Sonik3000

All City Writers is amazing. So much great info on the beginnings of the European scene. Someone really needs to do one about the USA now.

Rest in Peace to a great writer and style master.

I am hurt and offended at your crop.

“Writing has been my companion and friend. Not always good for me, but always with me,” he says, “There’s nothing like walking down a tunnel, tripping, listening to some Pink Floyd, to create a masterpiece burner – I can’t even put it into words.” Rest in Peace IZ. While you'll no longer come back every now and then, we know you're still around.

apotik komik still doing street stuff?

Doing gallery shows doesn't immediately equal getting paid. Don't get that confused!

so how many of you all are still into buying one of these things?

Graffiti should look like it's fun to do most of the time! Keep on rocking Kuma! And keep doing letters as little people, I always think that's awesome.

Still curious. Put a dollar figure to it. How much money makes you "rich?'

I am curious to hear your ideas of how much money makes someone 'rich.' Put a dollar figure to it.

.the oldest mag i have is scrbble #6(rust cover w/os gemeos feat).... that was 12 oz # 6.

Re: PICHAÇÃO If you want a window in to try reading some of this stuff, look at the photos that Santos L Halper just posted - TUMULOS - meaning 'tombs' - is up in each one. And in the white tags on black paper image above where there was the comment that there was tag influence... well, maybe. When you go to Rio de Janeiro the tags look loopy and tiny - as different from Sao Paulo's as Philly's are from NYC. Rio's are always in spray paint, and to me are genetically closer to the Philly hands than the Sao Paulo tags are.

Re: PICHAÇÃO Means 'pichadores: maintainance (buffing) costs of this facade keep us from giving money to the church/charity' sorta for the record, pichação has been a part of São Paulo since around 1982 - and that had nothing to do with Beat Street or any other contact with NYC graff. It was buidling off a political graffiti tradition that began in the 1960s. And Philly has been going since, what - 1965 or so? The new book Public Wall Writing in Philadelphia (freenewsproject.com) has a lot of that info, btw.... The tsssss book is nice, I have it - there is cool super rookie card blackbook stuff of the gemeos, herbert, vitche, etc. Wish it were even longer and had more info!

Re: PICHAÇÃO I wrote that 12 Oz article. Favorite thing I've ever written still.

Re: PICHAÇÃO You have to walk/drive around in Sao Paulo to truly appreciate how grilled it is... there's no city on earth that even comes close to how painted it is. Glad to see that people are interested in this stuff.... if anyone's curious to dig and learn more, find a copy of Swindle Magazine issue 1 - you can probably order one from swindlemagazine.com - I did a 14 page article/photo essay on the stuff. And I wish we had put more pixa in the Graffiti Brasil book, but space doesn't always permit.

my latest find chef antonio's frozen pizzas. i found them at whole foods, not that cheap but actually tastes like restaurant sicilian. sauce tases fresh and savory, crust is both crispy and doughy.....

for people who like text - i recommend highly the overground and overground 2 books... all scandinavian stuff.

The funny thing about the Fuzz One book was that by the end of it, you've read it three times. I loved it. Glad you guys liked the text on MDV. Louis Gropman, who did the text - this was his first serious piece of writing, and I thought he did a really good job.

I'd guarantee that pretty much everyone, totally without knowing it, has a graffiti writer in their favorites list who comes from a wealthy background. I could say the same for a gay writer, come to think of it. Gotta be careful what kind of blanket hate you throw around.

An open topic for the skaters.... So any skater remembers the Bones Brigade, Animal Chin, etc.... What would you want to ask those guys if you met 'em?

Delhi, India has a brand-new metro system, it's beautiful, rode it around and talked with station managers while I was there in 2003. I guess, though, that yard security has gotten to be an issue, read on: India train company turns to monkey business Fierce-looking primate employed to keep wayward monkeys off subways NEW DELHI, India - They say it takes a thief to catch a thief, but India’s Delhi Metro has hired a monkey to frighten off other monkeys from boarding trains and upsetting passengers. In an effort to keep monkeys out of the New Delhi subways, authorities have called in one of the few animals known to scare the creatures — a fierce-looking primate called the langur, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported Wednesday. The decision to hire a langurwallah — a man who trains and controls the langurs — came after a monkey got into a metro car June 9, the newspaper reported. In that incident, a monkey boarded a train at the underground Chawri Bazaar station and reportedly scared passengers by scowling at them for three stops. It then disembarked at Civil Lines station. Passengers had to be moved to another car while staff chased the dexterous creature, causing delays. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation says it hopes the new hire will avert a repeat of that episode. “It started working about a month ago and since then we’ve not had a single incident,” said Anuj Dayal, a metro spokesman. The langur handler is being paid a retainer of India rupees 6,900 ($160) a month, and “he will be called whenever there is a monkey problem,” Dayal was quoted as saying. “There are too many monkeys,” Dayal was quoted as saying. Langur monkeys are similarly employed around the grounds of parliament and some government buildings in New Delhi. © 2006 MSNBC Interactive

i've gotten to interview some interesting people in the last year for a project... hilly kristal (guy who founded CBGBs), chuck d, steven pinker (very big name linguist/experimental psychologist at harvard), walt "clyde" frazier.... the 2 coolest interviews to do were alan dershowitz, at his office at harvard which is full of hate mail and bound transcript books of stuff like the oj simpson case, for whom he worked.... and judy blume, at her central park west apartment. she was super super nice, as you might expect. and when i was 18 i nearly killed cindy crawford in nyc while rollerblading.

Freight Train Graffiti Symposium with Dalek, Mr. Smith, Sacha Jenkins, and Darin Rowland Moderated by Marc Schiller of Wooster Collective Reception and book signing Chelsea Art Museum 556 W. 22nd at 10th Ave Manhattan Thursday, June 1, 7pm-9pm

Good for Ecko for fighting a fight that writers are never going to get past their infighting to fight. And if it puts some light on him and some cash in his pocket, well, clever points for Ecko.

if you put NY on anything..... it'll sell in NY