Reason & Rasclot » press http://heavylox.com/reasonAndRasclot HeavyLox: Illustration drawing design graffit and things Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:57:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Graffiti’s Story, From Vandalism to Art to Nostalgia http://heavylox.com/reasonAndRasclot/2010/02/graffiti%e2%80%99s-story-from-vandalism-to-art-to-nostalgia/ http://heavylox.com/reasonAndRasclot/2010/02/graffiti%e2%80%99s-story-from-vandalism-to-art-to-nostalgia/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:46:29 +0000 admin http://heavylox.com/reasonAndRasclot/?p=1067

Thanks to Saul Nofizaro aka Mr Saul Metnick, of blandscape.org Photographer extraordinaire for putting me onto this NY times story…

New York Times 20010-02-05

Mr. Felisbret, 46, chose the long way. Not that he is unused to fence-jumping. In the 1970s, that was one of his skills as a budding graffiti writer who stole into subway yards. Using the nom de graf DEAL, he was part of the Crazy Inside Artists, a legendary crew from East New York, Brooklyn. This time, though, instead of wielding a spray can, he pulled out a camera and took a quick snapshot of the artwork, done with the landlord’s permission.

-read the rest here; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/nyregion/05graffiti.html

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