#sfgraff

[bayareagraffiti1er]

A lil wayback Wednesday? #Styner #CBScrew #Rue #UGSquad #graffiti #grafflife #graff #tag #taggin #burner #piece #art #streetart #bayareagraffiti #mtn #montana #SFgraff #rusto #Krylon #instagraff #aerosolart #ironlak #graffporn #throwie #welovebombing

[roman1two]

250 mini eggshell stickers any design/ any fonts $19 📦customeggshells.com #orby #wkt #wktcrew #sdslaps #laslaps #sfslaps #sfgraff #sfstreetart #mini #minislaps #customeggshells #customprinting #stickerprinting #roman #roman1 #romanone #romanstreetart (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAefECSpTon/?igshid=1foyujxxuknyh

[halopigg]

@herakut from 2012 under construction behind the old @flaxart in San Francisco. #Herakut @hera_herakut @akut_herakut #Hera_Herakut #AkutOne #Akut1 #sfstreetart #sanfranciscostreetart #sfgraff #sfgraffiti #bayareagraffiti #streetart #street_art #muralism #muralart #artnerd #artington #artingwithhalopigg #streetartspringbreak #sonyalpha #sonyimages #sonya7ii (at Flax)

[oaklandwalls]

NOPE #oakland #graffiti #oaklandgraffiti #streetart #bombing #vandalism #urbanart #nope #sfgraff #sfstreetart #bayareagraffiti http://bit.ly/31FRAmF

[vipercmk-blog]

#sfgraff

[yeeghost]

San Francisco,CA |2015| "SF Zoo Kids"

[bayareagraffiti1er]

Modern ruins #graffiti #grafflife #graff #tag #taggin #burner #piece #art #streetart #bayareagraffiti #mtn #montana #SFgraff #rusto #Krylon #instagraff #aerosolart #ironlak #graffporn #throwie #welovebombing

[roman1two]

Moving thru suckas’ crew 👀🤺💨 customeggshells.com #mts #movingthrusuckas #mtsk #eggshell #customslaps #customstickers #stickers #slaps #sfgraff #sfslaps #sjslaps #sanjosestreetart #oaklandstreetart #roman #roman1 #romanone #romanstickers https://www.instagram.com/p/B8R7drtp5Tk/?igshid=147bh0vwqwhv1

[halopigg]

Check out this fading @barrymcgeeart tag running on an #SFrooftop! #barrymcgee #twist #twistone #twister #amaze #SanFranciscoStreetArt #tagsandthrows #sfgraff #sfgraffiti #StreetArtSanFrancisco #SFstreetart #streetart #street_art #artnerd #artington #sonya7ii #sonyalpha #sonyimages #artinthestreets #artington #artingwithhalopigg #streetartspringbreak #streetartspringbreakroadtrip #opart #opticalart #publicart #BazzaMcGee #notbarrymcgee (at San Francisco, California)

[vincentpeak]

Klops and Sedek truck in San Francisco 2015. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rdpgoOFPols

[mid90signorance]

Shux Paeday

[oaklandwalls]

SPADE #spade #oaklandgraffiti #graffiti #graff #bayarea #sfgraff #burner #streetart #tagging https://ift.tt/2yt0lWj

[yeeghost]

“Pt2. Zoo Kids at it again”

San Francisco, CA (2016)

[djchickenskratch]

REMEMBERING TIE/SEO/JON LIM

TIE ONE - Rebel In Paradise - Thank You For The Inspiration 

TIE ONE loved graffiti. He lived graffiti. Tie found what he lived for and he was killed for doing it.

His legal name was Jonathan See Lim. He was 18. He was shot and killed while climbing on a fire escape outside a Tenderloin apartment at 120 Taylor St. A resident named William Porter, a 51-year-old photographer, told investigators he thought the youth outside his window was a burglar. The gun went off, Porter told writer A. Clay Thompson, when Lim grabbed it.

The case is still under investigation.

Friends had no doubt that Tie, who left his bicycle below but carried a daypack with a spray can, was climbing a drainpipe to paint his mark where it could be seen from the street.

