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Mitch Spector: Yep, it's indeed very much GONE. Made one final pass by this morning (November 5th) to check things out and it's not what I saw, but what I didn't see that caught my attention! It's...... Mitch Spector: Passing by on my way home this afternoon, saw the vertical red "Bens" sign was finally taken down. They also removed the the last piece of the wrap-around sign below it, that white section with...... Alan Kupperberg: Eastern Parkway Memories
By Alan Kupperberg
Searching the Internet for information on Dubrow’s Cafeteria and the Famous restaurant on Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, I discovered this wonderful site. It brought back many wonderful memories for...... Mitch Spector: These photos were taken during the early morning of October 5th. Despite the former restaurant site still, for the moment, standing, it is an interesting contrast when comparing the photos (above) from 6 months earlier.
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The...... unknown: I met my now fiance in a small town. I learned that he was born and raised in CG until he was shot not in his neighbor, but on the southside of the Chi. The...... og Shie 47 Los Angeles: the evolution of graff in la are the artists and u have to be good.so many people faded cuz they were limited on their skills. back in the day u could rock throw ups and...... Dam, was it the late 80's too...?: Shit, I guess late 80's too, my crew laid the base wall paint down for a lot of the pieces under the light shafts north of Freedom's pieces... So, my old works are probably under...... Man, I used to have some nice pieces up in there....: Man, Back in the early 90s... I used to have some nice pieces up in there.... XerxesOne, Central Park Posse (CPP)... )Sigh( No respect given to Freedom's art, from what I can see......... Elkin School Rulz!: I think we should have a stickball tournament for all former Kensingtonians. But where do we find a Pimple Ball? Man, I miss them days. We didn't care how hot it was,...... Excuzmepleez:
This post is in response to "remember 1966."
I remember the sad accident. It happened on Troutman Street between Central and Evergreen and it involved a boy named Joey Mistretta who was 9 years...... santoro: for those of you concerned about your ink running just photo copy your origional and paste the copies yea you can only do them the size of a piece of paper but thats all you...... Duffman1: I worked there in the 70's. It was called Textile Piece Dye works. I think the major pictures shown are of Brewster Print works next door.
It was dreary there back in the 70's. But Polyester...... BILROCK 161: FREEDOM is a big fake. He was a toy who never paid his dues(what?, 10 pieces, maybe?), never got up, got his ass beat at NOGA, and hung out with other toys(eg. AW.). His perpetration...... Who Cares for Kensingtion: OG FROM GCC, Good piece! Take it back 1 block at a time. All in a given block may not participate, but those that do should stick together and clean it from end to end...and...... Who Cares for Kensington: Carol, I left the neighborhood because I felt forced to do so by crime and apparent bleak future prospects.I moved to another section of the city that wasn't the greatest, but it served and a...... Peter: if i had a dollar for every time ive heard someone from a hard/bad/depressed/rebuilding neighborhood comment something like ##"_______ is really that bad and has been for years"##... [[76:cabrini green]], [[1727:henry horner]], [[4368:hutchinson]], [[646:bushwick]], to...... eskae: sweet
thanks for sharing
I remember seeing those chris papes pieces through the grates in riverside park back in 888...nice to know that thye are still riding. And nice to see twist stuff from the 90's...... Joanne amorello-minor: Hi Guys...
sorry i've not been on for a while..had my reasons!well with many thanks for their help which without I would still be lost to Alan Taylor and Marissa we pieced up a lot of...... Peter: destruction or art? i always find it interesting when people refer to graffiti as "destruction", as its not like theyre carving their tag into the wall with an air-chisel or something. painting seems to be...... Post-84 New Jack: Thanks for the lolly, W-Bear. I'll be sure to pass it on to my son. He's teething right now and its a bitch.
As for you, Bilrock Rolling Thunder Whiter- oops, I mean Writer. You failed...... Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Marissa
There was a reason it was named as such, because that piece of ground they were built on and the land stretching back to where it meets Boat lane, has only a couple of...... Sheila Hilton: My children talked about playing on "the Jezzies". I didn't realise at first that they were talking about the jerry works. It was always the jerry works; never the jezzies when we were younger. We...... EvilGentleman: El, since they were government-funded homes originally intended for the families of veterans returning from WWII, it is most unfortunate that the government decided to stop funding them.
