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I started writing my nickname in 2004, initially using four letters in my early years of painting: “Spok.” I’d love to say it was simply due to the influence of the science fiction series Star Trek: The Original Series, but I actually chose those letters because I found them very dynamic and interesting, simply to…
As a teenager, I remember seeing the work of many graffiti artists in my neighborhood, and in high school, I was inspired to create my own pieces. What you saw in my city back then was pure originality; I was fascinated by the work of artists like Goal, Crime, Gruñon, Waize, Chiz, Puerk, and others….
My nickname comes from taking my surname written in Japanese, ライチェンズテイン, and removing all the letters in the middle, leaving only the first and last letters: ラン (Ran). Mi apodo viene de Tomar mi apellido escrito en japones ライチェンズテイン y quitarle todas las letras del medio, dejando solo la primera y la ultima: ラン (Ran)….
My name is rather abstract, and I chose this alias more than 25 years ago because I liked the combination of letters. Today, I would choose an even more abstract name, since many people confuse “syck” with “sick,” which I find boring. Mi nombre es bastante abstracto, y elegí este alias hace más de 25…
I simply liked the letters and the sound of it. I haven’t been using this name for very long; before that I painted under the names Tiger / Tman. Simplemente me gustaban las letras y el sonido. No llevo usando este nombre desde hace tanto tiempo; antes pintaba bajo los nombres Tiger / Tman. ¿Qué…
My name Bolo originally came from a character that represents the street wear brand (school of the hard knocks), that brand was so famous during the 90s and early 00s ,and I was 14 years old pop locking dancer at the time and I used to wear that gear with the character a lot that…
I was always interested in painting. My grandparents always worked in the fields, but when they were older and retired, they started painting. They had always wanted to paint, but at that time, with so many children, it was unthinkable; they had to earn a living. So I grew up watching them paint, and maybe…
My pseudonym or tag name comes from the word commercial. Growing up in the Bronx in the 80s-90s and always seeing graffiti everywhere from trains , streets to highways and everything in between. There was a writer whom was definitely a style master he wrote «Cromag» Imok (rest in peace). I was so interested and…
Shub has been my nickname since 2004. Friends from that time gave it to me as a reference to the character Chewbacca from Star Wars. It was first pronounced “Chewb,” and more recently “Shub.” “110” (or one ten) is a concept I created within the Street BikeTrial community. I practiced this sport intensely between 1998-2002…
Gaza (Palestine) ¿Qué te motivó para empezar a pintar? What motivated you to get started painting? Siempre me atrajeron los colores de la calle y cómo el arte puede transformar un espacio aburrido en algo lleno de vida. Ver a otros artistas expresar su libertad a través del arte urbano me inspiró a tomar un…
When I was 19, an older my friend gave me the nickname “Korone”. I had never been given a strange nickname at that time, so I liked it and started drawing it as KORONE. after breaking it down a little,as KRNE. After that, with what to draw in the public and artwork I decided to…
Rame means “copper” in Italian. Before choosing that name I tried many others, because I was looking for something that could really represent me when I started painting. When I found Rame, it just felt right: I liked the way it sounded, the way it looked written, and also its meaning. Copper is a strong…
I got into graffiti art in 1996, through a friend, with whom I started writing my first tags. I see motivation in development, in my opinion every writer develops in a certain way… Me inicié en el graffiti en 1996, gracias a un amigo, con quien empecé a escribir mis primeras firmas. Veo la motivación…
It was never a goal or a conscious decision. Drawing was always there. Before painting, there were already lines: on walls, on the margins of notebooks, on my own skin. Any surface could become a support. Painting came later, almost without announcing itself, as a natural drift from that initial gesture. It wasn’t a choice,…
Metz (France) Mi firma no tiene ningún significado en particular. Al principio, solo quería una firma que empezara por la letra S, una letra con la que me gustaba trabajar. Cuando empecé a pintar en 2002, la escribía sin la E al final. Fue en 2005 cuando añadí la E, principalmente para enriquecer mi letra…
I had seen tags and graffiti in my neighborhood, Pardinyes, in Lerida, and I started tagging the walls near my house with the tag “crash” for about three months or so. I met other writers from my neighborhood and neighboring neighborhoods (such as Owe, As, Psta, Cruel, Jam, and a few others), and I found…
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…