Category Archives: Graffiti

Bombing In Iraq

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Wes Flexner | 8 comments

While looking around the internet for responses to the tragic death of Camu Tao. I came across this on the War 42 site:

It’s armed soldiers getting up in Iraq. Thats your Tax dollars at work. While I am against the war, I do support our troops.

What’s even weirder is that the soldier shouted out Texas PBJ/IOK/BK member, Bryer who painted on this years’ Daymon Day Wall, as well as the Industry Standard Wall. Click for more photos’ of US soldiers painting graffiti in Iraq.

WAR 42 is a DVD series that showcases graffiti intertwined with clips of really disturbing behavior like home footage of naked strippers smoking meth out of broken lightbulbs.

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Tagged Bryer, industry standard, iok, pbj

They Ship Cars In These Freights

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Wes Flexner | 1 comment

DARK repping iok and fst stolen from Art Crimes.

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Hery’s Up in the New Catch Me If You Can Magazine

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Wes Flexner | Comments Off

Columbus graffiti writer and national treasure, Hery, has a piece up in the new issue of Catch Me If You Can. It’s a production he painted with I.O. cats in the Nati on the back of Club Clau. It looks like molten lava and alien ovulation.There is also a good interview with Rhymesayer Entertainment C.E.O Siddiq about how they built such a nationally prominant label in a Midwestern town not known for Hip Hop like Minneapolis.

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Tagged Hery, iok, Rhymesayers, Siddiq

Diplo/Blaqstarr/Fly Union Make Cleveland Almost Fun As Columbus

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Wes Flexner | 3 comments

Photos By Danielle Kline

Cleveland often gets a rep for being a location of pure misery. But things may be looking up. About 4 Years ago it quietly the Land started standing out as the best city for graffiti in Ohio due to the efforts of the Droids, BHS, and TKO. William “Upski” Wimsatt predicted this would happen in his book, Bomb the Suburbs. More recently, Mick Boogie, Chemical Kickdrums, Chipper the Ripper, and Fat Al, have started an upswing in Cleveland Hip Hop. So when I heard Diplo was coming to Cleveland to redeem himself for the worse show experience in his life, I was mad curious. Do people actually have fun in Cleveland these days?

Detox, the roadtrip only homie William,myself and Dkline hopped in the whip, and headed up to see how C-Town Rides in 0-infinity.

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Tagged Diplo, DJ Blaqstarr, DJ Krate Digga, Ender, Fly Union, Mad Decent, pbj

Style Wars Co-Director Tony Silver Passes Away

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Wes Flexner | Comments Off

Above is an interview with Tony Silver discussing Style Wars, the PBS documentary that captured Early 80’s Graffiti and Hip Hop culture. Mr. Silver co-directed Style Wars with Henry Chalfant. The film perfectly details this buoyant era. Style Wars first aired on National TV in 1983 and basically spread this NYC culture beyond the coasts. Places like Birmingham, Alabama had new graffiti problems . Kids in the sticks picked up cans, writing names like Mare2 and Daze2. The video was just so dynamic. It had the writers painting in the Subway yards, then later seeing their work run all of America’s most populated city. It had the beefs. It had graffiti entering the gallery world as the hippest things out during Blondie’s heyday. It had Mayor Koch and MTA fighting against graffiti. All the players of this time are shown in a quite beautiful, spellbinding manner that earned Style Wars the Grand Prize for Documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival in 1984.

Tony Silver passed away last Friday from the culmination of an ongoing brain condition.

Watch Style Wars:Here

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Epicly Later’d Will Be On MTV 2 Satuday

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Wes Flexner | Comments Off

Patrick O’dell aka I’m from U.A. Aka I am from Columbus. Aka I had a big ass ramp in my basement in U.A. when I was in High School. Aka my sister was in Lambsbread. AKA That guy has jeans made by Altamount. Aka number 1 picture shooter for Thrasher and Vice. Aka Epicly Later’d will be on MTV 2 Saturday.

