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An interview with Steve Powers

Thursday, October 11, 2012

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Signs, signs, everywhere signs . . .

Thursday, October 11, 2012

          And the sign says “Everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray”. But then they passed around a plate at the end of it all, and I didn’t have a penny to pay. So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own fuckin’ sign. [...]

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ESPO/Steve Powers’ Epistolary Love Affair with Philly

Saturday, October 6, 2012

The artist known as ESPO aka Steve Powers, is beautifying Philly in a way that melds traditional sign painting with his skills as a graff artist and muralist. Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and is sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage [...]

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DIY America: Graff

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Yes… more spray paint posts… It’s just one of those kind of days… This one is from Aaron Rose’s excellent DIY America series (all up on YouTube). More candid discussion of underlying motivations for why people pick up Meanstreaks and cans of Rusto… Graffiti artists Sace, Abhor, Amaze, Deadcat, Sleezer and Earsnot talk about legal [...]

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WISK and SER Talk Bombing

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

From the writer’s bench and the creation of RTDK, to the birth and establishment of canonical graff vocabulary… All-city, heaven-hitting, river-mobbing writers from back in the day… Comfortable busting numbered silver and black throw-ups, catching drippy tags or piecing in yards all across the vandal salad days of Los Angeles in the 80s and 90s, [...]

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