9) Errata and New Info
May 20th, 2007 by steveWP
As I mentioned up front, in a project covering twenty two years of often not well identified work, I would probably get some things wrong. In all of the previous sections, I include corrections specific to that text. In this section I’ll put corrections not necessarily relative to the book’s main text body.
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Page 105 at the bottom: I ID the writer as Pistol45, but the other two credits should be Chee and Steam.
Page 194: Express is standing in the center of the canvas, and Jick is kneeling at the lower right.
In the “Memorial” section on page 111 bottom right (”Jesus Wept”), that piece was done by Toons and another USC member.
On the last “collage” page (291) I identify photo 31 as Twist, but it’s actually by Emuse, who does indeed flex a Twist inspired style.
In the CD-Rom under “Locations,” I identify two bridge pieces as by Ayer, but the beige one is by Rask LTS and the red one, which does say “Ayer” is a memorial piece by Zes.
I know there will be crew roll call additions and corrections coming soon and I welcome that.
OK: THIS IS A REPRINT FROM THE POST “BILLBOARDS,” BUT IT DOES PROPERLY BELONG HERE AS WELL…
The term “corporate” is the graffiti term coined by Yem (Krenz), founder of AM7, for doing a piece on the front of a billboard. Ideally integrating the piece/s with the existing imagery. I ran into Yem who wanted to clarify that his first partner that worked with him was Dae, followed by Doonze/Dew. Today there are plenty of “bill-bombers,” but few that actually work with the imagery like Revok and Augor. When I have talked with people outside of graffiti culture about the vandalistic/ethical questions of doing corporates, I tell them that while I, of course, can’t encourage it (like any kid would be influenced by me anyway), that I honestly have enjoyed seeing the Silver Surfer parting waves of Revok and Augs names, and find it hard to believe that any revenues were lost to a movie production company for example, because Aug’s name was coming out of Spidey’s hand. On the other hand the surge of toy tags on private/mom and pop businesses and public art sucks, a reflection of the loss of some standards that of course spills back over into the graff world where toys don’t understand respect for dope pieces and productions as well. It’s all tied in together.
On page 138 of the book you say the production is done by sh with characters also by czer the 2 purple character on the right page were done by era of the uca crew
On page 54 the Fear and Dove piece was actually done in 2002, if you want to get technical…lol