This episode below won’t be on the television on Saturday. But who doesn’t have Neckface in their Top 5 rappers of all time next to Katt Williams, Bill Cosby, Andrew Dice Clay, and Don Rickles.

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Tagged Epicly Later'd, MTV, Patrick O'dell, Skateboarding, Thrasher, Vice

Daymon Day Pt. 1

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Wes Flexner | 16 comments

Two weeks ago, on September 15th, some of us in Ohio celebrated the second annual Daymon Day, honoring our friend Daymon Dodson, who many have dubbed “the Patron Saint of Indie Culture” in Columbus. The past couple years have had Ohio’s Hip Hop and Graffiti communities suffering some severe losses. In addition to Daymon, producer mc DJ Przm, neighborhood legend Nasty Nate, as well as graffiti writers Heist and Phrite all passed away, leaving various intertwined cultures in a similar mourning mindstate. So we figured might as well acknowledge the impact of these and other lost loved ones, and celebrate their lives.

This years festivities included a cook-out, a graffiti mural, a Parade, and a Show. Participants included the Droids Crew, Pat Carney of the Black Keys, PBJ, Necropolis, RJD2,Blueprint, Spitball, O.D.O.T., SA Smash, IOK, AKE, BSA, Vomitrocity as well as hundreds of friends and family members.

Pt. 1 is going to focus on the cook-out and mural.

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Tagged Daymon Day, Daymon Day Parade

Sasquatch Sighting in Ohio

Posted on August 26, 2007 by Wes Flexner | 3 comments

My homie and crewmate from Portland, Sasquatch, was in Ohio for a week or so for… Scribble…bombing…bbqing..discussions about falling in and out of love at inopportune times…discussions about the need for more classy behavior in graffiti… discussions about the worldwide onslaught of condos(Portland and Spain are getting gentrified)…discussions the overuse of u-locks in fights in Portland by hipsters at artshows….his conclusion…
Pluto has left the universe, and we are all thrown off by it.
Dood was hella likable…

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Tagged iok, portland graffiti, sasquatch, Scribble Jam

Scribble Jam Flicks; Zero Namechecks El Jesus In Freestyle

Posted on August 12, 2007 by Wes Flexner | 2 comments

2007 Scribble Jam happened this weekend. And for the first time in some time, I wasn’t there.
And am very happy because of it. If they would build a hotel with a pool adjacent to Annie’s, I would possibly go. But I am too old and miserable to stand around and listen to whiney white people making homoerotic insults that illustrate an intense sexual repression during the mc battle..

The graffiti is usually good though. I found these photos of IOK’s wall at America’s Largest Hip Hop Festival.

Zerostar also didn’t go to Scribble. He stayed at home, and played racketball.(True Story!)
When not playing sports, he recorded some freestyles. One is over DJ Przm’s instrumental that was originally used for Copywrite’s song Ten Times. The other is over Blueprint’s Lo-Fi Funk. In that Freestyle, he claims to use that El Jesus. Not sure what drug that is. But just when I thought everyone came to their senses and realized rappers and indie rockers have nothing in common, and have no business hanging out with each other, Zero suprised me.

MP3: Zero-Ten Times Freestyle
MP3: Zero-Lo Fi Funk Freestyle.

More Scribble Flicks After the Break
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Tagged El Jesus De Magico, iok, ohio graffiti, Scribble Jam, zerostar

Behold A Pale Horse(IOK Reunion)

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Wes Flexner | 5 comments

“They say the end of the times is near, so I walk a righteous path, holding a beer.” Common

Graffiti crew IOK celebrated its 11 Anniversary in the Nasty Nati this weekend. Writers came in from all over the country for this reunion. I suspended my graffiti retirement for one day to get down on this production, which is on Bogarts in Cincy. Our theme was “The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse”. It kinda cracks me up that in Columbus, people can’t even paint angels on a legal wall on High Street. But in the Queen City you can paint graphic depictions of the end of the world. Could you imagine this in Pearl Alley behind the Newport?