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You gotta love Boston. The inferiority complex of that city is beyond pathological. I’ll save you from one of my lunatic rants and instead toss you over to Ether’s commentary on the sad sac shitty that is Beantown., where you can get his take on their fun newspaper cover this week. While we’re blabbering about […]

New neighbor of the beast, Gasaxe’s Tag of Steel. Weighing in at over 200lbs, that’s some heavy freakin’ metal.

This is a bit of old news, but I can’t say I know a lot of stateside writers and fans who even know this has been going down. US soldiers took to Iraq not only war and pain, or peace and freedom, as you prefer to conceive the situation, but also their cultures. Graffiti as […]

God wants to talk to you about tagging up. We do too, though I suppose we might have different advice in regards…

I’ve posted plenty of times about my most recent book, but I figured this batch below (from bonus content that never made the cut yet got dumped in flickr) is pretty epic and noteworthy. Generally speaking it’s not hard to find graffiti on boxcars these days – though this boxcar in particular – spotted in […]

There’s something about suburban graffiti that is just so… primal. 90% of these nigglets can’t write. They sure do know how to race bait though. I wonder why that is? What’s wrong with Black People? Or even Jews for that matter? Absolutely nothing. It’s the white man that’s the devil… or at least a Satanic […]

Oh that wacky Bill Compton AKA, hand him a spray can and he’s always up to no good… And yes, we can animate that for you. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Smart Crew seems to be getting into the auto detailing business – how much would you pay for them to pimp your ride??? Hmmmm… Looks like there’s still one side of this car not decorated… Tomorrow we’ll post the F5 Limited LTV Edition of this ride. And shit, later this week we’ll go so far […]

It’s been awhile since I’ve promoted this book, so I figured I should remind ya’all to grab one while you can. Yard Job NYC is the second of 2 books I’ve done about freight in NYC. I’ll throw down some PR for BQF later this week. Check out the LTV Press site for more sample […]

Wrapping up this week’s series is this set of photos from 2003 and 2004. As you can see, for some bizarre reason the NYC Parks Department wasted a lot of money and paint on priming the entire pool white, and then slapping another coat of deep red paint on the structure. It wasn’t long before […]

Even though the buildings at McCarren pool were sealed shut, the exterior walls became a whole new canvas for the next generation of graffiti writers. This is how the pool looked in 2001.

Deep below McCarren Pool, where only the most insane insomniac isotopic explorers dare wander, we came across still another batch of graffiti. These tags are much fewer than those of the locker room area, as these tunnels were likely pitch black in the 1980s when these guys hit this place. This post is dedicated to […]

When we first entered the former locker room areas of McCarren Pool, I was most pleased at this discovery. It is and was probably the most impressive graffiti discovery of 2010, period. While I know that is a huge, huge statement to make, you really must understand what we have here in these photos to […]

“While the outside of this location provides some vivid visual input, we are convinced that the real treasury of this location remains undiscovered – and that is breaking into the locker rooms and or filtration rooms. They are likely exactly as they were when sealed, providing a potentially rare time capsule.” I wrote those words […]