Common Folk Collective » freights http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog Common Folk Doing Uncommon Things Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:08:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 Writer Highlight Special: R.I.P. To Nekst http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/12/writer-highlight-special-r-i-p-to-nekst/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writer-highlight-special-r-i-p-to-nekst http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/12/writer-highlight-special-r-i-p-to-nekst/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:13:39 +0000 http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=2539 The graffiti world has lost another king, another too young king. I saw something on the internet a couple days ago but waited to believe anything until I talked to someone who actually knew. I didn’t know him personally but it also seemed like there would always be newer and more epic Nekst pieces popping up. He will always be remembered not only as a prolific bomber but for his fair share of pieces and freights and trackside rollers as well. Everything got hit. And got hit BIG.

All I can say is that hopefully in his life and death, there’s a lesson for all. Go big while you got it and live to keep getting it.

This first pic is from a piece done when I was working across the street on the Bowery and the first time I really opened up to him being a major player in doing big things, and doing them in very insanely high profile spots.

Nekst Gaia

by sabeth718

nekst

by yayforYAY

NEKST

by toxic waste dump

More Flicks…

BIG NEKST  | Houston Graffiti Art "RIP"

by I-SEEN-IT RubenS

Nekst

by Armed With Color

Nekst

by 36th Chamber

NEKST BRONX-NEWYORK

by LIZZYBAG$

Nekst

by RealAbstract

Nekst

by Wet Paint Opera

NEKST and REVOK

by Chad Lamar Butler

Nekst Next A2M

by Baltimore Archive

nekst msk

by ExcuseMySarcasm

Nekst Revs

by MentalRelease

nekst, ewok

by 落書き

NEKST in action R.I.P.

by MastaAce 2

Nekst Fanta Guess

by sabeth718

NEKST x MSK

by billy craven

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Writer Highlight- Sigh http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/09/writer-highlight-sigh-graffiti/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writer-highlight-sigh-graffiti http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/09/writer-highlight-sigh-graffiti/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:21:26 +0000 http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=1586 For this installment we bring you the southern gentleman, Sigh. It’s funny cuz I came into his work knowing nothing about him and just randomly stumbled upon a piece of his while on a 3 hour stop through Richmond. Then I started seeing him more and more up on freights and realized I’d seen him before. Apparently some haters call him a biter but style is style and what writer didn’t come up copying others until it became their own? Nothing new under the sun. Sigh colors outside the lines and got style and puts in work. Done.

Sigh

Photo by thos

sigh

Photo by DirtyRotten2012

 

Sigh

Photo by All Seeing

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Photo by thos

sigh

Photo by F33

SIGH

Photo by KNOWLEDGE IS KING

Sigh on Golden West Service

Photo by 208 Bench

Sigh

Photo by by All Seeing

Sigh

Photo by All Seing

Sigh wall

Photo by owbetron

 

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Writer Highlight- Atak http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/05/writer-highlight-atak/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=writer-highlight-atak http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/05/writer-highlight-atak/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 17:02:29 +0000 http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=774 Atak is an all around balanced writer. From walls to freights to rooftops to anything with a writable surface. He gets handy with the whole slue of weaponry; aerosol, markers, fire extinguishers . . . padlocks. Like I said he’s a writer’s writer. Carnage zine (by Sabeth718) just did their premier issue on him and his partner-in-crime Hert. But it sold out with a quickness.

ATAK 2001 Freight
(
thos One)

Atak
(Sabeth 718)

Atak
(Joe Kane)

In Chelsea
(LoisInWonderland)

Atak
(WNY Freight Bench)

Atak
(36th Chamber)

Atak
(WNY Freight Bench)

Atak
(WNY Freight Bench)


From Carnage #1

atak
(Action Word)

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