If you look at the comments in the...... j.smith: Shiny unhappy people
All is not well in the world of pearly royalty. Beneath the peacock feathers and rhinestone finery is stirring a nasty battle for the soul of the kingdom. In Guildford county court this...... wow crew 92': shit i was RIVAL an original member of the WOW crew and there were some tight writers back then
yeah they were few and far between but still UP and we bombed the fucking city...... Mist One53. Tdt=The Deadly Type.: Hello JA From Mist1 Sheffield England uk. I was first in Nyc in 1989 and saw SANE eveywhere. At the top of the World trade centre, not much bigger that this text on the screen.I...... Biyoushi: Aloha.. I was wondering where I could find some of these? I live on Oahu and I am looking for a vividly colorful piece, actually a few of them, that I can use...... Joe Kash: awesome pics. looks like a pretty depressing place to live tho. i like the different types of graf, political, taggers, pieces, a lot of that looks like what i used to wrote back when i...... EvilGentleman: Judging from the looks of that building, I suspect "forever" might be pushing it. A shame, though. It looks pretty solidly built, and I would think a little TLC would put a fine piece of...... Andrew Smith: ...and some more taken this morning. Not the best, but they include most of the things you mentioned!
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The old skateboard ramp, which we used to ride our bikes down...... Shoot the Moon: Passing this & the Unisphere is one of those markers that I'm finally back home. But it is a somewhat sad structure when you hear all the stories from your parents and grandparents about how...... Pettis - December 09, 2007: Your comments resonate the truth in so many ways. When you peel back the years, you'll find that many families raise their children in the Henry Horner Homes. The Mitchell family was a...... etté: to : Jay!
today is better??? Have you got your head in the sand, don't you know that America is sending the best of it's youth to war in other countries and they are...... anon (spc1-ward4-0-0-cust157.bagu.broadband.ntl.com): What a waste of money that so called piece of artwork is on the cadishead/Hollins Green roundabout.£75,000 that cost.I am sure they could have spent the money better on improving Irlam and Cadishead and why...... dzine808kona: yo thanks for posting does fresh master pieces. da question is where is my boy east3? i havnt seen the pioneer in a while is his burners still around? if can try and post sum...... ...just lookin for a job, lookin for a job...: OMG! I thought I lived in a pretty good place until I stumbled onto this site while surfing for nursing jobs in this area. I've been HappyInHutch for 30+ years and known about...... KODAK 2: NICE FLICKS TAKES ME BACK SEEING PIECES ON TRAINS..KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK...... wholegrain: These are good FREE sites for creating poster sized images.
Just upload your image and let it crank.
You'll be rewarded with a multi page PDF file.
Trim and paste - or DON'T trim for a mosaic effect.
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
http://www.blockposters.com/
For...... CartLegger: Its great to come back to citynoise, especially with a piece of where you came from. Great pics that give the real feel of a vacation. Makes me wanna kick some waves! ... Peter: dude, your love for {graf} is outstanding; the time youve put into all this certainly shows. im digging those hella 90s wildstyle pieces, heh. that shit takes me back.
you certainly have some styles, man. kudos....... steve : Cartlegger; I'll try to be brief with some details. Please don't hold me to the exact dates because I am going back from memory and not researching. Barren Island as we knew it...... ......: just to let you know jaone used to piece wayyy back in the day on trains... Nando: Hey guys I have to say this is definitely one of my favorites entries ever. I am a native of Corona (on which the park lies) and I can honestly say that my life...... EvilGentleman: I have to laugh when I think about this one, Guy. No matter which way I view this piece, I keep saying "Yeah, but..." in my head.
I don't know if they ever used the American...... CE: I'm currently in Sussex for the next few hours and have been here for a couple days. There are more murals since I was last here and I still stand by my opinion that...... robert: I agree 100%. I dont think Brooklyn is a borough for something like that and Coneyisland is always gonna be a piece of shit no matter what they try to do. People from places around...... .nanotech.: [[img:18457]]
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* The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy.
* There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,...... Jon Dominguez: "... and take back what used 2 b ours we should not be the minorities anymore we got black and brown teaming up we both are minorities we both have struggling histories we should take...... from starr st.: 1st. off upfromflames, i am going to my storage space and look for my pics and send them to you. now i was born and rasied in bushwick. PROUD of it.just as proud...... Love the graff: Ja is a bomber thats it, until he pieces more I think a lot of people will never accept him as a true writer...and also yea JA went over SABER...but big deal SABER went back...... KEVEN CruCabur: I have been a friend to the Bishop Family for 27 years now. I have laughed and cried with them, seen them ridiculed and exhalted. I have help when I could and stood back and...... little ukraine: yeah, reminds me of the back drivers side window in my old Nissan Sentra. I finally fixed it for good by taking off the door panel and sticking a piece of wood in there...... ejhickey: I am from Chicago and was visiting Montreal when this movie was released. I saw the posters and the ads and was truned off by the promotions. I thought it was an...... FauxReal: I know a few graff kids that do some good stuff, but it's hard to get up when the cops are so hard on it. I've noticed a lot of nice stencils and posters in...... joey: guardian of the arts. yet - did you know?
