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The Taffy – Transient & Mongolia Zine Pack

Spray Daily — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 19:02:05 +0000

The Taffy just dropped a pack with two zines for the price of 1. Get the pack here: Pavementstudio.bigcartel.com/the-taffy-transient Transient – Moscow to Hong Kong, via the Trans Siberian railway 68 pages, A5 perfect bound, All photos 35mm, Numbered edition of 100 Mongolia 28 pages, A5 staple bound, Numbered edition of 100

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The Taffy – 2006 [Book]

Spray Daily — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 13:26:27 +0000

New book out by The Taffy called “2006” with only analog 35mm photos from 2006! 52 pages of unpublished trains from 2006, Limited Edition of 200, signed and numbered, Printed in Great Britain, A5 perfect bound. Available from www.thetaffy.bigcartel.com for £12, check it out! Photos from: Cardiff, London, Liverpool, New York, Hamburg, Paris, Lille, Marseille, Stockholm, Moscow and more… [See image gallery at www.spraydaily.com]

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MONOCHROME 018 – Ceres

Spray Daily — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:34:52 +0000

In this episode of MONOCHROME features Ceres who represent the English graffiti crews YRP and GSD. If you want more follow him on www.instagram.com/thetaffy

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MUSIC: Pistol Pete https://soundcloud.com/pistoleriksson
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FILMED BY: Alex Priestley

MONOCHROME is a series of graffiti videos, all with a black-and-chrome feeling, by Spraydaily.com. Simple short videos featuring one writer and three cans in each episode. One chrome piece on one clean wall by one selected graffiti writer for each episode.

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Graffdonuts meets Ceres

Spray Daily — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:10:35 +0000

Ceres is a writer with a long history, from Cardiff U.K, member of the crew YRP and GSD. Here is an interview with new styles and old memories, with fresh new walls and crazy actions in the London Subway system back in the days. Check it out and learn something: www.graffdonuts.com/ceres [See image gallery at www.spraydaily.com]

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‘The Taffy’ Prison Drawings

Spray Daily — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:07:22 +0000

What immediately stands out about The Taffy’s prison drawings is the sheer attention to detail, a sense of total immersion and utter obsessiveness. Created under the most modest of circumstances: a metal desk, ink on paper supplied by Her Majesty’s Prison, music from headphones, and of course time. Lots of time.

That The Taffy used drawing as a distraction from the boredom inherent in prison life is clear. Several works executed on paper bearing the Ministry of Justice livery are essentially abstract typographic pieces. Perhaps not the artist’s preferred choice of canvas, he was after all serving a 22-month prison sentence for painting trains, nevertheless the paper’s insignia complements and actually serves to complete these works.

The map pieces are yet more complex. Geometric forms have replaced any semblance of lettering. Some display an almost overwhelming degree of hatching, others a fascination with minutiae – a myriad of thousands of shapes, reminiscent of circuit boards, or better yet erroneous digital displays. The ones and zeros are not completely aligned it would appear.

There has of course been an interest in outsider art, prison art and the like in recent years. Often there is a strong correlation with the creative process and some form of mental illness. However, these works betray a different sensibility, that of a man who’s trying to escape the drone of incessant prison chatter and who is influenced by the art that got him incarcerated in the first place. I’m certain that there was a yearning to recreate some of these sketches on grander surfaces but in prison, needs must.

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