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For more information, please visit http://www.12ozprophet.com & http://www.futura2000.com
Futura x 12ozProphet shirts will be available at http://12ozprophet.com/index.php/product
Also check out the trailer at http://vimeo.com/18716319
FIFA fever is running wild in New York and it seems like every brand is out there trying to get in on the action. Everyday there's another event popping off or a new collabo dropping to celebrate the World Cup.
Nike, however, seems to be going above and beyond the call of duty by flying in SPETO, one of São Paulo's original graffiti pioneers, to paint an installation at their 21 Mercer spot. The AKANYC and 12ozProphet Crew were already down with SPETO through our Boys in Brasil OS GEMEOS, so when the opportunity arose to go see him do his thing right here in lower Manhattan... we grabbed the video camera and jumped in the gypsy cab.
Now, you gotta understand that while I am a practitioner and a proponent of traditional New York style graffiti writing, I don't necessarily think that the whole world should be doing it. Quite the opposite, in fact, I think it is too often contrived and forced looking. "Mannerism" as my boy ARSON WKS would call it. It's as if I were attempting to work in…
Raven and Sonik went to São Paulo, Brazil in December of 1997 to put together a story on Brazilian graffiti for 12ozProphet's sixth issue. Twist had connected us with Os Gemeos, and we went there to introduce them to the world via our magazine. The sight of São Paulo and the otherworldly graffiti scene exploding over its gut-wrenching social landscape, the peculiarly Brazilian collision of poverty and wealth, was a complete shock. Meeting Os Gemeos - as well as Nina, Vitche, and Herbert Baglione, gave us friends for life, and the sight of their work was a glimpse into the future of an art movement we thought we knew, but even now, more than a dozen years later, has yet to catch up. Here's a short video edited from footage thought to have been lost for well over a decade.
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