I like it, not enough to buy it though.

Agreed, a worthy cause and great effort by Steve (typical). I personally love his work and this is a great example.

If anybody has an original of "Everything is sh*t, except you love" they want to sell or trade give me a shout.

I'll see if there is one at the show tonight if you'd like.

What? Graffiti didn't start with Banksy?

I suppose the meaning of my avatar is lost on 99.9% of people, too.

Thank goodness for people like Harvey, gentle, and sands for counterbalancing the previous few replies to this thread.

Right on, spirit. At least you searched it out.

I'm not up in arms about people not wanting to buy the print. That doesn't matter. What got me going was the comments about his motivation.

For those too lazy to follow the links and check out the whole blog, read this:

"... So once my dad kicks the bricks, I go out and find me a real role model. a stand-up guy that’s got his head screwed on tight and good data to unselfishly share with me, for nothing more than the paint I would supply for the lesson. Suroc, aka Nick-E-Dee, aka Falcon. pka Buford Youthword, a standup guy from Avondale street, showed me the ways and means of making a name for yourself. We painted this rooftop in 1989, well into my 5th year of marking surfaces, and 2 years after I painted my first rooftop on Market Street, a building Suroc took me to paint. The rooftops were the perfect location for work. Largely forgotten spaces on the tops of buildings that youth would climb and put their personalities on display for the passing trains and the pasengers who passed their commute looking at the names that encapsulated those personalities; RAZZ, ESTRO, MR BLINT, CREDIT, CLYDE, RAN and MANIAC to mention a few. Suroc and I spoke our piece alongside those guys and added to the visual cocaphony that was Market Street in the 80’s.

One day in the mid-90’s it all got buffed brown. Nobody remembers when exactly, but it happened, efficiently, completely permanently. I find it interesting that no one noticed that a hundred full color walls suddenly went brown. That was always the problem with graffiti, for all it’s efforts to communicate, most people don’t understand it and if people don’t understand, they don’t take ownership, and your name gets taken down like a campaign poster in December. In our fame-addled America it’s easy to understand the motivation to write your name, a lot harder to appreciate the unreadable result. If you did make your name easy to process, you leave your audience cold after the 10th time they’ve seen your name, never mind the 100th or the 1000th. “I get it, you’re everywhere except the electric chair, (shout out to JS), but I don’t care.” So in creating Love Letter, thinking about the medium of marking that made me the artist I am today, thinking about the amazing West Philadelphia that gave me the inspiration to do it, and finally the commuters that ride the train, I’m looking to make colors and words happen on these rooftops and walls in a way that people will take ownership of the work. So if the buffman comes back around, people will shout him down."









Some of the signs they did to freshen up local businesses and teach kids the craft:

Where's the Apostrophe ?

I'm not Im

That would just wind me up

I don't know if POWs specifically are going to charity. Never said that. I do know that Stephen Powers puts a ridiculous amount of time into his projects. What I'm saying is that anything that benefits Powers benefits what he has done for graffiti and for Philadelphia.

Again, people can hate the print all they want.

£99 for a print by espo is an absolute steal... find the negative response pretty surprising to be honest

"This is a very nice and very affordable representation of his big mural work. And also very girlfriend friendly."

had to pick it up for this very reason....she cant say no

first order from POW, any idea how long it usually takes to get to the states?

thanks sky

I live in the Uk...and I have not received it yet, I think you may be waiting a little while longer.

I got mine today in the US. I did email POW a few days ago because a month was pushing it. They told me it was shipped on March 2nd.

And, yeah, the black is as awesome as they claimed and makes the image. Will try to get it flattened out a bit and grab pics.