RAB CAC was a graff artist that was killing my area of Queens and the rest of the city for that matter, when I was going thru my graff phase. It was funny and special to meet him as a student when I went to Brooklyn Technical high school. Do you know how much work this dude put it when he was still in high school?
When I was in 8th grade I used to travel the entire city sneaking in tags on the last cars of the subway. The X-Men were all city and more popular to me than the comicbook from which they swiped their namesake. I kept a subway map in my bedroom with all the layups and yards marked off with pushpins. I really thought I was gonna bomb the system one day.
RAB is still on the scene but no longer writing on the subways or bombing on the streets. He is viewed as a legitimate graphic illustrator and he does shows, galleries and books. One of his gallery projects, along with a dozen or so other artists was to go in on a museum paper print of an R-42 train.
Peep the gallery here…
One day soon watch and see if the MTA doesn’t have a nostalgic day where they allow artists the chance to put up burners on their out of service railcars.
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Those John Stockton’s are awesome, DP!
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i never bombed the system but i did have hello my name is stickers and postal stickers. with my tag on them at all the stops on the 6 train. some of the stops of the 4 5 and 2 train. heh i was young and couldn’t afford spray paint plus i didn’t want to get caught. we would get the postal stickers for the post office because they were free back in the day. the hello my name is stickers were umm …… donated. try to get as many stickers you could mon-thurs. friday night go to work and saturday morning head out to spread your tag across the city.
I think tagging is just as important a coming of age trial as losing one’s virginity. Plus, you can’t get the side of public trnasportation pregnant. Unless you’re a transformer, but that’s for a different website.