http://www.thesource.com/articles/6866/Broken-Windows/
Thanks ROYCE BANNON!
DOÑA, LADY PINK
Back in the 80’s, graffiti was loose. It was a rebellious movement. People didn’t pay for their paint. People didn’t pay for their film. There were no bars on the display gates. There was no such thing as a store where you had to be over eighteen to get spray paint. Dudes would rack paint and then chill out and wait to catch an easy victim and vamp their paint. Graffiti was a poor man’s thing. You know… everybody had to steal or rob because paint cost money. Portfolios cost money. Supplies cost money. Markers cost money. Even good drawing paper costs money. So everything costs money and that’s why everyone was either stealing or robbing one another in the process. {SHARE 37
GOAL,SABE,TIWS (Illegal Graff)
OVIE, JAES,YES2,SEEMSO,CAN2,SEEN,CES (Illegal Graff)
It’s all about fame-is the way I look at graffiti. I mean everything that I do in my life is related to graffiti, otherwise I don’t do it. In this world you have to stay on top, otherwise you’ll be forgotten. I happen to be one of the lucky ones. I wasn’t the first graffiti artist in the world and I know I’m not gonna be the last, but my name travels around the world. And I can honestly say, without tooting my own horn, that I am the world’s most famous graffiti artist that people recognize throughout the world. It ain’t easy keeping that because there’s a lot of things you’ve got to do and keeping it real and getting up and still staying out there. You can’t just quit and say, okay well that’s who I was. It’s not like that, there’s a reputation to uphold. So I’ve got to continue getting my name out there. You know, you gotta be in it to win it. Just like Lotto. {SEEN
T-KID 170
Back in the days of the trains, the whole thing was about getting your name up- it was about fame. It wasn’t so much about big productions, it was about putting your name on the train and a lot of them. For me, it was putting your name on the train with style. It was about the style of letters. I wanted to do it with style. I wanted to be recognized as a kid that could burn. That’s what I wanted to do. I didn’t want to just bomb and do throw-ups. I mean, yeah, I did a little bit of that and I kinged lines on the insides. The #1 line, three years in a row I kept kinging because I was always there anyway painting whole cars and stuff. But it wasn’t just about that for me. It was more about the style and doing something nice, and I became famous for that. {T-KID 170
COPE2,DELTA2,TRAP,Characters by EWOK ONE 5MH
When I go to paint a wall, I bring like 2 crates of all different colors. When I get to the wall, I look at what’s in the crate and I just take what looks good and use it. Whatever outline comes out my head as I’m doing it, I just do it. That’s it. It’s very simple. People say to me, “Yo, if you sat down and sketched you’d be awesome”, which I know I could, but I don’t stress that. People sleep on me man. I can burn too. I can get loose. I got my own style. I always do my pieces right out my head. {COPE2
BROKEN WINDOWS: Graffiti NYC 2009 Reprint. 70 more pages. Hardcover.