Citizen’s Kit 1


My youngest brother and I have been waging a war of giving each other Christmas gag gifts for a few years. This year he gave me this official DC anti-graffiti kit. I thought he made it, but it’s real. It has a pair of googles, a rag, a paintbrush, and some weird solvent spray.

Good luck with that citizen. I’m curious to know what’s in Kit 2.

Tools of Criminal Mischief

Roger Gastman’s
Tools of Criminal Mischief

Roger Gastman has created more books on graffiti culture than anyone. He’s edited and published countless artist monographs and anthologies and even served as Consulting Producer for the film documentary “Exit Through The Gift Shop”.

For Tools of Criminal Mischief, Mr. Gastman has trawled his personal archive to present the quirky stories and visual oddities that inspire him personally; from the story of infamous Baltimore Graffiti Writer SHAKEN, to 1940′s hobo train art, ’70s gang graffiti, photos of graffiti writers’ personal aerosol arsenals, spray paint collectibles, ephemera and more.

In the author’s own words – ” The danger, history, process, spray cans, magic markers, and the local styles are just a few parts of graffiti that I fixate on. Different aspects interest me at different times, but what always continues to excite me is the oddity – especially pedestrian graffiti and the strange pop-culture references”.

112 pages
9″ x 11 3/4″
Hardbound
265 color illustrations
Limited to 1500 Copies worldwide
ISBN: 978-1-58423-438-8
$24.95

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