Utah & Ether

Danielle E. Bremner{{cite web |last =Bremner |first1=Danielle E. |title=Thanks for looking! |url=http://www.utahoner.com/?p=1329 |website=UTAH ONER |access-date=January 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100723152953/http://www.utahoner.com/?p=1329 |archive-date=July 23, 2010 |date=July 15, 2010}} was born on February 16, 1982{{cite web |last1=Rollins |first1=Rachael |author1-link=Rachael Rollins |title=ALLEGED VANDAL TAGGED WITH HIGH BAIL AT ARRAIGNMENT |url=https://archive.suffolkdistrictattorney.com/alleged-vandal-tagged-with-high-bail-at-arraignment/ |publisher=Suffolk County, Massachusetts District Attorney's Office |access-date=January 29, 2022 |date=September 2009}} in Bayside, Queens.{{cite news |last1=Leonard |first1=Paul |title=Queens Woman Called Number One City Tagger |url=https://www.qchron.com/editions/western/queens-woman-called-number-one-city-tagger/article_3a88d753-0eb4-5a24-8ce8-65a14204730b.html |access-date=January 30, 2022 |work=Queens Chronicle |date=August 28, 2008 |language=en}} Her mother worked as a Bayside high school teacher, and her father as a New York City policeman.{{cite news |last1=Sweet |first1=Laurel J. |title=Graffiti vandal suspect slapped with $10,000 bail tag |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2008/10/01/graffiti-vandal-suspect-slapped-with-10000-bail-tag/ |access-date=January 30, 2022 |work=Boston Herald |date=October 1, 2008}} She says she grew up around graffiti as part of the New York City landscape.{{cite news |last1=Emory |first1=Sami |title=Renegade Graffiti Artists Utah & Ether Aren't Afraid of Getting Caught |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/78eg3z/utah-ether-renegade-graffiti-vandalism-art |work=Vice |access-date=January 28, 2022 |language=en |date=November 6, 2016}}

Jim Clay Harper VI was born on January 18, 1985, in Wilmette, Illinois, near Chicago. He had two brothers and one sister; their father, Jim Clay Harper V, who worked as a stockbroker at Morgan Stanley, died in 2004.{{cite news |title=Obituary: Jim Clay Harper, V |url=https://history.wilmettelibrary.info/1692036/data |access-date=January 31, 2022 |work=Wilmette Life |date=July 22, 2004 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=JIM CLAY HARPER, 48 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-07-02-0407020294-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |date=July 2, 2004 |language=en}} He says he grew up across from the Linden Yard and would observe the nightly graffiti on the cars. Harper posted abstract art on web sites, including one with graffiti tags. In 2001, Harper used the alias "Merlin", and said he had one year experience in graphic design and two in Web design.{{cite news |last1=Main |first1=Frank |title=Pair of global graffiti suspects tagged by cops at last|url=https://www.pressreader.com/usa/chicago-sun-times/20080823/281599531291013 |access-date=January 31, 2022 |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=August 23, 2008}} He started doing graffiti while a student at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.{{cite magazine |last1=Knight |first1=Meribah |title=To Catch a Graffiti Artist |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/to-catch-a-graffiti-artist |access-date=January 28, 2022 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=July 9, 2016}} He became part of the MUL ("Made You Look") graffiti crew, based in Chicago but including members in several states. He used the graffiti tag "Ether".

Bremner met Harper in 2005, through a mutual friend, after she temporarily moved to Chicago in 2004. Both were already known in the graffiti community. They met up in Chicago for a trip to St. Louis to paint the MetroLink system. Soon, the two would meet regularly for graffiti excursions across the US, sleeping in Bremner's car. Both often tagged as part of MUL. According to the Suffolk County, Massachusetts District Attorney's office, Harper left his tags, "Ether", and "MUL", on MBTA subway cars in Boston from June to October 2005.

