BROKEN WINDOWS: Graffiti NYC Pages 12-13 EAZ PER ONE (Characters by EAZ)
BROKEN WINDOWS: Graffiti NYC Pages 14-15 RATH, VASE, JEW, KERZ, KINGBEE, DEKAE
I use fat caps in many of my pieces, but I come so close and fast to the wall, that it makes the line look skinny. It’s all in the technique. There are a handful of neat writers out there. Me and CES are neat writers. We are perfectionists. We’re not satisfied until the line is correct, so we spend more time on our pieces. {KING BEE
In the production, Urban Wasteland, we were trying to doing something big and original. We decided to paint a landscape representing an atomic explosion of caps. It was how N.Y. just blew up with graffiti after an atomic bomb went off. There’s a lot of detailed work in it. We painted for like 4 days and used over $1,000 worth of Krylon. Me and DEKAE painted most of the spray caps, switching off from one color to the other. I had some problems with the neighborhood church members while painting the characters because they thought they looked too violent. A week or so before we painted the wall, somebody in the neighborhood got murdered, and the church guy came by and said here’s this evil character popping out just after the murder and that there are always bad images appearing when murders take place. He said the character was like some kind of omen and even more bad shit would happen if it stayed. He said he would pay me to get rid of it. I was already painting for 3 days straight and I was exhausted, but I finally agreed to change the character. He was supposed to be a king of original street style with an evil face, holding a skeleton cup, an undertaker of style. I ended up toning down his eyes and giving him a less wicked hair cut. We all suffered with this wall, it was a nightmare.
{VASE
BROKEN WINDOWS: Graffiti NYC Page 24-25 CES, EAZ, KERZ, YES2, PER ONE
I did maybe 3 or 4 trains when trains were still painted like full-on painted, destroyed, not like they are today. I was a little guy so I remember going and I didn’t have the great knowledge of what was good paint and what was bad paint. I had some cheaper Touch and Tone paint and I had no knowledge of caps, so I did a CES 1 script letter and I couldn’t even reach the windows. I was standing on the wood on the rail with a milk crate on it, and I still couldn’t reach it. The train ran, came back and it was destroyed with throw-ups all over it. I didn’t even get a picture of it. So I went back again and did some other nonsense, but I remember giving so much credit in my head to writer’s who painted on trains so neat because prior to painting on a train all I did was walls. And the train of course is a different surface. It’s slick and you can’t hit it like you can hit a wall. I remember my paint just going whoosh… all down the side with horrible drips all over the place. Between the cheap paint and the surface, I couldn’t put two and two together and I was still learning. But then to find out it was the paint, it was the caps, it was this, it was that and that you had to acquire all these little tools to make your work look good. No one told me anything. I pretty much found it all out for myself. Actually how I found out was there was a hobby shop that I used to take paint from that had these little cans with really nice colors called
Testors. I went in there one day and filled my bag full of those little cans of paint, not knowing, thinking paint is paint. Those little cans looked cool and they had caps on them that wrote really neat. Like if both ends weren’t blown out, it wrote in a perfect line. The paint somehow seemed thicker and I thought it was only those little cans that did that. Then I took the caps off and put them onto a Rustoleum and a Krylon can and I got the same effect. I was saying, “Shit, look what the hell I discovered here.” It took me some time to find out about fat caps and stuff but I was happy using just that Testor cap because that’s what I learned. I thought I had discovered it. You know, I gotta be honest with you, I thought I did. Nobody told me don’t use this, use that. Nobody told me nothing. {CES
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