Streets Are Saying Things

Jersey Fresh Jam / Urban Arts Festival

sternrockwell — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:42:27 +0000

Artists howl as developer moves to tear down Long Island City graffiti palace 5Pointz / Graffiti Mecca

sternrockwell — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:41:53 +0000

Long Island City artists are demanding a local panel block a plan to tear down a world-renowned graffiti mecca to make way for a luxury housing project.

G & M Realty intends to demolish the internationally known 5Pointz and build two residential high-rises in Long Island City — but it needs a zoning change to do it.

“Anybody involved with 5Pointz feels it’s an asset to the arts community,” said Marie Flageul, a spokeswoman for the artist-run “aerosol art Center,” a former water meter factory that nourishes 1,000 artists per year.

“I hope New Yorkers wake up for once and take arms now instead of mourn later,” she said.

Community Board 2 will take up the controversial issue Wednesday, when David Wolkoff, president of the development company, is expected to present his plan for a 41- and 47-story tower. He will argue for a zoning variance on the grounds that the towers include amenities like an indoor rock climbing wall, simulated golf course and barbecue areas.

via Artists howl as developer moves to tear down Long Island City graffiti palace 5Pointz – NY Daily News.

5 Pointz will live in old Location / Good News (streetsaresayingthings.com)
Local leaders and artists gear up for the loss of 5Pointz (nydailynews.com)

Tonight I kill myself – Fade / New York Graffiti

sternrockwell — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:26:14 +0000

Walk the streets of New York City at night and you can see how dark and sullen it is. The evenings are sultry and the streets cool to a calming New York quiet. The quiet that has sirens blaring in the distance, in response to the cries of the cities unfortunate inhabitants.

Then, all Fades. The Fade that engulfs the ones that sleep.

One that creeps the walls along the inner city dwellings and leaves marks and messages to the one’s that will soon awake from their sleep. Creeping along the highways and the corner bodega’s cold steely corrugated gates.

The Fade AA Mobb is always creepin’.

Fade’s first memory of graffiti goes back to the times of his good friend ODIN, a friend that recently passed in 2011.

One day, when the two of them were kicking it, Odin came up with the idea of, “we can put words on things”.

“We took knives, carved a tree and then we got all the paint we could………we were so young trying to get off the streets, paint walls and stay away from society……. it was natural.”
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As Fade remembers, his name came about from a practical joke. This reflects on some on some of the humor that he incorporates into his tagging.

“When I was younger, I gave a few kids a haircut… a special haircut. I carved some dicks in the back of there head as a joke. They didn’t know. The sides looked good, and I kept the laughter in. The next day in school it was very funny.” The kids got a Fade they would never forget.”Until this day they are still pissed”.

Many slogans are incorporated with the tags of the native New Yorker. Sometimes it can be poetic, and sometimes it’s the same humor as mentioned earlier. It is explained as, “I was putting up slogans, since ‘96. Back then it was basically just bubbles, pieces and tags in New York. I did this cause I wanted to. I just found it funny. Jokes, life, etc. People like to read walls, so why not tell them to smoke coke with their mom?”

Fade has engulfed all surfaces from train stations, freights, tunnels, yards, trucks, signs, houses, and on the surfaces of women’s breasts. “Can’t leave out the cops”.

“I like to do illegal graffiti; technically it’s Graff by definition. I just focus on what I do. I can’t focus on other people in the Graff game. Graff has this problem where there are tons of weirdos. One’s that hate on names. Writers you will probably never meet or would not even want to meet. Writers care about other writers. It’s funny because it’s all fiction. I take a shit on a wall and call it art. Just having fun because life can be hard. Paint is not an unjust. Everything Fades fucker! Fade is dead. Fade is life. Fade is not!”

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When asked who some of his influences are he states,”Garbage pail Kids, shit, piss, Mutz, Pepe, Tyke, Teck, Stay High 149, Oro,Tres, Teo, Vers. My friends man! I don’t really see the rest. Most have stopped. I just look for my boys. I like seeing things bombed so, get up whoever you are. Get up!”

“Losers are people who say they write and don’t. Doctors who say the can heal and don’t. Keep your word, do what you do. We all Fade.”