In 2006, Bremner was a student at York University in Toronto, when she was arrested, twice, for graffiti, in association with a male student from the Ontario College of Art and Design. In May, the pair were arrested in Boston with 45 cans of spray paint, for painting graffiti on the side of multiple buildings.{{cite web |title=Pair Arrested for Tagging |url=https://bpdnews.com/blog/2006/05/24/daily-incidents-for-may-24-2006 |website=bpdnews.com |publisher=Boston Police Department |access-date=January 29, 2022 |date=May 24, 2006}}{{cite news |title=Graffiti |url=http://www.bahistory.org/Newspapers/News_ABTab_20060602.pdf |work=Allston/Brighton TAB |date=June 2, 2006 |pages=4}} In June, they were arrested after a 100 metre/yard chase at Toronto's Davisville Yard, where they painted trains belonging to the Toronto Transit Commission. The arresting officer said that the mural at the Davisville Yard looked good: "It was very colourful, very well-defined, and not sloppy at all. It was well-planned art."{{cite news |last1=Maughan |first1=Christopher |title=Taggers caught spraying TTC trains |url=https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/star-taggers-caught-spraying-ttc-trains.2936/ |work=Toronto Star |date=June 22, 2006|id={{ProQuest|439000558}}}} She was convicted and paid restitution for both cases.{{cite news |last1=Parascandola |first1=Rocco |title=NYC pair eyed in European graffiti spree |url=http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nytag0821,0,4540439.story |work=Newsday |date=August 20, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827100834/http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nytag0821,0,4540439.story|archive-date=August 27, 2008}}

In 2008, Bremner was a student at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology.{{cite news |title=Cops suspect U.S. duo in Europe graffiti spree |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26339910 |work=NBC News |agency=Associated Press |date=August 22, 2008 |language=en}} Newsday sources considered Bremner the most active female graffiti tagger in New York City and possibly the country. Her graffiti tags varied between "Utah", "Dani", and "Erin".

File:Free Utah by Claw Money.jpg, exhibited in New York City, 2012]]

File:Free Ether graffiti.jpg, 2010]]

In May 2008, Bremner and Harper, now her boyfriend, went on a three month, multi-country "graffiti spree" across Europe. They put their graffiti tags, "Ether" and "Dani" or "Utah", on train cars in London, Madrid, Paris, Frankfurt, and Hamburg. In their absence, in July, police searched Bremner's Woodside, Queens, apartment and found over 450 cans of spray paint and both Polaroid and digital photographs of her tags on New York City Subway trains. When the pair returned to the United States in August, they were each arrested upon landing, Bremner in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, and Harper at JFK International Airport in New York City. They faced charges for $100,000 in graffiti damages in four of the five boroughs of New York City, including subway yards in Harlem and Inwood, Manhattan, and 20 counts of vandalism in The Bronx. After this arrest, Newsday labelled them "the Bonnie and Clyde of the graffiti world", a sobriquet that would be later repeated by numerous other sources.{{cite news |last1=Van Sack |first1=Jessica |title=Police: tag! you're it!: Alleged graffiti vandal nabbed |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2008/09/12/police-tag-youre-it-alleged-graffiti-vandal-nabbed/ |access-date=January 31, 2022 |work=Boston Herald |date=September 12, 2008}}{{cite book |last1=Marcovitz |first1=Hal |title=The Art of Graffiti |date=2020 |publisher=ReferencePoint Press |location=San Diego, CA |isbn=9781682825839 |pages=46–48}}{{cite news |last1=Conde |first1=Adriana |title=Entrevista a Utah & Ether, los Bonnie & Clyde del graffiti |url=https://joiamagazine.com/entrevista-a-utah-ether-los-bonnie-clyde-del-graffiti/ |access-date=January 29, 2022 |work=JOIA Magazine |date=February 11, 2016 |language=es}}

