Map It

It's a quiet and cloudy evening in Brooklyn. The lights on top of the Empire State Building bounce off the fluffy bottoms of the low-hanging clouds above Manhattan.

I'm working on a "graffiti map" for an artist who sells personalized MTA maps on Prince St. near Broadway, which is right outside where I work. I forgot what his name is, but he used to write back in the early '80s and he once mentioned that he "....just got back from doing some work with Stash, Futura, and Daze...." (some of New York's most well-known graffiti artists). He said that If I made a map for him, he'd sell it for about twenty-five to forty bucks, and split the profits with me. I thought that was a fun thing to do, so this week I'm gonna just bust out some wildstyle letters onto a brand new October 2006 MTA subway map and see if he can sell it.

Tonight, I started off with "The Bronx", in blocky mid-80's letters. The letters are done in the style of WEST FC, MED, COPE 2, and SHAME 125. I'm not sure If I'm going to make the styles different for each borough, so we'll see. I might add white highlights to the letters, too.

Watching me from the sidelines are two cuddly bears and a cozy-hearted penguin.

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