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  1. “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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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!

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    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.

  6. 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.....

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. A note about a handful of people that appear to have been left out:

    The European edition has these cool foldout flaps on the inside covers, which are full color and full of pieces. The American edition does not have these flaps, so there are a handful of people who actually come off real well in the European edition (Kem5 for instance) but don't appear in the American one. This was a kind of a publishing bummer, not something that Roger and co. wanted. Sometimes this stuff happens.

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