theater in Park City, Utah. With a little help from the G.R.L..

Two days later a part of the border wall falls in Gaza. Coincidence?

Watch the video above to see the newest G.R.L. tools designed to embarrass nations, tag mountains and piss off the narcs at the RIAA and the MPAA. Stay tuned for more coverage of the GRL making a mockery of Sundance. FREE GAZA! FREE PALESTINE! And FREE MUSIC downloads!

Click here to view G.R.L. photos from Sundance.

Click here for .mov version.

Robert Redford kicking it with All City Crew member 2EASE.

Page Tears w/ 2ESAE and Waleed Zaiter from Slingshot.

Special Thanks to 2ESAE, SKI, Bennett4Senate, Mikey K, Michele, Twin A, The Slingshot Hip Hop crew, All the rappers, Shari, Mike, Mike Plante, Bridgette Erickson, and everyone else who helped make this possible.

… but what you can do to help the Graffiti Research Lab win a brand new laser cutter!

Our Ghetto Matrix instruction set has made it to the final round of the Instructables laser cutter competition. We are one of 14 people that stand a chance to win this $15,000 piece of machinery. We need this laser like 8—> Peter Vallone Jr. needs to spend a night on Rikers Island… and we need YOUR help to get it.

VOTE
—> RIGHT HERE <---
RIGHT NOW!

You can view the finalists here, and people who have instructables accounts can go straight into the matrix and cast your vote for us here. For those of you who don’t have accounts (but want to help us win this thing), just go here and set up an account and start voting. Any NYC-area graf writer or street artist who signs up for an account, votes for us and helps us win, will get their stencils cut for FREE!

We need your help. Please forward this on, force your mom to sign up on instructables, sign your cat up for an account… whatever it takes. Thanks for the support and hopefully we’ll be doing irresponsible things with very powerful lasers soon.

The Graffiti Research Lab is going to The Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier on Main program. We are looking for a few good graf writers, snowboarders, DJs, mormon MCs and lawyers to help us make a movie. The GRL will be rocking slopes, walls, beats and celebrities of interest from January 16th - January 27th in Park City and the surrounding the greater Salt Lake City area. We will be screening part of our new DVD, Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season, including all our experiments at Sundance, at 12:30 PM Tuesday January 22nd at The New Frontier on Main. Is the UT ready for the GRL?

If you’re interested in hooking up with the GRL and making a little Beehive State history email us here.

Selected GRL-related events at Sundance:

– DAM and other artists from Slingshot HipHop perform 14:30 on Monday January 21st at the Music Cafe at the Star Bar on Main.
– L.A.S.E.R. Tag at the Screening of Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden 20:00 on Monday January 21st at the Library Center Theater (The GRL knows btw…)
– Preview Screening of GRL: The Complete First Season 12:30 PM Tuesday January 22nd at New Frontier on Main.
– Music on Main at 18:00 on Thursday January 24th at Lower Main St.

Stay tuned to F@ for updates on the GRL, movie reviews from Sundance and straight moguling.

Advertisers interested in talking to the GRL about using L.A.S.E.R. Tag at Sundance should have their people contact our people.

What would happen if you remade the Matrix in the ghetto, cast a rapper from Yonkers, NY as Neo, Large Professor as Morpheus, and 8—> Peter Vallone Jr as Agent Smith, manned the Nebuchadnezzar with the best graffiti writers in New York City armed with high-powered lasers and then set the whole thing in the true Zion: the County of Kings, Brooklyn, New York?

It would probably go a little somethin’ like this:

You know the Oracle is the GRL…

To roll the vid at a baller’s resolution click here and here.

Check out this tutorial on how to build your own cheap, portable and hood-style bullet time camera rig on the cheap and the fly. Designed by the GRL and director Dan the Man for a hip-hop music video for underground rappers Styles P, AZ and the legendary Large Professor, the Ghetto Matrix is just another chapter in the GRL’s continuing mission to make open source the sixth element of hip-hop.

For more photos from inside the Ghetto Matrix click here.
Learn how to make your own DIY bullet-time camera rig here.
For our shout-outs and props to everyone who inspired and contributed to this project go here and here.

Graffiti Research Lab uniforms are here! G.R.L. has teamed up with the Bronx-based Gold Bricker Society (GBS) and the US Airforce to bring you these hand-screened limited edition G.R.L. eagle T’s. G.R.L. uniforms are printed on Alternative Apparel Basic Crew shirts, free from both labor abuse and kiddie porn adverts. 95 cents of each dollar spent on G.R.L. T’s goes directly toward making Petey Vallone. Jr pissed and miserable.

(For international orders click here)

If you’d like to make your own GRL silk screen or stencil here are the files you’ll need to get started:

- grl_logo.eps
- grl_logo.png

8–> more on Vallone Jr.

AWAKE SLEEPERS AND RISE UP!

Graffiti writers, hackers, pranksters, nerds, thugs, glue sniffers, knitters, cubicle warriors, failed shoe-bombers and all assorted plebes join us in the fight to have fun in public. Do not call now! Do not send us money. Simply lower your expectations for a moment and read HOW TO START YOUR OWN GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB, then get a URL, set the background color to #000000 and tear your city apart.

8—>HOW TO START YOUR OWN GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB.

We’re not Triads. We’re not Al-Qaeda. We’re just a mass of kids running around Hong Kong in SUVs with much gear and lasers listening to Cantonese Hip Hop. What do you have to fear?

November 14th, 2007 the GRL goes to Hong Kong China Hong Kong for the Microwave Festival, meets MC Yan, eats well, buys military surplus in Mong Kok, makes history.