Lee flex his skills

One of the greatest from the NYC subway era, Lee Quinones, flex his skills in 2008 on another moving object, a Ford Flex.

Subway B-boys

What goes on on the NYC subway? B-boying...

Protect ya' Neckface

Controversial graffiti and art persona Neckface from NYC tells and shows the world what run through his head, or may thorugh his neck.. No wait, through his face... Like whatever.

Seen still rocking it

A bunch of recent sketches from Seen UA, still rocking it after all these years...










And you can even buy most of these sketches right here...

Henry Chalfant interview

Nice Henry Chalfant interview part 1, here at The Phila Flava T.R.O.Y. blog.

Skeme flashback

I was checking out some old photos today and decided to post a few. Skeme TMT stole alot of spotlight in Stylewars, so here is a few flicks of his stuff, plus the video from the 20th anniversary edition of Stylewars with the man that didn't start writing to go to Paris...

Dash FBA

Video from 2001 of Dash FBA rocking a nice legal wall in Strassbourg and doing a throwup as a bonus...

NYC commercial wholecars

The NYC train cars that for many years were kept almost clean in order to satisfy the customers and strengthen the image of the city will now be smeared in advertisings so the MTA can make more dollars. More here and found here.

A trip down memory lane...

Freedom recently painted this handballcourt wall titled "Circa 1974", attempting to recreate the excact look of graffiti from that time 35 years later... Found here.

NYC Photo Kings

Photo Kings was a crew in New York City that documented the last years of graffiti on the subway system, around 1987 to 1989. Check out a little interview with Nic One from the crew and see a bunch of his really dope flicks.

ILG Classic Shit Series

We continue the ILG Classic Shit Series with this clip from Videograff. It features an interview and liveaction with notorious bombing king JA from NYC, I remember seeing it many years ago when bombing on video was relatively new thing and now this clip is almost 20 years old. Classic shit...

Alphabeta NYC

Alphabeta, a new gallery and paintstore in Brooklyn gives space to graffiti and comes under immediate fire from narrowminded politicians. Check out the interesting article, with cool 4-minute audio clip featuring interviews and background story here.“As far as I know, people have been writing graffiti since the dawn of mankind.”
Alphabeta founder, Charlie Halsey

The Utah madness continue

In the babylonian case against Utah in NYC, antigraffiti witch Anne Swanson was quoted yesterday: "The terrorist taggers the city and private citizens mop up after are young people who think it’s a cool thing to do and just don’t think about the rest of us. They have no developed social conscience,” said Swanson, who has a degree in fine art. Read the rest here.

A-line vandal online

Sek from the infamous A-line Vandals crew TAV in Copenhagen have been busy with the scanner, putting a big bunch of his historic blackbook online. Check out his stuff on the old red S-trains, trips to NYC and dig through his vinylcollection that is now on sale. All seen right here...

Not in service

More trouble for Utah

As previously reported here at ILoveGraffiti, American authorities are taking things to a new extreme in the case against Utah. Now it seems that the Boston vandal squad wants to cause even more problems for her, as reported here in this nasty article no writer would want written about them... We wish Utah the best of luck in all this madness, stay strong and fight the power!

Very old tags uncovered in NYC

Found recently during a renovation in NYC, old tags from Fab 5 Freddy, Futura 2000, Nesto, Ramellzee and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Full story here.

Old timers re-union in NYC

Last weekend, Crane TMT organised the oldtimers re-union in NYC, consisting of true oldschool writers from graffiti's infancy, like Comet, Part, Chain 3 and Tracy 168. More info and flicks at Ket's blog on 12oz.

NYC not-so-Clean trains and Henry Chalfant interview

Very interesting videos with new NYC trains rolling with loads of pieces.
Instead of a soundtrack, the videos features audio interviews about graffiti with information any writer should know.

Part 1 - Interview with Henry Chalfant


Part 2 - Interview with female lawyer with very good tips for graffiti writers

MOS in NYC and LA not cancelled anyway...

The story of Meeting of Styles 2008 takes another turn, the former cancellation of the NYC and LA part have now been overturned and two new venues found. Famous 5Pointz in NYC and the city of Oakland are the new locations. More here.