Graffiti Heroes: Zephyr
From his website: http://zephyrgraffiti.com/.
Hi there. I started painting graffiti on NYC subways in 1977. Today, I may still paint graffiti or I may not still paint graffiti. You can decide. I’m not saying. This website is provided by me as an effort to share some of my handiwork with you. Over 99% of the work here no longer exists, so this is all we’ve got. I had a great time making this stuff. If you have even a small fraction of my good times checking it out, that’s great. If you hate my graffiti, that’s great too. After all, it was never created to elicit applause…
“Zephyr” New York City 2011
Graffiti Heroes: Coderock
This is a bit of a personal one.. I was in the same crew as Coderock for a short while.. The Savage Army (TSA) we called it, and damn, we thought we were something.
Coderock was something else. His unique and rocking style had me trying to draw like him, he was a big influence.
Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Coderock from October 2000 on Graffiti.no.
Around ‘88, the biggest thing was Public Enemy, and we dressed up in full urban combat gear, with boots and shaved heads and bad attitudes. I guess the only way to tell the difference between us and neo-nazi skinheads was the way we shook hands. We were into a militant aggressive style, and I thought I needed a big loud pompous-sounding name. Everyone else had 3-5 letter names, so I figured eight letters would make the difference. I had the biggest belt-buckle, and damn proud I was, too.
For my post #100, one of the greatest that ever were and will be: SEEN.
Seen by Seen, Paris, 2009.
via FatCap
Heroes of mine.
Beauty by Shoe
Mode2 inspecting the work.
I thought i’d give it a go of highlighting a few graffiti writers that were writing while I was on the scene. That sounds a bit pretentious. These writers were what we considered the big ones, who we aspired to. Back in the late 80’s early 90’s.
Source: rikaorlanda
