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When I was in seventh grade, I saw some classmates who started painting, and I also realized that even though rap and graffiti were two different things, they often went hand in hand, and I already liked rap…so I decided to find myself a tag (power at first) and start spraying my first little tags…
It is a really long story i took another old friends tag and remade it to Wafl. Eventually people started to call me the waffle so thats why im the Waffle now. Es una historia muy larga. Cogí la firma de otro viejo amigo y la convertí en Wafl. Al final, la gente empezó a llamarme…
I started in 1988, with my brother and 2 friends. We had been looking at Style Writing for a few years before hand and really liked it. In South London there weren’t many tube lines so people were more into bus bombing. Back then you could tell where someone was from by their handstyles. South…
Yokohama (Japan) “I’ve always felt like I was stuck in between—not a model student, not a villain, and not particularly good at anything. I chose the name JUNK-R from that feeling: ‘JUNK’ for something considered useless, and ‘R’ from my real name, Ryota.” «Siempre me he sentido como si estuviera atrapado en medio: no soy un estudiante…
When I started doing graffiti in 1990, I first experimented with different names. Around 1995, I finally settled on the name MONE. Back then, people were looking for relatively short names—usually three to four letters—that were quick to write. I liked the letters M‑O‑N‑E because of their flow, and at the same time they felt…
My name Whyre comes from the word “Wire”, inspired by the TV series The Wire, which I was a big fan of. The idea of “wire” also means being wired, connected, like being plugged in. For me, it represents being connected to hip-hop culture and graffiti, both mentally and creatively. I also chose this name…
I’ve loved hip-hop music and street fashion since high school, and I once thought that if I ever created my own fashion brand, “Mad Blast” would be the perfect name. That was the beginning. Later on, I combined “Hiro” from my real name, Hiroyasu, and that became my current artist name. In the end, I…
When I was about 14 and going to school in Berlin, two boys from my year group failed a grade. They used to tag our blackboards before class. At first, I wasn’t impressed. But then, on the way to school one morning, they started covering the packed bus with thick, bold markers, and I was…
I started painting for several reasons. I’ve been drawing since I was a child, and when I discovered graffiti, I fell in love because I could combine what I’d always loved to do with a «game» where only your skills mattered. At that point in my life, graffiti was the key. Empecé a pintar por…
I got into graffiti because a friend I rode BMX with was writing. I was also inspired by the graffiti I saw in Australia and the dope masterpieces at the ‘Mokuzaiko’ spot in Hiroshima. Me metí en el mundo del graffiti porque un amigo con el que montaba en BMX se dedicaba a ello. También…
My pseudonym MrKas comes from my early graffiti years. The name Kas originates from an old game room in Porto called Kastalia, a place where my friends and I used to meet every day. Over time, the tag “Kas” became part of my identity as an artist, and adding “Mr” later helped distinguish my work while keeping the roots of…
In the beginning, my nickname when I first started doing graffiti was “aws” which was an abbreviation of my real name. As time went by, I expanded it into “awshit”. “Awshit” is a word that comes out from someone’s when they see something “wow” or astonishing to them. And that’s the expression I hope people…
I liked the letters as a kid ( not sure why) started writing them. In later life I found out I actually have inuk/inuit heritage.. bit mad that. De niño me gustaban las letras (no sé muy bien por qué) y empecé a escribirlas. Más tarde descubrí que en realidad tengo ascendencia inuk/inuit… Es un…
SONG is my given name that came from my family and heritage, which means to eulogize in mandarin. In the context of graffiti, I write SONG as a representation of my frequency with the environment and state of mind I’m in, like creating a visual “song” in every wall I paint on wherever I go….
I’ve loved drawing everywhere since I was a kid — on paper, notebooks, desks, and any surface I could find. In high school, I started tagging my school, my crew name, and my own name using spray paint and markers on walls, buses, and random spots in the city. Later, I studied Visual and Communication…
Odessa (Ukraine) ¿De dónde viene tu apodo? Where does your pseudonym come from? Mi tag es Wink significa un emoji. Implica que cada vez que alguien ve mi graffiti, es como si le guiñara el ojo al transeúnte. Una especie de interacción lúdica con el espectador. My tag Wink means an emoji. It implies that…
I dropped out of graphic design program at college and was living downtown and just became noticing graffiti more and more. To me it was like graphic design, working with type, but on a larger scale and the only product is yourself. The only rule is be dope..there is a freedom in that and it…