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SASTER: How long have you been involved in Graff?

EWOK: Graffiti found me in about 1990 by way of tags around my hometown,
and further looking the into Subway Art book that got me hooked, about 91 I was driving to NYC a lot with my family taking pictures of tags in downtown and all the parking lots and especially the highway era, which influenced me to think about straight letters for impact value as apposed to throw-ups that I would look over when driving by highway walls fast. If I was going to use paint I wanted to stand out on a wall of many, instead of falling victim to a bunch of white noise. The str8 letter mentality is still ingrained in me to this day.

SASTER: What are the things that interested you most about Graff?

EWOK: What struck me the most was the mystique behind the “people” who came in the night and left their mark. The other thing that intrigued me was hand styles, and how some people’s tags looked more stylish compared to others. Also, how some people were up so much, but their shit looked like a little kid did it, not concerned at all with making their name look good, I didn’t understand that. I wasn’t really into pieces until I went thru the Bronx in 91-92. I saw all the HARD ROCKS and KD walls with Louie 167, Cope, Sie, Trab, and Dero. Back then; I also saw walls downtown in parking lots like Ces, Clark, and the IMOK guys who had a bunch of lots smashed back then. This was the shit that sparked me to do pieces. I was already drawing shit like comics back then so it only made sense to put a character next to my letters.

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Angelina arrives at Banksy’s LA exhibition

Star magazine is reporting that Angelina Jolie stopped by a Los Angeles warehouse and spent almost $400,000 on three pieces by Brit artist Banksy.

A $226,000 painting – titled “Picnic” – depicts a white family of four merrily lunching under an umbrella on a red checked blanket.

A $75,000 purchase – a white bust with a bleeding bullet hole in the forehead – was a particular favorite of Jolie’s. “She went nuts for that one,” an onlooker told the mag. “She told [her baby daddy], ‘I must have that one.’”

For another $75,000, she picked up a portrait of a man hit in the head with a custard pie.

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Just In from Crooked Tounges:

It’s nearly time to get those fat laces clean for the impending World Final of the 2006 PlayStation B-Boy Championships at Brixton Academy on the 7th and 8th of October, and as mobile phone dons Sony Ericsson are co-sponsors, teaming up with Hooch events for the big night, they’ve blessed us with some very fine prizes indeed.

We’ve got a Sony Ericsson W710i handset, with Walkman ® interface, a 2.0-megapixel camera and fitness applications, recording your speed and distance for those floats, flares and freezes, as well as a B-Boy DVD, 2 tickets to the Championships and B-Boy merchandise, all ready to give away to the person who can answer this question…

Who won the Solo B-Boy battle at the 2005 PlayStation B-Boy Championships?

Email the answer with your name and address to competition@crookedtongues.com with ‘Sony B-Boy Competition’ as the subject and seeing as the event is on this weekend, you’ll need to get your entries in by Thursday the 5th of October…

Go England!! Where is our NYC competition at??? Sheeezzz……

Here’s your chance to be famous. DJ Shadow has given fans the chance to make their own video for his next single ‘This Time’. Entries can be uploaded to DJShadowVideo.com, with a closing date of October 20.

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