Bremner turned herself in to New York City authorities in April 2009,{{cite news |last1=Bode |first1=Nicole |title=Globe-trotting graffiti queen turns self in |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/globe-trotting-graffiti-queen-turns-article-1.361361 |access-date=January 31, 2022 |work=New York Daily News |date=April 2, 2009}} and in July was sentenced to six months in jail and a $10,000 fine for her New York City vandalism.{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Jeremy |title=Woodside's graffiti girl gets 6 months – QNS.com |url=https://qns.com/2009/07/woodsides-graffiti-girl-gets-6-months/ |access-date=January 30, 2022 |work=Queens Courier |date=July 16, 2009}} She served her sentence on Rikers Island, about which she reported, via fellow graffiti artist turned fashion designer Claw Money, that it wasn't so bad, except for being unable to get enough food, being a vegan, until she wrote a letter threatening a lawsuit.{{cite news |last1=Carlson |first1=Jen |title=Graffiti Writer Can't Get Vegan Food on Riker's |url=https://gothamist.com/news/graffiti-writer-cant-get-vegan-food-on-rikers |access-date=January 31, 2022 |work=Gothamist |date=June 12, 2009 |language=en}} After being released from Riker's Island, Bremner was further tried in September 2009 in Boston. There she pled guilty to 13 counts of vandalism and was sentenced to another six months incarceration, another five figures of restitution, a mental health evaluation, and five years of probation, supervised by New York authorities, during which she would be forbidden to return to Boston.{{cite news |last1=Crimaldi |first1=Laura |title=Judge tags 'Utah' graffiti woman with six months |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2009/10/01/judge-tags-utah-graffiti-woman-with-six-months |access-date=January 31, 2022 |work=Boston Herald |date=October 1, 2009}} Defense attorneys and graffiti artists considered the sentence harsh, especially in comparison to a two year probation sentence given in July to sticker artist Shepard Fairey, but prosecutors said that reflected the difficulty of removing paint graffiti as opposed to stickers.{{cite news |title=Graffiti artist draws 6-month sentence |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/09/27/Graffiti-artist-draws-6-month-sentence/74181254072327/ |access-date=January 31, 2022 |work=United Press International |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Cramer |first1=Maria |title=Likely prison sentence for graffiti artist stokes debate |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/27/case_fires_up_debate_as_graffiti_artist_faces_6_months_in_prison/ |work=Boston Globe |date=September 27, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090929231245/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/27/case_fires_up_debate_as_graffiti_artist_faces_6_months_in_prison/|archive-date=September 29, 2009}}

Bremner was released in February 2010, and announced a web site, utahoner.com, where she would display her artwork, announce shows and events, and sell prints and gear.{{cite web |author1=Claw Money |author1-link=Claw Money |title=B L O G U E » Utah : The Interview |url=http://blogue.us/2010/02/10/utah-the-interview/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212111125/http://blogue.us/2010/02/10/utah-the-interview/ |archive-date=February 12, 2010 |date=February 10, 2010}}{{cite web |last1=Carlson |first1=Jen |title=Tagger UTAH Is Free, Talks Jail Time |url=https://gothamist.com/news/tagger-utah-is-free-talks-jail-time |website=Gothamist |access-date=January 28, 2022 |language=en |date=February 10, 2010}} (Harper's similar website, first makeyoursoulburnslow.com, then ethermul.com, went online in November 2009.){{cite web |last1=Harper |first1=Jim Clay |title=Revamped |url=http://www.ethermul.com/ |website=ETHER MUL |access-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621125406/http://www.ethermul.com/ |archive-date=June 21, 2010 |date=June 21, 2010}} In October 2010 she modeled for Claw Money's fashion line.{{cite web |title=UTAH: Vandal, Ex-con, Streetwear Model |url=http://animalnewyork.com/utah-vandal-ex-con-streetwear-model/ |website=ANIMAL |access-date=January 28, 2022 |date=October 4, 2010}}

Harper served a six month sentence on Riker's Island in the spring of 2010, then was released and in July pled guilty to seven counts of vandalizing Boston MBTA trains in 2005. He was also sentenced to six months imprisonment, $10,000 restitution, and one year probation.{{cite news |last1=Lynds |first1=John |title=Tagged with a big-time fine – Vandal ordered to pay ten grand in restitution |url=http://eastietimes.com/2010/07/14/tagged-with-a-big-time-fine-vandal-ordered-to-pay-ten-grand-in-restitution/ |access-date=January 31, 2022 |work=East Boston Times - Free Press |date=July 14, 2010}} When he was released in two months, both met with a reporter for The New Yorker. The conditions of their probation, forbidding them from even possessing paint or markers, were untenable, and they discussed seeking citizenship abroad.

