cheers for the contributions peeps, keep 'em coming!
here’s another couple of Banksy pieces
I love to draw and have a kind of street art style so I love looking at amazing pieces like ones people have posted and trying out some of the ideas.
I’ll be painting my garage walls soon so I’m taking note haha
(another of my favourite Banksy pieces)
EDIT: DAMN! why are my pics not working! (it was the molotov flowers i was going to post anyway)
[quote]MaddyD wrote:
sorry for the small pics up there heres the final local piece that I have
when I am on the west side tomarrow Ill take a couple pics and post up here of the old hood.
theres some that are wonderful and it was a community effort to keep the walls tagged up.
thats if i remember to take my camera if not crappy phone pics it will be 
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did you take them?
I was born and raised and reside in Northeastern Queens, a graffiti hot-spot of the 1980s 1990s. Actually, Queens as a whole, although being more suburban than the other four boroughs of NYC, has had a lot of hard-hitting writers since graffiti’s inception in the early 1970s.
Growing up, from about 1987 (I first started reading graff at age 7) to the mid '90s (the end of the highway and clean-train era), I would accompany my family on car and train rides seeing some of the best writers ever from Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx, mostly on the Long Island Expressway, Grand Central Parkway, and Cross Island Parkway and the 7 train:
Saint, Cope 2, PJay, Quik, Sach, Trap, Sent, Neo, Jest, Nes, Dera, SEOD, Elf, Kite, JA, Stane, Voyer, Duel, Bruz, Set, JD, Mirage, Ghost, Enuf, Edge, BL, Kap, MQ, Veefer, Reas, Image, Stane, Det, Seus, Sphere, RD, DE 3, Pest, Chino, Cro … to many to mention …
… and all the crews: TMR, RIS, XTC, WKS, TVT, AOK, NOG, FPV, MCI, DMS, TPA, etc.
Then when I went to high school in the mid-90’s, a whole new (and unfortunately, more violent) wave of writers came out: Giz, Noxer, SN, Slash, AKS, Ader, Keeps, Inkhead, ID, Jakee 113, Cooe, Teck, Skuf, Scan, Korn, Scant, VE, Cend, Amuze … again, too many to mention!
I don’t condone graff; I just happened to grow up around a lot of it. It was an entertaining experience.
I actually went to Mark Ecko’s promotional party for his video game Getting Up in Manhattan in the summer of 2005. Ghost (RIS, TMR), a writer from my neighborhood, was there painting.
The Mob Rules (TMR)
Newsday Article
Clearview Expressway
Bayside, Queens, NY
1990
Saint TMR (The Mob Rules)