This hall of fame used to be in Via Anassagora, north Milano. The owner was Milano’s ATM! I had the permission to paint on it once in a year just during the Airbrush Show exhibition, the art event that I used to manage and direct from 2000 to 2003. Every year after the closing day, we took a few time to paint a piece with some of the friends down in the event. Here is my piece with Tyke AWR from Los Angeles: a really talented artist whose style and technique has been bited all over the world during those years. Both pieces were freestyles!
Quando ho inziato a muovermi su longboard per Milano ho scoperto che non esisteva una mappa aggiornata dei migliori spazi cittadini per praticare le varie discipline. Visto che la situazione a distanza di tempo non è cambiata, ho deciso di rimediare mettendo insieme informazioni prese da varie fonti. Spero vi sia utile: Milano è al centro di una pianura quindi la stragrande maggioranza degli spot sono tutti in flat ma ciò non toglie che ci si possa divertire comunque!
Circumwriting has been a great event by Evoluzioni which happened in Napoli during the spring-summer of 2004. Circumvesuviana is a 6 lines train line that runs all around Vesuvio and towards Sorrento. The event touched many stations and I’ve been invited at the closing event at Barra station.
It was the 18 of July and the sun was burning like it could shine and burn in Napoli only. I’ve been in Napoli many times and I always felt like been at home, I love the city and its vibes, something unique like being italians. Before starting to paint in the early Sunday morning we moved to a seaside location in Napoli where I was the judge for the final Graffiti Writing contest of the Italian Hip Hop Awards (Zeus & Zevel were my choice). Just after the awards we drived to Barra station and started painting down the line, just in front of the platform: there were at least 50 writers painting along the line’s wall. People was breaking inside the station and later in the afternoon MCs were rapping live while trains were running through the station. What more can I say? The organization was almost perfect to me and I had so much fun together with KayOne, Styng253, Pope, Slork, ZenTwo, Haero, GasOne and many others. I remember that some people have had the courage to criticize the event ’cause they considered it “too commercial”. The truth is that Circumwriting has been one of the best event ever organized in Italy during those years and that to manage something big like that in a complex city like Napoli was just amazing. Nice memories!
This piece has been painted fast and with the wrong colors and it has really too many dedications … but I love its memory as it’s one of the few pieces painted with my old and good friend Zeta at the THP hall of fame in Via Brunelleschi (hey, please note the perfect street name!). Although Zeta is a talented artist and he’s always been there painting crazy characters for everybody or just chilling out at the wall with the rest of the crew, I have painted only a couple of pieces with him. Zeta is still painting from time to time and he hasn’t lost his touch (he’s much better!) and his ironic way to express… you can find him here.
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