File:Utah Ether Visah Tahoe, in Bangkok.jpg, 2012]]

In January 2011, Utah and Ether merged their websites into one, utahether.com. At the same time they used that website to release a limited edition 36 page book of photographs of their graffiti, called Probation Vacation.{{cite news |last1=Turco |first1=Bucky |title=Graffiti's Bonnie and Clyde Merge Sites… Aww! |url=http://animalnewyork.com/graffitis-bonny-and-clyde-merge-sites%e2%80%a6-aww/ |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=ANIMAL |date=January 13, 2011}}{{cite web |title=Probation Vacation Out Now! |url=http://www.ethermul.com/2011/01/12/probation-vacation-out-now/ |website=UTAH & ETHER |access-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110115025905/http://www.ethermul.com/2011/01/12/probation-vacation-out-now/ |archive-date=January 15, 2011 |date=January 12, 2011}} The book was also promoted in a live exhibition at Boston's Fourth Wall Project.{{cite web |title=UTAH + ETHER in Boston Saturday Night @ Bodega's Fourth Wall Gallery |url=https://pabstblueribbon.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/utah-ether-in-boston-saturday-night-bodegas-fourth-wall-gallery/ |publisher=Pabst Blue Ribbon |access-date=February 1, 2022 |language=en |date=January 21, 2011}}

In May 2011, Utah and Ether broke their probation by leaving the United States to fly to India.{{cite web |last1=Zio |title=Graffiti Outlaws Utah & Ether's New Book Documents Their |url=https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/utah-ether-probation-vacation |website=The Hundreds |access-date=February 1, 2022 |language=en |date=May 5, 2016}} Over the next five years, they left their graffiti tags in Israel, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, Japan, China, Georgia, Portugal, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Turkey, Chile, and Argentina, all documented with photos and videos on their website, Vimeo channel, and Instagram account. They were compiling their next book, Probation Vacation: Lost in Asia. Chapters in the series received tens of thousands of views on YouTube, their Instagram account had more than 125,000 followers in 2018, and their Facebook had some 25,000 followers. Their social media use served as an example in a 2020 book about graffiti artists.

One video showed them painting Hong Kong's MTR trains on what is believed to be three separate occasions, in 2011, 2012, and 2015, entering the depots after cutting through razor wire. The vandalism caused upgrades in fencing, patrols, and surveillance.{{cite news |last1=Wright |first1=Adam |title=MTR wants Hong Kong police to reopen probe into graffiti attacks on trains |url=https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/1990172/mtr-wants-hong-kong-police-reopen-probe-graffiti-attacks |access-date=January 28, 2022 |work=South China Morning Post |date=July 15, 2016 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906092037/https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/1990172/mtr-wants-hong-kong-police-reopen-probe-graffiti-attacks|archive-date=September 6, 2021}} Another showed breaking in and painting a Taiwan train at the Beitou depot near Fuxinggang metro station.{{cite news |last1=Strong |first1=Matthew |title=Graffiti vandal arrested in Australia {{!}} Taiwan News {{!}} June 10, 2016 00:00:00 |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/2935907# |access-date=February 2, 2022 |work=Taiwan News |date=June 10, 2016}} Yet another video shows the pair cutting through wire fences and painting Singapore's SMRT Trains at Bishan Depot in August 2011 with the words "Jet Setters". The book further explained that they staked out the depot overnight, and noted the staff going home at 1:30 am.{{cite news |title=MRT vandals reveal in book how they sneaked into Bishan depot |url=https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/mrt-vandals-reveal-book-how-they-sneaked-bishan-depot |access-date=February 2, 2022 |work=AsiaOne |date=August 1, 2016 |language=en}} This was only the second time the SMRT had ever been painted. The vandalism drew Singaporean news coverage, and cost a $200,000 fine for SMRT Corporation that year, but its perpetrators and method were not known until the video and book were released in 2016.{{cite news |last1=Wong |first1=Deborah |title=Footage of vandalism at SMRT Bishan depot surfaces 5 years later on Facebook |url=https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/footage-vandalism-smrt-bishan-depot-surfaces-5-years-later-facebook |access-date=January 28, 2022 |work=AsiaOne |date=July 14, 2016 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Tay |first1=Tiffany Fumiko |title=Video points to US duo as culprits behind vandalism at SMRT's Bishan Depot in 2011 |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/video-points-to-us-duo-as-train-vandals |access-date=January 28, 2022 |work=Straits Times |date=July 15, 2016 |language=en}}

