GOOD GRIEF

this kid kills period ....




1.state ya name gangsta...

Grief

2.what crews repped

DVR, MFG, FR.

3.1st graffiti experience

Damn i wish i could remember my first graff experience. haha well i remember my early stages when i was in high school and used to sneak out of my parents house past curfew to do some of my first fill ins around the city.I would ditch school and take the bus to rack supplies, rack paint because i wasnt old enough to buy it and catch scribe tags on the bus. FYI i always carry a scriber. It is my favorite tool of choice.I ditched more school than i attended. At night i would sneak out and i remember pretending i was in france during world war 2 and i would tell myself that cops and taxi cabs are like german snipers and i have to avoid them and not get seen by them and i would walk to spots to paint doing tags and every time a car drove by i would jump and hide like some sort of soldier ninja, haha those where the days, man i did a lot of graff in those years, most of it sucked.Painting in the snow was always my favorite. haha


4.what compelled you to do so

Well i grew up in Los Angeles during the construction of the subway and i remember seeing graff everywhere especially around the subway and bus stations and i DID NOT like it, i was like what is this garbage??? but i came to reno a few years later and i experienced culture shock and that is when graff came to me and i started doing it, i had always been attracted to art and skateboarding, graff was just there. I was anti social in school and i always felt like i needed to do something different to separate myself from the usual kids at school. One day i had a bad injury skateboarding that required me to stay off my feet so i started doing letters and doing pieces on paper then i ventured into the train yard. I would ditch class to paint trains during the day, my high school mascot was the railroaders haha how ironic is that?



5.current state of graffiti ?your opinion???

i think it is getting harder to do it illegal and it is a shame because that is the purest form of graffiti when it is raw, loud,ruthless,no permission, ugly, crunchy, ghetto,grimey, drippy and has that in your face attitude that says "hey! i was here, fuck you!" and i think it is important for graffiti to always have that in its essence. It seems like graff is branching out to different types of art medias and that is good to see but i really would hate to see it become corporate. Graffiti has always been the weapon of choice for the few people in our society to use to fight back at the people and corporations who truly deface our vision and minds with advertising and brainwashing bullshit and make us feel like we are just statistics and numbers in society. Now that most corporations figured out that they can use this art form to their advantage they want to exploit it so that is why it is important to keep it real,original, and in the streets.



6.your favorite city to paint

I would have to say San francisco is my favorite city to paint due to its compact streets and city structure and convenient transit.There is no place like it. The city I'm primarily based from is a 24 hour nightlife devils playground. In the city of Reno Nevada it is hard to paint city spots which left me the option of painting freight trains instead, but the city is underated and i have painted city spots and so have others that were never flicked or posted on the internet but Reno has had its grace of presence with a few good writers that have painted some good graffiti. In 2005 i went on a mission to paint several pieces,tags and bombs on a "hot" street called 4th and it is swarming with cops and bad news 24/7 but i did it for my own personal satisfaction and the fact of overcoming a challenge and in the end i think i did a good job and crushed most of the down town reno area and 4th street but most of the work i did back then i never flicked so it is lost graffiti and i had some good pieces running that i regret not flicking and now they are all buffed but I'm sure the police department has pictures of the damage i saw some of them and i ended up going to jail and got in a huge mess in court but that is another long story. After the 2005 hot spot binge i wanted to continue focusing on painting trains for the next following years or traveling to other cities.

7.what would u like to accomplish before you are done

well i never want to get to the point where i would have to admit being close to done ,i just want to keep doing what i do and progressing with my style and doing it repetitively and travel to other cities and get my name around and meet other writers and paint.

8.what is graffiti to you??

Graffiti to me is being able to do what ever i want. Life is what you make it.


9.who were your influences coming up???

I had a lot of influences. close friends and local cats in reno were some of the best to me.adjust, Chino,Mores, WBL Crew, TME crew, ITS crew,Ha crew, Ayer Lts, Mber, HM CREW, Sace Irak, Sag Ta, Setup, Rime, Grey, Kaper, Kaput, Sien 5, hobo monikers, WCB crew, Kahn, A2m Crew, Ikso, Emit,East att, chisme, Heat, Klean Lts, Pysa Lts, kuk, Abhor, Steel msk, Twist,Amaze, Trav, Skuf, Earsnot, Tie, Espo, Revs,west coast graffiti, Seen, etc....




10. if you had any advice for a new jack coming up what would it be

Yeah just keep doing it and doing it, and somewhere along the road sell your soul to the devil.


11.weve heard you recently had a pretty big art show what do u think about more and more bombers chasin that art money?

well i think its cool,even graffiti writers have to eat. But i think most writers should definitely put in work and get some clout before they consider doing a art show. As for myself i was tired of doing obscure graffiti in this city and i wanted to come out to reveal my work and i really felt like i had something to show people and I'm not sure i'll get pay for it but i really spent a lot of time preparing the pieces. People are rarely exposed to graffiti in this city so i wanted the chance to bring something new to the table. I usually try to keep art and graffiti in separate categories but i wanted to bring the two together and i got a result and it is what it is. Most of the works were collages of pictures I've saved in last few years that i thought had some importance to me so its very abstract and random but i think people were interested in what they were looking at and the expression of their faces was priceless. But a important element to me has always been being elusive and secretive with my work so i really was hesitating on doing this and felt like i was selling out but i guess it felt like it was time to move on and try a different approach. Im getting older and i really cant run from cops anymore due to skateboarding injuries so... word.



12.paint rack or buy???

all of the above, you never can have too much paint. any and by all means necessary.


13.trains walls or streets

first streets, then walls, finally trains. i think there must be a guideline for writers to follow those procedures in order and accordingly. i hate seeing garbage on trains. Practice on the streets first then hit up the walls to get some style then you can come to the yards when you can come correct.



14.what does dvr stand for

Doing Vandalism Right!!!


15 any fuck yous or big ups?????
death to those who oppose, ignorance is a weapon of its own destruction. Mad Love to my family friends and crew,you know who you are.