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MR.USA OAHU // BOSTON SUBWAY, UNITED STATES 2008

OAHU // SAN FRANCISCO SUBWAY, UNITED STATES 2008

OAHU SOLO // PARIS SUBWAY, FRANCE 2007

OAHU HEIDI // BELGIUM 2008 REBOK OAHU // MONTREAL SUBWAY, CANADA 2008

BANOS MODERN OAHU MCKOY // ZURICH S-TRAIN, SWISS 2008

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BASON MODERN OAHU // LONDON SUBWAY, ENGLAND 2009

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interview with:

Kid Crap “A part of me is still that little playful, vulnerable child. Without doing Graffiti for years I would never have never chosen this name... Kid Crap is the logical name after years of writing experience. It had never could have be my first writers name. But for sure it will be my last.”

PROFILE B. How did you made up your name?

writer, only some suburbs tagging guys from my school. After 6 years of only

K. I always liked names that sound interesting and different, like Kid Capri,

sketching and taking photographies of other writers works I started my own

Iz The Wiz, Mr. Maks for example. Back in the beginning of GMS I used to

writing. So I`m active since almost 13 years... mmmhh, it doesn`t feel like

write Rapid, but from one day to the other I wasn`t able to do the letters “i”

that. I should have start writing earlier, because sometimes it is not so easy

and “d” in a nice way anymore. After some very frustrating months I just

to integrate graffiti in daily working live... but I’m a late bloomer in every field.

cut it up and started a more funny approach on writing. From that day on I just wrote Rap... I just asked myself: “What is your hobby?” - “I spray

GET TO KNOW KID CRAP

Graffiti” “What do you spray?” - “I spray Rap”.... haha, at one hand it was about how ridicolous this nowadays hiphop related graffiti-thing is. At the

B. The diversity of style in your pieces is rich, are you able to paint

other hand it was at least completely self irony. This period didn`t last very

enough to free your creativity?

long because in my opinion a crew has to have three letters, a writers name

C. No way. Its satisfying and frustrating in equal measure. I have so many

four to five letters... but of course there are some very good exceptions out

ideas in my mind, that sometimes only thinking about the realisation leads

there. So I just sat down and was thinking about how to decorate the letters

to apathy. At the other hand I know exactly what to do if I have enough

r-a-p, because I won`t miss them anymore. Due to the fact that I also don`t

time to paint. There are times I really write a lot and then I slide into doing

like fantasy writer names I searched the dictionary for words having the

more lettering than idea-graffiti and this can lead to frustration too. For me

r-a-p inside. I fell in love with Crap at first sight because of the meaning. Its

its boring just doing style-letters on and on without any meaning or special

meaning is shit, rubbish, dirt. Its fitting perfect! I’m always the guy stepping

addition. Its like painting without reaching a goal. At those moments I have

in dog shit, or the adrenalin-rush-shit of another writer in the bushes nearby

to row back, do other things, maybe quit writing for some weeks to get to the

a yard. When I go out painting its for sure that I will have paint everywhere

core again. When I start going on after such a period I normally have my most

after the action... one day I stumbled on the tracks and a can fell down and

creative moments. But this is my vicious circle... to put those ideas into action

explode directly in front of my face... its always like that. To add the “Kid” is

really satifies me and this leads to extreme lust of writing. Then I start writing

the manifestation of forever being young.

more and more and for sure there is not always the time to do it “special”. At this point I do more style-writing and than the vicious circle starts again.

B. Crews (and why you’re in a crew...)

C. There is only GMS. I`m in a crew because it belongs to Graffiti!? I just

B. Where do all the ideas come from; what is it in life that inspires you

started to write it, because I was down with the founders of GMS - Regie and

to do such different styles?

Sper - and they came up with that nice combination of letters. I loved the

C. My Ideas are directly channelled from the brain of satan into my hands.

letters right from the start and I asked if I can write it too. So I joined GMS in

There was a time where complete pieces and colour shemes came into my

the beginning of that crew in april 2002. And of course there are a lot of guys

mind the second before I fell asleep... it was like subconscious terror. I never

in it I really love for one or the other reason. But due to the fact that I need

had a piece of paper and pen beside my bed and I lost all this beautiful

a lot of time for myself, it is not that everyday big family thing for me. Over

pieces and ideas because I weren`t able to grab them. Nowadays most of

the years GMS became more and more important for me than former crews

my ideas are coming while I’m listening to music. This is why I listen to

I participated ever were. Its part of my existence like my alter ego Kid Crap.

music the whole day. Its on of my most important source of power in life. To

Even if everybody else in GMS will quit writing I will still keep it alive.

name my most inspirational fields, there we have graphic design, comic-art, punk, rock`n`roll and heavy metal, philosophy, advertising, package design,

B. Writing since?

movies, dark humor, love, graffiti by itself, reflection of my environment, self

C. The very first contact was nearly 19 years ago. From this time on I

irony, politics, frustation of life, hapiness in life and of course the will to make

recognised that there is a secret language on the walls of my city. If you

this world a more free and colourful place. As you can see I have a big

read the codes for the first time you will either try to understand what this

variety of influences from hate to love, from depression to hapiness, from

is all about, or there is no interest at all. Thats the first difference between

deeper meaning to total nonsense, this of course leads into such different

becoming a writer or not. I tried to decrypt this language and I felt a deep

styles. And I have to say that I hate to do the same piece on and on, it does

fascination right from the beginning... one day I understood what this was all

not suit me.

about. This was a long way, because at that time I didn`t know any other real // 40

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ENJOY // THE MAN WITH THE MASK, PRAHA 2009

ENJOY // VIENNA S-TRAIN, AUSTRIA 2008

ENJOY // PRAHA NIGHTSHIFTING, CZECH REPUBLIK 2008

ENJOY // POLAND 2010

ENJOY // PRAHA, CZECH REPUBLIK 2009

Enjoy CREW UNKNOWN COUNTRY CZECH // 68

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LATIN LUCE // NEW YORK SUBWAY, UNITED STATES 2010

LUCE // IN TRAFFIC ON THE MILAN SUBWAY, ITALY 2010

LUCE // BUENOS AIRES SUBWAY, ARGENTINA 2010

LUCE // CARACAS SUBWAY, VENEZUELA 2010

LUCE // CATANIA SUBWAY, SICILIA 2009

Luce CREW 031 MB’S COUNTRY SWISS // 96

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NAWALIBI // BELGIUM 2010

NAWASSS // BELGIUM, 2010

NAWAS // HOLLAND 2010

NAWA crew CREW NACHTWACHT COUNTRY BELGIUM // 124

ADAM KACTUZ NIELS // BELGIUM 2007

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ROCCO // CAIRO SUBWAY, EGYPT 2010

CAIRO, EGYPT 2010

ROCOE // BOSTON SUBWAY, UNITED STATES 2010

ROCCO // NEW YORK SUBWAY, UNITED STATES 2010

ROCCO // BERLIN SUBWAY, GERMANY 2010

ROCOE // MONTREAL SUBWAY, CANADA 2010

Rocco CREW GHS PRC COUNTRY GERMANY // 156

ROCOE // MILAN SUBWAY, ITALY 2010

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QUIET FLIKE // HOT STUFF IN TRAFFIC ON THE BRUSSELS SUBWAY, BELGIUM 2010

QUIET // LYON SUBWAY, FRANCE 2010

TRG’S // BRUSSELS SUBWAY, BELGIUM 2010

QUIET // BRUSSELS SUBWAY, BELGIUM 2010

TIBAK // BRUSSELS SUBWAY, BELGIUM, 2010

TRG crew CREW TRG COUNTRY VARIOUS // 180

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