Duo who painted graffiti on Bangkok MRT caught in Australia

[Hans Mann]

Photos and video posted to social media allegedly show US fugitives Ether (in the photo) and Utah spray-painting an out-of-service MRT train, possibly early on April 22. (Photo via FB/The Grifters)

Australian authorities have captured and jailed the US fugitive who claims to have spray-painted an MRT train during a cross-Asia graffiti campaign.

The Australian Associated Press reported the male half of the "Ether and Utah" spray painters is in custody in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy.

Jim Clay "Ether" Harper, 31, of New York, was arrested in Fitzroy and brought before the Melbourne Magistrates Court last Thursday, according to the AAP.

Harper and his girlfriend Danielle Bremner, 34, of Chicago, fancy themselves as the "Bonnie and Clyde" of the graffiti world, according to.....

MTA graffiti 'artists' nabbed in Australia | Bangkok Post: news

[Hans Mann]

[wasabi]

Where do they get the money from to travel and buy cans of spray paint?

[ch1ldofthemoon]

^ They make a video of their `derring-doing` and the more people watch it, the more money they make from you tube.
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[Kurgen]

Harper and his girlfriend Danielle Bremner, 34, of Chicago, fancy themselves as the "Bonnie and Clyde" of the graffiti world

[BaitongBoy]

I must have missed the spray-painting scene in Bonnie & Clyde...Did they even have spray cans back then, or did they use a paint brush?...

[VocalNeal]

...and he was therefore working without a work permit.

[DJ Pat]

The original New york graffiti scene in the early 80s had a few rules, one was that all spray paint used had to be stolen, otherwise you weren't ''down with the crew''

I knew many from the London graf scene in the late 80s. Most gave up when security was tightened up at train depots and a couple of guys got electrocuted on the tracks. The attractiveness of it being rebellious soon wore off for most anyway.

Hope these vandals get the book thrown at them. It's not art, it's old hat, no longer cool. Hasn't been for years now.

[cyrille]

Well whether or not you consider it art, these particular exponents are clearly shit at it.

[Mozzbie47]

I have noticed graffiti in Bangkok, funny thing most of it is in English ?
Are these shit head's being sent back to face charges ?

[Davis Knowlton]

no longer cool. Hasn't been for years now.

Never was 'cool', Prat...except perhaps to idiots like you.

[Hans Mann]

Hope they're extradited to Singapore for some good old fashioned caning first.....

[TizMe]

no longer cool. Hasn't been for years now.

Never was 'cool', Prat...except perhaps to idiots like you.

Too right.

[nidhogg]

Well whether or not you consider it art, these particular exponents are clearly shit at it.

Struck me as well. That example in OP is particularly bleeding drab.

[Luigi]

Are these shit head's being sent back to face charges ?

What. Extradited to a Military Junta led regime that actively tries civilians in closed military courts, disappears members of the public, and publicly declares the guilt of foreigners before their trial even begins??


Yeah.

Probably.

[Farang Ky Ay]

This video is 3 years old

[wasabi]

Lets hope they do a cool video about a graffiti trip to North Korea

[Chittychangchang]

Lets hope they do a cool video about a graffiti trip to North Korea

Two foreigners sought for graffiti on trains ? The Korea Times