street art is nothing new to the city in
the 70s New York City Mayor Ed Koch
waged a war in graffiti and let a major
effort to clean up the city of its
street art but now artists who might
have landed in jail for street art
before make thousands of dollars for
what some would call vandalism how much
you get paid for this I got paid two
grand to do this and then they paid the
supplies so they okay cool it’s like go
ahead with it you know this is like an
outdoor gallery space for me instead of
it being inside people now to
participate in this art and not have to
worry about do I understand it or do I
not understand what I was beginning to
understand is that although we normally
think of spray paint when we think about
street art when you have new york city
as your canvas anything can serve as
your medium london wow this is beautiful
yeah fashion through the decades but
like so cool because we have we’re
feeding in the back and have your
contemporary art like in the front and
it’s almost like two worlds just
opposing you know I love the color black
behind it like a perfect canvas for it
would you say it’s a way to communicate
to other people for you so it really is
about a message and every street artist
has their own way to communicate but the
original new york city street art is of
course graffiti and that’s a whole new
language for me to learn so how do we
understand that we have charged here
you’re sensing we have repays we have a
feeling and he has tickets so attack is
when a writer basically this missing
term yes bhai name this is being a
here this is a sag the filling is when
you will do like an outline and then we
still live in like this perspective like
a priority mail business why do people
do it I guess Louis for street name you
know to get recognized in the world to
get attention I guess so we just say
there’s a bit an oxygen involved yeah
there’s a lot of egos and
see an hour street art you know people
want to get no so is it really just
narcissism or is there something else to
it it kind of gives you a value of
meaning you know what I mean graffiti
gave me my you could say bravado it gave
me my saying that gave me the confidence
I have today the graffiti in New York
City is part of the culture it’s been
around since the 60s and 50s and you
know I’m not trying to disrespect your
businesses but at the same time trying
to keep the New York culture alive you
live in the city you gotta deal with
graffiti that’s how I feel finding and
expressing identity that’s a big one but
not just your own the identity of the
whole city it was a way for me to change
my identity and get a reputation other
than what my parents tried to mold me
into the proceedings part of the
identity of New York yes vandalism or
art what is it this her boat vandalized
with a heart heart attack yeah I think
the message is way more importantly for
the walk we still not convinced I knew
there was one last thing for me to do
what color you want yellow yellow yellow
girl I never sick of black for the
outline take another yeah yeah
after all to fully understand something
you have to be coming or at least
experience that I’ve had so I asked
Gazoo to teach me how to tag now what
year is going to be well how do you
choose name well it’s something that’s
personal to you you know next 16 next 16
has eyes well I’m my father was called
Nicholas yeah he passed away last year
in 2016 so that would be in honor of him
as I was looking at the artist just
created a newly minted street artist I
realized that it ultimately didn’t
matter what I would call it because the
most important thing is the world humans
trying to communicate to connect to
other humans and that’s the purpose of
art no matter what medium or canvas you
choose
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the 70s New York City Mayor Ed Koch
waged a war in graffiti and let a major
effort to clean up the city of its
street art but now artists who might
have landed in jail for street art
before make thousands of dollars for
what some would call vandalism how much
you get paid for this I got paid two
grand to do this and then they paid the
supplies so they okay cool it’s like go
ahead with it you know this is like an
outdoor gallery space for me instead of
it being inside people now to
participate in this art and not have to
worry about do I understand it or do I
not understand what I was beginning to
understand is that although we normally
think of spray paint when we think about
street art when you have new york city
as your canvas anything can serve as
your medium london wow this is beautiful
yeah fashion through the decades but
like so cool because we have we’re
feeding in the back and have your
contemporary art like in the front and
it’s almost like two worlds just
opposing you know I love the color black
behind it like a perfect canvas for it
would you say it’s a way to communicate
to other people for you so it really is
about a message and every street artist
has their own way to communicate but the
original new york city street art is of
course graffiti and that’s a whole new
language for me to learn so how do we
understand that we have charged here
you’re sensing we have repays we have a
feeling and he has tickets so attack is
when a writer basically this missing
term yes bhai name this is being a
here this is a sag the filling is when
you will do like an outline and then we
still live in like this perspective like
a priority mail business why do people
do it I guess Louis for street name you
know to get recognized in the world to
get attention I guess so we just say
there’s a bit an oxygen involved yeah
there’s a lot of egos and
see an hour street art you know people
want to get no so is it really just
narcissism or is there something else to
it it kind of gives you a value of
meaning you know what I mean graffiti
gave me my you could say bravado it gave
me my saying that gave me the confidence
I have today the graffiti in New York
City is part of the culture it’s been
around since the 60s and 50s and you
know I’m not trying to disrespect your
businesses but at the same time trying
to keep the New York culture alive you
live in the city you gotta deal with
graffiti that’s how I feel finding and
expressing identity that’s a big one but
not just your own the identity of the
whole city it was a way for me to change
my identity and get a reputation other
than what my parents tried to mold me
into the proceedings part of the
identity of New York yes vandalism or
art what is it this her boat vandalized
with a heart heart attack yeah I think
the message is way more importantly for
the walk we still not convinced I knew
there was one last thing for me to do
what color you want yellow yellow yellow
girl I never sick of black for the
outline take another yeah yeah
after all to fully understand something
you have to be coming or at least
experience that I’ve had so I asked
Gazoo to teach me how to tag now what
year is going to be well how do you
choose name well it’s something that’s
personal to you you know next 16 next 16
has eyes well I’m my father was called
Nicholas yeah he passed away last year
in 2016 so that would be in honor of him
as I was looking at the artist just
created a newly minted street artist I
realized that it ultimately didn’t
matter what I would call it because the
most important thing is the world humans
trying to communicate to connect to
other humans and that’s the purpose of
art no matter what medium or canvas you
choose
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