GRAFFITI LA

The show I co-curated with Shirlae Lifshin-Cheng at PMCA was picked as one of the best shows of 2011. They got that right! Check it out!

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Just looked at this interview done in Nov. 2007 and it’s fun to look again at some of the walls that were running then.

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The KTE family of crews, KTE, 3A, P2I and ETB have been way overlooked in props given to L.A. veteran crews. I’m glad to say that this was brought to my attention recently, and I have put together their history and a gallery of their work in the “Gallery Page 2″ and “Errata and New Info pages.” Please check them out. Veteran writers may realize that some dope pieces they have seen over the years were by these crews.

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Here is the LTS battle (Vs TPS seen below) production done at Commerce yard in March 1996. That’s Retna on the left (”MosesLTS”) and Siner on the right, along with Phowl and Verse (RIP).

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One of the things I like to do on Facebook is post a photo for writers on their birthday. Ideally something early that they probably don’t have a shot of, back when most kids didn’t have access to a camera and were not thinking of shooting their work. Today I posted something for Kofie, and just for the hell of it, I put together a crude merge of the battle production that TPS (The Private Sector, That Philly Style (founder Jojo was from Philly), TrooPerS, and so on) did against LTS (which I’ll post soon). That day at the wall were Jojo, Kofie, Trickster, Term and I have to find out who else. Who won the battle? Obviously all of US who had a chance to see dope work!

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I’m sure there’s a better way to organize the gallery page here, but in the meantime, for easier viewing (as in not having to scroll through everything to get to new posts), I’m going to create new pages. I’m starting the new Gallery Page 2 continuing from 9-91 where page one leaves off. Enjoy!

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I did a presentation of some graff history for Rio Hondo college on September 14th, and this little article in the school paper came out on it…
http://www.elpaisanonewspaper.com/entertainment/photographer-of-graffiti-art-schools-students-1.2597172#.Tnzugc0U6Ko

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If you’ve looked at the Gallery recently, you’ll notice a recently posted shot of 3A crew at Motor. Thanks to “Lil Spanky” for connecting me wit Talo (who will be providing some history), and for telling me about KTE, P2I and 3A who I’m sorry I’ve kind of slept on. I plan on correcting that soon with a correction and props post of their work and history. May take a minute, because I want to go through my archives at least to some degree to see what else I have. I can say up front that I have a bunch of things that are by TALO KTE P2I 3A, and which I ID-ed in my archive as Italo UTI (also a dope writer, not taking anything away from him!). I’m glad to correct that. Just to start, since I misidentified this shot from my CD-Rom as by Italo, I’m correcting it here as by Talo and Deil P2I at Venice Pavilion, September 1995. Stay tuned! (Tech note: the image is cropped on the right because the scanned slide was ajar; I’ll redo it for the bigger post.)

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To all the writers in L.A., you will want to see this show! I have been printing up photos for the show, many or most of which have been previously unseen, and since we all know how quickly things changed at the tunnel, I know there will be pieces and productions shown that will be a trip to see!

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Many L.A. writers have talked about periods over the years when graffiti activity was more active or less active. There were long periods, for example, when I didn’t bother going by Belmont Tunnel because it was such a graveyard because of heat from the locals, and then suddenly things got cracking again. It will be interesting to go through my files at some point and really break down the difference between years (although it’s a given that I haven’t always been in town, or that it would be impossible to shoot anywhere near a majority of what is painted during any particular month). For example, I have only around 240 images shot during 2000, compared with around 900 shots for 2003. That’s a huge difference.

I have well over a hundred shots from September 1991, so while not everything is worth showing, much is, and so we’ll be working our way through that month over the next bit of time. As always, scroll to the bottom of the Gallery section to see the latest posts.

Enjoy!

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