Tie's veins flowed with permanent ink; with Rustoleum paint; with pure, unrestricted self-expression. Graffiti are a loud and angry reaction to the backward system in which we live. They're seen on the bus, on the walls, in doorways, over stop signs, on billboards, on overpasses, even on police wagons.

Tie cared not to be confined by authority, by categories and limitations, by the risk of another beating him in defense of his pride, by the walls of separation that the ruling class construct in grids that attack our psyches.

He bounced off those walls.

His hit-ups were big with a fat cap, whipped out in seconds, like rampaging elephants, round and bold, over windows, over entrance ways, poles, what have you.

Tie made a mockery of this bureaucratic world of ridiculous and humiliating laws, of this power structure and its home. Tie was that big rash the beast despises the most.

This beast battled Tie hard with paint buff squads and good Samaritan "keepers of the state" who took it on their own initiative to shut up this one youth from ever speaking his mind. But he won. Even after the system took him out, he is up everywhere, on the streets and in our hearts.

Tie's last piece had a message on it. It said "The joy of life." People have been taught how to kill, but Tie told the world to live.

What was he doing that was so wrong? Perhaps feeling his own heart, responding to his gut-felt soul voice. Is this what was so dangerous?

When I think of Tie, I think of his pain. I think of his family. But I also see a smile that told a story of life's acceptance - a smile that stretched longer than the Great Wall of China.

I see a spiritual man-child who walked in prayer everywhere, with Buddhist prayer beads around his neck, a strong and complete pride in his Chinese ancestry and a mind that thought justice before peace.

Tie always gave thanks. But he was steamed, too, "like a steamed (barbecued pork) bun," he would say. And he started getting that up, spelled "SEO," a transliteration of the Chinese character - meaning he was angry, pressure-cooked with thoughts and frustrations.

Tie chose to be a rebel. He even looked like Luke Skywalker, the Jedi knight on a speeder bike with his knit cap beanie and brim.

His rebelliousness made him an enemy of the state, which labeled him a vandal, a criminal, a gangster, one of those good-for-nothing youths who cause trouble, the kind they'd rather jail or kill.

Tie was not an intruder. He carried no threat, and he did not deserve a .38 slug in the back of the head. He was climbing the ladder to "fame" - a principle highly regarded as the "American thing to do." He was climbing to scream his presence - "I am here!" - and stake a claim as a free person in this jail called America.

What other graffiti writer do you know who took the bus across America to the graffiti mecca of New York, picking the route with the most stops just so he could bomb along the whole way?

What writer ran from cops after getting up - jumping off a building breaking both of his legs, then covering himself in the snow to escape getting busted? What writer got the utmost respect from queens and kings coast to coast and paid his dues to writing graff?

What writer did you ever know who said, "I got nothing to lose!" and would scream at you to go out and do the same?

"Bomb, Spie, BOMB!" he said to me with a passion of expectation as he left to carry on his journey. I thank you, Tie One. You taught me a lesson in living up to my full potential, and I love you for that. You are forever young, and in your memory we will not ever give up the fight.

This commentary was written for Pacific News Service by

"Spie," the pseudonym of a graffiti writer who lives in San Francisco. Friends of Jonathan See Lim plan on Saturday to produce a 100-foot memorial mural on a temporary wall in Mission Dolores Park.

article via Spieone

flicks via Saberone

here's a link to more pics and dedications of TIE

[halopigg]

This ten year old @retna piece is still looking good in the an SF alleyway! #Retna #ironeyeretna #RetnaMSK #MSK #MadSocietyKings #sfgraffiti #sfgraff #tagsandthrows #tagsandthrowups @maxehrman aka #Eon75 spotted in the alleyways of San Francisco. #MaxEhrman #SanFranciscoStreetArt #StreetArtSanFrancisco #SFstreetart #streetart #street_art #mural #muralart #MuralTourUSA #muralism #artnerd #artington #sonya7ii #sonyalpha #sonyimages #artinthestreets #artington #artingwithhalopigg #streetartspringbreak #streetartspringbreakroadtrip (at San Francisco, California)

[vincentpeak]

P https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mx95gz26rsA