As Fade continues on with the pattern of sharing his art, the sun rises to share a new day, and the night begins to Fade. A new day with fresh tags, and fresh thoughts for the homeless, and the for the working man alike. Advice from the Fade.

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“Don’t do GRAFFITI to PROVE something. Do it because you believe in freedom. This world is a jail created by man. Break every wall you can. Stand up for yourself and fight what is unjust. Live Now.”

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Graffiti House Los Angeles / GFA International 2013 (streetsaresayingthings.com)

JR’s Project ‘One Face at a Time’ / HBO Film / Street Art

sternrockwell — Tue, 21 May 2013 05:24:28 +0000

World reknown artist JR is plastering his passion for faces with his on going project ‘One Face At a Time’. Please be sure to catch his HBO Documentary ‘Inside Out’ if you haven’t already. The man is an amazing vision and a tremendous heart, with great energy to share with people. He is ability to capture the candid faces that people display, and place them at such awesome scale is quite amazing.

Below is a arial view of a Hong Kong overpass / walk way where JR covered the roof with images of the Native Hong Kong faces looking to the sky. See more photos at the link below.

1 | “Inside Out” Showcases The Eye-Popping Street Art That Aims To Change The World, One Face at a Time | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce.

King Of Kowloon / Hong Kong Graffiti King (streetsaresayingthings.com)
Street Art Jakarta (streetsaresayingthings.com)
Hong Kong arts community fights for legacy of pioneering graffiti artist ‘King of Kowloon’ | The Raw Story (streetsaresayingthings.com)
New Mural and Solo Exhibition El Mac “Street Art Star” at Galerie Wolfsen / Street Art Denmark (streetsaresayingthings.com)

Interplanetary Galactic Style / Ephiq / Graffiti

sternrockwell — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:18:01 +0000

Ephiq has been painting since 2007, and the natural born killa has been painting ever since. The can control that he displays looks easy when he applies the paint so effortlessly. But, we know that it isn’t so.

From the ‘top of his dome’, he lays down outlines and he details his pieces with his trademark fiery, intergalactic style.

Click on the images to get a bigger view of the productions that he has in his Graffography.

Renaissance meets Graffiti / Vesod / Italian Futurism (streetsaresayingthings.com)
Russian Rocker Rasko / Graffiti Video (streetsaresayingthings.com)

Bejing Graffiti Hall Of Fame / China

sternrockwell — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:27:23 +0000

Graffiti is booming in Bejing, and it’s going to be growing in the next few years at an unbelievable rate. Keep an eye and grow with the historic city.

Xeme / Hong Kong Graffiti (streetsaresayingthings.com)
ABS Crew / Graffiti in China (streetsaresayingthings.com)
Russian Rocker Rasko / Graffiti Video (streetsaresayingthings.com)

I Smell a Skunk / SMUG and Belin Graffiti

sternrockwell — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:01:29 +0000

Smug flexing his can control with this new production, and nothing ‘Stinks’ about it. Partnering with Belin on this piece, the duo makes another notch to his Graffography.

Spraying Bricks / Smug One (streetsaresayingthings.com)
Graffiti House Los Angeles / GFA International 2013 (streetsaresayingthings.com)
Russian Rocker Rasko / Graffiti Video (streetsaresayingthings.com)

BAROK / Graffiti Germany

sternrockwell — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:48:02 +0000

German Graffiti artist Barok banged out a 2013 jammie, laying down the nuts and bolts of his various styles.

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Graffography Below:

BAROK Graffiti-walls.

Russian Rocker Rasko / Graffiti Video (streetsaresayingthings.com)
Xeme / Hong Kong Graffiti (streetsaresayingthings.com)

All Of My Friends Are Dead / Robots Will Kill + Gallagher + Curly and more

sternrockwell — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:49:46 +0000

Lucy Lucy / Austrailia Graffiti

sternrockwell — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:39:28 +0000

Another Lucy Lucy production in Australia, sweet as ever. Such a great contrast in the grimy industrial setting.

Lucy Lucy and Slicer / Fixtures of Imagination / Street Art (streetsaresayingthings.com)

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