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Writer Spotlight: QUIK ONE NYC

Story by Jimmy Olsen
50mm staff writer



Jimmy Olsen: What do you write ?

Quik: I am most popular for the name QUIK, although I started out doing graff as STAR-X. I began as a child looking up to guys like STAR III, Star 206, SPIN, STOP and SUPERSTRUT.

Jimmy Olsen: When did you start writing?

Quik: I had been scribbling on things at school and church as early as 1970, but didn’t paint my first train outside until 1972 in Qu...

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IT'S NOT ABOUT OIL OR IRAQ.

IT'S ABOUT THE US AND EUROPE GOING HEAD-TO-HEAD ON WORLD ECONOMIC DOMINANCE.

(I found this story floating around the internet last year before the invasion of Iraq began... It explains a whole lot about what the fuck is going on.) -Unit



By Geoffrey Heard
Melbourne, Australia



Summary: Why is George Bush so hell bent on war with Iraq? Why does his administration reject every positive Iraqi move? It all makes sense when you consid...

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Wheat Pasting with Robbie Conal

On May 27th 2004 in Los Angeles a mob of heads performed their civic duty and took part in an Anti-Bush wheat paste campaign lead by LA's Robbie Conal. Conal has been posting political bills for decades and if you are an LA native as I am, you grew up seeing the gnarled wrinkly faces of politicians and world leaders adorning electrical boxes everywhere. I always wondered how he managed to put in all that work seemingly overnight... well I found o...

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Legend Spotlight:

LA Graff Innovator..........PRIME-K2S...

Interview by: Lee Majors for 50mm
Transcribed by: Lady Godiva



....you’re going to see Prime until the day I die. -
Prime-K2S



And I believe it!!!!

Now-a-days when you think of the LA graff scene a few names and crews
automatically come to mind. And it’s cool and all cuz LA gets repped hard
and gets repped globally but there was a time before them kats and even the
90’s. A time when graff was s...

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Do You Remember?

Sent in By ...SNEKISM-ONER-KWS (01/12/01)



"Do you remember?"
the old school cat tails that used to come after each ending leter with little dots after them or that fool "Caser-Tsk" that fool had Slauson and the 108 on lock down or pencil scribers or how "Skill" was up all over downtown LA in every different style he had or when fools used to do top to bottoms on the bus outsides or your favorite lay over spots to mob buses or when fools ...

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Mek one...West Coast Artists...Rtdkiller...City BomberS...

Story by
Wisk WCA
50mm staff writer


There are many writers from this great city that have experienced Los Angeles live and un-cut . Many have come out and been around for a few years and many have come around and stayed around for more years than they imagined. But not to many can say they were Crew Leaders, or Trend Starters, Pioneers, or even an L.A. Legend. Mek one can though he wont say it, but if you know him than that fact is alread...

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El Mac Artist Statement, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam from Viet Nam The World Tour on Vimeo.

Mission Impossible : Ghost Protocol Aerosol Mural from End of the line on Vimeo.

David Choe Interview from Rager Life on Vimeo.

Influences from Alex Kizu on Vimeo.

MadC vs Molotow™ Premium Transparent from Molotow on Vimeo.

Behind The Wall: The Battle for LA's Murals from Oliver Riley-Smith on Vimeo.

Official Meeting of Styles London 2011 from End of the line on Vimeo.


Chaz Bojorquez: les lettres de noblesse de Los... by Mediapart

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

CELLOGRAFF part1 from iKanoGrafik on Vimeo.

OTR, RTL
Grandpa Tagger Arrested
Train yard
Retna and Mac
NBC Nightly News

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Revok and Crew

Only Time Will Tell from Vans The Omega on Vimeo.

Home Made Spray Can

Splay from Eurecka Filmes HD on Vimeo.

Stop Motion Graffiti
Czer and Eyes







EIKNARF Presents: "Revok: On The Run" from EIKNARF on Vimeo.




Panic
Blackbooks
Old School Gang Graffiti
Gang Graffiti
Dash2000 Rest in Peace:

Dash 2000 Rest In Peace from Ed Martin on Vimeo.




Graff Head
Art of the Voiceless

"Art of the Voiceless" from Andre Sandoval on Vimeo.

Revok

REVOK Interview Part I from Ben Boas/Mushing Dogo Production on Vimeo.

Los Angeles
Benching

Early 1990's
Risk

Risky X The Wild Ones from The Wild Ones on Vimeo.

K2SXSTN

K2S-X-STN from Alex Kizu on Vimeo.

Rime

RIME tribute to JACKSON POLLOCK (RIP) for DOLBY DIGITAL (LOS ANGELES) from DONUT® Graffiti Shop Istanbul on Vimeo.

Maclaim Team

Maclaim Graffiti

Stell Coffee getting bombed from Ryan Herrera on Vimeo.

Los Angeles 2010 [Tiel Eins] from Roger Griffith on Vimeo.

Steve Grody



Tyson on Graffiti


Mear One


Iphone Tags

Graffiti Analysis (iPhone) - DustTag v1.0 from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

Ruger and Versuz


Graffiti Veritie


CBS Show REcap


Risk vs. City Attorney Carmen Tratanich Live at KABC Interview


FU BP


TYKE WITNESS VIETNAM



Dytch CBS


Wild Street 2


Kopye Siempre Fuerte Exhibition


Cre8


Graffiti Vigilante


Tagger Sentenced


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