The Thinker Vandalized
At approximately 1am on March 24, 1970, a bomb irreparably damaged the Cleveland Museum's version of Rodin's The Thinker. The bomb itself had been placed...... EvilGentleman: [[img:14331]]
Our old cameras, as taken with my current camera.
Kodak DC280 2MP
$810 in 2000
Used as primary for both me and my wife from August 2000 to July 2003. Sent for repairs. Came back for duty as...... Chris Erb: Canadian Bacon is the American word for back bacon. It's really thick pieces of bacon that are just terrible for you. I used to love it when I ate meat.... Dave (a Bushwick native): I see it more as a class war than a race war. I'm from the last generation (born mid-1960s) of German-Americans from the Ridgewood/Bushwick area before the Great Exodus of the 1970s. If I claimed...... Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): Hi Andrew, I managed to get into the site thru your name search !
I remember sliding down the embankment under the bridge on pieces of cardboard "borrowed" from Quicksave. And dangerously walking along the railway...... EvilGentleman: Chris, I wonder if your dad also owns a Karen Osoway piece. You should check it for signatures, next time you go back to the Sussex area.... Charlie Lupo: I think Riverside Park is stunning and beautiful and offer's New Yorker's many different ways to enjoy a piece of green space in a city as complex as we are. But to say...... the truth hurts: all time king hands down of puttin in work is ja. he brought the game to where it is now. dont get me wrong, the are many other greats in al kinds of ways. but...... EvilGentleman: chiamatt, by any chance, are you in advertising? You seem pretty adamant about this. I am just stating my opinion, and explaining why this will affect my decision as to where I spend my gas...... Experienced: Rest assured, you noticed a group/gang trying to locate the buyers for their drugs. Stop by and check out the corner of Maplewood and LeMoyne around 3:00pm. You'll see a series of thugs...... EvilGentleman: I agree that maybe I have posted too much at once, but I sort of felt pressed, as I had a backlog of graf shots building up. I was taking too many at a time....... EvilGentleman: To my way of thinking, graffiti should be both encouraged and it's location controlled within reason, with penalties for those who put graffiti in places where it has no business being. Now, before you all...... Elicar: If America has almost closed her borders, Canada has opened hers. Not only do we accept qualified immigrants with open arms, we have legislated that certain groups be given (more) equal chances in the public...... EvilGentleman: Elicar, I remember one Toronto experience that absolutely terrified me. I think it was back in 1977 or 1978, My mother took me up to the top of the CN tower (Dad stayed below to...... Leo Just a 23 Wash HeIGhts Kid: All these years and to this day i can still probaly call out where smith and sane tags are at. My brother use to be down with 5x7 and XTW back in the day and...... Peter: memories and smells! i wrote two pieces about this a while back:
[[http://www.swinney.org/journals/article.phtml?id=1764]]
[[http://www.swinney.org/journals/article.phtml?id=1947]]
(you can post your writing to swinney.org also- this piece would probably fit in well there, btw!)
i liked this piece. yay text! and i...... dp: There's also a SANE piece in the backyard at ABC No Rio on the lower east side (MN).
SANE was in a few art shows at ABC during the 1980s. The piece is...... Mach: WEll Observer what would you do? Whistle the theme from RAMBO through the nosehairs of your nostrils while driving the car to the paint repair shop (think BILLS + rotten burger!) or do a...... TO_guy: Is that littering pig from this country? If not I suggest we send him back. If he is he should be charged. Maybe a little jail time would smarten his ass up. ...... Too many comments: According to the Toronto Star, Leah has admitted she regrets throwing the garbage back in the car and that it was a knee-jerk reaction. That admission makes me respect her more than her environmentalism.
