The Fantastic Partner, The King of Swing, SENTO TFP (North Bronx, NYC), is an irreplaceable writer, for various reasons. He has been the one to look up to and follow for dozens of writers around the world. This fine example of a graffiti writer, in capital letters, is an authentic style maestro, versatile, dynamic, a chameleon of the very lettering which always makes him identifiable whether he writes SENT, SENTO, WERD, DAMP, DEPH, RATSO, ERB or TENTH. Always doing something related to graffiti, and always working with dedication, he has shared some of his fine moments alongside writers like CASE2, NEON, CAVS, KEY, GHOST, KET, MILK, KAMI and DELTA during different eras in his life, always representing DAMAGE INC & TFP.

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We're baaaaaaaaaaaaack.

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So close... damn.

A real estate company painted over a wall of art in Sydney, Australia, prompting this follow-up response. I wish more people would support artists like the dude who drew these weird dicks.

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The LA police system is really fucked... Revok's bail was set at $320,000, where other crimes such as rape have a bail amount about a third of that. It's nice to see what the LA police system sees as important, with their logic it seems like it's better to have a rapist roaming the streets than an artist.

A quick news flash to update you on Monday’s post about Revok’s arrest...

He has been sentenced to six months in jail according to CBS Los Angeles. Apparently he violated his probation by not paying restitution to his victims. No doubt this is being seen as a victory for the prosecution, but it does make me curious as to what the tax payer cost will be to warehouse Revok for six months? Amazing how California feels all that investigation, prosecution and jail costs for writing on walls is justified considering the state can’t even pay themselves.

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I had the chance to kick it and paint a quick piece with Norm a few years ago when he visited NYC, really cool dude and sick tattoo artist.

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So I got a spike yesterday on my usual daily visitors which confused me for a bit as I don't usually get those unless I do an interview or get one of my posts featured somewhere, but upon doing a little Sherlock Holmesin' it turns out that Stan from Bombing Science gave me a shout on their site and on their twitter.. so good looking out! I don't do the twitter thing but follow em @BombingScience and visit their site BombingScience.com, it's one of the best graffiti sites around!

I finally got around to putting this together... Episode 5 is in the works!

700 Wall - Final Update from Molotow on Vimeo.

So Mad C just entered my top 10 favorite graffiti writers list, I know she (yes she) is an amazing artist, but to take on this project head on and literally do everything on her own (yes, alone) is beyond anything I've seen in a long time, below is her description of the experience.

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Here we are, the wall is done! Even though I decided to paint a little further still - I just finished it before the snow set in. The wall was originally planned to end at the set of windows since those are difficult to involve and the surface of the wall became pretty bad from thereon too. However, I decided to extend my theme in places and take the challenge to paint until the very end of the wall. Now it is about 680m2 of wall space. Finally, the picture is complete and I hope the story sums up. My Stylemachine-idea was based on the life of a dedicated graffiti writer. It's a wall for all of us who paint 10+ years and who put all their energy and heart into it.

That's how I translated the idea:
Scene one - the laboratory - we sketch, we try, we are inspired, no matter
under which circumstances, lack of time or interruption

Scene two & three - the machine and harbour - we select sketches and
produce our ideas, try techniques, style- and colour-variations and get them
out into the world

Scene four - the difficult journey - a lot of our work gets destroyed f.e.
by the buff, toys or by the nature, so we have to keep on doing our thing no
matter what

Scene five - the city - you keep on sending your name into the world, so at
the end of the day some of your pieces reach their destination, where they
belong and where they are seen.

And for those out there who like numbers a lot: some days I went up and down
the ladder more than 500 times; fell off the ladder 4 times; counted in days
I painted more than 4 months every day at least 10 hours; I used 1489 cans;
158 different colours; 600+ caps; 3 different kind of caps, 100 liters
primer; 140 liters exterior paint; painted at temperatures from +2C° to
+38C° in sunshine, rain, storm, day and night; painted my biggest and
smallest piece so far and overall painted my name far more than 100 times on
this wall. I'm curious if anyone will guess or find out how many there
actually are. I made only one exception from solely painting MadC pieces on
this wall. Special place in my heart - special place on my wall.

And last but not least - a massive thanks to everyone who supported me
throughout the year, Molotow above all of course.