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POPSReverse Graffiti The Brazilian artist’s work came to a happier resolution. The authorities were certainly miffed but could find nothing to charge him with. They had no other recourse but to clean the tunnel — but only the parts Alexandre had already cleaned. The artist merely continued his campaign on the other side of traffic. The utterly flummoxed city officials then decided to take drastic action. Not only did they clean the entire tunnel but also every other tunnel in Sao Paulo. Bravo!
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POPSCreate your own Simpsons Avatar A bunch of my friends on twitter started showing up with Simpsons avatars yesterday. Scott Beale solved the mystery of where they were all getting them - the Simpsons Movie website has a great flash avatar creator.
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POPSThe Murals of Philadelphia 1. 'A Message to the Child...The Hero Can be Found' Artist: John Lewis 2. 'Malcolm X' Artist: Ernel Martinez 3. 'Common Threads' Artist: Meg Saligman 4. The Artist Cavin Jones 5. 'Careers: Heads to the Sky' Artist: Cavin Jones 6. 'Philadelphia on a Half-Tank' Artist: Paul Santoleri 7. The Artists Qimin Liu and Betsy Casañas 8. 'Mario Lanza' Artist: Diane Keller 9. 'Jackie Robinson' Artist: David McShane 10. The Artist David McShane 11-12. 'Lincoln Legacy' Artist: Josh Sarantitis 13. 'Dr. J' Artist: Kent Twitchell 14. 'Frank Rizzo' Artist: Diane Keller 15. 'Reaching for a Star' Artist: Don Gensler 16. The Artists Don Gensler and Michelle Ortiz 17. 'Herman Wrice' Artist: David McShane 18. 'Tribute to Frank Guarrera' Artist: Peter Pagast 19. The Artist Ras Malik 20. 'The Peace Wall' (detail) Artist: Jane Golden
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POPSAbu Ghraib whistleblower's ordeal
His wife had no idea that Mr Darby had handed in those photos, but when he was named, she had to flee to her sister's house which was then vandalised with graffiti. Many in his home town called him a traitor. "I knew that some people wouldn't agree with what I did," he says. "You have some people who don't view it as right and wrong. They view it as: I put American soldiers in prison over Iraqis." That animosity in his home town has meant that he still cannot return there. After Donald Rumsfeld blew his cover, he was bundled out of Iraq very quickly and lived under armed protection for the first six months. He has since left the army but did testify at the trials of some of those accused of abuse and torture. It is Charles Graner he is most afraid of. "Seeing Graner across the courtroom was the only one that was difficult during the trial," he says. "He had a stone-cold stare of hatred the entire time - he wouldn't take his eyes off me the whole time he sat there.
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POPS Breaking repression, Saudi style About 150 gang members emerged from Jeddah's shadows. The graffiti died down after the scheme was introduced but some rogue graffiti artists remain Jeddah gangs benefit from being from powerful families. Ordinary Saudis who dare to paint graffiti can pay a heavy price. A teenager in the northern desert town of Hafr Al Baten was sentenced in February to 60 lashes of the whip and fined 2,000 riyals for defacing walls in his school
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POPS Aids network launches campaign against quacks "The quacks are not only a stumbling block in the fight against Aids but also they cheat unsuspecting patients, often poor and uneducated," said Shabana Patel, a representative of the Indian Network of People Living With HIV and Aids in the western state of Maharashtra
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POPSLight Graffiti Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they'd never be able to with spraypaint. Very cool!
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POPS24 hours in pictures - April 25th 10 Recife, Brazil: An activist paints the silhouette of a murder victim at the site where he was killed 11 Beijing, China: A model presents a creation by Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto during a fashion show at the Imperial Ancestral Temple 12 Newcastle, UK: Teenagers enjoy the sunshine at a graffiti-covered skatepark
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