She also...... EvilGentleman: For the respondent who posted at 20:44
Thank you for your response. At least someone here is actually reading my entire posts before passing judgement. I realize I am somewhat of a modern-day anachronism. I strongly...... Raoul Davachi: I'm a bike courier, and I am so god damn tired of people in cars, or worse, people in suits walking on sidewalks who think they rule the world. I was talking to the...... beyond the beyond: Ok, Ok. This is a really interesting altercation with a very grey area in terms of morality. In my opinion. yes the guy is a douche. but the whole situation was...... poprad99: I have been riding bikes for 32 years and burning fossil fuels for 22 years.
I have been commuting year-round by bike for 9 years. I was assaulted and battered by a motorist in 1990 for...... anon (216.167.232.111): Kudos to Leah for attempting to educate this moron on socially unacceptable behaviour. I'm sure this is the same breed of special person who believes able bodied souls can park in handicapped parking spots....... lester: I once threw a pop can out my car window at a traffic light . Little did I know a police officer was in the car behind me . I received a fine and I...... Crappy The Penguin: Hate to bring this up, but James Frey apparently witnessed the whole incident and is writing another 'memoir' about it.
He reportedly will 'recall' the events like this:
A violent serial killer in a parked van threw...... Crappy The Penguin: Hate to bring this up, but James Frey apparently witnessed the whole incident and is writing another 'memoir' about it.
He reportedly will 'recall' the events like this:
A violent serial killer in a parked van threw...... Crappy The Penguin: Hate to bring this up, but James Frey apparently witnessed the whole incident and is writing another 'memoir' about it.
He reportedly will 'recall' the events like this:
A violent serial killer in a parked van threw...... pennybike@aol.com: Yes, this is a Barrett Sociable Tandem. The Barrett was mfged near/in East Aruora New York, near Buffalo. It is a modern version of a bike made back in the 1890's. They...... Juggle: I don't consider throwing out small portions of food to be littering. The food will be consumed by bugs, birds and animals in a matter of hours. I'm sure they will appreciate it....... oscar: To Leah, never pick a fight you can't win. According to nature, thats a reason to boot you form the gene pool. Where you scared when he attacked you? We only need to fear what...... Leah: Hello all! I am the girl in the pics. My name is Leah and although I am a courier, I was WALKING my bike up Agusta when the incident took place. He was driving and...... EnviroTO: Who knows how she put it into the car. She may have just lobbed it in and not even hit him which is not assault... it is littering into his car. Without knowing...... NyseOne AWR/MSK: One more thing about that stabbing. As far as I know those guys had beef before M was in MSK, it just spilled over. Maybe JA can shed some light on it.
Another story worth mention...... RIP BENO RIP SEGE -MSG: Pounder: Your a funny dude man. Seems like your caught in an ethical dilemma. To bomb or not to bomb - that is the question. I suggest this: Master your can control first. Paint abandoned...... NET ONE 156 KRT: Words of the Prophets Take to the Rooftops
by Cathy Hong
SUBJECT — The Extreme Graffiti Hall of Murals
LOCATION — Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens
Les had no equipment but a backpack full of spray cans. (He...... NOBODY OF IMPORTANCE: OK, I KNOW THAT ALL OF PEOPLE SAY"O THE WHOLE TAGGERS WITH THERE SHARIES AND SPRAY PAINT, ITS ALL IMITURE" IN SOME CASES, YES. THE GRAFFITI OF SOME HAS NO PURPOSE OR DIRECTION,NO MESSAGE ITS...... angela: the paintings you see are to remerber the heros that give their lives in the war. it is a piece of history.would rather live in a community with the IRA.bring them back.... Pounder: it was an idea, i still get up man, i got shit in west palm beach, so fuckin back off man, and quit runnin your mouth, I'll fuckin piece up circles around you punk ass...... ELLIS G.: For Immediate Release:
KILI is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by
ELLIS G.
Continues through 12/1/05 @ KILI
81 Hoyt St. bet. State St. and Atlantic Ave. Bklyn NY
A,C,G Trains to Hoyt/Schermerhorn...... NET PI 156 KRT: For Immediate Release:
KILI is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by
...... 138: come on, it's not graff if it's legal. it's just not. It's like art or something, but there's nothing really cool about it, and only artists should pay attention to it. If...... ted357: Ya'll crazy to an extent. I'm moving to HP soon. I'm moving because I can't afford no other shit on the north side. I'm a white boy from the south side. Damn, I understand some...... benrox: Alright - I've read a good amount of these posts. Let me start off by saying that I am white. I've been living in "the hood" my whole life. I don't live in Humboldt Park,...... elaine: it's a fiction - as close as i get to fiction. the shoes were where they were on the street, but they were near 'god worshippers' who often leave stuff out for folk to have,......
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