Update: GRL Founder and 5 others freed in Beijing

In an update to this story, Brooklyn’s own Graffiti Research Lab founder James Powderly, and five other American citizens/artists [bios], were released yesterday after spending ten days in beautiful Beijing, China. They were detained after lighting up a “Free Tibet” LED banner outside the main Olympic’s stadium. Here’s that video, from Vimeo:

Beijing: Activists detained after lighting up “Free Tibet” LED Throwies banner near Olympics site from Students for a Free Tibet on Vimeo.
And here’s a photo of James Powderly’s homecoming, titled The Eagle Has Landed via GRL:

more info at Students for a Free Tibet

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