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Chinatown Mural

 Posted by on April 30, 2012
Apr 302012
 
Chinatown
Grant and Sacramento

This mural is by Twick of ICP Crew who had a mural in SOMA that has since been painted over and another one around a Banksy in Chinatown.

According to his Facebook page:  “Twick” is a SF Hip Hop urban legend with many ranks like a general. He is one of the most respected figures shaping the Bay Area graffiti movement from the 80’s to present day. At the age of twelve Francisco (his real name) was inspired by the Chicano writing that decorated the walls of the Mission and his neighborhood. During this time he was introduced to his passion graffiti art. He is a self-taught artist who has been painting the art ever since it arrived in the Bay Area in the early 80’s. With 26 years of experience he uses Graffiti art as a positive tool. With his enduring passion evident through his everyday endeavors, Twick helps to break graffiti’s negative perception by transforming it to be looked upon as imaginative and inspirational works of contemporary art. He is a pioneer of hope and optimism painting murals with powerful images and full of culture. With the Mission and SOMA district walls as his canvas and his efforts to empower the local youth, Twick is dedicated to giving back to the community that raised him. In 2004 Precita Eyes gave him the opportunity to teach a graffiti mural class, Honored and inspired has been teaching youth workshops ever since.

 

SOMA – Mac Dre

 Posted by on December 21, 2011
Dec 212011
 
SOMA
Langton Street
This Mural has been painted over (6/2012)

Mac Dre was a rapper, born in Oakland, lived in Vallejo, convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery and killed by a bullet from a passing car in Kansas City.  His bio on Wikipedia is really rather interesting.  If you are interested in his music style this is fascinating reading as well.

The artists on this mural are ICP Crew (Inner City Phame).  “The first graffiti I saw when I was a kid growing up in the Mission was the Chicano writing on our walls,” says Twick, ICP veteran and original member of the group of close-knit friends, founded by Il Charo (then named Jes 446) back in 1988. “We called it Cholo writing, because that’s what it was. The walls decorated the names of the gang members of the neighborhood.”

“I fell in love with the art form right away and wanted to duplicate what the writers in New York were doing,” Twick recalls. Along the way Twick found a mentor in Antie 67, who introduced to him the values and elements of hip-hop culture – from the craft of lettering to break dancing and emceeing. It was an apprenticeship. Like many other kids, Twick felt pulled into an exciting and creative underground world, one that for the most part, kept him out of the real trouble. “I didn’t choose my destiny my destiny chose me,” he says.

“Soon enough more and more crews popped up, a unique Bay Area style developed and an ever-evolving ICP made a name for itself on the walls across the city. “We dubbed the style we do Phunk,” Twick explains, “meaning, knowing the foundation of a letter and creating from that: stretching it here and there, adding connections – some arrows and a few bends in the right places with a shadow or a 3d.” Funkified calligraphy is readable, unlike widlstyle, which has helped ICP garner a large audience of appreciators and street notoriety.”

The quotes above are from a May 2010 article in the Bay Guardian.

Banksy in San Francisco

 Posted by on August 17, 2011
Aug 172011
 
Banksy in San Francisco
SOMA
8th Street between Folsom and Harrison
Quoting from wikipedia “Banksy is a pseudonymous England based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.”  ” Banksy’s first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, billed as “the world’s first street art disaster movie,” made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.  The film was released in the UK on 5 March 2010.  In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film.”
When Banksy started to show up around down it caused quite a store even the S.F. Chronicle got involved.

This is on the corner of Commercial Street and Grant Avenue in Chinatown in San Francisco.  This one is now protected by plexiglass.  I am not sure what that means, street art evolved into high art?  Building owner wants it to remain to bring more people to his stores vicinity?  I am stumped.  The colorful piece was done afterwards by Twick.

If at first you don’t succeed, call an airstrike.  This is at the corner of Broadway and Columbus in North Beach.

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