Getting Up

Shout out to Mr. Dibbs.

JESUS VERSUS SATAN ROUND 1. FUCK YES.

Power Summit

While California cracks down on graffiti, street art in Chicago is going strong.

Kidult vs. Supreme

Looks like someone got mad that they sold out of 5 panels.

A blast from the past....

My friend Rick Martinez sent this to me awhile ago and wasn't sure to post it.. but just got all the release papers signed, so enjoy... I'm guessing 1999?

Les Enfants from Ricardo Martinez on Vimeo.

Graf Lawsuit

Grant Taylor, a dope skater shown here on the cover of Thrasher, and a bunch of other dudes have been sued by a building owner for $1 million in connection with alleged property damage. A building owner in Georgia contends that Taylor (supposedly GNAR) and others have continuously written on his home/work space over the past few years. I don't know anything about this case (it might all be bs), but I have mixed emotions about painting where people live. My interest in graffiti is tempered by my interest in keeping my own home clean. To me, this is a little different than hitting a Clear Channel billboard or a mailbox. I know a number of graf heads read this blog and I'd like to hear what you have to say about this.

The building I live in gets repeatedly hit by the world's worst graf writers. All of their names are stupid and all of the tags look like someone signing a postcard. I have to wonder if these guys have ever really seen graffiti or maybe just heard about it and decided to try it to be cool. The city sends out a crew to paint over it (always in a color that doesn't match the wall) and then I have to pay to fix it. No props to any of those losers.

RIME'S EUROPEAN VACATION

Dirty Jersey and Noah Banks connect like voltron on this rap spray doc. 
BEHOLD! The best filmed/ edited graffiti video ever!

SOUNDSET 2010

"Asian tramps washing lowriders" is the fifth element of hip hop. Anyway, here's some video I shot this weekend.

MAC/RETNA/KOFIE; GOOD-ASS ARTISTS

I'd like to see these dudes do something shitty once, just to break them monotony of constantly slaying shit.  Good job fellas.
El Mac, Retna & Kofie: JUSTICE Mural for Manifest Equality- Time lapse: from Augustine Kofie on Vimeo.

Who is Patty Mayo?

Here is an email reply from the director of the "Rime Dog" Youtube. It kind of explains more about this lady and the whole situation...

DIRECTOR: What's up man. Thanks for the quick response. The story behind this lady is pretty strange, long and very Jersey... I'll keep it short...
She's been living in that trailer park for years taking care of dogs who are unadoptable. A few years back, my friends mom, who he lived with in the trailer park, moved down to Florida after her husband passed away. Dude had nowhere to stay so Patty the dog foster mom took in my buddy - and he's been living in her trailer for the past couple years. He writes, so between that and the fact that she says she's always loved seeing graffiti in New York (she's originally from there), she now is more into graffiti and knows more about it than most graffiti writers do. She always talks about her Rime dog, one day she was mentioning to me how she would love for you to paint Rime dogs on the trailer - because she's a dog foster mom and because she loves your art. So I told her I'd film a video message to you and send it.
I gave Patty a call and read your response - she flipped out! Pretty much the entire story summed up is that she's a sweet, a bit crazy, dog foster mom from Jersey who loves graffiti and really wants you to paint her trailer. It's funny to say, but she would probably start crying if you came down to paint her trailer.
Thanks for the response and stay in contact
peace