In 2012, Finnish artist Sauli Sirviö made a video documentary, Never Going Home, about Utah's and Ether's endless journey, focusing on their 2011 Japan exploits. It was exhibited 2012-2018 in Finland, Italy, and the Netherlands.{{cite web |last1=Sirviö |first1=Sauli |title=Never Going Home |url=http://www.saulisirvio.com/2015/02/09/never-going-home/ |website=www.saulisirvio.com |access-date=February 2, 2022 |date=February 9, 2015}}{{cite news |last1=Cagnazza |first1=Salvo |title=1984, Modena sulle orme del writing |url=https://www.lastampa.it/cultura/2016/08/16/news/1984-modena-sulle-orme-del-writing-1.34821257/ |access-date=February 2, 2022 |work=La Stampa |date=August 16, 2016 |language=it}}{{cite web |title=Peer-to-Peer Review at SIC gallery {{!}} HIAP |url=https://www.hiap.fi/event/peer-to-peer-review-at-sic-gallery/ |website=www.hiap.fi |publisher=Helsinki International Artist Programme |access-date=February 2, 2022 |date=December 22, 2018}} An exhibition of Utah's and Ether's art was displayed at the Galleria Pavesi in Milan, Italy, in February 2014, but the pair sent their work without showing up in person, presumably fearing legal trouble.{{cite news |last1=Dal Monte |first1=Alessandra |title=Mostra dedicata ai writer in galleria Ma gli autori non si presentano |url=https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/14_febbraio_07/mostra-dedicata-writer-galleria-ma-artisti-non-si-presentano-ef870f5e-8fd3-11e3-b53f-05c5f8d49c92.shtml |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=Corriere Milano |date=February 7, 2014 |language=it}} They had painted trains in Milan in 2013.{{cite news |last1=Stella |first1=Gianni Santucci Armando |title=I writer venuti dagli Stati Uniti in azione nel metrò di Milano |url=https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/13_luglio_9/i-writer-venuti-dagli-stati-uniti-in-azione-nel-metro-di-milano-gianni-santucci-armando-stella-2222063868790.shtml |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=Corriere della Sera |date=July 9, 2013 |language=it}} In 2018, Utah, Ether, and accomplice Good Guy Boris received a one year and three months suspended sentence for that 2013 vandalism by a Milan court.{{cite news |last1=Santucci |first1=Gianni |title=Attacchi a treni in servizio e depositi. Condannati i graffitari Utah e Ether |url=https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/18_ottobre_06/attacchi-treni-servizio-depositi-93433062-c8cf-11e8-81ab-863c582a99f0.shtml |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=Corriere della Sera |date=June 10, 2018 |language=it}}

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From 2011 to 2016, Utah and Ether had left graffiti on trains and walls in more than 30 countries in Africa, Europe and Asia. In April 2016, Utah and Ether flew in to Melbourne from the United Arab Emirates, and within days began to create graffiti murals. On May 4, Ether, with an Australian graffiti artist going by Nokier, were seen putting graffiti stickers on shop fronts on Brunswick Street, Melbourne by a single father from Fitzroy, Victoria. The man asked them to stop, and filmed their actions with a mobile phone, which the pair then tried to take away from him. In the struggle, the phone pocket-dialed the man's sister, who called police. When police arrived, Ether was in a headlock, but Nokier got away. Ether was found with a knife, and charged with multiple counts related to the assault, vandalism of the Brunswick Street shops, and of trains in four Melbourne suburbs.{{cite news |last1=Bucci |first1=Nino |title=US graffitist Jim Clay Harper captured in a headlock on Brunswick Street |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/us-graffitist-jim-clay-harper-captured-in-a-headlock-on-brunswick-street-20160513-goutam.html |access-date=January 28, 2022 |work=The Age |date=May 13, 2016 |language=en}} Also available as {{cite news |title=The 'probation vacation' of US graffitist Jim Clay Harper ends in a headlock |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/79983061/the-probation-vacation-of-us-graffitist-jim-clay-harper-ends-in-a-headlock-on-brunswick-street |access-date=January 28, 2022 |work=Stuff |date=May 13, 2016 |language=en}} On May 31, he was jailed for six months.{{cite web |last1=Hall |first1=Bianca |title=International graffiti artist who travelled to Melbourne to tag jailed for 6 months |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/76134195/international-graffiti-artist-who-travelled-to-melbourne-to-tag-jailed-for-6-months |website=Stuff |access-date=January 28, 2022 |language=en |date=May 31, 2016}} Also available as {{cite news |last1=Hall |first1=Bianca |title=International graffiti artist who travelled to Melbourne to tag jailed for 6 months |url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6048692/international-graffiti-artist-who-travelled-to-melbourne-to-tag-jailed-for-6-months/ |access-date=January 28, 2022 |work=The Canberra Times |date=May 31, 2016 |language=en-AU}} Police had staked out Melbourne Airport for Utah and Nokier, who had checked in for a flight departing there on May 30, but the two instead flew from Brisbane to Hong Kong.{{cite news |last1=Hall |first1=Bianca |first2=Nino|last2=Bucci|title=Graffiti artist Danielle Bremner slips police net as Jim Clay Harper jailed |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/graffiti-artist-danielle-bremner-slips-police-net-as-jim-clay-harper-jailed-20160531-gp8cnm.html |access-date=January 28, 2022 |work=The Age |date=May 31, 2016 |language=en}}

