{"id":140,"date":"2008-04-15T07:38:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2008-04-15T07:38:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T12:38:16","slug":"grl-the-movie-at-the-moma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/blog\/grl-the-movie-at-the-moma\/","title":{"rendered":"GRL the MoVIE at the MoMA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/dvd\/Compl337_1st_Season_Lores.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the moment <em>none<\/em> of you have been waiting for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"white\">GRL: The Complete First Season<\/font> will make its NYC premiere for <a href=\"http:\/\/moma.org\/calendar\/poprally\/index.php\">PopRally<\/a> at the <font color=\"white\">Museum of Modern Art<\/font> on <font color=\"yellow\">May 4th @ 8PM<\/font> + <font color=\"red\">P<\/font><font color=\"orange\">A<\/font><font color=\"yellow\">R<\/font><font color=\"green\">T<\/font><font color=\"blue\">Y<\/font> after the flick with <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&#038;friendID=153829369\">Javelin<\/a> and <font color=\"pink\">special<\/font>, special guests. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/calendar\/events.php?id=8571&#038;ref=calendar\"><font color=\"yellow\"><del datetime=\"2008-05-03T23:56:55+00:00\">Get your tickets here<\/font><\/a> before <em>they<\/em> sell-out.<br \/>\n<\/del><br \/>\n<font size=\"5\" color=\"yellow\">SORRY!<\/font> We sold-out. But <em>the Complete First Season<\/em> will be showing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bam.org\/sundance\/frontier_2008_LASER.aspx\">BAM<\/a> on Saturday, May 31st at midnight. <font color=\"Red\">Cost <\/font><font color=\"white\"> = <\/font><font color=\"blue\"> Free<\/font>! <\/p>\n<p>Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torrentz.com\/d8153e785b737b8f355c7a0ce9864de21059661a\"><font color=\"yellow\">download the torrent of the unofficial DVD here<\/font><\/a> before <em>we<\/em> sell-out (our DVD is coming soon!).<\/p>\n<p>Read the official press release for the movie here ( <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/redact\">redacted<\/a> by the <font color=\"red\">U<\/font>.<font color=\"blue\">S<\/font>.<font color=\"white\"> Dept. of Homeland Graffiti <\/font> ):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font color=\"blue\">From their origins in <\/font><del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:21:40+00:00\">the<\/del> <font color=\"blue\">trash <\/font><del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:21:40+00:00\">room of a non-profit in Manhattan<\/del><font color=\"blue\"> to their emergence as <\/font><del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:21:40+00:00\">the<\/del><font color=\"blue\"> instigators <\/font><del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:21:40+00:00\">of an international art movement,<\/del> <font color=\"blue\"><em>Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season<\/em> documents the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their <\/font><del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:21:40+00:00\">day<\/del> <font color=\"blue\">jobs to<\/font> <del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:21:40+00:00\">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,<\/del> <font color=\"blue\">mock<\/font> <del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:21:40+00:00\">advertisers with homemade tools, get in trouble with<\/del><font color=\"blue\"> The Department of Homeland Security <\/font><del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:21:40+00:00\">and make activism fun again. Primarily using video footage from point-and-shoot digital cameras (\u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Pocket School\u00e2\u0080?) and found-content on the web, the movie&#8217;s visual style draws as much from the art of the power point presentation and viral media as conventional documentary cinema.<\/del> <font color=\"blue\">Narrated by GRL co-founders, Roth and Powderly, <em>The Complete First Season<\/em> makes a humorous <\/font><del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:41:35+00:00\">and insightful<\/del> <font color=\"blue\">argument for<\/font> <del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:21:40+00:00\">free speech in public, open source in pop culture, the hacker spirit in<\/del><font color=\"blue\"> graffiti and not <\/font><del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:38:14+00:00\">asking for permission in general. <\/del><font color=\"blue\">The film<\/font> <del datetime=\"2008-04-15T05:38:14+00:00\">was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.<\/del> <font color=\"blue\">Available 24\/7 on The Pirate Bay.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; For more GRL @ the MoMA with NYC&#8217;s finest look <a href=\"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/?p=139\">here<\/a>, leap <a href=\"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/?page_id=138#video\">there<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/exhibitions\/exhibitions.php?id=5632\">go thither<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Hobby Boulihan for the best movie poster art eva!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fffff.at\/fuckflickr\/GRL:DaCompl3371stSeason\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/dvd\/AgentLars_Lores.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/dvd\/DHG_Lores.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the moment none of you have been waiting for&#8230; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,14,17,1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-graffiti-technology","category-movie","category-sundance","category-uncategorized","category-uniform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graffitiresearchlab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}