EastSydePgh Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 R.I.P Gonna be missed.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apeshit1 Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 damn.... R.I.P, loved his work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1nd89g4mes12 Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Breadstick Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 nice post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yinz n'at Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yinz n'at Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 my favorite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jam master jew see Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 VERY depressing new. This guy was a huge inspiration for me. One of the reasons I started writing and began documenting graffiti throughout pittsburgh. Later on I moved to denver. On the drive out I distinctly remember seeing kids scratched into the mirror of a random highway restroom. Probably in Iowa or something crazy like that. Later in Denver I was at a bar and saw piece of his destruction. He is the number one writer I wished I could have met when I lived in pittsburgh. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonsai Bill Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Kids 09 tag in manhatten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarr Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 [quote=jam master jew see;7283131 damn, this one's sick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEEDEATER Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Sad to hear dude was always a big influence RIP KIDS!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUMPINSLAPPERS Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 KIDS I HATE ME. Sad to hear, rest in peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRILLionare Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmtrap Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 RIP to some sick shit!! what happened?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Camus Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUMPINSLAPPERS Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 RIP to some sick shit!! what happened?? that's really no ones business but his friends and family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyGuyLurking Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 RIP brotha. character killin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeliriumIsWack Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 KIDS punched shepard fairy? haha cool. Kids had a character running at my middle school i remember it being pretty inspiring and wondering who did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john dough Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 Anthony will always be the one RARE person where you can't find one person to say one bad thing about him.Jason,remember how when we'd go out painting with Anthony we'd have 12 to 14 cans each of us and Anthony would come with three,yet he'd smash the whole area with that iconic self portrait and big tags,we'd come back the next day for flicks and Anthony just out-shined everything we did and those same three cans would go for the next night!!!!I've never understood how the paint would last him. Here's a fun Anthony fact: 10-12 years ago shepard fairy was having an art show in austin Anthony was in attendance pocket full of stickers,and drinking free gallery wine....Anthony being WAY ahead of his time starts to put his stickers in the gallery and on shepards lame prints.Of course in art fag tough nature shepard is screaming "who the fuck is this guy?where is he?" somebody points Anthony out,shepard towering a foot and a half over Anthony,shepard comes from behind and sucker punches him, Anthony, grabs shepard and 1-2-3 he is on the ground with Anthony on top of him.Turns out Anthony's brother taught him all these take down moves for his rail travels.Those rail travel ventures were an epic that if written they would make Hemingway green with envy. I still always think of that picture of you,three or four years old dressed up as a tecate can with your dad. Only Anthony could own the pleasure of putting hands on fairy......yet he never bragged about it......he'd actually say that was he was at fault and it shouldn't have happened. You always made everyone laugh yet if I made you laugh that would feel like a huge accomplishment. :) :D :p :scrambled: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mydeadfriends Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 man. thanks ^^^^^....i was going to post some of that stuff too....man, i am so bummed out...last time i saw him me and bier were orphans on x-mas eve a few years back and we just got drunk as shit, told stories and laughed our asses off............................... .:) :( :cool: :o 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50million Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUTTERALPH Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 sad 2 hear about this...rest in power Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie McCracken Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 r.i.p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuato lives Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 definitely a dude that left a "story" of everywhere he'd gone... there's more of an "autobiographical" feel to his work than anyones i can think of. he roamed, lurked, lived.. and left a trail. he got up everywhere he ever went and went a lot of places. it was almost over night that he was suddenly up in tons of cities and had scribes on every pay phone. i'd never heard of him, someone mentioned how vent was friends with some train-hopper dudes in texas that were starting to write, and then boom.. before i even realized what happened it was everywhere. if he'd ever spent time in a city you were in - you knew it. the dude knew how to get his shit to run. he was pretty much the epitome of what could happen if punk traveler culture and graffiti ever came together. i didn't know him as well as some people, but he never struck me as flashy of boastful... more soft spoken and kinda lurky, kind of uneasy i guess... tattered. i was really surprised at how he looked when i met him actually, didn't expect it at all. i liked watching him tag- he would kinda jump into it and "pop into action" and be super fast all of the sudden and was done before i even fully realized what just happened. i liked that he always had a pocket full of different tools on him at all times for different surfaces, and was the kind of guy that would find 2 half cans and somehow make a night of it. he never struck me as a big racker but would always give me a pen if i didn't have one. he was exactly what graffiti needed at the time when he came out, he did it however... and he did it a lot. in my mind i thought he probably liked it for all the right reasons, it was refreshing. he was maybe the key figure that helped establish the validity of the "anything goes" vandal around the country... and is the first really prolific example of "outside participation" that i can remember seeing. so prolific that it no longer even seems like outside participation, now its just a standard. tons of people write like that now. he's definitely one of the most important writers of our time along with jesse, as far as the timeline of graffiti history in the u.s. goes... they were like our version of "outsider artists" or something, and by just tagging were somehow able to cross over into the realm of "americana" more than any others i can think of. kids is one of those guys i'd always get jealous of because so many regular people would always mention him whenever graffiti came up. i think his name and the way he wrote was almost non-offensive to them, and they were able to pass it off as "friendly mischief" or something, or they didn't feel excluded by it like all the other graffiti. i always liked it because it totally looked like "some guy went and did that right there".. and for whatever reason it totally emphasized the surface itself; it'd always be "that kids tag ON THE ____ ." he was one of the few people i've ever come across that has been up so much in certain cities that i quit even noticing it because it was so regularly occurring. very sad to hear the news, i have no doubt i'll still be seeing kids tags up for as long as i have eyes. much respect, and rest in peace, friend. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarr Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 BBBBUMP^^^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@tEd.oN Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mydeadfriends Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 all right fucker los vagabundos/slash grinderz deathmatch purgatory 2199 we should all be dead by then. try to sneak something in for you,,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elRey Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 before i really knew anything about graffiti i would always try to copy kids characters. still have a few doodles in some blackbooks from years ago. will always be a huge influence. RIP king kids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEKINGWASINTUK Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 r.i.p you will be missed................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoouts Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 rip real graffiti drawin on other peoples stuff cause it's fun. the game'll miss you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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