{"id":2519,"date":"2011-08-20T14:05:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T18:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unseennyc.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:36:23","slug":"refuse-to-be-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/20\/refuse-to-be-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Refuse to be Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedstatesartists.org\/project\/gated_community_the_incarceration_of_a_graffiti_writer\">Gated Community: The Incarceration of a Graffiti Writer<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>My friend\u00a0Mickael\u00a0Broth was arrested for graffiti when we were both living in Richmond, VA. I remember the day his place happened and we were all crushed. There was a movie screening for a film by our friends Day By Day that night and there was a 5 minute segment in the movie with nothing but footage of Mike getting up. Everyone just watched it silently. It was a perfect memorial for\u00a0<strong>Refuse To Be Smart<\/strong>.\u00a0 All of a sudden the night switched from a movie premiere to a fund raiser for Mike&#8217;s legal fund.<\/p>\n<p>Mickael Broth is now a well established fine artist still living in Richmond and he is working on a book that is a collection of the art and letters he wrote over the 10 months he served in jail. The book will also be a discusion of grafitti art and the other side of what happens to vandals when they don&#8217;t make it into art galleries like Bansky and Shepard Fairey.<\/p>\n<p>He has a kickstarter like fundraiser up on United States Artists and he is more than half way there with 19 more days to go. I hope you can donate and help make his book a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit this link for more information.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedstatesartists.org\/project\/gated_community_the_incarceration_of_a_graffiti_writer\">Gated Community: The Incarceration of a Graffiti Writer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/19606797@N00\/29355790\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2520 aligncenter\" title=\"Refuse to be Smart\" src=\"http:\/\/unseennyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/refuse-to-be-smart-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gated Community: The Incarceration of a Graffiti Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-words","tag-drivenbyboredom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyc.trypnotik.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}