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Ep.160-ALOY MSK Mar 15, 2024

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ALOY is a legendary graffiti writer native to Los Angeles with a career spanning decades. Representing the great MSK crew, known for exemplifying a bold, legible & large letter structure; creating a high degree of visibility off the freeways & billboards he frequents.
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Dylan Kraus: Streets Talking* with Ian de Beer Mar 14, 2024

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Full episode on Patreon. Dylan Kraus is an artist who explores the sublime aspects of the world, both grand and minute. Inspired by the dynamic energy of New York City, his work embodies a contemplative quest for wonder and equilibrium. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
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Ep.159-GKAE SKREW MSK Mar 10, 2024

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GKAE SKREW MSK is an internationally acclaimed graffiti writer whose name is synonymous with the title of ‘king’ from New York to Los Angeles. Getting down in MSK during the summer of 1992 when the crew was still an offshoot of AWR, GKAE approached graffiti with relentless will-power matched by few. He explains his reason for painting was to rid himself of depression, to impose against the status quo that property is more valuable than life, to achieve a primal feeling of self-worth. Over a period of 30 years he came to represent the legendary MSK crew, face time in LA county prison over vandalism charges; experiencing loss & gain whilst creating a legacy that inspires writers world-wide.
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Bea Levy: Streets Talking* with Ian de Beer Mar 08, 2024

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Full episode available on Patreon. Bea Levy is a Manhattan based sometimes-writer, sometimes-musician, full time lover of the built world.
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KRUSH: Streets Talking* with Ian de Beer Feb 27, 2024

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Full episode on our Patreon. KRUSH is a graffiti writer from the city of Pittsburgh. Beginning graffiti in 1993 at 13 years of age, KRUSH lived a life in and out of street life that culminated in a mindset shift at 25 years old. Having experienced both loss and gain, KRUSH prefers to focus on the positive celebration of the good in life.
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Francesco Igory Deiana: Streets Talking* with Ian de Beer Feb 19, 2024

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Full episode available on Patreon. Born in 1986 in Milan, Italy, Francesco lives & works in Brooklyn, New York. Established in the contemporary art world & showing internationally, his practice is just as likely to manifest as a drawing, a painting, or a sculpture, often blurring the distinction between these forms. Drawing from a unique variety of found images, he seems to create an archive in which there is no hierarchy between contemporary events & historical facts. Deiana actively uses landscape, portraiture & iconography in an effort to conjure the detached & unsettling feeling of our fractured contemporary world. His top 5 handstyles are Petro, Specy, Brite, Skuf, & Twist.
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Ep.158-CES Feb 13, 2024

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CES is an iconic New York graffiti writer. His wild and aggressive approach to style writing has gained him immense fame, and following worldwide. Today his dedication and discipline rewards him to live from his art . Having earned the right to reach this level of longevity through a lifetime of graffiti writing.
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CHITO. Streets Talking* with Ian de Beer Feb 12, 2024

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Full episode on Patreon. CHITO is a Seattle born, Mexico-based artist whose work has its roots planted in CHITO’s early activity within the realm of graffiti writing. Transcending the singular-approach associated with graffiti for a more multi-faceted style, CHITO’s work ranges from paintings on luxury items, technical outerwear, ceramics, porcelain home goods, ad infinitum. From graffiti to working alongside high fashion houses, CHITO’s work never strays far from the cultural roots of self. HIs self-taught trademark style can be seen globally from New York to Japan. CHITO in conversation with Ian de Beer.
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PEAK VIC. Streets Talking* with Ian de Beer Feb 06, 2024

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Full episode available on our Patreon. PEAK VIC is a New York City graffiti writer whose active campaign began in 1977. A founding member of VIC; a graffiti crew whose name stems from robbing writers in train yards, surrounding them & taking all their paint. When the trains went out, PEAK began hitting streets, trucks & ensuing roller-missions with REVS. Widely known for his graffiti-wars, PEAK speaks on beef, life, painting with REVS, trains, influence & more.
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Ep.157-Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. Feb 03, 2024

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Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. is a painter whose work is both documentation & expressive of the transient nature that exists within Los Angeles. Through the appreciation of weathered surfaces, remnants of Los Angeles & the communities behind it, Alfonso’s paintings evoke feelings of wonder & contemplation as to where changing city scapes will culminate. His early inspiration comes from his father’s sign painting practice. He lives & works making paintings in East Los Angeles.
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