2024年5月23日 · Almost 20 years after James Scott-Howarth’s house and parents’ business was raided over links to secretive graffiti crew 70K, he sat in court and watched footage of himself, in his early 20s, illegally spraying his moniker, “Stan”, throughout the city.

2024年5月23日 · Almost 20 years after James Scott-Howarth’s house and parents’ business were raided over links to secretive graffiti crew 70K, he sat in court and watched footage of himself, in his early 20s, illegally spraying his moniker, “Stan”, throughout the city. In the early 2000s, Scott-Howarth was one of the most prolific graffiti artists in Melbourne.

Jamie Howarth’s 70K (2006) is a documentary about graffiti artists, including Renks, Stanley, Futile & Bones, members of the 70K crew, that was refused classification (censored) by the OFLC...

2006年1月21日 · The Herald Sun believes the pair used the tags "Stan" and "Bonez" and headed the notorious 70K crew. (The gang name refers to 1970s kids, because gang members were born in the 1970s.) The police breakthrough, stemming from a series of raids last month, coincides with a $1 million clean-up campaign to rid Melbourne of graffiti.

Decades after “Stan”, “Meow”, “Renks”, “Karl” and “Bonez” tagged trains and landmarks around Melbourne, the law has caught up with one of the 70K crew’s chiefs. To some, it’s art. To others, a blight on the city.

2024年5月26日 · Last week, James Scott-Howarth aka “Stan” of the graffiti crew 70k appeared in court facing 14 charges relating to offences committed over 20 years ago. (“ Inside Melbourne’s ’graffiti war ‴⁣⁣, 23/5). After fleeing arrest at the time, he had returned to Australia last year, voluntarily notifying police through his lawyer.

2024年5月23日 · Decades after “Stan”, “Meow” and “Bonez” tagged trains and landmarks around Melbourne, the law has caught up with one of the 70K crew’s chiefs.

bonez was a melbourne graffiti artist / painter / graffer part of the 70k crew / 70s kids with bald, meow, stan ++ very active in the early 2000s heavily into rollies and bombing and

While forms of graffiti stencilling now popular in Melbourne appear to lend themselves (and actively anticipate) framing as cultural heritage, other forms of graffiti, exemplified by the work of prominent graffiti crew 70K, undermine the aesthetic and historical categories necessary for the establishment of heritage value.