In a July interview about Ether's imprisonment, Utah said: "... neither of us is dependent on the other in any aspect of life, graffiti included. It’s really not the end of the world... You come out of jail and you get on with your life."{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Alex |title=Utah & Ether: The Bonnie and Clyde of graffiti |url=https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/utah-ether-bonnie-and-clyde-of-graffiti/ |work=Huck |date=July 30, 2016}} Ether served his time in Port Phillip Prison. He was deported to the United States when released in 2017, with the expectation that he would be imprisoned for violating probation, but he was not arrested, and was instead again able to leave the country. In a magazine published through their website, he wrote that in prison he had made and sold shivs, and observed the killing of gangland figure Hizir Ferman by prison officials.{{cite news |last1=Bucci |first1=Nino |title=Notorious graffiti vandal blames prison officers for death of underworld figure |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/notorious-graffiti-vandal-blames-prison-officers-for-death-of-underworld-figure-20170701-gx2onc.html |access-date=January 28, 2022 |work=The Age |date=July 1, 2017 |language=en}}

Probation Vacation: Lost in Asia was released as a limited edition book and series of 12 freely available videos in May 2016, after Ether's arrest.{{cite web |title=UTAH & ETHER - PROBATION VACATION: LOST IN ASIA (THE BOOK) |url=http://utahether.com/news/2016/5/2/utah-ether-probation-vacation-lost-in-asia-the-book |website=UTAH & ETHER |access-date=February 1, 2022 |date=May 2, 2016}} It covered 11 countries and 37 cities.{{cite news |title=A look inside Utah & Ether - PROBATION VACATION: Lost In Asia book |url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/news/a-look-inside-utah-ether-probation-vacation-lost-in-asia-book/ |access-date=February 1, 2022 |work=Juxtapoz |date=May 17, 2016 |language=en-gb}} In an interview about the work, Utah said, "The illegality of what we do is more appealing and important than the art itself... some of my favorite experiences with graffiti, some of our best photos and footage and memories don't even involve actual painting but more so the action surrounding it." Ether said "I like to look at the way we live our lives as art. The series that we work on ... are simply an extension of that."

The pair were the subject of the eponymous song, "Utah & Ether", by Finnish band Pystyyn Kuolleet Hipit, in 2019.{{cite web |last1=Roth |first1=Mika |title=Pystyyn Kuolleet Hipit: Pako todellisuudesta |url=http://www.desibeli.net/arvostelu/7907 |website=www.desibeli.net |access-date=February 2, 2022 |language=fi |date=October 27, 2019}}{{cite web |title=Utah & Ether lyrics by Pystyyn Kuolleet Hipit |url=https://www.paroles-musique.com/eng/Pystyyn-Kuolleet-Hipit-Utah-and-Ether-lyrics,p3135083 |website=Paroles-musique.com |access-date=February 2, 2022 |language=en}}

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