“It’s been a long time. We shouldn’t have left you… without a dope beat to step to.”

G.R.L., Open Frameworks and graffiti legend Tempt1 have teamed-up to bring you the latest weapon of ocular assault: the EyeWriter. Source code, free software, HOW TO guide, videos and eye tags by Tempt1 available at eyewriter.org.

“Art is a tool of empowerment and social change, and I consider myself blessed to be able to create and and use my work to promote health reform, bring awareness about ALS and help others”
— Tony Quan, aka Tempt One

The EyeWriter core development team consists of Zach Lieberman, Chris Sugrue, Theo Watson, James Powderly, Evan Roth, Tony Quan & The Ebeling Group.

Made possible through support from the Not Impossible Foundation and Parsons Communication Design & Technology.

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 Schoolâ€?) 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!

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.

¿Te molesta que las gotas de pintura te salpiquen los ojos? ¿Desearías que la gente se diera cuenta de tus heróicos esfuerzos para poder pintar la propiedad privada? Si la respuesta es “SI”, lo que necesitas es el nuevo EXTINGUIDOR POV CAM del Laboratorio de Investigación del Graffiti.

Como usted lo vió en YouTube.

The G.R.L. rolls out its newest probably-not-street-legal vehicle, the Mobile Broadcast Unit: audio, projection and L.A.S.E.R. tag systems all mounted on a big tricycle. For more information on the MBU and to watch a video of the G.R.L. riding in Critical Mass Brooklyn click here.

Catch 30′ x 15′ tags in 15 minutes or less or your money back! Click here to view the video or check out the DIY instructions to make your High Writer.

Click here and view how to get your name up in lights.

An electro-graf is a graffiti piece or throw-up that uses conductive and magnetic paint to embed LED display electronics.

To watch a video documenting the making of the first prototype electro-graf in the lab at Eyebeam, click on the image or follow this link.

LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends and city officials.

For more on LED throwies and to watch the video of the first campaign, follow this link.