Mishin' Complete Left to Right...

HELP

COVET

SICK

BEWARE

CAST & EDITOR

ERASE

DOTS

KURS

PSYLON

SHIV

ESAY

EPSA

CORE

VIEW

SILENC

Massive ups to KURS, BEWARE and SIN for doing all the hard graft buff work, CAST for his timely contribution, DJ Balanced for the beats, Steven, the wall owner and to all the writers who did their time with everyone standing around watching.
No pressure ;-)

CFG | SHIV | ERASE | CREW COMPILATION

Right - I'm on a mish and I need your help...
I want to get the crews straight in my head.
Below is the list that I know of and if you've got any corrections or additions, I'll keep updating it...
BTW: They're not in any particular order and I apologise in advance if I've got anything seriously messed up - do me a favour and correct me ;-)
CFG - Cool Fools GraffingShiv
Kwiva
DR
Asert
Cose
Ape
Over
Rad
FKB - Fat Kap BanditsHate
Pork (Oz)
Rust (Oz)
Cers
Wasp
Spurt
Associate: Neonate
BH - Bad HabitsCovet
Tank
Quest
Revamp
RTR - Ready to Roll (Aux & Wellie)Ikon
Vents
Repo
Stray
TS - Triple S
Juse 1 (Top Shelf Creative)
Jestah
Drex
Kerb 1 (Top Shelf Creative)
SpexOne
Reakt
Truce
Avid
Ceaper
Associate: ESP?

BML - Bombing Mad LinesScream (also UPC, TA, CIA)
Tens?
Reface?
PAS - ? (ChCh & Well?)Heist
Morks
Chaos
Stix
Interactive?

OMF - Original Mother Fuckers?

OTP - On The Piss (or On The Prowl?)Covet
Revamp
Remis
Helper
Phuse
Boom?
BDC - Bombers Delight Crew
Jer
Erase
Pane
Soap
ID



What was I thinking?! LOL!

Then there's the question whether FTP is a crew or just the statement Fck The Police? Someone thought they'd heard it was a world wide thing?
I can see that connection ;-)
What about Editor & Cast? Editor often has WK on his pieces but role calls some RTR...
And what about F is for Fun? I heard he was in FKB but got sidelined because he wasn't repping them enough. True/False?

As you'll see by the comments - getting some good info.
Want to be sure it's shizworthy though so confirms of the ? would be g

Progress Down The Alley...

So I found out that Erase WAS Erect as I suspected. Someone hit him up for biting them. It was such a vague connection that I put it down to Top Toy pecking order slobber where the Bitee probably felt threatened.
I mean - look up there, then look down here...these were done by the same guy exactly two months apart. That's got to be called stellar progress in anybody's toybox.



My favourite story this week was about Shiv from CFG doing fill for Erase on one of the pieces at the top. Apparently DR (also CFG) wasn't ecstatic about it and told Shiv none too eloquently, but Shiv kept doing it anyway.
Now that's what I'm talking about...
I already liked Shiv but he got a big fat 10 pointer in my blackbook for that deed. Tells me two things - he's not too big for his Vans AND he knows talent when he sees it and isn't too staunch and haterful to support it...

SHIV

The only thing to wear out in Wellies this weekend would have been your hardiest 41 below Brass Monkey suit. It was freaking freezing!!
Yesterday Jenny, from Miss Demeanour on Cuba Street, said she was looking out her shop window at the rain but thought Hold on - rain doesn't float down in flakes!
Who ever heard of snow on Cuba St?!
Later on someone else told me they'd seen it too. What's that all about?

So - with not much happening up the alley this past week and because I've got a few images, SHIV's up today. SHIV's throwies are never huge but they're always recognisable and his tags have a wee bit of flourish. I'm interested to see his progression...




In the book InForm, PEST5 has this to say about picking his name...

I heard about the approach of picking letters that you like. Originally I had to do a 4 and an H - forget about it! Those are the most horrible letters. So I decided I wanted a name with an e and s and a t. I thought that Pest sounded like a bad-ass graffiti name - as you think when you're a toy. I added a number onto it because it was the buzz in Christchurch at the time to have an old-school sounding name. Also there're heaps of other guys overseas who write Pest and I thought it had a good ring to it with the 5 on the end.
SHIV's got some pretty funky letters to work with which could look sick as a piece... ;-)

Shiv/Sin/DR/Sker

Bold move by Shiv capping TrustMe. Granted TM had already been tagged. For such a young dude whose throwies never last long before they're either vehemently capped by one of the crews or equally as vehemently buffed by the council, he's got bollocks and just keeps throwing up.

I came across him and Nuno just after he did his first ever throwie. He was gutted because someone had YFY'd him. Not one to cry over it, he did what all violated throwie virgins are probably tempted to do - he went back over it...

So Sins balloon is still a balloon and he's still alive and happy, DRYPs stick has been lifted and a Gin nose Hitler has been pasted up by none other than...Sin. Sin's pasteys are so unpredictable.
I had collected a few images of animal toy pasteys that looked like they had human faces (inset) then found out Sin had done them. Turns out they were actual stuffed toys that he photocopied. The effect was surreal and mildly disturbing.

I personally think pasteys are Sins strongest media and I said to him the other day that I was surprised he didn't sign them. He admitted he's got a new signature we're going to be seeing soon...

DR capped Nerd above and I'm not sure if the Sker Likes Balls tag is over top or underneath?
Skers haters at least have a modicum of humour...hopefully he's not taking them too seriously - although I guess his haters wouldn't be saying that ;-)

I would bet a can of ironlak that this is Silenc but there's no way that man could slip in and out of town without us knowing about it!

Update: I just got a text from Silenc and he hasn't been here since last time but he could be cruisin down here soon. So whose is the throwie then?!
Update Oct: So - turns out it's SOAKER - Laks duly distributed ;-)